Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

It's just about impossible for any student-athlete in IUP history to have played as extensively in more sports than did Ken Greene before he graduated in 1936.

Team annals in football, basketball, track and field, all coached by George Miller, and baseball, coached by Paul Boyts, report that Greene lettered all four years in all four sports while a student.

What's more, he played more than a little tennis and softball (then a men's sport called mushball), all varsity sports at the time.
All four pigskin and roundball teams posted winning records, and the 1933-34 basketball and 1934 football teams won Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference championships, football posting the only undefeated record in IUP history.

The football Indians in '34 dominated their opponents by a combined score of 128- 17 as four of their six adversaries failed to score a touchdown.

Greene's four basketball teams posted a total record of 50-19, and ISTC won the conference West title both his junior and senior years.

Campus activity for Greene was not limited to athletics, as he was president not only of Varsity I (the college letterman's club) but of the Social Sciences and International Relations Clubs.

As soon as he graduated from ISTC, he coached basketball, and taught civics, at nearby Elderton High School from 1936 until 1949. In 1941, he coached a team who had not won a single game the year before to a declared state championship (that predated official PIAA such titles).

His area sports involvement didn't stop there, as he played baseball for Barnes and Tucker teams in the late Thirties and Forties, as well as football and basketball in independent leagues in Clymer and the Indiana area. He also coached area all-star roundball teams who played benefit games for charity.

Greene was as well known in the community, though, for his 35-year business of operating a gas and full fledged repair and service station at Philadelphia and Fifth Streets in Indiana. He was a loyal supporter of IUP athletics and active VFW member.
Married to the former Virginia Snyder, who resides in Indiana today, in 1941, he was the father of Georgia, a 1964 graduate who majored in English and is now in the Washington, DC suburb of Vienna, Virginia, and Margie Bence, a dental hygienist grad of West Liberty State in West Virginia who lives in Indiana with husband Doug and daughter Laura.