![]() ![]() “On the tape, you could see me get up and go towards the wrong sideline,” Powell said with a laugh. He got knocked out during a preseason game with the Rams when Jim Brown’s knee met his helmet.To put that feat in perspective, the Wildcats have beaten Ohio State twice in the subsequent 57 years. Powell helped Northwestern knock off Ohio State two straight years (1962-63), both times in Columbus.Powell played in the 1960 Ohio North-South All-Star Game, where he was a teammate of Warren’s Paul Warfield and an opponent of Cincinnati Purcell’s Roger Staubach.Retired since 2012 from his work as an attorney at Day Ketterer in Canton, Powell is more than a half century removed from his playing days and a grandfather five times over. With the Pro Football Hall of Fame being here, you couldn’t really pick a much better place to play football than Stark County.” ![]() ![]() “Stark County is known for great football. “It means a lot,” said the 77-year-old Powell, who still lives in North Canton and coaches eighth-grade football. For now, he’ll have to settle for the Stark County High School Football Hall of Fame. If there ever is a Hall of Fame for just being a quality human being, Powell probably deserves to be in it. Powell reached that goal and beyond, playing three years of professional football, which included NFL All-Rookie Team honors in 1965 with the Los Angeles Rams, after playing for Ara Parseghian at Northwestern. “He just always had it in his mind that he wanted to play Big Ten football. “I’ve known him really well since we were 15 and the thing about Tim is he’s an absolutely great person. “That’s always baffled me,” said Paul Paparone, a fellow 1960 Hoover High School graduate, about his good friend’s sports/personal life dichotomy. There isn’t much mean and nasty about the North Canton native. It’s where the dirtiest of football’s dirty work happens. NORTH CANTON Playing in the trenches typically requires a certain degree of mean and nasty. ![]()
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