One of Brian Kiehl’s last phone conversations with Franco Harris was about Saturday’s WVU-Penn State football game in Morgantown. Kiehl, for the record, ended up laughing in the ear of his football idol. Couldn’t help it. Harris, the former Nittany Lion star who went on to a ...
The world of sports can bring people together in the unlikeliest of ways. Take, for example, how former Steelers Hall of Fame running back Franco Harris and former WVU basketball coach R.C. “Bucky” Waters forged a friendship not on the gridiron or the hardwood, but on golf courses and ...
On his way to becoming an NFL legend, former Pittsburgh Steelers running back Franco Harris used to carry the ball for the Penn State Nittany Lions. Which used to have the WVU Mountaineers on its regular schedule. Which — it doesn’t really need to be said, if you were there — also ...