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The Glenville Rumor
I was a track and cross country coach at Moeller High School in Cincinnati for 20 years. In 1983 we had a conflict involving one of our sprinters, D'Juan Francisco, and graduation. We were competing in the pre-lims at the SW Ohio Regional meet at Welcome Stadium in Dayton. The 200 pres were among the last of the day's events and they ran Divisions I, II and III on the same day. Graduation began at 8. A Notre Dame alum stepped in and provided a chopper to pick DJ up from the parking lot at Welcome and dropped him off at the grounds of Landmark Baptist, where the graduation ceremony took place. DJ had already signed with ND and so I think that made it legal, but it raised a real stink in the press at the time.
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