Indiana University of Pennsylvania Athletics

For more than 20 years IUP football running-game superlatives and the name Larry Monsilovich were synonymous.
Playing three years (the 1969, '70 and '71 seasons) in an era when freshmen were not permitted to compete at the varsity level.  The 5-10, 185 pound halfback set 16 team scoring and rushing records.
His five touchdowns and 30 points against Hillsdale in 1971 have been equaled since hut never bettered.  And no one has ever scored more than his 37 total or 32 rushing touchdowns or tallied more than his 222 points in a three-season career, which came in a span when IUP did not advance to postseason playoff games.
No IUP player scored as many touchdowns as Monsilovich's 17 in 1971 in a regular season until Andrew "Jai" Hill caught 18 TD passes in 1990.  All 17 were rushing scores and that stood as the Indian season record until Michael Mann went into the 1993 national playoffs with 18.
Monsilovich set Indian all-time highs with his 2478 career rushing yards, 944 in a season (1971) and 241 in a game (at Shippensburg in 1970).  There was no higher game total until James Suber ran for 261 vs. Lock Haven just last fall.
All three have since been broken, but the career and season standards stood for 22 years until Michael Mann posted 3818 career (not counting playoff games) and 1541 regular-season yards in 1993.
Monsilovich also set records for an 84-yard run from scrimmage and a 90-yard kickoff return that held up until 1991 and 1980 respectively.
As a consequence, he was named to Associated Press All Pennsylvania first teams on rosters that included nearly all Division I players.  Leading the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference in scoring, he was also an AP All-American both years.
Leading the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference in scoring, he was an NAIA All-American two seasons as well and made the NAIA District 18 and Pittsburgh Press all-district teams as both a junior and senior.
Finishing his IUP degree in health and physical education in 1973, Monsilovich taught in Butler for a year before playing in the World Football League for the Philadelphia Bell and for the Chambersburg Cardinals in '74.
Returning to Indiana in 1975. Monsilovich has been here ever since, teaching in the Indiana Area schools for 22 years.  He coached football at Indiana High from 1975 through '88.
He and wife Sandy, who graduated from IUP in 1973, have son, Michael, a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon (where he figures is a football starter), and two daughters, Amanda, a junior at Indiana High and third-year Indians Junior High student Nikki.