Frank LaSasso presented a history of the Hammonton Hawks Youth Football program. Created in 1958, the program teaches good sportsmanship, physical fitness, and team play, in addition to football fundamentals, preparing youth, should they choose, to participate later in high school. The Hawks are broken into 4 age groups; Taxi (grades 1-2), Peewee (grades 3-4), Junior Varsity (grades 5-6), and Varsity (grades 7-8) and play weekly games with competing towns during September and October.
LaSasso has been a long-time youth and high school coach and is currently the Hammonton Public Schools Ground Supervisor. A life-long resident of Hammonton, he is the son of a retired Hammonton police captain. Frank and his wife Marcia (Braun) have a son Frank IV and grandsons Frank V and Gino.