The ballot for the College Football Hall of Fame’s Class of 2022 was released on Wednesday. It marked the first time former linebackers LaVar Arrington and Paul Posluszny appeared on the ballot. They joined former offensive lineman Steve Wisniewski on the ballot with the hope of being inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame next year.
But there is another former Penn State Nittany Lion on the ballot, although not for his playing days in Happy Valley.
Glen Killinger, who played quarterback for the Nittany Lions and was a Walter Camp All-American in 1921, is a candidate for the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach. Killinger is among the coaching candidates in the Divisional coaching candidate category, designed to honor coaches who thrived at the lower divisions of football. Killinger absolutely was a successful coach in the lower levels of college football, with much of his success happening right in Pennsylvania.
Killinger is the winningest coach in the history of the West Chester University football program, with the Golden Rams currently residing in the PSAC, a Division 2 conference made up of mostly state schools in Pennsylvania (also including IUP, Slippery Rock, Shippensburg, Bloomsburg, and Kutztown, just to name a few). Killinger is a member of the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. He had coaching stops at Dickinson (1922), Rensselaer in New York (1927-32), and Moravian in Pennsylvania (1933) before landing a long-term spot at West Chester from 1934 through 1959 (with a hiatus from 1942-1944 due to world War II). Killinger had just one losing season during his 37-year coaching career.
Could Penn State see four former players inducted in the same hall of fame class? That seems unlikely, but it would be cool to see.
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