Some Ohio football legends, particularly two coaches, highlight the 33-man second class of the National Football High School Football Hall of Fame. The class covers quite a bit of football — and American — history from over the last century-plus.

Gerry Faust and Chuck Kyle, who built perhaps the state’s most famous football dynasties of the Ohio High School Athletic Association playoff era, are among the 33. They join the 23 enshrinees from the charter class last year.

Faust’s Cincinnati Moeller teams dominated Ohio’s big-school division in the 1970s before he left to become head coach of Notre Dame in 1981. His Moeller teams went 70-1 across his final six seasons, winning five state titles from 1975-80. By the end of the 1980s, Kyle’s Cleveland St. Ignatius Wildcats were the dominant program of Division I and he retired after last season with 11 state titles.

Faust and Kyle are among 13 men with ties to Ohio high school football who are in the 2024 class, including three former star players enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton — Paul Warfield, Orlando Pace and Charles Woodson. Eric Dickerson and the late Dick Butkus and Reggie White are other Pro Football Hall of Famers in this class, which also includes four Heisman Trophy winners — Woodson (1997), Ernie Davis (1961), Billy Sims (1978) and Eddie George (1995).

Davis, who died of leukemia in 1963 before ever playing an NFL game, was the first Black player to win the Heisman.

This high school hall of fame class also features Doug Williams, the first Black quarterback to start (and win) a Super Bowl.

Another Ohioan in the class is Jack Trice, a Cleveland East Tech star in the 1920s who became Iowa State’s first Black athlete. Trice died tragically Oct. 8, 1923, at age 21, two days after suffering fatal injuries during a game at Minnesota. It was just his second college game. Iowa State renamed its football stadium Jack Trice Stadium in 1997. It is the only stadium among the nation’s major college football schools to be named for a Black man.

The overall breakdown of the 2024 class is 27 players, five coaches and one contributor. They were selected from a ballot of 60 by the National Football High School Football Hall of Fame Foundation Selection Committee.

“Each of these men have established themselves among the absolute best to have ever played or coached the game of high school football, and we look forward to immortalizing their incredible accomplishments,” said the hall of fame’s founder, LaMont “ShowBoat” Robinson, in a statement released by the NHSFHOF.

The 2024 Class will officially be inducted at the second annual National High School Football Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony on June 8, 2024, at Umstattd Hall in Canton. Tickets are on sale now for $25, and can be purchased at www.nhsfootballhof.com.

The full class list follows below:

National High School Football Hall of Fame Class of 2024      

• LB Dick Butkus, Vocational High School (Chicago, IL)
• QB Terrelle Pryor, Jeannette High School (Jeannette, PA)
• WR Nate Burleson, O’Dea High School (Seattle, WA)
• QB Chuck Ealey, Notre Dame High School (Portsmouth, OH)
• RB Dick Hoak, Jeannette, High School (Jeannette, PA)  
• CB Charles Woodson, Ross High School (Fremont, OH)
• DE Dexter Manley, Yates High School (Houston, TX)
• DT Bob Golic, St. Joseph High School (Cleveland, OH)
• QB John Cooper, Powell High School (Powell, TN)
• RB Eddie George, Fork Union Military Academy (Fork Union, VA)
• G Kurt Kampe Jr., Cooley High School. (Detroit, MI)  
• T Jack Trice, East Tech High School (Cleveland, OH)
• RB Ernie Davis, Elmira Free Academy High School (Elmira, NY)
• RB Stump Mitchell, Camden County High School (Camden County, GA)
• G Jim Haslam, St. Petersburg High School (St. Petersburg, FL)
• RB Billy Sims, Hooks High School (Hooks, TX)
• QB Doug Williams, Chaneyville High School (Zachary, LA)
• Contributor Bobby DiGeronimo (Independence, OH)
• G Calvin “Jack” Jones, Steubenville High School (Steubenville, OH)    
• RB Robert Smith, Euclid High School (Euclid, OH)
• DE Reggie White, Howard High School (Chattanooga, TN)
• WR Ted Ginn, Jr., Glenville High School (Cleveland, OH)
• WR Paul Warfield, Warren G. Harding High School (Warren, OH)
• RB Eric Dickerson, Sealy High School (Sealy, TX)
• WR Josh Cribbs, Dunbar High School (Washington, DC)
• DT Orlando Pace, Sandusky High School (Sandusky, OH)
• DT Harvey Armstong, Kashmere High School (Houston, TX)  
• RB Geoff Mitchell, Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School (London, Ontario)
• Coach Chuck Kyle, St. Ignatius High School (Cleveland, OH)
• Coach Mike Young, Wheeling Central High School (Wheeling, WV)
• Coach Joe Mucci, Jeanette High School (Jeannette, PA)
• Coach Reno Saccoccia, Steubenville High School (Steubenville, OH)
• Coach Gerry Faust, Archbishop Moeller High School (Cincinnati, OH)