Jim Thomas

Jim.Thomas@cantonrep.com

Updated: Wednesday, April 14, 2010

CANTON TWP. Being a high school football coach in Stark County

can be both a blessing and a curse.

When Repository East-West All-Star Football Game co-directors

Ron Rankin and Kevin Tobin asked Massillon head coach Jason Hall

to lead the West squad, Hall quickly found out one of the blessings.

“When I coached in the North-South game — I was on Vic (Whiting’s)

staff — kids were a little like ‘I’ll see’ about practice,” Hall told the Hall

of Fame Luncheon Club on Monday at Tozzi’s on 12th. “The kids in

Stark County, they said, ‘When’s practice? Where’s practice?’

“Kids in Stark County truly love football. They want to represent Stark

County with a great game.” Read more...

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Hoover is Stark County’s winningest Division I program the last five years, and much of that success can be attributed to head coach Don Hertler Jr. and his coaching staff. REPOSITORY FILE RAY STEWART