Former Hamilton (Penney) High School football coach David Fairchild is among 16 individuals and two baseball teams making up the 2017 induction class of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.
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Fairchild spent 39 years in public education, including 31 as a head football coach as he compiled a 240-104 record. That featured a 231-84 record at Penney High School, including three state championships (2009, 2010, 2012), six state semifinal appearances, nine quarterfinal berths and 12 district championships.
Coach Fairchild arrived in Hamilton in 1981 and served the district as teacher, coach, athletic director, middle school principal and superintendent of schools. He is a 1972 graduate of Chillicothe High School, played baseball at Trenton Junior College and completed his degree from Northwest Missouri State in 1976.
David was an assistant coach at West Nodaway High School and head coach at South Harrison High School from 1978 to 1981. His father, Bob Fairchild, coached at Chillicothe High School for 32 years, winning 287 games, and was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. His uncle, the late Richard Fairchild, is also a Missouri Sports Hall of Fame inductee (1990), having coached Chillicothe High School basketball for many years.
This year’s induction will take place on Jan. 29 at the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame facility in Springfield.