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Diamond_Dog

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26. In high school I had the football coach as the instructor for 9th grade Health class.

Sun Oct 19, 2025, 06:07 PM

Oct 19

(My school was often in the top 10 in the state in football. We had 1500 students). School fight song and colors were the same as Ohio State’s. Quite often he made us watch films of Ohio State games from the previous week. What that had to do with health class, I never knew.

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