Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame Release
 
WILMINGTON, Del. – Former East Stroudsburg University football coach Jack Gregory has been selected for induction into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony will take place during the state's premier sports banquet on October 14 at the Chase Center in Wilmington.
 
Gregory, the first administrator and organizer of Delaware's enormously successful Blue-Gold All-Star High School Football Game, helped start the annual event that raises awareness of Delaware citizens with intellectual disabilities. He supervised many facets of the event each year and also coached in the game. In 2015 his involvement resulted in the DFRC establishing the Coach Jack and Pat Gregory Outstanding Leadership Award.

In 1960 he established the Diamond State Athletic Camp held at the Sanford School and led the organization for 11 years. Considered to be the first of its kind overnight athletic camp, the DSAC offered week-long programs in football, basketball, baseball, and wrestling and attracted leading coaches and players from the college and professional ranks.

After coaching P.S. du Pont's football team to a 25-16 record from 1954-1958, Gregory moved on to his alma mater, East Stroudsburg University, where he guided the Warriors to a record of 49-11-2 from 1959-65, culminating with two Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship teams in 1964 and 1965.

He was inducted into the ESU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1983, and the 1964 and 1965 teams were inducted in October of 2012. The Warriors had an 18-1 record in his final two years, including an undefeated (10-0) mark in 1965. He also coached his team to the PSAC East Championship in 1962 before falling in the title game to Slippery Rock. That squad was captained by his eventual successor, Denny Douds.

Gregory left his alma mater for an assistant coaching position at the U.S. Naval Academy in 1966. He was head football coach at Villanova (1967-69) and Rhode Island (1970-75) before serving in collegiate athletics administration as assistant Athletic Director at Yale (1978-82) and as Athletic Director at Bowling Green (1982-94). He also served as a scout for the Green Bay Packers in the NFL.

Coach Gregory's many contributions to ESU were commemorated on October 30, 2010 with the announcement of "Gregory-Douds Field at Eiler-Martin Stadium", with two of ESU's legendary coaches (Gregory and Douds) added alongside coaching pioneers John Eiler and Gene Martin.

Gregory was also inducted into the Bowling Green State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994, and a wing of the Bowling Green Athletic Field House was named the "Jack Gregory Turf Room" in his honor.

Coach Gregory passed away in 2014. He was preceded in death by his wife, Margaret A. "Peg" Gregory in 2013. He was survived by two sons, John C. Gregory Jr. and his wife Marlou, and Bruce L. Gregory and his wife Tracy, along with two grandchildren, Megan and Brian.

Gregory will be one of ten honorees inducted into the Delaware Sports Museum and Hall of Fame on October 14, joining Mel Gardner, Jerry Kobasa, George Kosanovich, Tom Lemon, Art Madric, Charles Rayne, Lou Romanoli, Gary Smith and Tyresa Smith.

For more information on the Hall of Fame banquet, please visit www.desports.org/events.