One year after the Midget Football League (later the Pop Warner League) was formed in 1959, Sam Hutchison became the head coach of the Lions.  He continued in that role for fifteen years, leading his team to the league championship in 1963, when they were undefeated, and 1965.

Not content with coaching outdoors, Sam joined the Warren School Indoor Soccer League in 1972 and coached the Wanderers for four seasons.  In that same timeframe, he served as a vice president of the Babe Ruth Baseball League.

In 1975 he and Ray Ouellette founded the Warren Wrestling Club and he has continued his involvement with that sport until the present.  He was the assistant coach of Warren High School’s wrestling team from 1979 to 1981, a period during which the squad twice captured the Suburban East championship; in 1982 he was promoted to be the team’s coach.  Working for his son Brian, Sam served as Mount Hope High School’s assistant wrestling coach in the mid-1990s and, for three recent seasons, was the Kickemuit Middle School assistant wrestling coach.  The Kickemuit squad captured the Rhode Island Middle School Championship in 2005.  (Without Sam’s help, they also won in 2006.)

Sam is now back working at Mount Hope, serving as the school’s assistant wrestling coach (under Brian Hutchison) for the 2006 season.

Sam and Brian are both being inducted into the Hall of Fame this year.  Bruce, their son and younger brother, respectively, is already a member.

Pictures from Hall of Fame Archives