Sun coverage: Honoring Coach Eaton

December 9, 2007

Football State Final Class 1a

With Eaton in hearts, Poets win another title

The Dunbar football team had one goal this season.

September 2, 2007

Dunbar's Eaton remembered as father figure

Ben Eaton Jr. gripped both sides of the lectern as if he had an opposing quarterback in his grasp. "He taught me to be a real man, husband and great father," he said.

August 28, 2007

Ben Eaton: 1948-2007

Football's family loses a father

Dunbar football coach Ben Eaton - who guided the Poets to two state titles and whose gentle, soft-spoken manner and willingness to hug his players made him a widely revered figure in the community of Baltimore City athletics - died suddenly yesterday while exercising.