Inductees

Ted Chittwood grew up in the Kansas City metro area and attended Missouri Valley College. He graduated in 1947 after an outstanding collegiate multi-sport career in football, basketball and track. He moved to Raytown and became a coach and teacher for Raytown High School, where he remained for 34 years, retiring in 1981. During his first 15 years at Raytown, his football teams compiled a 113-26-10 record. Overall, his teams won 231 games, lost 100 and tied 13 times. An innovator both on and off the sports field, Chittwood was proud of having the first team in the Kansas City area to play in a high school bowl game, of leading Raytown to be the first school to have an organized booster club, the first school to organize a high school all-star football game, the first school in the Kansas City area to print a large football program, the first school in the Kansas City area to issue football t-shirts, the first stadium in the Kansas City are to seat 5,000 spectators and the first high school in the Kansas City area to have a double deck press box.