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Ohio legends, Heisman winners in National High School Football Hall of Fame 2024 class

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February 3, 2024

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)

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Judge pauses Ohio’s plan to fund new Browns stadium with unclaimed funds

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March 10, 2026

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Judge pauses Ohio’s plan to fund new Browns stadium with unclaimed funds

CLEVELAND — Ohio’s plan to use unclaimed funds to help fund construction of a new domed stadium for the Cleveland Browns was temporarily blocked in court on Monday.

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The class-action lawsuit argues that provisions of Ohio’s two-year, $60 billion budget that took $1 billion from the state’s Unclaimed Funds Account to pay for the stadium that Haslam Sports Group is planning for suburban Brook Park

The strategy was among several hotly debated topics during Ohio’s budget planning last year.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office said it was reviewing the decision and determining next steps

In her preliminary injunction, Franklin County Magistrate Jennifer Hunt found that plaintiffs in a lawsuit brought by former Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann are substantially likely to win their case on the merits. Her order pauses the plan while the case is heard.

The class-action lawsuit argues that provisions of Ohio’s two-year, $60 billion budget that took $1 billion from the state’s Unclaimed Funds Account to pay for the stadium that Haslam Sports Group is planning for suburban Brook Park, south of Cleveland, violate constitutional prohibitions against taking people’s private property for government use, as well as citizens’ due process rights.

The strategy was among several hotly debated topics during Ohio’s budget planning last year.

Dann and former state Rep. Jeffrey Crossman, both Democrats, filed the legal action on behalf of three named Ohio residents, as well as all other individuals whose unclaimed funds were being held by the state as of June 30, 2025.

The litigation challenges specific budget provisions that diverted more than $1 billion in unclaimed funds to create an Ohio Cultural and Sports Facility Performance Grant Fund and designate $600 million for the Browns as its first grant.

Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost’s office said it was reviewing the decision and determining next steps.

Before ending his bid for governor last year, the Republican spoke out against using unclaimed funds for such a purpose, having gone so far as to urge DeWine to veto it. However, the state’s top lawyer has further said that he believed the plan was legally sound.

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Cleveland mother accused of burying daughters in suitcases prompts new focus on parenting bill

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March 9, 2026

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Cleveland mother accused of burying daughters in suitcases prompts new focus on parenting bill

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – A Cleveland mother was charged with two counts of murder after her daughters were found in suitcases partially buried in a park near E. 165th and Midland Ave last week.

In the days that followed, we spoke with DeShaun Chatman, who is the father of 8-year-old Mila Chatman.

He said he’s been trying for years to get access to his daughter but felt the courts and Child Protective Services (CPS) weren’t working with him.

There is a law in Columbus working its way through the process trying to clarify parenting roles and rights.

Senate Bill 174 (SB174) was passed in November and is currently sitting waiting in a House committee.

At the time the bill was passed one of the bill’s sponsors, Senator Theresa Gavarone (R-Bowling Green) said, “No one is a winner in parenting disputes. But if anyone is, it should be the kids. By passing this legislation, the Ohio Senate is taking the first step toward encouraging cooperation between separated parents.”

The bill has a number of provisions looking to make it easier for a judge to give equal rights to both the mother and father.

For example, it would prohibit a judge from giving preference to a father or a mother based on a person’s financial status or gender.

It also requires a parenting plan be filed that shows parenting and decisions will be a shared responsibility regardless of marital status.

There is also a prevision that would allow unmarried parents to file a complaint at no charge, requesting the allocation of parenting rights and responsibilities upon the father establishing parentage and provides an expedited hearing and temporary orders.

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Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Philadelphia 76ers – Cleveland Today

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March 9, 2026

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Witness the excitement of NBA basketball as the Cleveland Cavaliers host the Philadelphia 76ers at the Rocket Arena. These two Eastern Conference powerhouses will battle it out on the court in what promises to be a thrilling matchup.

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