At halftime of the Governor Mifflin at Daniel Boone boys varsity basketball game on February 2nd, there will be ceremony to honor the Blazers 1966 County Championship Team, which reeled off a 24-0 record before losing to Columbia in The District 3 Class B Title Game. Their head coach was Gerry Werner.
This team was certainly one of the most dominating from that era, averaging 75 points a game and almost 50 rebounds a game, this with the starters usually having little or no playing time in the second half. As dominating of a team as they were, they also helped to bring the entire district together. Daniel Boone was still a very new school district at that time, and a few years prior, when the location of the new high school was chosen to be built in Birdsboro, the Amity People wanted to leave the district all together. Being that it was a Joint School System, by state law they couldn’t have done that until 1968, but this team brought the district and the communities together, pretty much making the old Amity/Birdsboro Rivalry defunct.
As for The Berks Scholastic Basketball Conference, this season also represented a changing of the guard as Boone dethroned Kutztown twice, who had dominated the Eastern Division for years.
