YOUNGSTOWN — It’s a brisk late October night in 2011 on Dave Pavlansky Field at Poland. Led by then-head coach Mark Brungard, the Bulldogs had just beaten archrival Canfield in convincing fashion 21-7.

On the field after the game, a group of young kids are playing football under the lights as the two teams are making their way back to the locker room and those in the stands are filing out of the stadium.

“I think that’s why they even came to the game,” Brungard said. “So that hour after the game, they could go out under the lights and play.”

Three of those kids were Brungard’s sons and they, along with a group of their friends, took turns tossing the ball around and chasing after one another.

“(We) grew up on the same high school field together,” YSU defensive end and former Poland sta

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