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Congratulations, Rick!! It is so awesome that we have such an amazing source for high school sport history right here on this forum!!! I am very thankful and grateful that you are here and share your knowledge with all of us. Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that this little forum covering sports in southwest Virginia and southern West Virginia would have such an outstanding gentleman in it's presence. Well done, good Sir!!

I just really enjoy the challenge. I actually did not know about this and was not contacted. Tim Hayes pointed it out to me. The interesting thing is that while I know a lot about Virginia High School football and her history I know much more about WV high school football history. One because I have been researching WV much longer and Two) there is much less to learn because of the smaller population. I still have a long ways to go before I can claim to be an expert or THE AUTHORITY on Virginia high school football. If I had to do one thing over in hindsight I would do Virginia research first because when I started Marshall Johnson was still alive. By the time I really got into Virginia he had passed and all I have is his scattered notes and notebooks. BTW. There are literally dozens of notebooks by Marshall Johnson containing Virginia High School basketball history and scores. I know where they are.

Several Northeast Tennessee newspaper archives are now available online (including the Bristol Herald Courier) thru the newspapers.com website and I was able to use this to go back and search for missing games. So far I have found quite a handful that I missed when manually searching the papers. Abingdon, Marion, Grundy, Lebanon, Honaker, Damascus/Holston, Saltville, Glade Spring, Meadowview, Chilhowie, Rich Valley, Rural Retreat, East Stone Gap, Pennington, St. Charles and Richlands all have newly uncovered scores. I will only be updating my website www.fourseasonsfootball.com at this time so you can go there and look for new games. Most are from the 1920's thru the 1940's.