Chadron State College Athletics

Boness was a four-year letterman in both football and track and field in the 1950s at CSC and also earned a letter in baseball one season while he also was on the track team. His greatest success was in track and field, where he was a long jumper and ran on several excellent relay teams.
Early in his career, he set the school record in what was then known as the broad jump at 21-11 ¾.  As a senior in 1959, he went 22-1 ¾ while winning the event at the Nebraska State College Meet. He also was a member of the first place 880 and mile relay teams at the Nebraska College Conference Meet in 1958 while running with Frank Ferguson, Keith Kyser and Virgil Meyer, all Hall of Fame inductees.
Boness, who also earned his master’s degree at CSC, had a long career as a high school teacher, coach and administrator. Highlights included leading the football team at Alliance St. Agnes to undefeated regular seasons in 1971 and ’75. He is a graduate of St. Agnes. He also football coached at Mullen, Imperial, Gordon, Valentine, Sidney and Alliance. He concluded his career as the principal at Alliance High School in 1998. He and his wife, Lorraine, live in Alliance.
Their son, Bill, an All-American offensive lineman for the Eagles in 1990, was inducted into the CSC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.