December 31, 2008

Red Roberts, founder of football group, dies  12/31/08 12:01 AM

Clarence C. “Red” Roberts was a youth football association founder, coach, equipment manager, chief financial officer and groundskeeping crew for the Redskins. The Kanawha Redskins. “Our primary concern was that all of our kids get to play ball,“ Mr. Roberts told The Richmond News Leader in 1989, the league’s third year. “He told all the parents that the association was for the kids and that every child would get an equal opportunity to play,“ said his wife, Peggy Roberts, association co-founder and treasurer.

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