High school blowout in Florida.

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ESTERO, Fla. - The Estero High football staff gathered in head coach Rich Dombroski's office late Friday, almost in stunned silence.

 

Earlier that night, Estero lost to Naples High by 13.

 

Not by 13 points. By 13 touchdowns. That's right: Naples 91, Estero 0.

 

 

 

All-purpose back Greg Pratt helped Naples pile on the points.

The rout fallout has been growing since the game ended.

 

"Hey," offered Estero defensive line coach Pat Hayes after the one-sided affair, "I didn't even know 91 was a multiple of seven."

 

With that, the coaches all got a much-needed laugh.

 

A half-hour away in Naples, Eagles coach Bill Kramer—the man on the winning end—could use one of those.

 

He looked at the scoreboard late in the game, saw 91-0, and said he felt sick to his stomach. Kramer's team ran only 31 plays and he kept most of his best players on the sideline—for the entire game in some cases. But still Kramer knew what was coming.

 

Soon after the game ended, his inbox began filling with angry e-mails, some from Estero parents wondering why so many points were necessary, some from Naples parents wondering why their kids didn't play more in an effort to pad their stats.

 

"There's only one way to describe it," Kramer said. "Just bizarre."

 

The schools aren't far off in size: Estero has about 1,400 high schoolers, Naples roughly 1,700.

 

But the pedigree of the football programs couldn't be more different.

 

Estero is rebuilding from the lowest level, with Dombroski in his first year at the school and having inherited a program that had simply crumbled. Naples is the reigning state Class 3A champion, and a contender to win the title again. Naples has players committed to Division I schools like Ohio State already and a roster filled with talent at every position. Estero has no college prospects and only about 25 healthy or so players remaining on its roster.

 

"Some of us, most of us, well, all of us were intimidated," said Tyler Eastridge, a free safety who may be exaggerating when he says he weighs a 150 pounds.

 

Naples led 70-0 at the half; only four of the 1,420 games reported by member schools to the Florida High School Athletic Association this season have seen teams score more than 70 points.

 

"It was David versus Goliath," Dombroski said, "and David didn't have a stone to throw."

 

The national record books are incomplete, but a score like 91-0 won't register a blip on the list of all-time defeats. It wasn't even the most lopsided score in the country this weekend—in Ohio, Beechcroft beat Centennial 96-0, taking knees on plays in the fourth quarter to avoid triple figures.

 

According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, five teams have scored more than 200 points in a game, with the record believed to be 256 by Haven (Ky.) High in 1927.

 

Dombroski isn't blaming Naples.

 

"Naples did absolutely nothing wrong," Dombroski said. "We just didn't do anything right."

 

Kramer has been in this spot before.

 

In 2001, the Golden Eagles scored 63 first-quarter points and beat Lely High — ironically, where Dombroski's girlfriend teaches today—85-0, and Kramer suddenly became the target of perceptions that he intentionally ran up the score.

 

But in that game, just as on Friday, Naples had some of its starters not play at all, and others just for one or two series.

 

 

 

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"We've been through it before and you never want to go through it again," Kramer said. "There were people ready to burn my house."

 

It's an unsettling time again.

 

The Naples Daily News ran a poll asking if Kramer and his team "should be ashamed" over the result, and by Monday afternoon, the vote was nearly dead-even: 239 no, 225 yes.

 

Hearing that, even Dombroski shook his head. He e-mailed Kramer on Monday to reiterate that Naples did nothing wrong, but that's hardly the only opinion swirling around Naples these days.

 

"My daughter plays basketball and there's a local team that's really good and when they're about to score 100, there's no polls about that," Kramer said. "When the local lacrosse team wins 24-0, where's the outrage? Or when kids win 6-0, 6-0 in tennis? We score 10 touchdowns and everybody loses their minds.

 

"The real irony is we've got some of our parents upset that their kids didn't play or didn't play enough. And you just say, 'Wow."'

 

Dombroski knew when he took the Estero job that there would be days like Friday, but he said the 91-0 thumping might help him turn the program around.

 

"We won't forget this. I won't forget this," said Dombroski, whose freshman program is off to a 4-1-1 start this year, a sign that better days could be ahead for Estero. "We're not going to lay down. We're going to fight for 48 minutes, every time we're out there."

 

So on Monday afternoon, when school got out at 1:45, the Estero High football team headed to its locker room and prepared for practice. New scouting reports were waiting for them, and soon the team headed onto the field for practice, their blue jerseys whipping in the wind as they stretched.

 

"Our team might not be winning or might not be on top right now," said right guard Mike Perez. "But we all have to do the best we can do. We can't forget that."

 

And so, they were back to work, which they'll need. This week, Estero plays Cape Coral—a team that nearly beat Naples.

[BigBlueAlum 12]

And fans from Tazewell complain about a 61-0 beating, how would you like to be those guys? lol

[Bulldogs52 484]

And fans from Tazewell complain about a 61-0 beating, how would you like to be those guys? lol

 

And Richlands cry's about the ref's every time they play Bluefield.... Wonder what that team had to say about the officiating.. Again I kid I kid...lol....

[GC_Quincy 582]

Alcoa beat Gatlinburg Pittman in the Tennessee playoffs a couple of years ago 91-7.

[warrior4uva 13]

With this being week of Chilhowie-Holston playing, back in either 77 or 78 season Chilhowie beat Holston at Damascus 91-0.

[deuceswild 15]

With this being week of Chilhowie-Holston playing, back in either 77 or 78 season Chilhowie beat Holston at Damascus 91-0.

 

1981 i think..

[Beamerball 566]

'79

 

http://www.tricities.com/tri/sports/high_school_prep/article/history_with_hayes_ninety_one_point_victory_is_national_topic/15167/

[deuceswild 15]

'79

 

http://www.tricities.com/tri/sports/high_school_prep/article/history_with_hayes_ninety_one_point_victory_is_national_topic/15167/

 

Haha, dam...we beat all around that bush.

[vthokies4life 10]

Naples only ran 31 plays!!! Wow.

[BigBlueAlum 12]

Naples only ran 31 plays!!! Wow.

 

42% of thier plays resulted in a touchdown.

[BigBlueAlum 12]

According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, five teams have scored more than 200 points in a game, with the record believed to be 256 by Haven (Ky.) High in 1927.

 

How do you score 200+ points in a game?!?!

[deuceswild 15]

How do you score 200+ points in a game?!?!

 

It works out to a perfect 32 touchdowns going for 2 every time and converting it...

 

Jerks.

[Fighton_3 10]

or was that before they started kicking extra points?

[deuceswild 15]

or was that before they started kicking extra points?

 

Thats a good point too..

[Beamerball 566]

Kingsport beat Norton 193-0 in 1926. Here's a little on that game....

 

http://vincestaten.blogspot.com/

193-0!!

 

It’s the most famous score in D-B sports lore: 193-0, the final score of Dobyns-Bennett’s 1926 win over the Norton football team. How did D-B do it, score a touchdown every 60 seconds?

 

I’ve wondered about that for years, literally. The first time I remember hearing about the score was in 1964 in driving class from Coach Cecil Puckett, who wasn’t even born when the game was played. But he knew about it.

 

I’ve read the game stories from the old newspapers.

 

And anytime I met someone who was a student at D-B back in that era I would ask. The late Holiday Smith, who was a sophomore that year, told me he didn’t go to that game. The late Lawson Reams, who was a D-B cheerleader in the mid-twenties, told me about a 1925 game against Tennessee High that D-B won 100-0. He said the cheerleaders were rooting for Kingsport to miss the last extra point so the final score would be an even hundred. They did. But he didn’t know any details from the Norton game.

 

Finally I have a first hand account from a Norton player. And it comes from Arthur “Pedie” Poston of Wise. Pedie wasn’t the player. But he interviewed the player.

 

Like me, Pedie had always been curious about the game. “My father was Art Poston who played on the 1921, 1922 and 1923 Kingsport Central High teams. He came to Norton from Kingsport during the Depression and owned gasoline stations in Norton, Appalachia and Big Stone Gap.”

 

Pedie says many people in Norton thought his dad was on the D-B team that crushed Norton in 1926. “Dad graduated from Kingsport Central in 1924 so of course he wasn’t on that team.”

 

But the outrageous score, 193-0, always intrigued Pedie. “I wondered how such a score could have been amassed so I asked a Norton player in that game about it. His name was John Harman who at the time of his sharing of his version owned Harman Electric Co. in Norton and was a fellow member with me in the Norton Lions Club.”

 

Pedie says when he asked Harman about the game, “He threw back his head and laughed.

 

‘Pedie, back in those days, football was played under different rules.’”

 

Norton’s football program was in its second year and Pedie says Harman told him that Dobyns Bennett had a very good team.

 

But that wasn’t the only reason the score was so one-sided. Pedie says Harman told him, “’In those days the team who had been scored on had the option of either receiving or kicking off to the team that had scored. We had been receiving D-B’s kick-off in the first half and the score was about 50-0 in their favor [actually 64-0 at the half] so after the half they scored again and we realized we could probably never score on them so each time they scored we, Norton, elected to kick off to them again and just race them to the goal line. Naturally the score mounted to an astonishing figure. Had we elected to receive the final score might have been closer to 100-0.’”

 

In the first paragraph I wondered how D-B could score a touchdown every 60 seconds? After reading the game story, I know the answer to that question. They couldn’t. but they did score a touchdown every three minutes. High schools apparently played longer games in the twenties. According to the box score the quarters in that game ran fifteen minutes (first quarter), twelve minutes (second quarter), fifteen minutes (third quarter) and twelve minutes (fourth quarter).

 

D-B’s leading scorer wasn’t its most famous player, Bobby Dodd. Dodd, who played quarterback, scored five touchdowns. Left halfback Paul Hug scored eight times. Right halfback Fred “Gabby” Merideth had two touchdowns and fullback Jimmy Duncan had three scores. Reserve running back Speedy Clyce tallied four touchdowns. Six other players also scored.

 

If the name Poston looks familiar, it should. Pedie’s dad Art was a brother to Jim Poston, who owned Poston’s Grocery at the Upper Circle. , Pedie’s uncle Bill Poston owned the Yellow Front Fruit Market and his uncle Howard Poston was an attorney and Sullivan County judge.

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Don't be scared to stop somebody one time.

[BeaverHokie 35]

Bluefield has scored 60+, and even 70+ in some playoff games in the last 10+ years, and if I remember correctly, they probably could have scored in the 80s or 90s. To me, that's amazing, considering it was against a playoff team.

 

Hard to fault the winning coach there, as he surely wasn't trying to RUTS. There was just such a talent difference, wasn't much he could do, and the opposing coach isn't angry about it.

[VHSLhelper 571]

WV had some biggies last night. Burch lost 60-0 & E. Hardy lost 71-0.

Don't forget about Hurley scoring 102 on Halloween night in 1970.

[VHSLhelper 571]

The Lexington paper ran a pretty good story Thursday -

http://www.kentucky.com/802/story/558436.html

[GetMoney55 11]

Bluefield has scored 60+, and even 70+ in some playoff games in the last 10+ years, and if I remember correctly, they probably could have scored in the 80s or 90s. To me, that's amazing, considering it was against a playoff team.

 

Hard to fault the winning coach there, as he surely wasn't trying to RUTS. There was just such a talent difference, wasn't much he could do, and the opposing coach isn't angry about it.

 

 

Last year in the playoffs Bluefield had Roane County 52-0 at halftime, so if they had left their starters in, or maybe even the second string, I guarantee the scoreboard would have hit triple digits.