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Ohio legends, Heisman winners in National High School Football Hall of Fame 2024 class
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)
A suspect accused of fatally shooting a police officer Saturday night near Cleveland is dead, authorities said Sunday.
Officers were dispatched to a home in Euclid, Ohio, just before 10 p.m. when a caller said she and her child were threatened by the child’s father, Euclid Police Chief Scott Meyer said Sunday.
When police officers went to check the backyard, they were “ambushed by gunfire,” Meyer said.
Officer Jacob Derbin was shot and taken to a hospital, but he succumbed to his injuries later that night, police said. No other officers were injured, Meyer said.
The suspect was found dead in a Shaker Heights, Ohio, home on Sunday, authorities said. Law enforcement officials would not elaborate on how the suspect died or say if officers and the suspect exchanged gunfire.
Meyer said tactical teams had been at the scene for hours and the suspect, identified by CBS affiliate WOIO as 24-year-old Deshawn Anthony Vaughn, was not willing to come out of the home. Nobody else was injured Sunday, authorities said.
Shaker Heights is about nine miles south of Euclid.
Derbin, 23, was a military veteran and had been with the police department for less than a year, according to Meyer. Derbin was engaged and set to be married in July, Meyer said. His father is also a Euclid police officer, according to Meyer.
“The Euclid Police Department asks that you keep the fallen Officer, his family, loved ones, and our agency in your thoughts and prayers,” said Capt. Mitch Houser of the Euclid Police Department in a news release.
“Multiple law enforcement agencies” were involved in a search for the person responsible, Houser said.
Residents who live on the street where the incident happened said they recalled hearing about a dozen gunshots, NBC affiliate WKYC reported.
Meyer described the slain officer as “an amazing human being” with “a great heart” and “an incredible smile.”
“The world’s a better place with him in it,” Meyer said.
Mayor Kirsten Holzheimer Gail said in a statement Sunday that “we find ourselves grappling with a profound sense of sorrow and disbelief.” The mayor called on the community “to come together in solidarity and support, not only to honor a hero who selflessly served and protected us but also to offer strength to one another in this time of grief.”
CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – The Euclid Police Department identified the 24-year-old man suspected of killing one of their own in a shooting Saturday night.
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Euclid Police Cpt. Mitch Houser says the department identified the suspect as Deshawn Anthony Vaughn.
An statewide Ohio Blue Alert has been activated for Vaughn.
Ohio Blue Alerts are notifications intended to seek public assistance in the event of a police officer getting either critically injured or killed.
A jury in the Lake County Court of Common Pleas found Vaughn guilty of second-degree felonious assault in July of 2017. Vaughn received a four-year prison sentence following the conviction, with a credit of 270 days of time served.
Vaughn also pleaded guilty in the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas to reduced charges of receiving stolen property and having weapons under disability in October of 2021. The judge sentenced Vaughn to 263 days in prison following the conviction.
Euclid PD says Vaughn is 6 feet, 3 inches tall, weighs 215 pounds and has black hair and brown eyes.
Vaughn was last seen in a white Volkswagen Passat with Ohio license plate No. R947155. EPD says he is considered armed and ‘extremely dangerous’.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact the Euclid Police Detective Bureau at 216-289-8505 or the U.S. Marshal’s Service at 866-492-6833.
This is a developing story. Return to 19 News for updates.
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Jaylen Brown had a singular focus on Saturday—getting a win on the road that would put the Boston Celtics back up in their Eastern Conference Semifinals showdown against the Cleveland Cavaliers.
And Brown made sure his teammates had the right mentality heading into Game 3.
“Making sure before the game, at film, shoot-around, talking to everybody, touching everybody, letting everybody know like, ‘Hey, we’re not here to play around. We didn’t come to Cleveland for the weather. So let’s go,’” Brown told reporters.
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Nobody, it turns out, has ever gone to Cleveland for the weather. But the Celtics did wrest back home-court advantage in the series after losing it in Game 2, beating Cleveland 106-93 on Saturday behind strong performances by Jayson Tatum (33 points, 13 rebounds six assists) and Brown (28 points, nine boards).
Boston now holds a 2-1 advantage in the series.
And if the Celtics were interested in the weather, they’ll have a day off on Sunday, though the forecast in Cleveland is partly cloudy with a high of 63 degrees Fahrenheit. Miami or Los Angeles it is not.
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