Coplay's high school football coach Brian Gilbert, teacher Phillips Armstrong on Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley's journey from his hometown of Coplay, Pennsylvania to the NFL.

LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. — This is where it all started for Eagles running back Saquon Barkley at Whitehall High School in the Lehigh Valley. Just down the street in the borough of Coplay, the inside ...

Barkley was a multi-sport star in high school Barkley was born in the Bronx, but his family moved to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and later Coplay, a small town outside Allentown, in his early childhood.

(AP Photo) On Sunday, Saquon Barkley became just the 9th player in NFL history to rush for 2,000 yards in a single season. Whitehall-Coplay Athletic Director Bob Hartman said he was in the stands ...

Philadelphia media members and national types like the NFL Network visited earlier, and even gave exposure to Coplay, where Barkley lived ... both from Mechanicsburg, Pa. in the Governor’s ...

Whitehall-Coplay Schools athletic director Bob Hartman said. Hartman still stays in touch with Barkley, texting him before and after each game. "When he's here, it's really like he never left ...