Michael Shaw
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TWO TOWNS, ONE FAMILY: How a Pee-Wee team and a high school powerhouse provided the ultimate football education
BY COURTNEY RATKOWIAK
“Family” is a word they use liberally in both Dayton and Trotwood, a common thread that stretches through the entire area’s tight-knit football community. The Dayton Flames coaches were like Roundtree and Shaw’s fathers, and Trotwood-Madison coach Maurice Douglass might as well have been the boys’ big brother. Candidness and closeness were the norm — the players were “all in” without ever needing to coin it as a team slogan.
