Long-time local football announcer celebrates career
You could call Roger Campbell “the voice of Muncy football.” He’s earned that title by announcing the play-by-play action on the Indians’ field for many years. It all began at a Muncy Booster Club banquet in the mid-1980’s when he volunteered as speaker at the banquet because “no one else would do it,” Campbell said. “After that,” he reports, “Bob Wolfe, athletic director at the time, said to me, ‘You don’t mind speaking into a microphone. How about doing the football games?'”
So, Roger Campbell began covering the action on Muncy’s Stanley T. Schuyler Memorial Football Stadium, eventually announcing the wrestlers prior to each match adding to his announcing repertoire. He worked as a school psychologist and GED examiner for Williamsport School District until his retirement after 40 years. “I just love the sports,” Campbell confessed. “I played football and wrestled as a student, and I really like keeping in touch with the community and the students. I guess that’s why I continue to cover the games and matches.”
Campbell has been kept very busy over all these years. He and his wife, Cathie, raised six children, and he has covered Jr. High, Jr. Varsity and Varsity competitions in both sports throughout this time. That averages out to a lot of games and matches he has attended over nearly 40 years. And the Campbells’ share their home with six Maine Coon cats.
At the time of this interview with The Luminary, the Muncy Indians were coming off an undefeated season, much to the pride of Roger Campbell, “the voice of Muncy football.”


