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Going deeper than X's and O's
New biography of legendary Middies coach Glenn "Tiger" Ellison reveals the legacy of run-and-shoot football.
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Friday, October 26, 2007
MIDDLETOWN — Leon Mitchell remembers growing up near the intersection of Young Street and Yankee Road in Middletown in the late 1940s.
Mitchell would walk to Lincoln Field with his father to watch the Middletown High School football team.
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It was during that time he met Glenn Ellison, the Middies' legendary coach and pioneer of the run-and-shoot offense that was popularized in the 1970s by Mouse Davis at Portland State University in Oregon.
Little did Mitchell know at the time that he would later play for the man everyone knew as "Tiger."
"It was an experience like no other," Mitchell said.
Carolyn J. Ellison, daughter of the late "Tiger" Ellison, has written a new book about her father, "Coach the Kid, Build the Boy, Mold the Man: The Legacy of Run and Shoot Football."
The book details the coaching days of Ellison at Middletown High School and then Ohio State University, but more than that it tells us about the man.
Earle Bruce, the OSU football coach from 1979-87, wrote the forward for the book.
"Tiger's story is about one great exemplary coach, teacher, friend, communicator, leader, and role model — an honest man who did a great job with and for young people," Bruce wrote. " ... The story is an inspiration for any serious fan, coach, or player at any level of the game who has an interest in experiencing what football can teach him about living a successful and fulfilling life."
J.B. Deaton is one such fulfilling story. "People ask me how I can sit here every day," said Deaton, who has been a faithful supporter of Middie football since his playing days for Ellison ended upon his graduation in 1956. "It's because this is family to me. That's why I'm here all the time."
Contact this reporter at (513) 705-2852
or sweaver@coxohio.com.