Definitely one of the good guys in the profession.
STORY QUOTE:
Art "Jack" Hill would tell you he never coached sports.
“I coach young men to be men, football is the tool that I use,” Hill would say.
Or baseball. Or wrestling. Or track and field.
Whatever tool Hill used, he always used it well as he shepherded generations of teenagers into adulthood, first at Affton High and then Lutheran South.
Both of those communities are reeling after Hill, 83, died Friday from complications related to COVID-19.
STORY QUOTE:
Art "Jack" Hill would tell you he never coached sports.
“I coach young men to be men, football is the tool that I use,” Hill would say.
Or baseball. Or wrestling. Or track and field.
Whatever tool Hill used, he always used it well as he shepherded generations of teenagers into adulthood, first at Affton High and then Lutheran South.
Both of those communities are reeling after Hill, 83, died Friday from complications related to COVID-19.
Football notebook: Affton coaching legend Hill dies; Lutheran North picks up suspended win
Art "Jack" Hill would tell you he never coached sports.
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