LegendatLegion

You ain't kidding brother! The travel alone was brutal for other sports besides football, going to Grundy, Graham from GC for a weekday basketball or baseball game then getting back in the middle of the night was "fun". In football you better not lose 2 games or the playoffs were out. I remember one year in the early 80's when GC was 8-2, lost to Abingdon, and Graham in close games and beat 9-0 Tazewell 7-2 in the 10th game. I think they all finished 9-1

Lol wasn't sure how far you guys wanted to go back. 1970 GC Phil Rogers and his Brother Stan, FB Don Frazier Line was huge for that time. Phil went to VT played QB with Tiki and Ronde's fatherJames playing RB. As an option QB was still VT's all-time leading rusher until Cyrus Lawrence came along in the early 80's. Phil was the best high school back i ever saw. I only saw Thomas once in high school live, was gone in the military during that time. 1974 GC Mickey Rogers (299 yds on 14 carries against Amherst in 74 semis, GC won 71-18?) LB Dennis Wolfe went to UT was 3year starter and defensive captain, Rick Begley OL/DL strongest man ever at GC went to Vandy, Rick Shoemaker OL played at ETSU. Clintwood mid 70's Johnny McFall RB very strong runner, may be one of the strongest runners i ever saw led them to 3 straight titles (his son was a pretty good RB at Jefferson Co a few years back) 1975 Martinsville was very good, Dennis Mahan was the fastest back i ever saw. Got to see him run all over the field against GC in the 75 semis as a soph?. i still have a magazine that was from 1977 that had him as a first team all american. Blacksburg 1977 RB Mark Dymock? led them over GC in the regional. Not SWVA but the 1978 Southampton team with Cyrus Lawrence (definitely the strongest runner i ever saw) and Ashley Lee GC 97' Jake Houseright so fast for his size it wasn't fair.

Absolutely nothing about Appomattox being in the West makes sense!

it is an awesome win, and a great comeback. Unfortunately i really think the inability to run consistently is the one chink in the Richlands armor when the play teams with equal or better talent. Fortunately that doesn't happen very often for the Blues, maybe a few times each year. Congrats and hopefully they can pull one out in Salem. I think they will have their hands full with a very good Appomattox team.

That is funny!

it's a shame you can't get some of the D from Greg's teams with some of the offense from Scottie's they would be unbeatable. GC rarely got drilled by 30 when Greg was coach, although some games made you want to throw up 35-33 etc

thanks DJ, could have gone most of my life without reliving that game over. A big difference is Appomattox isn't coming to Big Stone, and probably not a blizzard the night before. This isn't a knock on Union, i think Appomattox is really good and it will take a really well played game, and probably several mistakes by the home team to stay close. The Bears are good, and have the best player on the field. i hope they win but i expect an Appomattox win by 3-4 td's. i saw where one poster said to throw, that may work, but Giles throws so little it is nearly a shock when they do, so i wouldn't put too much stock in 3 wide open guys. I don't put much stock in predictions on vapreps or Espn, etc.. most of us had the Bears penciled in to the finals last year, we saw what happened there. So my opinion, while important to me, matters very little to Appomattox and Union. Go Bears!

Nice! hang on Union

This game really intrigues me, i too want to see if Union shows up, they can rely too much on one player at times (he darn near single handedly beat GC) but what a player to lean on. I hope they bring a victory back home to SWVA.

I saw Appo play several times (film) last year, and twice this year. I haven't seen Giles play, i hope they pull the stunner, but i think Appomattox will win by 3 td's or more. Their line looks really good, the rest of the team swarms to the ball. Amherst isn't terrible and Appo could have killed them (up 36-6) before they called off the dogs.

Tennessee High School scores: Maryville 42 Dobyns-Bennett 14 F Elizabethton 45 CAK 13 F Knox Central 16 Greeneville 14 F Morristown West 20 Knox Halls 17 F Fulton 46 Knox Catholic 25 late Alcoa 55 Scott Co 28 F Oakland 28 Science Hill 7 H Greeneville was 11-0 and that was a big upset, CAK had knocked out Elizabethton 3 straight years i think The Staunton River of Tennessee Austin East 68 Hampton 50 mid 4th quarter

a little suprised, not stunned but thought they might win 2

Abingdon score?

OH, one last thing for some of the folks, Good job Coach Akers! pretty sure he is gonna do fine :) not that i had any doubts

Great job by the devils all year, never say die attitude even when over matched. Proud of these kids. Collier had a great career with over 100 tds and close to 9,000 yds. He was fun to watch. 5-6 doesn't look good but they were 5-1 the last six.

pass over thrown in the middle intercepted by the highlanders and that leaves them with :44 and they will go to the victory formation Glenvar 34 Gate City 27 Final score

the incomplete pass took :08, so now it is 2nd down and 10 with 1:00 left. 2nd down pass incomplete. brings up 3rd down for GC.

1st down pass to the Glenvar 42, highlanders call timeout. They are still giving the underneath pass. 1:08

pass incomplete on 1st down. Glenvar getting good pressure 1:15 second down

Blue Devils stack up Leonard short of the first down at the 30 yd line. Hamilton and Collier back for GC. Devil ball at the 49 with 1:22 left in the game

devils only have one timeout left, Leonard gets about 4 yards bring up 3rd and 5. GC timeout with 2:07 left. IF GC gets the stop we will have at least a minute to try and score.

Collier rolls left and pass to Hamilton is incomplete. Devils turn it over on downs at the highlander 22 yd line. Leonard stopped at the line, maybe 1 yd. Blue devil timeout with 2:13

2:45 brings up 3rd and 7 for the Devils at the 22yd line. Pass deflected brings up 4th and 7

Big holding penalty for the Devils marks it back to the 30 yd line to make it 2nd down and 18 yds. 3:13