Editor’s note: The profile on Tommy Manning was researched and written by Jim Dunne, a 1955 Norwich High School graduate. This is the first of eight weekly articles profiling the inductees into the Norwich High School Sports Hall of Fame. The induction ceremony is Saturday, June 18 at Canasawacta Country Club.

Glenn “Tommy” Manning

(Class of 1925)

In the early 1920s, Norwich High School began to get serious about football. In 1921, it hired the first coach who was paid by the school. Before that time, local businessmen were solicited for funds to pay a Colgate student to come down and teach the rudiments of football to the boys of Norwich who wanted to play.