Editing Eddie Tolan (section)

==Cass Tech High School==
Tolan attended [[Cass Technical High School]] in Detroit where he was an outstanding football player and sprinter. While at Cass Tech, Tolan set state records in the 100 and 220-yard dashes.<ref name=Now/> While still in high school, Tolan ran the 100-yard dash in 9.8 seconds and the 220-yard dash in 21.5 seconds.<ref>{{cite news|title=Two Negro Sophs in Big Ten Appear Certain of Track Fame|publisher=Ogden (NEA wire service story)|date=March 12, 1929}}</ref> Aged 16, Tolan was a member of a two-man team from Cass Tech that won the 1925 National Interscholastic indoor meet in Chicago.<ref name=Flash>{{cite news|title=Cass Flash Is Dash Finalist|publisher=Lima News (AP wire story)|date=June 4, 1927}}</ref> He won his first sprint double at the state meet as a sophomore, and in 1927 he won the 100 and 220-yard dashes at the National Interscholastic Championship at [[Soldier Field]] in Chicago.<ref name=USATF>{{cite web|title=Eddie Tolan|publisher=USA Track & Field Hall of Fame|url=http://www.usatf.org/HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=171|access-date=June 1, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110106192454/http://www.usatf.org/HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=171|archive-date=January 6, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Flash/><ref name=Ties>{{cite news|title=Tolan Ties World's Mark: Michigan Negro Runs Century Dash in 9 6-10s; Other Records Tumble in Big Ten Meet|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|date=May 25, 1929}}</ref> Despite his accomplishments as a sprinter, Tolan's first love was football, and he often said "the six touchdowns he scored in one game as a 131-pound quarterback at Detroit's Cass Tech High School was his greatest thrill, rather than his double win in the Olympics."<ref name=Dies>{{cite news|title=Little Eddie Tolan: Track Immortal Dies|publisher=Lowell Sun|date=February 1, 1967}}</ref>