Jim Pehanick

A Sept. 8, 2012, Times-Tribune lookback, in the items from 30 years earlier, has North Pocono quarterback Jim Pehanick throwing for 157 yards and two touchdowns to Mike Palys, and scoring on a run, in a 27-21 win over Scranton Central in September 1982. Palys also returned an interception for a score and recovered a fumble. Rich Hellard scored on a pair of 8-yard runs for Scranton Central.

A Nov. 2, 2025, Times-Tribune photo caption from November 1983 has quarterback Jim Pehanick scoring North Pocono’s first touchdown in a 35-8 win over Old Forge.

An Oct. 7, 2018, Times-Tribune photo caption from October 1983 has Pehanick scrambling, with Mike Palys blocking, in a 33-0 win over Riverside.

An April 1, 2016, Times-Tribune story says that when a quarterback dropped out of the 1985 Big 33, George Curry asked Nick Donato about Jim Pehanick, who had played against Berwick in the 1983 Eastern Conference championship. Pehanick scored a touchdown in Pennsylvania’s 17-14 win over Maryland, and the story says he went on to be a star at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The Big 33 roster lists him at quarterback from North Pocono. IUP’s letterwinner list has him for 1985 through 1988.