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RETIRED ATHLETIC DIRECTOR BEHRINGER PASSES AWAY |
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October 06, 2011
 GROVE CITY, Pa. - Long-time coach and Director of Athletics R. Jack Behringer died Oct. 5, 2011, after an extended illness. His wife, Jeanne, survives.
Friends may call from 2-5 p.m. on Sun., Oct. 9, at the Cunningham Funeral Home, 306 Bessemer Ave., Grove City. The funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. on Mon., Oct. 10, in Harbison Chapel on campus.
Behringer joined Grove City College in 1956 as head football, basketball and track coach. In 1957, he was promoted to director of athletics. A highlight was Behringer’s undefeated football squad of 1966. He coached football until 1972.
As director of athletics, Behringer grew the Grove City College athletic program from seven to 18 sports, and launched the women’s athletic program. He revived the intercollegiate baseball team after a 37-year lapse and went on to coach the team for 30 years. He also coached golf, tennis, track and field, and basketball. The intramural sports program also flourished during his years as director.
Behringer supervised a substantial addition to the Physical Learning Center, the construction of Phillips Field House and the relocation of the football field and the track.
For his services to the community and to the College, Behringer received numerous awards, including the Florence E. MacKenzie Campus-Community Award in 1991 and the Grove City Area Chamber of Commerce’s Community Service Award in 2002. He was inducted in to the Mercer County Hall of Fame and the Defiance College Hall of Fame.
Behringer served as a professor in the education department for 10 years and in 1974 was promoted to full professor and chairman of the Physical Education Department.
He retired in 1996. On Homecoming weekend in 1996, he was named the first honorary alumnus of Grove City College. In 1998, friends and former students started the R. Jack Behringer Scholarship Fund and in 2009, the College renamed the baseball field in his honor.
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