(File Photo: Source for Photo: ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips, right, visits with Hall of Fame running back Tony Dorsett before an NCAA college football game between Pittsburgh and Notre Dame in Pittsburgh, Nov. 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Brook Park, OH) According to a release yesterday, former University of Pittsburgh running back Tony Dorsett is one of nineteen people that will be inducted into the National High School Football Hall of Fame on July 11th, 2026, in Brook Park, Ohio, during a special ceremony. Dorsett is the only player in Pitt college football history to win the Heisman Trophy as the best college football player in the country when he won it in 1976. Dorsett also played football at Hopewell High School and he will be part of the fourth induction class for the National High School Football Hall of Fame. All nineteen inductees are as follows:
- Brian Bosworth – (LB) MacArthur High School
- Henry Butler – (HB) University School
- Channing Crowder – (LB) North Springs High School
- Randy Crowder /P – (DL) Farrell High School
- Tony Dorsett – (HB) Hopewell High School
- Charles Follis – (HB) Wooster High School
- Lou Groza /P – (OL) Martins Ferry High School
- John Heisman/P – (OL) Titusville High School
- Jim Kelly – (QB) East Brady High School
- Vince Marrow – (TE) Cardinal Mooney High School
- Terrence Metcalf – (OL) Clarksdale High School
- Ozzie Newsome – (TE) Colbert County High School
- Drew Pearson – (WR) South River High School
- Greg Pruitt – (HB) B.C. Elmore High School
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- Andrew Stockey – (Media) / (HB) Simsbury High School
- Lee Tressel /P – (Head Coach) Mentor & Massillon High School
- Joe Vadini /P – (Head Coach) Brecksville High School
- Vince Young – (QB) Madison High School