John McKissick (born September 25, 1926) is the football coach of Summerville High School in Summerville, South Carolina. In 2012, he became the first American football coach in history (High School, College or Professional) to win 600 career games. His 600th win came against Summerville's Ashley Ridge High School. As of 2012, he hasn't missed a game in 61 years and is the longest serving high school football coach of all-time. He has led Summerville to 10 state championships. With 601 wins, McKissick holds the record for most wins by a football coach at any level. He graduated from Kingstree High School in Kingstree, South Carolina, then went to Presbyterian College for two years before being drafted into the army (as a paratrooper). He returned to Presbyterian to graduate with a degree in economics in 1951. He then worked for his father for a while before finally getting the coaching job at Summerville High. He has coached all three of his grandsons, Richard and Joe Call, and Donny McElveen. He was elected to the National High School Hall of Fame in 1990.
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“I do not wish to see John ever again,—I mean him who is dead,—but that other, whom only he would have wished to see, or to be, of whom he was the imperfect representative. For we are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.”
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