Brendler's Boys: The House That George Built
- ISBN-10
- 0977261549
- ISBN-13
- 9780977261543
- Category
- Chazy (N.Y.)
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-01-01
- Author
- Lawrence P. Gooley
Description
Few sports teams have achieved the fame and notoriety attained by the Chazy boys' soccer team. In fifty-three years of high school competition played in four different leagues, the Eagles have had only four regular season campaigns where they did not have a winning record.When they started league play in 1953, the Eagles finished with no wins. In 1955, only their third year of league competition, they won their first sectional championship. Other titles followed through 1964, but in 1965, Chazy soccer entered a new era with the arrival of Coach George Brendler.Brendler took a good team, taught them to play his style of soccer, and took the North Country by storm. No matter who the opponent was, no matter how big the school might be; more often than not, the Chazy Eagles cut them down to size. Brendler's career at the helm lasted for twenty-four years. When he retired from coaching after the 1988 season, he left a tremendous legacy.The Eagles' continued success can be traced to its roots many decades earlier, in the person of George Brendler. George Brendler was a great soccer coach, but he was much more than that. He was an American child and a Hungarian child, a victim of the Great Depression, and witness to the worst war in history. He was a soldier, a student, a teacher, and a husband and father.
