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Each week during the football season, BuckeyeXtra.com will bring subscribers the original coverage of an event in the life of legendary Ohio State coach Woody Hayes, taken from the archives of The Columbus Dispatch newspaper. These stories, photos and clippings predate the Internet era and are being presented in digital form for the first time.
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CONTEXT: Woody Hayes was not shy about sharing his political views, which is how he ended up on the speakers' platform with then-candidate Richard M. Nixon at a Statehouse rally in the final weeks of Nixon's campaign against Humbert Humphrey in 1968.