1. Anthony Joseph Knap was an American football coach.
12 Facts About Tony Knap
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Tony Knap worked as a high school teacher and coach, and served in the United States Navy during World War II.
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Tony Knap was a pitcher and utility player for three seasons on the varsity baseball team, and a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
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Tony Knap served in the US Navy, then returned to coaching after the war back in Idaho at Potlatch, near Moscow, and stayed with the Loggers until the summer of 1949.
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Tony Knap attended a summer coaching clinic in 1949 in the Bay Area and was offered a head coaching position at Pittsburg High School in Pittsburg, California.
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Tony Knap accepted and moved his family south to northern California.
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Tony Knap left Pittsburg to become an assistant coach at Utah State in 1959 under new coach John Ralston.
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Tony Knap was credited with developing the big, agile lines which contributed to the Aggies' rise to national prominence.
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Tony Knap's salary was $16,800 in 1971 and $18,800 in 1972.
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Tony Knap was inducted into UNLV's hall of fame in 1989.
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Tony Knap married Doris Adella "Mickey" McFarland, a former UI student born in St Maries, during his first year as a teacher.
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Tony Knap died two years later at age 93, in Pullman.