Left to right: Keith Elias (former New York Giant running back), Christopher Tyminski, Lt. Col. Kenneth Patterson (Rutgers ROTC) and Kyle Flood (Rutgers Offensive Line Coach). All three gentlemen with Christopher were guests of honor and spoke during the banquet. Christopher Tyminski of Allentown High School was recently honored at the 38th annual Vince Lombardi Awards Banquet, sponsored by the Rotary Clubs of Monmouth County.
As a recipient of the Lombardi Award, Tyminski received the “Block of Granite” trophy that symbolizes the 1936 Fordham University Football Team’s Seven Blocks of Granite where Vince Lombardi played right guard.
As a coach, Lombardi believed that building discipline and character was the basic job of any teacher. Players receiving the award are selected by the characteristics of discipline, courage, endurance, desire, ability and performance. Christopher Tyminski was selected for exemplifying these characteristics.
He will be attending Delaware Valley College in Doylestown, Pa., where he will pursue a degree in agriculture and play for the Aggies football team.
The Rotary Clubs of Monmouth County received permission to present this award on the high school level in 1973, and Allentown High School has had student-athletes recognized ever since.
Tyminski will be enshrined on the school’s Lombardi Award Wall Trophy, which is displayed in the school’s athletic atrium. Christopher Kniesler, a 1974 graduate of Allentown High School, donated the wall trophy that displays all of the recipients since 1973. Mr. Kniesler was the second recipient of the award and he later returned to Allentown to coach the offensive line in 1981, 1982,1990-1994.