Tribute to Harry DeVault, legendary Kent State sportswriter

Tribute to Harry DeVault, legendary Kent State sportswriter

- Tom Hardesty

Harry DeVault was a legend long before I arrived at the Record-Courier in March 1994.

Harry had covered Kent Roosevelt High School and Kent State athletics for decades by then — decades that included yours truly reading his stories daily in my formative years. As far as I was concerned, no R-C sports section was complete without seeing Harry’s byline in it.

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