File photo/The Clayton Tribune. Members of the 1949 Rabun County football team served as honorary captains before the Oct. 23, 1998, Wildcat game on “Alumni Night.” The head coach of the first RCHS football team, Richard Burrell, passed away last at the age of 97. Burrell, a history teacher, also coached baseball and boys and girls basketball at RCHS.
Rabun County’s first high school football coach whose foundation of leadership has led to generations of winning Wildcat programs passed away at the age of 97 in Lilburn, Ga., on July 25 as he wa...
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