The native citizen has heard it talked from the time he opened his eyes in the cradle, and new residents have frequently been bored to tears with the boasts of the old guard until they, too, became convinced that there's something more than usual about the game as it is played here, when a whole community enters into the spirit of the thing. Luther Emery Legendary Massillon Sportswriter Editor of The Independent - on the Massillon commmunity. I talked to at least 100 people in all walks of life, and everyone talked about and praised one thing, the Tigers of Massillon High School, and I said to myself, 'Grant Murray, you are in the perfect high school city, perhaps the only one of its kind in the world. Grant Murray Vice President, Toledo School Board - on a fall visit to Massillon in 1940. Scribes said it. . .
Tigers are the big news here.
They come first and the town's business and social life hinges around them. All rights reserved.