Former Lower Moreland standout quarterback Charles “Duke” Greco (above right) was recently named the new head football coach at West Chester University.

Greco is departing from his head coaching role at Delaware Valley University in Doylestown where his teams went 91-15 in 10 seasons, including six consecutive Middle Atlantic Conference championships.

In July, he was named a recipient of the Bill “Pickles” Kennedy Award courtesy of the Oldtimers Bats and Balls Association, a group of former athletes and officials.

Greco’s high school coach and mentor at Lower Moreland, Mark Mayson, (above left) is a 1969 graduate of Cheltenham High School. According to local historian Chuck Langerman, Mayson was an assistant coach at CHS for nine seasons under head coaches Stan Freedman and Ted Weinstein before becoming the Lower Moreland High School head football coach in 1982.

Mayson led the Lions for 35 years. The school’s football stadium was named in his honor.

“With Coach (Mayson), it’s all about character,” Greco told the Bucks County Courier Times. “To mess up a football play was one thing, but to mess up and to do something wrong (off the field), that would have been disappointing: He was the type of guy you never wanted to disappoint, because he meant so much to me as a young man and even now.”

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Photo: Bucks County Courier Times