Inductee Profiles: 1955 – 1984

Class of 1968HOF Class: 2022 Position: Wide Receiver / Defensive Back

Class of 1968HOF Class: 2023 Position: Defensive Lineman

Class of 1967 HOF Class: 2023Position: Wide Receiver / Defensive End

Class of 1959HOF Class: 2022Position: Offensive Lineman / Defensive Lineman

HOF Class: 2021Assistant Coach Position: Offensive Lineman / Defensive Lineman

Assistant Coach HOF Class: 2021Offensive Lineman / Defensive Lineman

Head Coach HOF Class: 2021Ralph Paden Sr. worked as a Physical Education Teacher with Prince George’s County Schools, working with young people and making an impact in the community. Ralph was known for being a physical education teacher and outstanding high school football coach at Fairmont Heights High School. He achieved many accolades during his coaching career including being named League Coach of the Year three different times and going to four county championships. Paden’s teams won 177 games – many accomplished by rosters with fewer than 30 players, an achievement the Maryland High School Football Foundation says ranks among the state’s top coaching achievements. Winning 62 percent of his games earned him induction in the state football coaches association’s Hall of Fame in 2003 along with Doug Fleetwood of Cambridge-South Dorchester, and Morgan Wootten of DeMatha in Hyattsville. (Wootten was a successful football coach in the 1960s before focusing exclusively on basketball.) Fairmont Heights decided a November 2018 home playoff game was an ideal time to salute “Coach Paden.” A rainy night did not deter former players from attending the stadium renaming ceremony.