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EJT MENTOR THREEetter man AT OHIOTATEUNIVERSITYv Peabody, graduate of Ohio State University, will be coach. 1 i r\ A r\hvflipfl! rtlrprtor rf nil 1 ha nnhllp aohnnluHi*h eohocl and physical director of all the public schools I McKlnw —*---* ---------*-JS^. E- receding Harold Smith who resigned, according to an an * • Week el chairman of the athleticcuunc - tg R;so expected that next summer he will be supervisor of the aJ’lt;*' .. „ nndtlon which Smith Is holding this year. Peabody waslt;•• a position wnicn srniLn is nominjr inisn list of applicants for the position, and every member of'l6Ctlt;fci h° board is confident that he will prove a great success.* * 'C board was approved by Wilson Hawkins, superintendct’cn of e _ «»lary for the position was not made known. h0 schools. His salary 1 # # # #. graduated from Ohio State in 1920. He played football.**** 11°and ^isrball on the varsity teams. In 1916 and 1917 when* ^r, .h? Western Conference champion. Peabody was named on unr ^ the all*Western conference teams as an end. He was jsrtlca ? K*«ketball. He graduated from State with a R S. degreeTheperintendent of■w a «tar in baakrtNUl— ^rned bl* A. M. degree in physical education at Columbia Uni-trsity. He waJnno of the two men that Coacih Wllce, football mentor...ffgested to the local board as likely candidates for thef Ohio State. . .....^ra« tirally the unanimous choice of the local athletic boardcoach. His good record in school and since he graduated■«rved in th* Untiedpeabodyirmv air sendee during the'* nJU-rjnff successfully the cadet^ • rhe University ofrtind school at theth* ,,yln* tChO.0lltlaf»rro Pur*uit Qjr»»* ■cb®®l. Ft . „“h Tp\;u and the Advanced'££» firing (tatlnn at Carlatonjfucadm Fla, r*c*lv1ng a com-tokm ,*oond lleutenant M a?0r, ss * pilot.HUN w* fm**-*0 from *at*haa bc-n coaching high (cthootHi* fir* pcwlfton WB* at olnjTllI* Ind.. (pending on* year. MnnlUa 1» noted for it* baaket-.1, t.ams. and Peabody mad* a n(vi record there Next he coached South High of Columbus for a j He epent th* re*t of ht( tim*t Elyria O. ......Followers of professional foot bailell remember him as an end on e Toledo Maroon team in 1921 and*rams1 922. Hs played a great game here a gain «t Canton and was one of the best gridders that the Maumee town team could boast of.* * *It was not. how'ever, without any opposition that Canton secured Peabody. Miami was dickering with the former Ohfo State star to succeed Bliss, former Canton boy, as coach at that, college, but Peabody believed that he had great opportunity by signing with a large high school, and ho accepted the Canton offer. Ho also had several other offers under consideration.* * *No announcement w'as made when Peabody would come here to take over his new duties, but It is considered likely that he will be here in time to take charge of the football camp at Turkeyfoot Iwike during the last two weeks of August.
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Canton Daily News
Canton, Ohio, US
Sun, Jun 22, 1924
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