Clarion Athletics

Football - 1969 Clarion University Grad - Education.

Arthur “Art” Tragesser was an outstanding defensive linebacker, as well as a long snapper on the Clarion University football team from 1965-68. A defensive mainstay, he helped lead the Golden Eagles to PSAC West titles in 1966 and 1967 and the team’s first PSAC championship in 1966. The Golden Eagles defeated West Chester 28-26 for that “State Game” championship. Clarion posted a 30-7-1 team record under al Jacks during Tragesser’s four seasons. Also the president of Sigma Tau Gamma for two years, he was nominated for the national Stan Musial Award and was the national runner-up. Head football coach at Jeannette for 10 years, he has been the head football coach at Penn Trafford from 1996 to the present. A native of Jeannette, Pa. And a 1965 graduate of Jeannette high School, art and wife Dorothy currently reside in North Huntingdon, Pa. And have a son Matt and a daughter Ardie.