This is the fifth in a series of nine articles profiling the 2012 inductees into the Butler High School Athletic Hall of Fame.BUTLER TWP — How badly did Jeff McAnallen want to play football?He switched schools to do so.Now years later, his dedication to the sport has paid off. The former Butler lineman is being inducted into his high school's athletic Hall of Fame.McAnallen and his eight fellow inductees will be honored with a reception at 5 p.m. Sept. 14 in the high school cafeteria. They will also be recognized on the field prior to the Golden Tornado's home football game with Pine-Richland that night.McAnallen's journey to the Hall began in eighth grade, when he became too big physically to continue playing for East Butler in the Butler Area Midget Football League.“I barely made the (135 pound) weight limit in seventh grade,” McAnallen said. “By eighth grade, I didn't have a chance. I was something like 5-foot-10, 200 pounds.”Because he attended Butler Catholic, he was ineligible to play for Butler's junior high team. So he enrolled in the public school rather than miss a year of football.“My mom wasn't crazy about it, but I had to leave Butler Catholic,” McAnallen said. “I wasn't gonna miss football. Since I was a little kid, I went to every Butler varsity game, home and away, playoffs, everything. I wanted to play for that football team someday, no matter what. Nothing was going to derail that.”With each passing year, McAnallen got bigger. By his sophomore year, he was 6-3, 250 pounds. By his senior campaign, he was 6-4, 275.“It was pretty rare, a sophomore starting for Butler back then,” said McAnallen, a 1990 Golden Tornado graduate. We always had 100 kids come out for football and they kept 85. There was a lot of platooning going on.”McAnallen played offensive tackle and was part of the team's goal-line defense. He also threw the shot put for two years for the track and field team. Butler won two WPIAL titles and never lost a meet during McAnallen's tenure on the squad.After receiving numerous football postseason all-star honors his senior year, he pondered approximately 20 Division I and I-AA scholarship offers before deciding on the University of Tulsa.“Tulsa's coach, Mark Thomas, was from Elizabeth Forward and was an assistant coach at Penn State,” McAnallen said. “He recruited a lot of kids from Western Pennsylvania.”McAnallen started for two years at Tulsa, which defeated San Diego State and eventual NFL all-pro running back Marshall Faulk, 28-17, in the 1991 Freedom Bowl.Once McAnallen discovered he wasn't going to the NFL, he went to work on his teaching career.“Guys who were better than me were getting cut by NFL teams. I had to do something,” he said. “My mom was a teacher and that's a field I always wanted to get into.”He went on to become offensive and defensive line coach for North Hills for 10 years before returning to his alma mater as head coach in 2007. McAnallen is coaching Butler's junior high team this season while teaching at the Intermediate and high school.“It's a little different coaching the younger guys, but it's a lot of fun,” McAnallen said. “I'm not going anywhere. I live in Butler and teach at Butler. This is where I want to be.”McAnallen is one of three offensive linemen going into the Butler HOF this year, joining Mike Kelly and Bill McElroy.“I'll bet that never happens again,” he said.