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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL: Studying ‘film’ in the digital age

When high school football coaches in Maine began using game film as a coaching tool, it wasn’t easy. Former Lawrence High School coach Pete Cooper remembered how it started in central Maine in the late 1960s. Area coaches would drop their 16 millimeter game film off at the Fairfield home of Dick McGee, the head coach at Colby College. A courier on his way from Boston to Orono to pick up the University of Maine’s film would stop in Fairfield, pick up the local film, and bring it to Boston, where it was developed.