West Greene High School
California and Waynesburg Universities
ATHLETE
Three-year football letterman as quarterback and defensive back for head coach Larry Piper.
Three-year wrestling letterman and a 145-pound section runner-up under head coach Buzz Walters.
Three-year track and field letterman under head coach Buzz Walters. He was part of the 1972 880-relay team which placed 6th in the WPIAL.
One-year letterman and starting point guard who averaged 10 points per game in basketball.
After lettering as a freshman safety at Cal State under Elmo Natali, Bristor transferred to Waynesburg College, where he was a three-year letterman at defensive back for Hayden Buckley. He had a school-record 86-yard interception touchdown return against Geneva.
He earned second-team All NAIA District 18 honors for defense in 1976.
Bristor also competed in baseball (2 years) and track and field at Waynesburg, where he helped the 4×100 and 880-relay teams set school records, including a 3rd-place 880-relay finish at the WVU Mountaineer relays.
He competed in NFL training camps with Miami (1978), San Francisco (1979) and Green Bay (1980).
A recent inductee into West Greene’s Pioneer Hall of Fame, John served as an assistant football coach at both West Greene and Waynesburg.
Bristor played men’s softball for more than 25 years in the Greene County, Ten Mile and Mon Valley Leagues. He competed in a softball World Tournament in Cincinnati, OH.
