Erle Bennett, Former Worth County FB Coach, Inducted into Missouri Hall of Fame

Erle Bennett,a former Worth County head football coach, was inducted into the Missouri Football Coaches Hall of Fame, the Mexico City Ledger reports. He will be recognized this December at Tan-Tar-A. He started his head coaching football career at Worth County from 1985 and served until 1989. After he left, he went to Centralia, where he was a defensive coordinator and an offensive line coach. Since 1994, he has been the head football coach at Centralia, where he has compiled a record of 167 wins and 46 losses. His teams have won the Clarence Cannon Conference title eight times, won the 2003 state title, had a runner-up finish in 2002, and made the final four in 2009. Among his assistants have been Worth County grads Michael Hann and John Rinehart. Currently, his teams have an active 70 game regular season winning streak that started in 2005 and is still in progress.