Among other honors, Leyden High School named its basketball court in honor of former coach Norm Goodman, who led the Eagles for 29 years and had a 108-game regular-season winning streak in the 1970s. Daily Herald file photo/NCS Digital

Gary Wolf is an assistant boys basketball coach at St. Viator, but for six years in the 1980s he assisted Norm Goodman at Leyden.

“I never worked so hard as a coach, and I never laughed as much,” Wolf said.

The humor is a matter of perspective. It was hard to play against Goodman-coached teams. They went 548-185 in his 29 seasons at East Leyden and Leyden from 1961-90.

Once a captain in the Marines, his East Leyden Eagles won a record 108 straight regular-season games between 1974-78.

An Illinois Basketball Coaches Association Hall of Famer who died in

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