TIM GALLAGHER May 2, 2013 SIOUX CITY | Ten years ago this Halloween, Walt Fiegel coached his final football game. Try as they might, the East High Black Raiders fell to rival Bishop Heelan 27-0, ending the season with a 3-6 mark. Down and out? That wasn’t Fiegel, the legend who piloted East to a… Read more »
MORE FAREWELLS by Terry Hersom, Sioux City Journal One of life’s grim realities, I guess, is that sorrow is everywhere, every day, and we can only pray to deal with it bravely or hope it doesn’t pile up on us any more than we can handle. Certainly, this has already been a tough month for… Read more »
By Barry Poe Apr 24, 2010 SIOUX CITY — It’s that time of year again. It’s time for so many of the young men whose lives were changed forever simply by being around the late Walt Fiegel to celebrate their former coach once again. Members of the Walt Fiegel Foundation will hold their seventh annual… Read more »
Jerry Giese – Journal sports writer Jul 23, 2007 Marshall Tuttle has fond memories of Walt Fiegel. The East High School linebacker/fullback was once a ballboy for the legendary football coach, who won 158 games in 26 seasons and posted a 128-79 record with the Black Raiders. Even as a youngster, Tuttle heard of stories… Read more »
Two members of the Walt Fiegel Foundation approached me recently, asking me to help dispel a local myth. The scholarships given in memory of their late football coach were not only for athletes. Or for East High seniors. The $1,000 scholarships, they insisted, are reserved for winners. “It’s never been about athletics,” said Jeff Croston,… Read more »
Barry Poe, Journal sports writer May 2, 2007 As far as I know, Walt Fiegel didn’t play much golf. The legendary former East High football coach, who passed away several years ago, was more apt to go fishing or just sit around and talk football. Or talk about anything, for that matter. It just so… Read more »
Terry Hersom Journal sports editor Sep 16, 2004 The passage of time is supposed to make all of those athletic achievements more grandiose, more phenomenal, more downright legendary. There’s something wrong with this bunch of guys whose Class 4A state championship in 1984 is the most recent state football title by a Sioux City high… Read more »
Steven Allspach, Journal sports writer Sep 3, 2004 It’s the dawn, no, dusk, of a new era of Sioux City metro high school football. Emotions will certainly be running high tonight when East High, under the direction of new coach Steve Zediker, opens the 2004 season at Des Moines Hoover. Zediker is replacing longtime East… Read more »
Steven Allspach, Journal sports writer Jul 24, 2004 The spirit of former East High football coach Walt Fiegel lives on. Fiegel, who coached East to 128 victories, 22 playoff appearances and the Class 4A state title in 1984, passed away last Nov. 12. His death stunned the football coaching community far and wide. In his… Read more »
Terry Hersom, Journal sports editor Mar 24, 2004 Their lives intersected once in a fairly profound way. For one, growing up in Sioux City was a stepping stone to life on a larger stage. For the other, Sioux City was the adopted home for which he become a prominent ambassador. Next Tuesday at the Sioux… Read more »