NFL gives gold football to 3 York-Adams schools
The three York-Adams high schools whose graduates appeared in the Super Bowl are being honored by the NFL for the Super Bowl 50 as part of the Super Bowl High School Honor Roll.
Dover, Gettysburg and William Penn are the only schools from York and Adams counties to send an alumnus to the Super Bowl. Each school is to receive a commemorative golden football for each player or head coach who graduated from that school and was on an active Super Bowl roster.
Dover graduate John Kuhn, a fullback, reached Super Bowl XLV with the Green Bay Packers when they defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31-25.
Gettysburg sent Pittsburgh Steelers guard Steve Courson to Super Bowl XIII and XIV. The Steelers beat the Dallas Cowboys, 35-31, in the 1979, and repeated as champs the next year with a 31-19 win against the Los Angeles Rams. Courson is known for speaking out against steroid use in the NFL before he was killed when a tree fell on him in 2005.
William Penn sent running back/fullback Woody Bennett to Super Bowl XVII and XIX as a member of the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins lost both of those Super Bowls, falling to the Washington Redskins, 27-17, in 1983, and to the San Francisco 49ers, 38-16, in 1985.
The golden football initiative was designed to link the past 49 Super Bowls with this year's game and honor the high schools and communities where the players came from. More than 2,000 schools and 3,000 players would be honored, according to the NFL.
