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Kellis star Bacon breaks barrier signing with ASU football

An hour or so before Tristan Bacon signed to play for one of the top football programs in the country, Kellis Coach Ben Kullos saw him helping clean the cafeteria.

That should give the Arizona State football program some idea of who just joined the family, beyond another linebacker.

Dec. 4 was a half day at Kellis and other Peoria Unified School District campuses. But a good-sized crowd of students stuck around to watck Bacon become the first Cougars to sign with a Division 1 football program.

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