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Mike Pascuzzi earned three straight All-WVIAC citations as a co-captain with Coach Joe Bartell's football squad of the mid-1950s before going on to an outstanding coaching career in Michigan. Pascuzzi played one year of freshman football at WVU and spent two years in the military before arriving on the West Liberty campus in 1955.
The hard-nosed lineman was an All-Conference selection all three years, led the WVIAC in kicking in 1955 and was a key performer on Coach Bartell's final WVIAC championship squad in 1956. Pascuzzi was also a popular figure on campus. He was a 1957 nominee for the "Mr. Hilltopper" Award, served as President of the Varsity Club as well as Vice President and Treasurer of Student Council.
The Follansbee, W.Va. native kicked off his 25-year high school teaching and coaching career in 1958 at Roosevelt High School in the Detroit suburb of Wyandotte, Mich. Pascuzzi helped lead Roosevelt to nine league championships in what is still referred to as the "glory years" of Roosevelt football. Pascuzzi was inducted into the Michigan High School Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1987.
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