Hun football has devoted assistant
By Bob Nuse, Sports Editor
John Law’s love of football started at a very young age.
”I go back to when my father introduced me to the game back when I was about 7,” Law said. “He started football at Holy Cross (High School) and I would go to practices and the games and that was when it first really bit me that this was what I wanted to do and be a part of. “
Law played football at Holy Cross and then at Rutgers University. After graduating from Rutgers in 1980 he coached for a year at Holy Cross before going into the workforce. But the lure of football never left him and in 1998 he got back into coaching as an assistant at The Hun School, where he has served in a variety of roles including interim head coach, defensive coordinator, offensive and defensive line coach and more. He has also been a defensive coordinator in the annual Delaware Valley Sunshine Football Classic for the last five years.
On Sunday, Law will be one of many individuals honored by the Delaware Valley Chapter of the National Football Foundation at the 53rd Annual George Wah Scholar-Leader-Athlete Awards Dinner at the Princeton Hyatt.
Law will be presented with the Contribution to Amateur Football award. In addition to Law, who served as an assistant coach at The Hun School this past season, several Packet-area players will be honored as scholar athletes. Those award winners are Chris Sharp of Hun, Sam Smallzman of Princeton, Kevin Murphy of West Windsor-Plainsboro North, and Andrew Schoepfer of WW-P South.
Princeton University senior Mike Zeuli will also be honored.
For Law, the thought of giving back to football has always been a natural.
”I have been fortunate,” Law said. “The game has been good to me. I was at Holy Cross and then Rutgers and then went out into the business world and had to leave the game. But I have been fortunate when I got into my own business it allowed me the time to get back into it and I kind of stumbled back into it with (Hun athletic director) Bill Quirk and I talking a number of years ago and I never left.”
Law has gotten so much out of football over the years and has always been willing to give back to the game however he can, whether that be coaching in the Sunshine Classic or helping at clinics. He is always ready to lend a hand.
”I think that is a common thread of all of the coaches in the area,” Law said. “It all bit us at a very young age and it is something that doesn’t go away. That is what makes it fun. I have trouble leaving. There are always other kids living the dream and it was the dream we lived as coaches and as coaches we all want to help them.”
Three scholarships totaling $9,000 will be presented to three deserving senior players at the dinner on Sunday.
For tickets to the dinner, which will be held on Sunday at 4 p.m., contact Ron Hoehn at (609) 731-6610 or [email protected].