Keeping Score: Remembering Turners Falls’ Donald Russell
Published: 2/12/2021 3:12:32 PM
Modified: 2/12/2021 4:06:34 PM
Good morning!
Former Turners Falls High School football coach Donald Russell died on Feb. 2 in Plano, Texas, at the age of 93. He was born in Quincy and graduated from Bates College in 1951 where he was a two-way tackle for coach Raymond “Duckie” Pond.
Russell taught for a few years in Maine at Hollis High School and Thornton Academy in Saco, but football was in his blood and he came to the Powertown in 1955 to teach and coach at TFHS.
“It’s been so long,” said Stash Koscinski, “but I liked him. The coaches were always friendly with us.”