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OL Jack Mewhort (All-American)

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Ohio State's Mewhort: 'Weird' Playing Rockets

It's always difficult when the hometown team is on a Buckeye's schedule. That's what is facing OL Jack Mewhort this week.

By: Associated Press
Published: September 08, 2011


COLUMBUS, Ohio -- It's always difficult when the hometown team is on a Buckeye's schedule. That's what is facing OL Jack Mewhort this week.
Mewhort, a massive 6-foot-6, 303-pound redshirt sophomore who will start at LG, attended St. John's High School in Toledo. The University of Toledo Rockets come to Ohio Stadium on Saturday to meet Mewhort and the Buckeyes.
Mewhort was a fan as a youngster.
"When I was growing up, my dad used to take me to all the UT home games," he said.
Taking on the Rockets is a strange experience.
"It's a different type of a game for me. It's a weird feeling, having them come here," he said. "I know we played them in Browns Stadium in '09 and that was even kind of different, seeing all the Toledo people there. It's kind of cool."
He said he didn't have to listen to any trash talk this summer back home.
"Not really. There's not really that relationship with any of the Toledo people," he said. "It's not nasty or anything."
Ohio State hasn't lost to an in-state team since 1921. He doesn't want this to be the game that breaks that spell.
"I probably wouldn't hear the end of it just from my family members back in Toledo," he said.
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Hometown ties won't bind Mewhort
Rockets courted former St. John's star
BY MATT MARKEY
BLADE SPORTS WRITER

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Jack Mewhort, left, earned first-team all-Ohio and all-City league titles in offensive and defensive positions for St. John's Titans. Jack Mewhort, left, earned first-team all-Ohio and all-City league titles in offensive and defensive positions for St. John's Titans. THE BLADE

COLUMBUS -- Jack Mewhort is caught in a bit of a tight spot concerning Saturday's game here, when his Buckeyes will square off with the Toledo Rockets. And a tight spot is not a comfortable place for a 6-6, 303-pounder to be.

The St. John's Jesuit graduate plays for Ohio State, but obviously has significant ties to his hometown.

"I did watch them growing up, so it's cool to be able to play against them," Mewhort said this week as Ohio State prepared to face the Rockets. "When I was growing up, my dad used to take me to all the UT home games. I definitely followed the Rockets a lot."

Mewhort crafted quite a reputation in the City League as a premium blend of size, strength, and skill. He played a variety of positions on the offensive and defensive lines for head coach Doug Pearson and the Titans, earning first-team all-Ohio and all-City League honors.

The Rockets were one of the first college programs to come calling, seeking the services of Mewhort.

"Really early in the recruiting process, they were the hometown team and they came in real strong," Mew- hort said. "I definitely gave them a great look because they're a great school. It definitely crossed my mind that I might go to Toledo, but then the other schools came into play, and it didn't turn out that way."

A lot of other schools eventually sought the versatile Mewhort, who was one of the elite high school players from around the country chosen to play in the Under Armour All-America game and was a starter for the gold-medal winning Team USA in 2009 Junior World Championships.

Mewhort enrolled early at Ohio State, redshirted his first season in 2009 when the Buckeyes won a Big Ten championship and the Rose Bowl, and backed up senior Bryant Browning last year at right guard. As a redshirt, Mewhort was essentially a uniformed spectator when the Buckeyes beat Toledo 38-0 in Cleveland Browns Stadium in 2009. He will start at left guard Saturday.

"It's a different type of a game for me," said Mewhort, who has not yet declared a major at OSU. "It's a weird feeling, having them come here. When we played them in Browns Stadium in '09, that was even kind of different, seeing all the Toledo people there."

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Meet a Buckeye: Left Guard Jack Mewhort
Thursday September 8, 2011
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch

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Jack Mewhort

Age: 21

Year: Third-year sophomore

Vitals: 6 feet 6, 303 pounds

Hometown: Toledo (St. John?s High School)

Major: Undecided
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Considered among the elite offensive line prospects nationally in the recruiting class of 2009, Mewhort enrolled at Ohio State in January of that year to gain a head start but still wound up redshirting as a freshman. An all-Ohio selection in high school, he played in the Under Armour All-American game after his senior season, and he joined fellow Buckeye Storm Klein on the United Statesjunior world championship football team in the summer of 2009.

Q: You have any hobbies other than football?

A: If I?m not at football or school, I?m usually sleeping or playing video games. I hate to say it, but when it comes to anything outside of football I?m a pretty lazy guy. But when I get to football, I turn it on.

Q: Being born with reddish hair, did you ever have to deal with teasing?

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Ohio State spotlight: LG Jack Mewhort
Thursday September 22, 2011
By Tim May
The Columbus Dispatch

Headed into today?s game with Colorado, the Ohio State offensive line carries at least one flower of hope clipped from the gloaming of that loss at Miami last week. The line got physical, it pushed some Hurricanes around. Case in point, left guard Jack Mewhort.

?Jack is a really good player, and sometimes when you?re young you?ve just got to get that confidence,? said OSU?s All-American center Michael Brewster.

A third-year sophomore who is a starter for the first time this season, Mewhort was firing off as he, Brewster and the rest of the line created creases for running backs Jordan Hall and Carlos Hyde. The center makes the blocking calls and the guards and tackles carry out the orders. More often than not against Miami, the calls were right.

?I try to put them in the best position they can be in,? Brewster said. ?I was really proud of those guys the way they blocked and I thought we gave (the backs) some nice holes.?

Mewhort especially stood out. The challenge today against a Colorado defense that plays often with a three-man front, moving the noseguard from in front of the center to at times in front of the guards, will be knowing who to block. But Brewster thinks Mewhort and the rest of the line gained confidence from last week?s effort. It was evident, he said, in the way Mewhort came off the snap.

?Once you are confident and know what you?re doing you play faster, because you?re more sure of what you?re doing,? Brewster said. ?Not everything is going to be perfect, and everything wasn?t perfect. But for the most part it was a good start for his first big game.?
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