Joe Diblin lettered in soccer, basketball, baseball and golf while attending Hightstown High School, He was a member of the varsity for three of those years. The soccer teams were state champions in 1934,35 and 36. Joe was the goaltender. They lost only one scheduled game in 1935. In 1936 Joe and his teammates were equally successful in basketball, They lost only two scheduled games and these were to Immaculate Conception (which later became the powerhouse Trenton Catholic). Following the 1936 season Joe was selected to the First Team All-State squad as a center. These teams established the tradition of excellence in athletics at the high school.

Joe received a scholarship to Bucknell. There he lettered in soccer, basketball and golf. In 1939 he captained the soccer team and was named to the AII-American squad as a goaltender. Upon graduation Joe served as an Air Force pilot throughout World War 11,1941-1945. He returned to Bucknell to receive his Masters. For the next two years he was the varsity football, basketball and baseball coach at Lewisburg High School in Pa. Bucknell invited him to coach their soccer team in 1948 and he promptly won the Middle Atlantic States Soccer Championship. By the way he had a local lad Charles Stults, on that fine team, who was a standout center halfback. Joe also taught aviation courses at Bucknell. Flying was in his blood He left the academic world and for the next 15 years was the Chief Test Pilot for the Lycoming Aircraft Engines Corp.

He has been a member of the Bucknell Athletic Hall of Fame Committee, 1970 to the present. Joe desired to have his teammates who lost their lives in W W II remembered. Bob Cutinelfi, Stanley Johnson, Bill Powell and George Dennis. They are indeed a part of this celebration ... along with your friend, Haywood Robinson, who "kept you in sprains and bruises on the athletic fields.

(Information accurate as of October, 2000 induction)