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Massillon QB Kyle Kempt gets set to make a throw at GlenOak in Week 2 of the 2012 season
EDITOR’S NOTE: Months of research led to a series, “Year of the Quarterback,” being presented in three waves. The first wave — 10 articles covering the volatile new world of the transfer portal — was published recently. This is the sixth story in the second wave, which tracks then-and-now journeys of 10 Stark County quarterbacks.
Quarterback Kyle Kempt made second-team All-Ohio as a 2012 Massillon Tigers senior, certainly a nice honor, but surely not what it used to be.
In 1959, the Associated Press All-Ohio football team honored a first-team QB, Massillon’s Joe Sparma; a second-teamer, Frank Christie of Marietta, and a third-teamer, Dick Craft of Greenfield McClain. Other than some honorable mention guys, that was it.
Flash forward to 2012. The AP first team alone included Mentor’s Mitch Trubisky, Hoover’s Dom Iero and 19 other quarterbacks in six divisions. There was Kempt, on the second team, a bit lost in a crowd.
Then he went to college and really got lost.
Iowa State’s Kyle Kempt throws a pass against Oklahoma, in Norman, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. Iowa State won 38-31.
He resurfaced, against all odds, looking like a first-team All-American the day he beat Baker Mayfield.
Everybody in Tigertown knew Joe Sparma. He was born there. He was 10-0 as a senior. His dad became a Massillon mayor.
Sparma was the No. 1 quarterback on Ohio State’s unbeaten 1962 team. In 1968, the whole town puffed its chest when he pitched the Detroit Tigers to the win over the Yankees that clinched the American League pennant.
Kempt was a move-in from Oregon who moved back to play at Oregon State.
Massillon quarterback Kyle Kempt gets set to throw during a 7-on-7 passing scrimmage in 2012 also featuring Perry, Louisville, Orrville and Cloverleaf.
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Publish date : 2024-10-04 10:09:51
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