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Aldo Bonomi

Aldo Bonomi

  • Class Year:
    1950
  • Induction Year:
    1998
  • Role/Sport(s) Played:
    Football
  • Club Team:
    Student-Athlete

A three-year letter winner as an offensive and defensive guard, Aldo Bonomi was named Juniata's most valuable lineman and earned All-Region honors as a senior. He was All-State at Aliquippa High School and lettered as a freshman at Edinboro University before transferring in 1947 to play for Bill Smaltz. After graduation, he was a standout in football during inter-service play while in the Army at Fort Lee. He then became a well-known football coach and administrator in western Pennsylvania, beginning as an assistant at Hopewell High School in 1952. As an assistant at Aliquippa from 1954-59, his team won the 1955 WPIAL championship and he was line coach of NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka. He was the head football coach and athletic director at Monaca from 1959-1964 before becoming a principal and superintendent in eastern Pennsylvania until his retirement in 1989. He was inducted into the Aliquippa Sports Hall of Fame in 1983.