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All-county running back Griffin leaving Aquinas for McKinley
Wednesday, February 21, 2007


CANTON All-Stark County running back Christian Griffin has transferred from St. Thomas Aquinas to McKinley High School.

Griffin ran for 1,340 yards and 10 touchdowns during his junior season in helping the Knights finish 7-3. The 5-foot-11, 185-pounder was named second-team Division V All-Ohio.

Griffin also earned All-Ohio track and field honors as a sophomore with Aquinas' 400-meter relay team.

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Tulsa World - Sports Extra

Union rolls in road rout in Canton, Ohio.

CANTON, Ohio -- It took the Union High football team two days to get a victory in Ohio, but the extra day was well worth it.

In a game that started late Saturday and ended in the early hours Sunday morning, Union routed three-time Canton McKinley 31-0, a traditional power in Ohio.

Playing in the third annual Kirk Herbstreit Challenge, the Redskins scored 10 points off a pair of McKinley turnovers and another touchdown following a blocked punt in the shadows of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

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Unfortunately, it looks like McKinley's win last week against Detroit Pershing will be nullified.

cleveland.com: Everything Cleveland

I played for Coach Cross in a HS all star game, and I think the world of him. I highly doubt this was intentional.

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Canton

Tough to replace: Coach Cross one thing, person another
SUNDAY SPECIAL
Sunday, December 23, 2007
BY Todd Porter
REPOSITORY SPORTS WRITER

During a 26-year head coaching career, Brian Cross has seen many areas of the state. He has met many families and gotten to know thousands of kids. But the ones he is leaving at McKinley High School may have touched the head coach more than most.

Cross took the McKinley job with his eyes open. He knew it was a public high school in the city. He knew players would have family issues or, worse, no family whatsoever. He had no idea, though, how many.

?There were more kids who had issues than I was used to,? Cross said. ?Every school has kids with issues, but there were more of them, and you have to work with those kids individually.?

Cross will leave having received his share of criticism. He lost to Massillon three times in the last four games. In an ironic twist, that may not be enough to get Massillon coach Tom Stacy a contract extension. The Bulldogs are coming off a 3-7 season that included a one-game suspension for Cross because of an administrative oversight for which he took responsibility.

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CPD

Coaches on McKinley's radar



Friday, February 08, 2008

Five area head coaches are on the list of 11 candidates being considered for head football coach at Canton McKinley.
Benedictine's Art Bortnick, Normandy's Rich Turner, Richmond Heights' Derrick Johnson, Firestone's Tim Flossie and Wadsworth's Greg Dennison have been asked to interview for the position. They were chosen from a field of 30 applicants. Interviews began Wednesday and are expected to last into the middle of next week.
The other candidates include Craig Coleman, a McKinley graduate and an assistant coach at Savannah State; Ron Johnson, the head coach at Middletown; Rob Karovic, a McKinley assistant coach and the former head coach at Waterloo; Warren Miller, a former McKinley assistant; Brian Shaner, head coach at Youngstown East; and Stephen Tutsie, the head coach at Warren Central in Indianapolis.




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