During his short stay at Slatington High School, Maass coached football, basketball and baseball.
In late September 1935, David Kern resigned as history teacher at the high school. The school board then selected Maass as a teacher and assistant coach in athletics at a salary of $130 per month. The Board noted that Mr. Maass was “young man of pleasing personality and comes highly recommended.”
Born in Brooklyn, Maass attended Brooklyn Tech where he was a three-sport athlete before graduating in 1930. (Brooklyn Technical High School is one of three specialized high schools in New York City and one of the most prestigious high schools in the country.) He then attended Lafayette College where he earned letters in baseball where he played first base and football playing quarterback; he might also have played as a forward on the basketball team. He graduated in 1934.
In 1935, he was associated with the Brooklyn Dodgers minor league teams in Reading, PA and Dayton, OH. While he had been a first baseman at Lafayette, he was trying to make it in the minor leagues as a catcher.
Then, in the fall of 1935, Maass and Lloyd Williams were given the task of creating a Slatington high school football team! In five seasons at Slatington, Maass’ team won a total of six games. That included a record of 0-5-1 in 1935, 2-6 in 1936, 2-5-1 in 1937, 1-7-1 in 1938 and 1-8 in 1939.
Maass also coached the high school basketball team (1935-36, 1936-37, 1937-38) and the baseball team (1937, 1938, 1939, 1940), which won the 1939 league title.
While in Slatington he also played as a catcher for Slatington A. A. club and quarterback for such semi-pro football teams such as the Tamaqua Pros and the Allentown Professionals.
It must have been quite an adjustment for Maass coming from Brooklyn and then Lafayette to living, teaching and coaching in Slatington.
In July 1936 Maass married Evelyn Neda Benner (1910-1961) of Phillipsburg, NJ. The wedding took place in Haverstraw, New Jersey near where Maass was employed for summers as a lifeguard at Brighton and Manhattan beaches.
In 1940 Maass left Slatington, for Tredyffrin-Easttown High School, Berwyn, PA (Chester County). Then in 1942, he moved to a similar job in Nutley, NJ.
In March 1943 he enlisted in the navy where he served until discharged in January 1946. The 1950 census shows Maass and his wife living in Bergen, NJ, where he was a salesman for Whitman Candy.
Evelyn Maass died in 1961 in Baltimore, and she was buried in Greenwich Township, Warren County, NJ.
In September 1961, Maass married Beatrice Holloman née Coleman in Virginia Beach, VA. She died in 1981, and Fred Maass died in 1994. They were buried in Lamar, South Carolina.
There were no children from either marriage.