Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

After enrolling at was then Indiana State Teachers College in 1937 to major in geography, Bob Killen decided to play tennis, as well as football and basketball.  He immediately installed himself as the spring sport's number-one player and kept a firm grasp on that role for four seasons, through 1940.
A teammate of the late Trevor Hadley, IUP's longtime, revered Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs and for whom Hadley Union Building on the present-day campus is named, and playing for Earl Prugh (who also assisted George P. Miller in football), Killen wrote his own history.
Recording consistently winning individual records as both the Indians' first singles player and an effective doubles partner, Killen, for example, led his team as a freshman to a 6-2 record.
Then, with him as senior captain, IUP romped to a 6-1 mark by winning the first half-dozen matches 8-1, 8-1, 9-0, 7-2, 6-0 and 8-1, only to drop its finale to Pitt. The record was the Crimson and Gray's best ever at the time and remains among the best all-time in men's tennis.
In football, Killen, despite being one of the smallest men on the team, weighing in at 145 pounds, started at quarterback as of his junior season, taking over in an era when Hall of Fame inductees Marshall Woodring, George Hay, Sam Hoenstine and Kenny Greene, as well as other talented players, had recently graduated.
In basketball, with his junior and senior season’s prior Hall of Fame inductee Gene DeMatt's freshman and sophomore years, Killen ranked as his team's high scorer in many games.
Off the playing field and courts, Killen served Varsity I (the all sport letterman's organization) as treasurer, his Senior Class as secretary, and was inducted into the respected Kappa Delta Pi honorary education fraternity.
Taking all this as prelude, Killen first became football coach and a teacher at Bellwood High School, just north of Altoona, before going into the U. S. Army Air Corps at the start of World War II in 1942. In the war, he spent several years flying combat missions over mainland China.
Returning stateside, he moved to Washington, DC, to become grid coach and teach at Devitt Prep, three years later transferring to Bethesda-Chevy Chase High in Montgomery County, Maryland, where he served as assistant principal until retiring.
As golf coach at Bethesda, Killen developed what was regarded as one of the finest programs in that sport in the Washington area. Among his prodigies was longtime pro golfer Dean Beman, who later became executive secretary of the Professional Golfers Association (PGA).
After retiring, Killen himself went on to Florida, to Palm Coast.  Several months before he passed away, he was nominated to the IUP Hall of Fame by 1940 classmate and then sports editor of the Penn campus newspaper Ralph Kier. Regrettably, Kier too passed away not long after doing so.