Terry Henry can still feel the goose bumps.

On a sweltering August afternoon in 2002, Henry sat in a chair on the Fawcett Stadium football field in Canton, Ohio.

Former East Brady, University of Miami (Fla.) and Buffalo Bills quarterback Jim Kelly stood at the podium, looking out over the throngs of family, fans and former players.

He spoke of his father, his brothers, his teammates and then looked straight at Henry in the sea of people and continued his speech.

He mentioned Henry, his influence on him, then said, "You will always be a key ingredient to why I made it as far as I did, I love you Terry."

It was as if time had stood still.

To this day a smile crawls on Henry's face and a jolt of excitement enters his voice when he speaks of it.

"I still go back to jimkelly.com and read it," Henry said. "It was amazing to be mentioned in a Hall of Fame speech. It was an amazing feeling."

It was a culmination, in a way, of years of living and breathing football, from his early days at East Brady High School as a green, 22-year-old thrust into the position, to his final coaching hours at Seneca Valley, a seasoned and winning leader.

Henry will be the first to admit how he got his head football coaching job at East Brady as a 22-year-old."I got it by default," Henry said.Coach Dave Shick left after the 1972 season. So did Harry Beckwith, who went to Kittanning.That left Henry."I really didn't know what I was getting myself into," Henry said. "I grew into the position."He went 4-3-2 during his first season and had a struggling program heading forward."East Brady football didn't do much before he got there," said Jim Hiles, who played under Henry in the mid-1970s. "He helped us gel as a team. He was able to utilize everyone's talents."But East Brady didn't really take off until the group led by Hiles and Kelly emerged in 1977.That year, the Bulldogs went 9-0-1 and outscored their opponents 365-60.East Brady didn't trail in very many games, but Hiles remembers falling behind against Keystone."They scored early in the game and were jumping up and down," Hiles said. "We went on and won 67-8. There were a lot of games like that. I remember turning to Jimmy and saying, 'We're not going to letter,'"We didn't play a lot. Terry would take us out of the game, and we'd be mad."How good that team ultimately was can never be truly measured.If there is one lament, it is the fact that there was no state playoff system in place then. Both Henry and Kelly said it would have been interesting to see what damage that team could have done in the postseason."That kind of bums you out," Kelly said. "We were a quick team - well, except for me. We knew we could have beat a lot of teams bigger than us."And there we a lot of teams bigger than East Brady, which was one of the smallest schools in the state.Henry was the driving force behind the teams, making the most of what he had.To Kelly, Henry was more than just a football coach. He was much more."He could be your best friend, then your coach, then your father figure," Kelly said. "He was pretty much everything I needed. Terry was a guy who was almost like my guidance counselor."Henry went 68-32-5 in his 11 seasons as East Brady's coach.But he was about to walk into another job that would test his resolve and his ability to adjust.

Going from a small school like East Brady to a big program like Seneca Valley was not an easy transition."At East Brady, we had anywhere between 22 to 28 kids come out for football," Henry said. "There were only 80 boys in the upper three grades at the school."Things were much different at Seneca Valley. When Henry showed up in 1984 for his first practice, he had nearly 60 players."It was a major adjustment, especially when it came to practice," Henry said. "It was tough keeping everyone involved and to keep it from being 11 kids practicing and 50 kids standing around."Henry enjoyed the closeness of East Brady. He also enjoyed the big time atmosphere at Seneca Valley and the competition.He took over a program that had four consecutive 1-9 seasons and went 4-6 during his first season."That first year, we were not very big and not very talented," Henry said. "The first thing we did was search for an offense and we came up with the Wing-T."Just five years later, the Raiders were playing at Three Rivers Stadium for the WPIAL championship against Aliquippa, but SV lost 17-9.Henry still blames himself for the defeat. Any coach worth his weight in whistles would."I made some coaching mistakes," Henry said. "We should have won."He had seven winning seasons with the Raiders, but perhaps the most satisfying was his last.During his final season in 1995, the Raiders went 10-2, losing to Upper St. Clair in the WPIAL semifinals."Those kids were outstanding," Henry said. "I enjoyed that year. They weren't great athletes, they weren't big, they didn't have blazing speed, but they were just determined."

Henry stepped down as coach in the winter of 1996 and this summer left his post as athletic director at the school.His thoughts, though, are never far away from the football field.And his former players.Henry is still close with Kelly and the two speak often. He's also maintained close ties to countless players he's coached.One of them is first-year Union High School football coach Tom Kidder, who marveled at how Henry was able to galvanize a team.Kidder was on Henry's first team at East Brady."A lot of the boys lived 25 miles from school," Kidder said. "Then there were others who lived in town. He was able to get the big farm boys to play with the guys from the town. He got a lot of boys to play for him."Henry got to see both sides of high school football."At East Brady, I was the offensive coordinator, the defensive coordinator, the quarterback coach," Henry said. "I was even the trainer. I had to tape kids up."At Seneca Valley, it was like a college program. I had a linebacker coach, a secondary coach. I had an assistant coach for everything," he added.But he never lost touch with the players.Kidder said the East Brady players flocked to him like a brother.Later in his tenure at East Brady, Henry invited players over to his home for dinner like a father.Perhaps the ultimate respect comes from Kelly, who took Henry with him to Super Bowls, Pro Bowls and World Series games. Henry was in a New Orleans hotel room the night before the Super Bowl when the 2002 Hall of Fame Class was announced.Kelly includes him in the same breath as his father and Buffalo Bills coach Marv Levy.So when it came time for Kelly to craft his Hall of Fame speech, Henry's name wasn't far from his mind."Not only did I want to include him as one of the people I wanted to talk about, I consider him one of the reasons why I got to the Hall of Fame," Kelly said. "Terry Henry is the best."