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. Quarterback Greg McElroy threw for 4,636 yards and 56 touchdowns in 2005, then won another national championship four years later as the starting quarterback for the University of Alabama. 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. 1975 parade all america 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. Brown left the next year to coach Ohio State, where he won the national championship in 1942 before becoming the head coach and co-founder of the Cleveland Browns and then the Cincinnati Bengals. You don't have to make much of a mental leap to gather that in most years the top state champions in Florida are among the best teams in the nation, and Pine Forest High's 1988 season was one of the best of all time. 1977 Parade All America High School Football Team (15th Annual) FWAA was also a poll of writers, as was the Walter Camp Foundation. How tough was Riley Dodge, who became Southlake's head coach in 2018? 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. What made Abilene so great? 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. Teams: Arizona Cardinals (2006-09), Houston Texans (2010-11), Oakland Raiders (2012). Teams: Green Bay Packers (1994-97), San Diego Chargers (1998-99). Behind head coach Carl Madison, the Eagles went 14-0 and defeated Sarasota High 50-27 in the Class 5A state championship game. Author: Parade. Related:Best High School Football Programs by State, Teams: Dallas Cowboys (2011-14), Philadelphia Eagles (2015), Tennessee Titans (2016-17). And while most high school football pundits will present the 2006 team as the greatest in school history, we'd like to present the 2004 team as deserving of that label. Lakeland's state championship game against St. Thomas Aquinas, a 45-42 double-overtime win, was one of the greatest games in Florida history and saw future Florida star and NFL running back Chris Rainey rush for 270 yards. Updated date: Dec 26, 2006. Was this the greatest backfield in high school football history? We feel safe saying that there is no offensive line on this list of teams that could have matched up with Lakeland's in 2006, which featured two future University of Florida and NFL stars in twin brothers Maurkice Pouncey and Mike Pouncey. Select Year: It was the second consecutive state title for Pine Forest and produced the only national title in Pensacola history. Northwestern's defense finished the season with five shutouts, including a 41-0 win over Boone in the state championship game. The Oklahoma honorees were Joe Washington, Rod Shoate, receiver Tinker Owens, guard John Roush, center Kyle Davis, defensive tackle Lee Roy Selmon, middle guard Dewey Selmon, and defensive back Randy Hughes. 1979 Parade All America High School Football Team (17th Annual) (2 of 2) 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. Parade All-Americans Since 1963 the PARADE annual All-America High School Football Team has been chosen. 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. 1979. 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. Moeller quarterback John Shaffer won another national championship in 1987 as Penn State's starting quarterback. 1980 Parade All America High School Football Team (18th Annual) (2 of 3) Delivered game-winning HR in bottom of 7th inning at Orlando's Tinker Field to give Forest a 1975 state baseball championship. It's the only national championship in program history for Trinity, which has the most state titles in Kentucky history with 27. That was actually one of two times that season Waco scored over 100 points. 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. Disneyland teamed up on the music for the Magic Happens parade with American Idol singer-songwriter Todrick Hall. 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 . As a member of the SCNG Features team, he also writes about entertainment, travel, pop culture, music, restaurants and craft beer. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes five selectors as "official" for the 1974 season. Vigor had 20 players from the team play Division I football, and four played in the NFL or CFL. Little Rock Central played a schedule that year suited more for the modern era of high school football. Hes covered the theme park industry for more than 25 years. It was also one of two national titles for the Crabbers with Ronald Curry playing quarterback. Houston North Shore won its games in 2018 by an average of 41 points but found no such pushover in the Class 6A Division I state championship game against Duncanville, where they needed a Hail Mary touchdown pass from Dematrius Davis to AJ Carter as time expired to pull off the win. It looks like you were doing some of the same sleuthing as me! 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. Bellevue took on all comers and defeated Texas powerhouse Euless Trinity High, 31-24, then capped the season by beating Eastside Catholic 35-3 in the state championship game. 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. Five years later, three players from Booker T. Washington were taken in the 2018 NFL draft. Teams: Jacksonville Jaguars (2006-13), Oakland Raiders (2014). The Miami school defeated football powerhouses from around the country in Allen (Texas), St. John Bosco (California), Norcross (Georgia) and Bishop Gorman (Nevada) before rolling to the state championship in Florida. 1 Don Bosco Prep and No. Unfortunately, a game between No. 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). Parade All-American: 2008 . He won three at Southlake Carroll and won his first at Austin Westlake High in 2020. [5] Other selectors included Football News (FN),[6] the Newspaper Enterprise Association (NEA),[7] The Sporting News (TSN),[8] Time magazine,[9] and the Walter Camp Football Foundation (WC). Teams: San Diego Chargers (2007-08), New York Giants (2009), Dallas Cowboys (2010), Buffalo Bills (2010-14), New England Patriots (2015). Teams: Baltimore Colts (1960-67), Detroit Lions (1968). They outscored opponents 600-0, including an 80-0 win over four-time defending national champion Oak Park (Illinois) in the national championship game. The Sporting News and Time polled football scouts and the editors of Pro Football Weekly and Football News chose teams for their publications. It was also the third and final national championship for legendary head coach Chuck Kyle. 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. 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. 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. Manage all your favorite fandoms in one place! They sent eight players on their roster to play for the University of Miami, including All-American quarterback Jacory Harris. The AFCA was a poll of college coaches. He writes about Disney, Universal, Six Flags, SeaWorld, Cedar Fair and Legoland parks in Southern California, across the United States and around the world. In 1979, he passed for a then Flint-area record 1,926 yards and 26 touchdowns in the time before spread offenses. 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. They also beat Marlin 107-0. One of the greatest high school football dynasties in Texas and the United States, Southlake Carroll's 2004 team was the first of three consecutive national championships for head coach Todd Dodge. 1975. The result was magical. The Disney World version of the attraction closed in January. Teams: Green Bay Packers (1990-93), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1994-97), Tennessee Oilers/Titans (1998-99), Dallas Cowboys (2000-01). 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. 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. Don Bosco Prep took on all comers in 2011, beating top teams from California, Florida and Ohio. Curry was one of the most highly recruited dual-sport athletes ever. 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. Miami Northwestern started the season ranked No. This was the first of four national titles in five years for Archbishop Moeller and head coach Gerry Faust, who made the leap directly from Moeller to becoming Notre Dame's head coach years later. 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. This was the first of three national championship teams coached by Berwick's George Curry, followed by titles in 1992 and 1995. The 1940 Massillon Washington team famously beat Kent State 47-0 in the preseason and had all 11 of its starting players on both sides of the ball picked as all-state. The 1974 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 1974. Mike Gminski. 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. 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). Kyler Murray. 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. Five Warner Robins players went on to play in the NFL, and the most talented of those was running back James Brooks, who went on to have an All-American career at Auburn, be a first-round pick in the 1981 NFL draft and make four Pro Bowls. Teams: Philadelphia Eagles (1990-93), Denver Broncos (1994), Arizona Cardinals (1995-96). Teams: Miami Dolphins (2011-14), Buffalo Bills (2015-18), Arizona Cardinals (2019). 1978 Parade All America High School Football Team (16th Annual) (2 of 2) 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. Dec. 30. They posted eight shutouts and only gave up 86 points for the entire 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. 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. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Teams: New Orleans Saints (2008-13), Cleveland Browns (2014), Pittsburgh Steelers (2015). That, and an astounding array of future Division I talent led by two-time All-American running back Glynn Gregory, who was also one of the nation's top baseball prospects. The 1975 College Football All-America team is composed of various organizations that choose College All-America teams that season. Jack had an astonishing 24 sacks as a senior. Missouri. Junior quarterback J.T. It's an amazing feat when you consider the school didn't open until 1965. Of the staggering 26 teams from Ohio that have won high school football national championships, the 1997 Canton McKinley High team and the 1976 Archbishop Moeller team are the two in the conversation as the greatest of all time. In those 100-plus years, an unofficial system was created to identify, with some accuracy, the top football teams in the country. 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. Crable was Moeller's head coach from 2000 to 2007. . David Greenwood (2) UCLA. They're definitely in the running. Waco High's 1927 national championship team went 14-0 with 11 shutouts, including a 124-0 win over Jefferson Davis High in the first round of the state playoffs. Westlake High head coach Todd Dodge has led two different Texas schools to national championships. Try 7 Days Free to get access to 837 million+ pages, 1975 Parade All America High School Football Team (13th Annual), Search the Largest Online Newspaper Archive. 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. 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] (3) the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA) selected by the nation's football writers;[4] and (4) the United Press International (UPI) selected based on the votes of sports writers at UPI newspapers. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) recognizes five selectors as "official" for the 1974 season. De La Salle ended its season on a national record 78-game winning streak that eventually grew to 151 games. This was the second of three consecutive national championship teams for Southlake Carroll and head coach Todd Dodge, who left after the 2006 season to become the head coach at the University of North Texas. The following chart identifies the NCAA-recognized consensus All-Americans for the year 1974 and displays which first-team designations they received. Westlake capped off its undefeated season and clinched its first national championship by defeating Southlake Carroll and head coach Riley Dodge Todd Dodge's son in the Class 6A Division I state championship game. De La Salle's defense blanked Pittsburg 39-0 in the North Coast Section 4A Championship Game and also defeated Louisiana powerhouse Evangel Christian 27-10 in its only game against an out-of-state team. Out of the eight polls that declared national champions in 2013, St. John Bosco finished No. 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. Teams: San Diego Chargers (2001-05), New Orleans Saints (2006-20). 2 De La Salle and No. Clipping found in St. Louis Post-Dispatch in St. Louis, Missouri on Jan 4, 1981. 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. Running back Qyen Griffin had one of the all-time great seasons in Mississippi history, rushing for 2,670 yards and 37 touchdowns, but remarkably, no player from South Panola's national title team made it to the NFL. Tournament Game. Teams: Detroit Lions (2003-08), Seattle Seahawks (2009), Baltimore Ravens (2010-11), Indianapolis Colts (2012-14), Arizona Cardinals (2015). Austin Reagan won back-to-back state championships and back-to-back national championships in 1967 and 1968. Why were they better? Larry Bird (2) Indiana State. John Curtis Christian was one of the more nitpicked national champions in history because of their schedule, but that did little to turn voters off from picking them as national champions. Teams: Cleveland Browns (2017-18), New York Giants (2019-present). Rome played football and basketball at Clemson, then played three years in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs. 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. United States. Canton McKinley's team featured three players who played in the NFL Mike Doss, Jamar Martin and Kenny Peterson with all three going on to play for Ohio State. During 1948-56, Collier's Magazine published the American Football Coaches Association's selections, listed under FC. 1 team in the USA Today Top 25. Led by Gatorade National Player of the Year Tate Martell at quarterback, Gorman beat Texas state champion Cedar Hill, Florida Class 4A state champion Cocoa, Florida Class 7A state champion St. Thomas Aquinas and Hawaii state runner-up Kahuku. 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. St. Louis. This was one of four state titles head coach Paul Tyson won between 1921 and 1941. > August 22, 1911 > Page 8, Image 8 Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1777-1963 or use the U.S. The 1974 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 1974. And trust us, you don't want that smoke. 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. A tackling machine for Wildcats' back-to-back state title teams in 1974-75. Signing Day is one of the top events during college football's offseason. That system got a big boost with USA Today's National Top 25, which began in 1982 and makes it easier to track high school football's best teams every season. 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. Parade apparently didn't research these guys all that well naming him an All American back when he was yet another quarterback. How South Panola did it was pretty remarkable. Missouri. 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. Position: Quarterback. I may have been able to have found a couple additional players from your list: Ken Adams, Cal: https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/players/ken-adams-1.html The first of back-to-back national title teams for Mater Dei High School head coach Bruce Rollinson, this was also the last team to sweep all the national high school football polls. It was the second of three state championships for North Shore in a five-year stretch, with all coming under head coach Jon Kay. St. Thomas Aquinas won its second national title in three years when it leapfrogged No. Teams: Buffalo Bills (1983-84), Los Angeles Rams (1985-86). Below are the players chosen from Alabama. The famous "puke and throw" play he made against Austin Westlake will live on forever on the internet.