WHERE ARE THEY NOW?: Tom Kerr - nwitimes.com
The Tom Kerr file Kerr is a 1957 Hobart High School grad who played football, basketball and baseball. He graduated from Michigan in 1961. Kerr was an assistant football coach under Don Howell from 1966-1997 in the golden era of Hobart football. , 1961-1962 and an eighth-grade coach at Hobart Junior High School, and 1962-1965. In 34 years of coaching, Kerr was part of just one losing season. The Hobart teams he helped coach won over 300 games, four state championships (1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993) and Hobart was a state runner-up seven times. HOBART | It's hard to believe that former Hobart assistant football coach Tom Kerr is not a native son of Hobart. Kerr, who moved to Hobart from Columbia City in 1954 when his dad took the superintendent's position, still goes to football practice everyday, despite being "retired" since 1997. His den is loaded with Hobart and Michigan football memorabilia,... Kerr played college football for Bennie Oosterbaan and Bump Elliott at Michigan after playing for Russ Deal at Hobart. He coached in the Hobart system until 1997. There is a photo of Kerr with Hall of Fame Brickies football coach Don Howell as well as a wall mount of his 1956 leather Hobart football helmet. Source: www.nwitimes.com
