Tribune-Review Donald "Pappy" Boulton in September 2005. He was a defensive coordinator at Springdale for his best friend, Chuck Wagner, for nearly 20 seasons. Courtesy of Burket-Truby Funeral Home. Donald "Pappy" Boulton, a football and vollyeball coaching legend in the Alle-Kiski Valley, died from complications due to covid-19 on Friday, Jan. 29, 2021. Tribune-Review Don "Pappy" Boulton holds a Springdale Dynamo mini-helmet in the sports memorabilia room in his Springdale home in October 2005. Upon retiring from coaching in 2016, Boulton said his greatest coaching thrill as walking off Heinz Field with the WPIAL Class A football title in 2003.
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