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Wallace Morris, president of Hamilton Saints, said when the season begins, a ceremony will be held before a game to honor Chance and retire his No. 8 jersey. Morris called Chance an outstanding kid on and off the football field.
“He was a special player,” Morris said of Chance who played on the third-grade team.
After the regular season, Chance played in a national tournament with the fourth-graders, Morris said.
“A coachable, likeable kid” is how Morris described Chance.
Chance died two weeks shy of his ninth birthday.
His visitation was held Wednesday at House of Deliverance and he was buried in Greenwood Cemetery.
“His parents should have been planning his party,” Morris said. “Instead, they were attending his funeral.”
Morris said several of Chance’s teammates wore their football jerseys to his visitation.
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