Chadron State College Athletic Hall of Fame
A native of Banner County, Pile was an excellent football player and javelin thrower for the Eagles and then excelled as a wrestling coach. After transferring to CSC from North Platte Community College, Pile was a starting defensive end for the Eagles in 1970 and averaged 39.5 yards as the punter. That spring, he won the javelin at several track and field meets, including the Nebraska College Conference Meet with a throw of 194-feet, 10 inches.
After graduating, Pile taught and coached wrestling at Sioux County High in Harrison, Neb., where his teams won 22 consecutive regular season tournament championships and won the Class D state tournament championship in 1976. For more than 30 years after that, he has been an admininistrator at Nebraska and Colorado schools. He was the secondary principal at Mullen for 16 years, the superintendent at Leyton, located at Dalton and Gurley, for 11 years, also was the superintendent at Potter-Dix for four of those years, and is in his fifth year as part-time superintendent at Revere High School at Ovid, Colo.
He and his wife, Lila, who also graduated from CSC, live near Gurley, Neb.
