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blog: Alter channels Bobby Kennedy
CANTON — He didn’t give his team a pregame pep talk.
The last time Alter head coach Ed Domsitz addressed his players before Friday’s Division IV state championship game with Steubenville at Fawcett Stadium was earlier that day back at the team hotel.
That’s when he shared something with them that had inspired him when he was their age.
“When I was 17 or 18 years old, I was a big Robert Kennedy supporter,” Domsitz said. “He would close his campaign stops with a quote from George Bernard Shaw and at that point the newsmen always knew to head off and get back on the bus.
“Kennedy would say: ‘Some men see things as they are and say ‘Why?’ I dream things that never were and say ‘Why not?’
“That’s just the way I always felt about things, the way I looked at life. I talked to the team about it. I said, ‘What Kennedy was saying was that some people can sit around and moan and complain that things never happen. But others can go out and make things happen.’ That was the ‘why not? The why not us ? The why not now?”“
Alter scored the second time it had the ball and went on to overwhelm previously-unbeaten Steubenville, 21-6, to win the the school’s first-ever football title. The Knights finished with a whopping 384 yards of offense and amassed 21 first downs compared to Steubenville’s 6. They held the ball nearly 30 of the 48 minutes in he game. And on defense Alter held the Big Red — a team that had averaged 38.4 points in its four play-off games — to just one score.
That’s going out and making things happen.
Alter is one of the best teams I’ve seen come through the Miami Valley in decades. Not just how they play, but how they are coached.
Ed Domsitz, the old school coach with the brand new trophy, knows just what to do…and say.
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Another quote by a great statesman: “Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” ~Winston Churchill Congrats to the Alter Knights!