Touchdown Town (1951)
By RKO Radio Pictures
Massillon, Ohio, known as "Touchdown Town USA," where football is not only a sport is also a civic enterprise and a cult. Its high-school football stadium seats 20,000 fans, and every new-born baby boy is presented a football on leaving the hospital.
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Tigertown (1986) - begins at the 8-minute mark
"Massillon, Ohio has a population of 32,600. Its high school football stadium seats 22,000. Since 1932, the Tigers have won 457 games and lost only 75."
Shows interviews with parents, students, players, coaches, community members, as well as footage of Massillon.
Credits at 35:00
Conceived and produced by Daniel Sipe. Directed and edited by David Rosenberg. Camera by Richard Gordon.
Created with funding through the Ohio Humanities Council, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.