As City Editor for the Portsmouth Daily Times, H. Coleman Grimes used the columns of his paper to help promote professional football in Portsmouth, Ohio. In 1927, Grimes authored Jack Creasy’s obituary, noting that "football fans lost a champion whose greatest desire was to build a football team that could defeat any other team in the Ohio Valley. He came close to reaching his ambition when he headed the Portsmouth Shoe Steels last fall. There was a football team that all Portsmouth will remember and Creasy had planned an even better team for this coming season when the hand of death stilled the heart of that lovable young fellow.”