Newspapers.com makes these newspapers available for the purpose of historical research, and is not responsible for the content of any newspapers archived at our site. 1978 Parade All America High School Football Team (16th Annual) (2 of 2) It was also one of two national titles for the Crabbers with Ronald Curry playing quarterback. Thanks to the wonders of the internet, we can actually watch Valdosta High's 28-0 state championship game win over Clarke Central in 1986 and get a concrete idea of just how amazing this team was. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes four selectors as "official" for the 1975 season. The Oklahoma honorees were Lee Roy Selmon, receiver Tinker Owens, offensive tackle Mike Vaughan, offensive guard Terry Webb, defensive end Jimbo Elrod, defensive tackle James White, middle guard Dewey Selmon, and return specialist Joe Washington. In 2005, Riley Dodge threw for 4,184 yards and 54 touchdowns along with 1,119 rushing yards and 13 touchdowns. The names, logos, and other source identifying features of newspapers depicted in our database are the trademarks of their respective owners, and our use of newspaper content in the public domain or by private agreement does not imply any affiliation with, or endorsement from, the publishers of the newspaper titles that appear on our site. The third national championship in 10 years for Valdosta High was arguably the greatest for legendary head coach Wright Bazemore, and it was also his final national title. Teams: Buffalo Bills (1983-84), Los Angeles Rams (1985-86). He won three at Southlake Carroll and won his first at Austin Westlake High in 2020. The 2013 national championship was split between three schools St. John Bosco High, Allen (Texas) High and Miami Booker T. Washington. Page 174. Brady MacDonald is a theme park reporter for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. Defensive lineman Coleman Rudolph pulled off one of the rarest championship feats of any player on this list. In one of the strangest stories in Ohio high school football history, Saint Ignatius' state championship game opponent was supposed to be Colerain, another nationally ranked team that routed Brunswick in the semifinals. United States. Stewart played three seasons for West Virginia and closed out his career as a graduate transfer for Houston in 2020. The 1975 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that choose College All-America teams that season. The 1975 Oklahoma Sooners football team had eight players who received first-team honors. STEVE SMITH, QB, SWARTZ CREEK/GRAND BLANC (1978-1980): A high school all-American quarterback known for his outstanding, sprinter speed, Smith was an underrated passer. Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah still plays in the Splash Mountain log ride at Disneyland that will be transformed into Tianas Bayou Adventure based on the 2009 Disney film Princess and the Frog.. Colquitt County ended the 2015 season on a 30-game winning streak and with the first national title in Georgia since Valdosta High won in 1992. The inaugural class of the Rolla High School Hall of Fame (HOF) has been selected and features nine individuals and one athletic team representing some of the best of Bulldog history in several different categories. The 1975 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that choose College All-America teams that season. Dodge's final season came with his son, junior quarterback Riley Dodge, leading the way for Southlake Carroll and putting up one of the greatest seasons in Texas high school football history. The 2003 De La Salle team was the fourth of four consecutive national championships for head coach Bob Ladouceur and ended the season on a 151-game winning streak. Katy High's defense put itself in the conversation for the greatest of all time by giving up just 62 points over 16 games on the way to winning the only national title in school history. > August 22, 1911 > Page 8, Image 8 Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. Was this the greatest backfield in high school football history? Thank you for the time you put in, as this helped me out immensely. Bellevue High won the national championship in 2012 with arguably the greatest high school football player in state history on its roster future UCLA star and NFL linebacker Myles Jack. In a 20-year stretch from 1994 to 2014, De La Salle won 11 national championships, with 10 of the championships coming under Ladouceur. 1 Long Beach Poly in 2001 the first time the top two teams in the USA Today Top 25 ever met on the field. Junior quarterback J.T. The 75 Best Movie Directors of All Time Magazine See Parade's Amazing and Diverse Christmas Covers Through the Years Celebs Ron Howard Says He Knew He Had Arrived as a Director After This. Missouri. ALL-AMERICAN COLLEGE FOOTBALL HONORS . This column lists the number of selectors choosing the player as a first-team All-American as follows: official selectors/other selectors/total selectors. Tournament Game. RB: Mike Deutsch - Shanley HS Fargo ND 6-3, 210: He played for North Dakota and shudder to think, became a football and basketball official along with a business owner in Fargo. Don Bosco Prep won its second national title in three years behind one of the most highly recruited high school football players of all time free safety Jabrill Peppers. 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 , "ESPN College Football Encyclopedia: The Complete History of College Football from 1869 to the Present", http://www.webcitation.org/query?id=1241486879915342, American Football Coaches Association: All-America Teams, Football Writers Association of America All-American Team, Walter Camp Foundation All-American Teams, FWAA - Football Writers Association of America, AFCA - American Football Coaches Association. Northwestern's defense finished the season with five shutouts, including a 41-0 win over Boone in the state championship game. 28-0 state championship game win over Clarke Central in 1986, most highly recruited high school football player, winningest high school football coaches in national history, one of two national titles for the Crabbers, 1993 state championship game against Archbishop Moeller, third straight state championship in 1985, Best High School Football Programs by State. They are: [1] (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) based on the input of more than 2,000 voting members; [2] (2) the Associated Press (AP) selected based on the votes of sports writers at AP newspapers; [3] (3) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) selected by the nation's football writers; [4] and (4) the United St. Louis Post-Dispatch. It's an amazing feat when you consider the school didn't open until 1965. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes four selectors as "official" for the 1976 season. De La Salle and Mater Dei had three national championships between them in the previous four seasons when they finally played in 1998. Mater Dei obviously has the benefit of playing in an era where we're able to track stats and rankings on a national scale, so we know that Mater Dei defeated a stunning 10 teams ranked in the Top 100 nationally in 2017, including defending national champion Bishop Gorman and New Jersey state champion Bergen Catholic. Katy's defense pitched 10 shutouts that year against some of the most elite spread offenses in the nation in the state with some of the best high school football in the nation. It was the second of four consecutive national titles for De La Salle and head coach Bob Ladouceur, who led the program to 151 consecutive wins from 1994 to 2003. Permian fans call the team "Mojo" still had several players featured prominently in the book on the 1989 team, most notably soft-spoken running back Chris Comer, who ran for 1,589 yards and 22 touchdowns, and quarterback Stoney Case, who starred at the University of New Mexico before playing six seasons in the NFL. Tucson. 1978. Parade apparently didn't research these guys all that well naming him an All American back when he was yet another quarterback. (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, FN, NEA-1, TSN, Time, WC), (AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, FN, NEA-1, TSN, Time, WC), (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, FN, NEA-1, TSN [DE], Time [DE], WC), (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, FN [DE], NEA-1, TSN, Time, WC), (AFCA, AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, FN, NEA-2, TSN, WC), (AP-1, FWAA, UPI-1, FN, NEA-1, Time, TSN, WC), (AFCA, AP-3, FWAA, UPI-1, NEA-1, TSN, Time, WC), (AFCA, AP-1, UPI-2, FN, NEA-1, TSN, Time). 1 in the country and didn't shy away from going to play the very best, traveling to Texas to face No. AP, UPI, NEA, Central Press, The Sporting News and Pro Football Weekly chose both first and second teams. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. They even scored an invite to visit President Bill Clinton at the White House after winning the national title, an honor usually reserved for pro and college teams. 2 Louisville Trinity (Kentucky) was called off by the state associations, and fans were denied what would have been one of the most-watched high school football games of all time. Few games in the history of high school football have been able to match the hype surrounding the regular-season matchup between No. Then, they outscored opponents 148-7 in the postseason and finished with eight shutouts in 13 games. The offense was led by a pair of future NFL stars, running backs Giovani Bernard and James White, who became a three-time Super Bowl champion with the New England Patriots. The result was magical. Powlus really was the best high school quarterback in the nation in 1992, throwing for almost 3,000 yards and sweeping National Player of the Year honors from Parade Magazine and Gatorade before signing with Notre Dame. Select Year: "Craig does all the thinking," Kotys said of the 1967 team. Song of the South has been locked in the Disney vault since the 1980s due to its idyllic portrayals of Southern plantation life in the late 1800s Reconstruction Era, according to WDW News Today, which added that the song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah itself was likely influenced by a pre-Civil War folk song. St. Louis. Little Rock Central played a schedule that year suited more for the modern era of high school football. Dec. 28. No team on this list can boast as impressive a resume of wins or say they played a tougher schedule than the 2016 Bishop Gorman High School national champions, which faced a virtual who's who of the best teams from all over the country. All-America. For us, it comes down to the quarterbacks and 20-20 hindsight. Try 7 Days Free to get access to 837 million+ pages, 1978 Parade All America High School Football Team (16th Annual) (2 of 2), Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive. Page 99. Disneyland has been slowly and quietly stripping away any references to the controversial Song of the South animated/live action film that has been disowned by Disney. Delivered game-winning HR in bottom of 7th inning at Orlando's Tinker Field to give Forest a 1975 state baseball championship. Crable was Moeller's head coach from 2000 to 2007. De La Salle was led by a future NFL linebacker in D.J. Teams: Washington Redskins (2012-15), Dallas Cowboys (2016-17), San Francisco 49ers (2018), Arizona Cardinals (2019), New York Giants (2020). 2 in the national rankings for one week before No. Louisville Trinity High took on all comers in 2011, grabbing wins over powerhouse teams from Tennessee, Ohio and Indiana on the way to an undefeated season and state championship, capped by a 62-21 win over Scott County in the state championship game. Larry Bird (2) Indiana State. On 11/4, the Sunny Hills varsity football team won their away playoff game against La Salle (Pasadena, CA) by a score of 48-22. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Teams: Houston Oilers (1989-94), San Diego Chargers (1995), Cincinnati Bengals (1996-97), Pittsburgh Steelers (1998). Teams: San Diego Chargers (1967-68), Miami Dolphins (1969-80). Teams: Cleveland Browns (1946-62), Cincinnati Bengals (1968-75). junio 16, 2022 . Mather left Massillon after the 1953 season to become the head coach at the University of Kansas, then was the backfield coach for the Chicago Bears for eight seasons. They also beat Marlin 107-0. 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Below are the players chosen from Alabama. Head coach Paul Brown led Massillon Washington to the second of back-to-back national championships. Head coach Cleo O'Donnell went on to become the head coach at both Purdue and Holy Cross. Faust signed Moeller's best player off the 1982 team, Parade All-American running back Hiawatha Francisco. Cox became one of the best linebackers in the NFL during the 1990s, making four All-Pro teams and winning a Super Bowl with the New England Patriots in 2001. 1975. Quarterback Ben McDaniels, who played for Kent State, made it to the NFL as an assistant coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Chicago Bears and Denver Broncos. Daniels was the team's star and was named National Player of the Year by Gatorade and MaxPreps before reclassifying to attend USC early, where he started for the Trojans as a true freshman in 2018 when he should have still been playing for Mater Dei. Teams: Baltimore Colts (1960-67), Detroit Lions (1968). That was actually one of two times that season Waco scored over 100 points. This was the closest we've come to having a legitimate national championship game in the modern era, when Trinity and New Jersey's Don Bosco Prep scheduled a game that was ultimately called off by officials in both states. Two days later, Colerain was forced to forfeit all its wins for using an ineligible player. They are:[1] (1) the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA);[2] (2) the Associated Press (AP) selected based on the votes of sports writers at AP newspapers;[3][4] (3) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) selected by the nation's football writers;[5] (4) the United Press International (UPI) selected based on the votes of sports writers at UPI newspapers;[6] and (5) the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC). Two players on the team, tight end Dan O'Leary and linebacker Chris Gizzi, played in the NFL, and Gizzi is now the strength and conditioning coach for the Green Bay Packers. Bo Orlando was Berwick's star on both sides of the ball at quarterback and defensive back and likely the greatest player in Berwick history. Washington outscored opponents 477-6 for the season, only giving up the points in a 24-6 state championship game win over Canton McKinley. All-American running back Billy Hicks scored 42 touchdowns and converted 34 point-after attempts. Part of Everett's dominance likely came from the fact they threw the ball in an era when teams still didn't understand how to defend the forward pass, with running back Jack Cannell throwing 16 touchdown passes. He was the leading scorer on the basketball team as well and played both football and basketball in college at Oregon State. Parade All-Americans Since 1963 the PARADE annual All-America High School Football Team has been chosen. Arizona Daily Star. First, a population explosion that saw the city's occupants double in the span of just a few years. 1973 Jerry Eckwood, Brinkley (Ark.) The top vote-getter on the Parade team, Eckwood beat out Earl Campbell and Joe Montana for the honor. This was the fourth national title in five years for Archbishop Moeller and head coach Gerry Faust, who left after the 1980 season to become the head coach at Notre Dame. They trounced Meridian in the state championship game and were at No. South Panola steamrolled its way to the Class 6A state title in 2010 and became the first and only national champion from Mississippi. But which teams are the best of the best? Newspapers.com makes these newspapers available for the purpose of historical research, and is not responsible for the content of any newspapers archived at our site. Propst was fired as Colquitt County's head coach for an array of ethical violations in 2019, then hired by Valdosta High in 2020. 1 team in the USA Today Top 25. The Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah song was cut from the music loop played in Downtown Disney in 2020 and from the soundtrack of King Arthur Carrousel in 2021. Playing in the era of the high school national championship game, Pine Bluff demolished Dayton (Ohio) Stivers 61-0 for the title and was almost 100 years ahead of schedule as far as playing teams outside of their home state. Comer rushed for 166 yards and two touchdowns in the Class 5A state championship win over Aldine High, which was the 1990 national champion. Miami Northwestern started the season ranked No. In an era where there was an actual national championship game, Waco defeated Cleveland Cathedral Latin 44-12 for the title. The organizations that chose the teams were Associated Press, United Press International, Newspaper Enterprise Association, Football Writers Association of America, American Football Coaches Association, Walter Camp Foundation, The Sporting News, Time magazine, Pro Football Weekly, and Football News. It should come as no surprise that St. Thomas Aquinas has regularly topped the list of high schools with the most NFL players on active rosters, including an unbelievable 17 players (the next highest was six) at the start of the 2015 season. They were part of Abilene's 49-game winning streak under legendary head coach Chuck Moser and outscored opponents 496-64. The offensive line was anchored by Jerry Krisher and All-Stater Jim Reichenbach, who became an All-American for Woody Hayes at Ohio State University. Vigor was the first national champion to come out of Alabama since Tuscaloosa High won in 1926 and 1929, and no team from the state has won a national title since. David Greenwood (2) UCLA. It looks like you were doing some of the same sleuthing as me! Michigan State. The 1975 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1975. Moeller's 1980 team beat fellow national powerhouse Massillon High 34-7 in the state championship game for their fifth state title in six years. There was some great symmetry at work when John Curtis Christian School won its first national championship in 2012. 1975 Parade All America High School Football Team (13th Annual) High school football doesn't have an official national championship, but a "mythical" national championship has been awarded to high school football teams since 1910, when the National Sports News Service named Oak Park (Illinois) High School the first national champ. We'll take future Missouri star and longtime NFL quarterback Chase Daniel in 2004, when he racked up 5,550 yards of total offense and 68 touchdowns on the way to being named EA Sports National Player of the Year. Teams: San Diego Chargers (2007-08), New York Giants (2009), Dallas Cowboys (2010), Buffalo Bills (2010-14), New England Patriots (2015). 1979 Parade All America High School Football Team (17th Annual) (2 of 2) SEE ALSO: More than half of Disneylands Magic Happens parade performers return after 3-year break. Booker T. Washington rivals the 2016 Bishop Gorman national championship team as far as playing one of the toughest schedules in high school football history. *In 1917, Walter Camp selected an all-Service, All-America team composed of military personnel. Don Bosco Prep also featured a dozen players who went on to play Division I football, with Peppers and four others going on to play in the NFL. There were 121 media credentials issued for the game, which was played in front of almost 18,000 fans in Long Beach and resulted in a 29-15 win for De La Salle. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This was the second of four national championships for legendary head coach Nick Kotys, but his true legacy came with the stance he took regarding Black players joining the team at Coral Gables High after the school integrated in 1965. It was the second of three state championships for North Shore in a five-year stretch, with all coming under head coach Jon Kay. Berwick head coach George Curry won the second of three national championships with perhaps the most highly recruited high school football player of all time in quarterback Ron Powlus. Disneyland has removed a controversial lyric from a new parade in the latest symbolic step to distance the Anaheim theme park from the 1940s Disney film Song of the South that has been criticized for perpetuating racist stereotypes. The AFCA was a poll of college coaches. Behind head coach Carl Madison, the Eagles went 14-0 and defeated Sarasota High 50-27 in the Class 5A state championship game. Parade 2015 Football All-America Team. This column lists the number of selectors choosing the player as a first-team All-American as follows: official selectors/other selectors/total selectors. Vigor had 20 players from the team play Division I football, and four played in the NFL or CFL. The 1976 College Football All-America team is composed of college football players who were selected as All-Americans by various organizations and writers that chose College Football All-America Teams in 1976. If you were to take all the players off teams on this list and conduct an NFL-style draft, East St. Louis High's Bryan Cox would most likely be the first defensive player chosen. Magic Happens remains largely unchanged from the parades February 2020 debut aside from the removal of the Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah reference and a few minor costume and choreography adjustments. Future UCLA star and NFL first-round draft pick Josh Rosen threw for 3,200 yards and 39 touchdowns but wasn't the team's star player. Dec. 31. SEE ALSO: Real snow falls at Disneyland not the fake soapy stuff. Don Bosco Prep took on all comers in 2011, beating top teams from California, Florida and Ohio. The "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" line near the finale of the parade was replaced with "Think of the happiest things" from the song "You Can Fly" in the 1953 Disney animated film "Peter Pan." Disneyland teamed up on the music for the Magic Happens parade with "American Idol" singer-songwriter Todrick Hall. Lawrence head coach Al Woolard coached the Lions from 1950 to 1968 and won 10 state championships, including five consecutive from 1956 to 1960. Teams: New York Giants (2011), Jacksonville Jaguars (2012). The only high school football team from Kansas to win a mythical national championship, Lawrence High ended 1960 on a 47-game winning streak. It also was the only national championship team at Moeller not coached by Gerry Faust, who left Moeller to become the head coach at Notre Dame after the 1980 season. South Panola only gave up more than 13 points in a game once in 2010, in a 65-35 win over Georgia powerhouse Colquitt County in the second game of the season, and averaged 48.5 points per game. The Disney World version of the attraction closed in January. Why were they better? Position: Quarterback. Outside linebacker Jovanni Stewart, 5-foot-9 and 180 pounds, led Katy's defense with 101 tackles, 10 sacks, 10 pass breakups and eight forced fumbles. For more information . White actually scored the game-winning touchdown for the Patriots in overtime of Super Bowl LI against the Atlanta Falcons. SEE ALSO: Disneyland reaches out to next generation of forever fans with fresh new entertainment. How South Panola did it was pretty remarkable. De La Salle ended its season on a national record 78-game winning streak that eventually grew to 151 games. Curry led the team to an undefeated season, state title and national title, and Coral Gables was named Florida's "Team of the Century" by the FHSAA in 2007. Few defenses on this list can match the one Warner Robins High rolled out in 1976 on the way to winning a national championship. Teams: Detroit Lions (2003-08), Seattle Seahawks (2009), Baltimore Ravens (2010-11), Indianapolis Colts (2012-14), Arizona Cardinals (2015). Two-way offensive/defensive lineman Daniel Mama was named Los Angeles Times Lineman of the Year and a MaxPreps All-American, then went on to become an All-Pac-12 offensive lineman at USC and play two seasons in the NFL. Vigor High School's 1988 team brought back all 11 of its starters on defense from a team that went 13-1 and won the state championship the year before. Two-way offensive/defensive lineman Daniel Mama was named Los Angeles Times Lineman of the Year and a MaxPreps All-American, then went on to become an All-Pac-12 offensive lineman at USC and play two seasons in the NFL. Teams: New Orleans Saints (2009-12, 2017), Kansas City Chiefs (2013-15), Philadelphia Eagles (2016), Chicago Bears (2018-19), Detroit Lions (2020), San Diego Chargers (2021-present). There's nothing "mythical" about how good these teams were. Scot Brantley LB Forest (Ocala) 1975. Saint Ignatius won 41-21 in the state title game with 20 Division I players and four players who went on to play in the NFL. It's also the only national title so far in the career of well-known high school football coach Rush Propst, who won five state titles at Alabama's Hoover High in Alabama before winning back-to-back state titles at Colquitt County in 2014 and 2015. The famous "puke and throw" play he made against Austin Westlake will live on forever on the internet. St. Thomas Aquinas won its second national title in three years when it leapfrogged No. Here's a roundup of. Bazemore's genius was easy to see on the field with an offensive attack that was decades ahead of its time as wide receiver Stanford Rome racked up 1,573 receiving yards catching passes from quarterback Stan Bounds. Teams: New Orleans Saints (2008-13), Cleveland Browns (2014), Pittsburgh Steelers (2015). Valdosta capped the season with a 62-12 win over Avondale in the state championship game and their 612 points stood as the state record for 23 years. Permian High School's 1988 season was featured in Buzz Bissinger's 1990 nonfiction book "Friday Night Lights," and the Panthers won state and national championships the next season. the official baseball of Minor League Baseball and the NCAA, and an approved baseball, basketball, football and softball of the National High School Federation. Player : School: State: C: Brian Milner : Fort Worth Southwest: TX: 1B: . Other selectors included Football News (FN),[7] the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA),[8] The Sporting News (TSN),[9] and Time magazine.[10]. 1 Euless (Texas) Trinity in the final National Prep Football Poll. St. Thomas Aquinas head coach George Smith was named National Coach of the Year after his team swept all four major national high school football polls at the end of the season. The names, logos, and other source identifying features of newspapers depicted in our database are the trademarks of their respective owners, and our use of newspaper content in the public domain or by private agreement does not imply any affiliation with, or endorsement from, the publishers of the newspaper titles that appear on our site.
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