• Cliff Conrad, MHS Athletic Director, Don Buckhout, and Ed Wolfe, PHS Athletic Director.
    Cliff Conrad, MHS Athletic Director, Don Buckhout, and Ed Wolfe, PHS Athletic Director.

    No history of PHS-MHS football would be complete without mentioning the Ding Dong Bell, time-honored trophy for the game victor. It was donated to the schools by Don Buckhout, PHS football player and graduate of 1941.

    Mr. Buckhout owned the Plantation Inn, a classy restaurant on the River Road curve in Maumee. With his eye on publicity for his eatery, he concocted a whopper of a story on the bell’s…