By Shannon Fagan, WEIS Sports Director

COLLINSVILLE – It’s understandable if this year’s Collinsville Panther football team feels like a piece of them is missing throughout the 2025 season.

It isn’t due to the graduation of a particular star player or a larger-than-usual senior class.

To many of the Panther football players and coaches, stat keeper John Morgan was a part of them on their sideline. He died on May 1 at the age of 77.

Junior running back/linebacker Kyler Beene calls Morgan a “pillar” of the Collinsville community. He was Beene’s pastor at Collinsville Baptist Church.

“A lot of people don’t realize how much he did for us,” Beene said. “He’ll be missed.”

Head coach Ernie Willingham said Morgan and his wife Gloria are “my friends.”

“They’ve been at Collinsville forever,”

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