ESPN followed Wolf's one-year journey as Lakewood's head coach in a documentary series. The schools used to share a healthy football rivalry, but haven't played each other since Brick defeated Lakewood 65–6 in 2003. Lakewood sits just to the west of Brick, and the two high schools are a few miles apart. Wolf was looking to resurrect what had been one of the worst teams in the Shore Conference for the last decade. On January 25, 2010, after one year away from coaching, Wolf was named head coach of Lakewood High School. On December 1, 2008, after 51 seasons, Wolf officially retired as the head coach of the Brick Township High School Football Dragons. In his 51 seasons at Brick, he had won or shared 24 Shore Conference divisional championships as well 13 state sectional titles (seven of which were awarded before playoffs were instituted). Wolf began his coaching career in 1958 and had just three losing seasons. As of the start of the 2006 football season, Wolf ranked fourth in the nation of coaches by number of seasons coached and holds the New Jersey record for most years as a football coach. Former coach Vic Paternostro of Pope John, a private school, became the state's all-time winningest coach in 2009 when he passed Wolf and retired with 373 wins. Wolf has the most wins of any coach in the history of public high school football in New Jersey. Īs head coach of the Green Dragons, Wolf achieved a career record of 361-122-11. With the upcoming birth of his second child, in 1958 Wolf moved to Brick Township where he began coaching their high school's fledgling football program, the Brick Green Dragons. Wolf's football career began in the 1940s coaching a semi-professional football team in West New York before moving to Memorial High School where he was an assistant coach for 10 years. Following his military service, he graduated from Seton Hall University in 1949 and received an M.A. ![]() ![]() ![]() He served in the United States Navy in 19. While attending Memorial High School, he played on the school's football team. Wolf was born in Jersey City and grew up in West New York. He was also a Republican politician who served as a Brick Township school board member, councilman, mayor, Ocean County freeholder, and New Jersey State Assemblyman. Wolf (Aug– November 22, 2019) was an American high school football head coach who coached at Brick Township High School in Brick Township, New Jersey.
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