Several thousand gathered Saturday to celebrate an 82-year-old life well lived. Hagen had known Mallory for more than 30 of those years, first as an acclaimed football recruit out of Carmel High School, then as an All-Big Ten Indiana University player, finally as a coach and a friend. How do you compress that into a few words?
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BLOOMINGON, Ind. – Mark Hagen was sweating. They all were. A mid-afternoon sun blazed above Memorial Stadium, blasting away comfort, forcing everyone to earn this moment.
Bill Mallory would have loved it.