Notes:
The Express, November 28, 1969, page 1
Football Record Holder at EHS is Dead At 70
Carl F. “Butch” Henzelman holder of the individual
scoring record in Football for one season at Easton High School,
was stricken fatally while preparing to enter Fisher Field
yesterday an before the Easton Phillipsburg High School Football
game.
He was 70 years old and resides at 345 Old Orchard Drive,
Palmer Township.
A native of Eston, he was a son of the late John G. And Anna
Gruver Henzelman and was a retired superintendent of the Johnstown
plant of Bethlehem Steel Co.
In 1969, Mr. Henzeman was honored at the annual Easton Area
High School Day program at which outstanding alumni are gests
of the school and its student council.
He was president of Easton Rotary in 1967-68 and was former
vice president and director of the James B. “Pat” Reilly
Memorial Scholarship Committee.
A member of EHS class of 1918, Mr. Henzelman cored 145 pints
during the 1917 football season on 24 touchdown and an extra
point. A fullback, he weighed 173 pounds and was 5 feet, 10 ½ inches
tall.
During his four seasons as a member of the football tea, Easton
High only lost one game. Mr. Henzelman captained the 1917 team
which won nine and lost no games. The team scored 297 points
and yield only 5. That season Easton claimed the state championship
after a 31-19 surprise victory over favored Harrisburg Technical
High School.
Mr. Henzelman played every minute of the nine games in his
senior year and was on the baseball, basketball and track teams
for three seasons. He won 13 letters.
In 12 years of Schooling at Cottingham and Easton High h missed
only one day of School, the day he attended a program for “Pat” Reilly,
then Easton football coach, who was leaving to join the armed
service during World War I.
Mr. Henzelman was also a member of the school newspaper and
yearbook staffs for four years, was president of the class
in his sophomore and junior years and was business manager
of the senior play. He was president of the EHS Alumni Association
in 1925.
Mr. Henzelman played football at Lehigh University for three
seasons.
After joining Bethlehem Steel, he was successively open hearth
foreman, open hearth general foreman, assistant superintendent
of the Steelton plant, superintendent of the Steelton plant
and superintendent of the Johnstown plant.
From 1952 to 1952, he was superintendent of the steel division
of the Granite City Steel Co. and a year later he became superintendent
of the steel division of the Kopper, Engineering o. in 1965,
he served in Venezuela with Siderugica del Orinoca C. A.
He was also active in Boy Scout and Red Cross Work
He was a member of H. Stanley Goodwin Lodge F&AM, Bethlehem,
Lehigh Consistory, Allentown, Zembo Temple, Harrisburg; Lehigh
University Home Club, and American Legion, Steelton.
He was a director of the Lehigh Valley Chapter, national Football
Foundation and Hall of Fame.
He was a member of the Country Club of Northampton County.
Survivors include his widow, the former Mildred Bethmann;
two sons, *****., Buffalo, N.Y., and John Richard,
Johnstown; two sisters, Mrs. Earl Brotzman, Bellport, N.Y.
and Mrs. Kinsey Detweiler, Easton; a brother, Floyd O. Pompano
Beach, Fla, and two grandchildren.
The funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Shillinger
Funeral Home, Easton. Interment will be in Easton Heights Cemetery
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