Daily News | Joseph W. Heyer Jr, retired basketball coach, longtime teacher, and star athlete, has died at 84
Joseph W. Heyer Jr., 84, formerly of Lansdale, retired men’s basketball coach at La Salle University and boys’ coach at North Penn and Cardinal Dougherty High Schools, longtime social studies teacher, and star basketball player at both La Salle University and La Salle College High School, died Sunday, Dec. 18, of complications from COVID-19 and Parkinson’s disease at Paoli Hospital.
he “tried to make everyone a better player” and that he was “a bit ahead of his time.” He told The Inquirer when he announced his retirement in 1990: “I wanted to go out on a nice season, and my son [Joe] was a senior, and I wanted to go out with him.” Earlier, Mr. Heyer coached the Cardinal Dougherty High School boys’ basketball team to a record of 55-19 and appearances in three straight Philadelphia Catholic League championship games from 1960 to 1963. He left Dougherty to be an assistant coach at La Salle College, now La Salle University, and replaced the retiring Bob Walters as head coach in 1965.
As a basketball player, Mr. Heyer set many scoring records, won numerous awards, and made all-star teams at both La Salle High School and La Salle College. Nicknamed “Jumpin’ Joe,” he led his high school team to back-to-back Catholic League championship games and his college teams to several top-20 rankings.
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