By Barry Fraser, St. Pius High

George B. Maloof has spent his life in football and it has been quite a success story.

He has starred as a player at Immaculate Conception Schools, at Marist and at Georgia Tech. Now he is one of the most successful high school football coaches in Georgia.

Maloof made All-State in his junior and senior years at Marist, was named to an All-American team and awarded a scholarship to Georgia Tech.

During his three-year stint at Tech, he played fullback and halfback and was an honorable mention selection on the Southeastern Conference’s All-American listings. Maloof also served as alternate captain of the football and baseball teams.

Following graduation, he had several offers to play professional football, but said he realized his playing days were over when he left the service. As athletic director at St. Pius, he had led one of the best-coached teams in the state including an unblemished 10-0 record this year.

Although Coach Maloof feels that this years’ squad is not as good individually as previous teams, he does feel that it plays better as a team, and is more diversified on offense and defense. In fact, he feels that in the region play-offs, St. Pius stands just as good a chance as anybody else if it gets the breaks.

The coach feels strongly about the spirit at the school and thinks “It is second to none when the school is challenged and realizes it.” He also has deep feeling toward the school because of the “pride, tradition, aims and goals of the principal, faculty and student body and their willingness to pay the price.”

But when the laurels of glory are thrown to him for a good game and coaching job, he doesn’t fail to recognized the players and the assistant coaches who also make it possible. “I am extremely appreciative of the assistant coaches especially Coach Donald Heller who has done a fine job in his first year as assistant coach. He is the type of man who has enthusiasm, dedication and character necessary to be a good coach.”

The world can be sure that his wife, Edina, and their four children, Kevin, Karen, Kathy, and Keith are very proud to have a father like Coach George Maloof. Also Marist is probably a little regretful in the fact that he once coached there for two years and went on to Pius.

Even with teaching three classes of algebra a day he has had time to rack up one of the best percentages in the own loss column in the DeKalb area for regular season games ’61-’67.

Only Avondale is better, but not by far.

All games combined, St. Pius has won 76, lost 16 and tied 6. It has a combined total of 1,830 points to their opponents’ 556. Out of 24 home games played at Joe Bean Stadium the Golden Lions are undefeated with one tie against Marist, 6-6.

They have scored 483 points against their opponent’s 38. Out of 98 games in 10 seasons, only 6 opponents have scored more than two touchdowns against St. Pius.

The Golden Lions have scored more than two touchdowns in 54 games. Also, the Lions have held 41 of their opponents scoreless. In all of the games played at Joe Bean Stadium, only St. Joseph has scored more than one touchdown in 31 games.