- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Greatest Of The Great Sports
- Born In Weirton, Wv To Thomas & Virginia Bloom
- Attended Dunbarweirton Until Closing (1955)
- Grad. Weir Hs (1959)
- Team Capt., Weir High Team
- State Champ. Football Team(1957), Selected To All Oh Valley & Wv All State Football Teams (1958)
- Mbr Wv State Champ Baseball Team (1959) & All Tournament Team
- Received All State Hon. Mention Selection
- Frequently Won Broad Jump For Wh Track Team
- Football Scholarship To Purdue Univ. (1959)
- Named Most Outstanding Back On Freshman Football Team (1959)
- Most Outstanding Back Varsity Team (1962)
- Received Ncaa Award (1962)
- Sixth Round Draft Choice For Cleveland Browns (1963)