Mar 15, 2019 | History
Written by James C. DeLong. Photos from Massillon Tiger Football Museum collection. The last of the great passers developed at Washington High School during Paul E. Brown’s coaching career here from 1932 through 1940 was George Slusser, who was also a fine runner. As...
Mar 10, 2019 | News
Likened to an annual rite of passage, several hundred Tiger fans gather each spring to revel in another upcoming Massillon football season and eagerly take in the words of the head coach as he offers his prognosis for future success. The event this year will be held...
Mar 6, 2019 | News
Massillon, the 2018 Division 2 state runner-up, will play the same scrimmage foes this year as they did last year, only the sites have been reversed. The teams are Avon, Berea Midpark and Lakewood St. Edward. Friday, August 9, 7:30 pm – at Avon. Last year the...
Feb 21, 2019 | News
According to a recent article published in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Massillon will play Gateway High School from Monroeville, Pennsylvania, in Week No. 7. Gateway joins league rival Penn-Trafford on the Tiger schedule, with both games slated for Paul Brown...
Feb 4, 2019 | History
Tommy James fashioned one of the most stellar careers of any Tiger player in Massillon’s long history. As a Wall of Champions honoree, he was indeed worthy of the recognition, for he played on championship teams at all three levels of football: high school, college...
Jan 14, 2019 | News
In 2019 Paul Brown Tiger Stadium will celebrate its 80-year anniversary. Constructed in 1938-39 during the coaching tenure of the great Paul Brown, it has hosted hundreds of high school football games in front of over 3 million fans. It has also been used for state...
Jan 2, 2019 | News
The Massillontigers.com website continues to grow in size and attract football fans from around the country. In fact, its popularity has swelled so much that the page view count, i.e., the total number of pages that are opened by viewers over a specified period of...
Dec 18, 2018 | History
Dennis Franklin is remembered by Massillon fans as the starting quarterback for Tigers when they won their last state championship. In Michigan he is remembered for being the starting quarterback that led the Wolverines to three straight Big Ten titles. During those...
Dec 11, 2018 | History
Homer Floyd was destined to become a difference maker capable of drawing harmony out of discord. “In some respects I was a community project,” Floyd recalled. “My mother was ill a lot. I Iived on the Hill, I lived on Tremont Street, I lived with the Toles family in a...
Dec 4, 2018 | News
At the end of each season, the Touchdown Club honors one of the players with the “Bob Commings Memorial Hardnose Award.” That player would have received the most votes from among weekly tallies taken by the club members. Past players honored include John Mulbach...
