After Football
After leaving professional football, this former child of poverty became an eminently successful motivational speaker who then made a major financial and emotional gift to needy children. In Massachusetts, he donated land for and established the Ron Burton Training Village, which holds free summer camps for disadvantaged inner-city youths and a 5-week sports camp program once every summer.
Ron Burton was very active as an adult leader with the Boy Scouts of America. He was a member of the National Executive Board of the BSA and of the Northeast Region Executive Board. He received the Silver Antelope award for distinguished service to youth on the Regional level and the Silver Buffalo award for distinguished service on a National level.
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Famous quotes containing the word football:
“In football they measure forty-yard sprints. Nobody runs forty yards in basketball. Maybe you run the ninety-four feet of the court; then you stop, not on a dime, but on Miss Liberty’s torch. In football you run over somebody’s face.”
—Donald Hall (b. 1928)
“In this dream that dogs me I am part
Of a silent crowd walking under a wall,
Leaving a football match, perhaps, or a pit,
All moving the same way.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)