FARGO — It was not just another evening last summer at the Napoleon Golf Club when Jamison Fettig shot the round of his life, and it had nothing to do with a birdie or eagle. He scored an ace with one question to fellow league golfer Joe Cichy: Can you help me coach the football team?

Veteran Napoleon head coach Kelly McCleary had resigned to take a job in Washburn, North Dakota, and Fettig was the next in line. He has to be the youngest small-town high school coach in America who has a member of the National College Football Hall of Fame on his staff.

“Honestly, it’s kind of just incredible,” Fettig said.

At 76 years old, Cichy, the legendary North Dakota State defensive back in the late 1960s and 1970 and a member of the Bison Athletic Hall of Fame, isn’t slowing down much. After reti

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