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Post by themamba on Oct 1, 2019 19:48:36 GMT -2
Receptions - Career
179 Kyle Williams MR ‘06-08 129 Shawn Harris OM ‘13-15 117 Juan Dorsey G ‘89-91 117 Daeshawn Eaton OM ‘17-18 110 Spencer Wilkins MTH ‘07-09 105 Brian Barney ATH ‘11-13 103 Tre Hopkins OM ‘13-15 94 Ben Nowak RH ‘04-06 94 Dershone Hayman OM ‘11-13 94 Malik Anderson HOW ‘13-15
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Post by themamba on Oct 1, 2019 19:48:51 GMT -2
Receiving Yards - Career
2,109 Kyle Williams MR ‘06-08 1,834 Spencer Wilkins MTH ‘07-09 1,594 Juan Dorsey G ‘89-91 1,530 Shawn Harris OM ‘13-15 1,496 Tre Hopkins OM ‘13-15 1,422 David Brookhart G ‘10-12 1,403 Greg Nowak RH ‘04-06 1,380 Brian Barney ATH ‘11-13 1,351 Dershone Hayman OM ‘11-13 1,324 John Reigert WL ‘76-77
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Post by themamba on Oct 1, 2019 19:49:18 GMT -2
Receptions - Season
83 Kyle Williams MR ‘06 65 Tre Hopkins OM ‘14 63 Ben Nowak RH ‘00 63 Darshawn Eaton OM ‘18 61 Juan Dorsey G ‘91 61 Shawn Harris OM ‘14 61 Jordan Hopkins OM ‘16 59 Brian Pless CEN 03 59 Spencer Wilkins MTH ‘09 57 Dershone Hayman OM ‘13 57 Malik Anderson HOW ‘14 56 Brendan McKenna RH ‘16 54 Kyle Williams MR ‘07 54 Camron Hooper HOW ‘16 53 Mike McCarthy MTH ‘09 53 Kevon Simpson OM ‘17 51 Nard Smith OM ‘81 51 Spencer Wilkins MTH ‘08 50 Shawn Frederick G ‘94 50 Chris Kopec RH ‘00 50 Shawn Harris OM ‘15 50 Chris Martin LR ‘18 48 Thomas Browne OM ‘98 48 Matt Robinson ATH ‘09 48 DeQuan Ellison ATH ‘11
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Post by themamba on Oct 1, 2019 19:49:35 GMT -2
Receiving Yards - Season
1,105 Tre Hopkins OM ‘14 1,026 Spencer Wilkins MTH ‘09 982 Thomas Browne OM ‘98 937 John Reigert WL ‘77 901 Kevon Simpson OM ‘17 891 Jordan Hopkins OM ‘16 880 Juan Dorsey G ‘91 873 Kyle Williams MR ‘06 823 Kyle Pinnock ATH ‘12 813 Mike McCarthy MTH ‘09 808 Spencer Wilkins MTH ‘08 799 Paul Coleman ATH ‘85 792 Matt Robinson ATH ‘09 789 Brian Pless CEN ‘03 774 Mike Burgess WL ‘74 769 Willy Bhatia LR ‘96 766 Brian Barney ATH ‘13 765 DeQuan Ellison ATH ‘11 758 John Zabel MTH ‘01 751 Chris Martin LR ‘18 742 Shawn Frederick G ‘94 721 Luis Gooden LR ‘18 709 JT Smart G ‘99 706 Robert Kersey OM ‘07 702 Ben Nowak RH ‘00
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Post by themamba on Oct 1, 2019 19:49:59 GMT -2
Both Reservoir’s Malcolm Brown and Oakland Mills’ Kai Castle added their names to the top 10 single-game passing yardage and single-game rushing yardage lists, respectively, in their meeting on Friday, a 42-35 Scorpions win.
Brown threw for 414 yards in the loss, the third highest single-game total in county history. His counterpart, Scorpions quarterback Kai Castle, rushed for 310 yards and 5 touchdowns in their win, the seventh best single-game rushing yards mark in county history.
Castle also snapped fellow Scorpion Tony Coates (c/o ‘82) 38 year record (275) for most rushing yards in a single game by a quarterback in county history.
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Post by eaglesinsider on Apr 26, 2020 0:01:48 GMT -2
Taking a shot in the dark here Mamba but would you happen to know anything about the very early days of HoCo football? Here's all I know:
Howard County HS and Clarksville HS were playing in the MSA in six-man football in 1951, maybe earlier but can't find any evidence of that. They might be the same school as well because on 10/24/52 BL played at "Howard County HS in Clarksville."
Boys' Latin beat Clarksville 32-25 at BL in 1951. In 1952 BL beat Howard 34-20.
BL beat Howard in the league championship game in 1955.
The MSA's six-man league lasted from the 30s or 40s until 1960 or 1961. 99% of the info I have from the league is from Boys' Latin (BL won the championship 8 times in 22 years before moving back to 11-man football) since their AD/HC was a big proponent of the sport. Unfortunately the MSA's archives were stored at McDonogh but lost in a fire so no luck there. The league was composed of a bunch of schools I've never heard of, some current private schools (sometimes as secondary teams in addition to their 11-man football teams) and some private schools no longer in existence. Woodlawn and Loch Raven also were playing six-man at some point, definitely in 1958.
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Post by themamba on Apr 28, 2020 9:54:03 GMT -2
Taking a shot in the dark here Mamba but would you happen to know anything about the very early days of HoCo football? Here's all I know: Howard County HS and Clarksville HS were playing in the MSA in six-man football in 1951, maybe earlier but can't find any evidence of that. They might be the same school as well because on 10/24/52 BL played at "Howard County HS in Clarksville." Boys' Latin beat Clarksville 32-25 at BL in 1951. In 1952 BL beat Howard 34-20. BL beat Howard in the league championship game in 1955. The MSA's six-man league lasted from the 30s or 40s until 1960 or 1961. 99% of the info I have from the league is from Boys' Latin (BL won the championship 8 times in 22 years before moving back to 11-man football) since their AD/HC was a big proponent of the sport. Unfortunately the MSA's archives were stored at McDonogh but lost in a fire so no luck there. The league was composed of a bunch of schools I've never heard of, some current private schools (sometimes as secondary teams in addition to their 11-man football teams) and some private schools no longer in existence. Woodlawn and Loch Raven also were playing six-man at some point, definitely in 1958. Clarksville played its first 6-man football season in 1951. Ellicott City High had planned to play an intramural or scrimmage schedule. My understanding is, talking to Coach Duvall, is that Howard began playing 11 man football in the late 50’s, but I could not confirm. I have an article from ‘51 announcing Clarksville and Warren joining two others from the ‘Old Guard’ circuit of 1949 (there was no league in 1950), Boys Latin and St Stephens, forming a four team ‘league’, consisting of 12 total games between the quartet. In addition to the games you mention above, I have Boys Latin beating Howard in 6-man football, 25-20, on October 24, 1954. I also have an article of at least one other game played between Boys Latin and Howard in 1955 in 6-man football at Mount Washington, 26-18, though the one sentence article mentions nothing of it being a championship. Bob Marshall was the coach at Clarksville, before moving to Howard. Coach Duvall texted me this past weekend that he, legendary basketball coach Frank Rhodes and I should get together in the next few weeks to ‘shoot the s***’, which would be cool, considering both are Hall of Famers, and both amassed more than 300 career wins. Hopefully, I can get more insight on the early days then. It was Rhodes who actually signed up Duvall as coach at Wilde Lake when it opened, while the latter was in Europe that summer. Rhodes had won four county championships in five years at Atholton, leading the Raiders to the Final Four in ‘67 and ‘71, before moving to Columbia’s newly christened school.
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Post by eaglesinsider on Apr 28, 2020 16:08:26 GMT -2
Taking a shot in the dark here Mamba but would you happen to know anything about the very early days of HoCo football? Here's all I know: Howard County HS and Clarksville HS were playing in the MSA in six-man football in 1951, maybe earlier but can't find any evidence of that. They might be the same school as well because on 10/24/52 BL played at "Howard County HS in Clarksville." Boys' Latin beat Clarksville 32-25 at BL in 1951. In 1952 BL beat Howard 34-20. BL beat Howard in the league championship game in 1955. The MSA's six-man league lasted from the 30s or 40s until 1960 or 1961. 99% of the info I have from the league is from Boys' Latin (BL won the championship 8 times in 22 years before moving back to 11-man football) since their AD/HC was a big proponent of the sport. Unfortunately the MSA's archives were stored at McDonogh but lost in a fire so no luck there. The league was composed of a bunch of schools I've never heard of, some current private schools (sometimes as secondary teams in addition to their 11-man football teams) and some private schools no longer in existence. Woodlawn and Loch Raven also were playing six-man at some point, definitely in 1958. Clarksville played its first 6-man football season in 1951. Ellicott City High had planned to play an intramural or scrimmage schedule. My understanding is, talking to Coach Duvall, is that Howard began playing 11 man football in the late 50’s, but I could not confirm. I have an article from ‘51 announcing Clarksville and Warren joining two others from the ‘Old Guard’ circuit of 1949 (there was no league in 1950), Boys Latin and St Stephens, forming a four team ‘league’, consisting of 12 total games between the quartet. In addition to the games you mention above, I have Boys Latin beating Howard in 6-man football, 25-20, on October 24, 1954. I also have an article of at least one other game played between Boys Latin and Howard in 1955 in 6-man football at Mount Washington, 26-18, though the one sentence article mentions nothing of it being a championship. Bob Marshall was the coach at Clarksville, before moving to Howard. Coach Duvall texted me this past weekend that he, legendary basketball coach Frank Rhodes and I should get together in the next few weeks to ‘shoot the s***’, which would be cool, considering both are Hall of Famers, and both amassed more than 300 career wins. Hopefully, I can get more insight on the early days then. It was Rhodes who actually signed up Duvall as coach at Wilde Lake when it opened, while the latter was in Europe that summer. Rhodes had won four county championships in five years at Atholton, leading the Raiders to the Final Four in ‘67 and ‘71, before moving to Columbia’s newly christened school. That's all good interesting info. It'd be great if you can preserve as much of this history as you can. Like I said, a lot of the MSA stuff is probably just gone, lost to history unfortunately. I know Sheldon Shealer tried putting together a list of MSA football champions and got most of the A Conference and virtually none of the B/C Conference. Interesting the mention of the league not existing in 1950 as I have articles from the Boys' Latin archives talking about them opening the season with a 45-35 win over Warren School, a "newly formed team in the six-man football league." Maryland high school football has always fascinated me because unlike almost every other state, a huge majority of the public schools not in the MSA didn't play football until after WWII and many not until the mid-60s for some reason. One list I saw from 1936 had 4 non-MSA public schools fielding teams. As far as I can tell, six-man football started in Maryland with an exhibition between Boys' Latin and Franklin Day School in the fall of 1935. The next set of games I can find are in 1939 and all involve Saint Paul's. Saint Paul's beat Friends 7-0 for the championship on 11/10/39. BL went undefeated in both 1945 and 46. Mount Saint Joseph fielded two or more teams; day students, resident students and sometimes grade-level teams. Towson Catholic played between 1946-50 and then moved to 11-man in 1951. OOS teams that were played over the years that I've found are Saint Stephen's/Saint Agnes (VA), Maret (DC) and Shepherdstown (WV). Saint Andrew's (DE) also fielded six-man teams at various times. The confusing part of all of this is that there were a billion leagues running parallel to each other and some schools had teams in multiple leagues. MSJ for example played 11-man in parallel with all their 6-man teams. There were varsity leagues, JV leagues, a YMCA league, school leagues based on weight limits (Severn School fielded a 130-lb 6-man team for example) and a "town-and-country league." Outside the realm of HoCo history but interesting nonetheless is that there was a segregated six-man league for black schools in Western MD and bordering areas of VA and WV that started in 1944 and ran through at least 1949. Teams included were Carver/Frederick Street in Cumberland, Douglass/Winchester (VA), Martinsburg (WV) and Charles Town (WV) among others.
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Post by eaglesinsider on Apr 28, 2020 16:13:07 GMT -2
Here's an article from one of BL's alumni publications in 2011 talking about the 1955 championship against Howard County:
Hy Levasseur ’57 recently wrote about his memory of a championship game played in the fall of 1955 – nearly 56 years ago.
Hy writes: “I think after some concentration I now remember Tom Mitchell ’56 catching the winning touchdown pass against Howard County in 1955; as I remember all the cars parked around the end zone had their lights on to help light the field. We needed to do that in those days as the field's lights weren't very good. It made it a little harder to see the receivers though, but Tom was tall and I saw his image cutting to the right corner of the end zone. I lofted it up and Tom made a terrific diving catch I think for the win.……. You had to be there. Tom was a great guy and a great athlete.”
Tom Mitchell ’56 too remembers the game well:
He writes: “….I remember the one play Hy is talking about like it was yesterday. We were playing a tough Howard County team on their field at the end of the season. The six-man championship was on the line. Hy is also correct about the car lights. It was like a scene right out of "Happy Days". The home team fans lined their cars (with fender skirts, spot lights and fuzzy things around the mirrors) very close to the sidelines with the lights shining on the field. “It was a close game. Howard County had just scored to take the lead late in the fourth quarter. Horns were blowing and the place was going crazy. BL had about two or three minutes left in the game to drive the length of the field. After the kick off, we had the ball on about our own 35-yard line and needed a TD to win. Hy called a ‘Quarterback around 61.’ It was a trick play where the QB tosses the ball back to the right halfback who runs straight up behind the center. However, he gives the ball back to the QB as heruns by him. The QB conceals the ball and sweeps around the right end either running or passing the ball to an open receiver. It was a great play, designed by Okey O’Connor, which sucked all of the defensive backs into the line to stop the halfback.
We rarely used the play; only when we needed a big gain at a time like this. I don't recall whether Hy passed the ball or ran it himself, but we ended up on Howard County's two or three yard line. BL ran the ball three straight times up the middle and gained at best a yard. It was fourth and goal with a very short distance to go. The clock was running down and the Howard County players were jumping up and down emboldened by three straight defensive stops. “In the previous play, which was a quick opener to the right side, my task, as the left end, was to block the defensive halfback behind my side of the line. I noticed on that play, as the defensive back had done several times in the game, his tendency was to force his way inside toward the middle of the line to avoid my block. BL called a time out to prevent the clock from running out. I approached Hy in the huddle and told him what the defensive back was doing. My suggested play to take advantage of the situation was a quick pass play where the left end fakes in and turns out toward the sideline. Hy agreed and called the play. I think it was called ‘left pass out 17.’ “My thought as we lined up for the last play was ‘we got this one.’ I headed for the D-back like I was going to block him, and he bit ‘hook, line and sinker.’ He immediately rushed to the line as I headed out to the left flat. There was no one within 5 yards of me and Hy put the pass right on the money. As far as my having to dive for the ball - ‘No way!’ Hy was a fantastic QB and hit me right on my numbers.
As we walked off the field after our jubilant celebration, I thought about our victory and felt a little sorry for the Howard County players. I believed they possibly had better players than BL, but attributed the win to Okey O'Connor and his coaching. He had us prepared with good plays and execution that took advantage of the opponents’ aggressiveness. It was a great lesson."
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Post by themamba on Apr 28, 2020 18:17:54 GMT -2
Interesting. I think we all can imagine how memories work, 56 years later. I say imagine, because I’m two years and a month away from 56. It sounds like both are mistaken on the year, and are speaking of the game in ‘54, when Mitchell caught a pass with 3 seconds to play, to give Boys Latin a 25-20 win.
Article in the Sun; [Hy Lavasseur’s eight yard pass to End Tom Mitchell in the end zone with three seconds remaining gave Boys Latin a 25-20 triumph over Howard County High in six-man football yesterday in Clarksville.]
That was the game I mentioned above from October 24, 1954. Again, no mention about it being a championship game, though it may have clinched the division, and didn’t state it. I also have other two articles on Boys Latin in ‘54, both that took place after that game. One, with Boys Latin beating St Joe, 29-12, a week later, at Mount Washington, and another of them beating Maret DC, 26-12, on November 11th, for their 6th straight win. Both of these provide box scores. To add, on October 15th in the Evening Sun, under the Results section, it has Boys Latin beating Mt St Joe Residents, 41-21.
There also is another article in the Evening Sun on December 29, 1954, with the All Inter-State Six-Man Football League team selections, with two players from Boys Latin selected - Hugh Gelston, who made it on both offense and defense, at center and defensive halfback, and Hugh Olsen at fullback.
The article from ‘55 I have is from October 22, 1955. [Boys Latin surprised Howard County High School with a 26-18 victory in 6-man football at Mount Washington.] The article does provide a box score, and does have Mitchell scoring a touchdown. Again, no mention of a championship. Also, it has the score by quarter, with BL up 13-6 after one quarter. Both teams went scoreless in the second quarter. In the third, Boys Latin won the quarter, 7-0, to go up 20-6, and Howard winning the final stanza, 12-7. So, in this game, the game-winner was in the first quarter. TDs; BL - Adams, Pryor, Mitchell, Smith. HC - Ive, Wiles, Scheidt. PAT; BL - Pryor (pass), Brinacombe (pass).
The article from ‘51, introducing the Clarksville sextet, states there was no formal ‘circuit’ in ‘50, but four teams that played an informal schedule, without a championship. Also in the article, several rule changes - no leather shoes permitted, only canvas, and that a team with a 45 point lead in the first half, or later, does not end the game. Also, no games will be played in rain. The first and last rule changes were made because of safety precautions.
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Post by eaglesinsider on Apr 28, 2020 19:44:54 GMT -2
Claxton O'Connor, BL's six-man football coach was a champion of the game nationwide. He published Six-Man Football Magazine from 1946-58. I've seen copies of the '46 and '55 issues before. He's also in the national lacrosse hall of fame. BL has the best records still around but even the different sources I've seen from them don't agree on when they started playing six-man so not surprised some years got mixed up. According to BL, they didn't start playing six-man until 1943 but I have an article from the Sun listing them as "capturing six-man grid laurels" in 1941.
In '50 I have games like Towson Catholic beating "Salesmen" so definitely sounds informal.
This all is a cool piece of history that deserves some further research and gives Howard County a unique place in Maryland HSFB history. The only public schools who started playing football as six-man programs.
Here's what I have for champions:
1935- ? 1936- ? 1937- ? 1938- ? 1939- Saint Paul's 1940- ? 1941- Boys' Latin 1942- ? 1943- Guilford (don't know if this is a defunct public school or what) 1944- Boys' Latin 1945- Boys' Latin 1946- Boys' Latin 1947- Towson Catholic (Mount Saint Joseph won JV) 1948- Boys' Latin (Mount Saint Joseph won JV) 1949- Towson Catholic 1950- ? 1951- ? 1952- ? 1953- Boys' Latin 1954- Boys' Latin 1955- Boys' Latin 1956- ? 1957- ? 1958- ? 1959- ? 1960- ?
BL claims 8 MSA six-man football championships so I've listed all of their claims, some of which might be disputed as is often the case with MSA and even pre-playoff MIAA titles. They had a 28-game winning streak from '44 through '47 including an 11-0 record in '46.
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Post by eaglesinsider on Apr 29, 2020 19:36:31 GMT -2
I went digging through the Sun Archives because what else is there to do. I think I figured out the whole six-man league's (really 4 distinct leagues) history:
1935 was just a demo game, there were also demo games in 1937 and 1938 1939-1942 league was a six-man JV league for teams who played 11-man at the varsity level 1943-1945 was the Baltimore Six-Man League. The first two years was BL against "neighborhood boys." In 1945 it became a scholastic league. 1946-1949 was the MSA Six-Man League 1949-1956 was the Interstate Six-Man League (announced 1949; not formalized until 1951) 1957-1959 was the Town & Country Six-Man League (part of the Baltimore Department of Parks and Rec but still BL's varsity team) 1960 BL moves to 11-man football and scholastic six-man football in Maryland ends
Here's the relevant part for Howard County:
Clarksville joins the league in 1951. At that point the other members were BL, Warren School (Olney?) and Saint Stephen's (VA). Clarksville was the first team in the league to play night games. They played at "the old Clarksville junior high school."
Final standings for 1951: Saint Stephen's (VA) 6-0 Boys' Latin 4-2 Clarksville 1-5 Warren School 1-5
The same four schools return in 1952. Clarksville becomes Howard County High School after merging with Elicott City and others. Saint Stephen's wins the league at 6-0 again. BL is second at 4-2.
In 1953 Warren School drops out and is replaced by Quantico Post High School (VA). Mount Saint Joseph, which has placed as many as 2 varsity and 2 JV six-man teams in the league before, rejoins the league for the first time since 1950 with a single team representing their "residents," which I don't know if it means boarders or something else because one of their "resident" players in 1946 is listed as being a "former member of the Navy." Honeywell Foundation/School (Bethesda?) is also around and plays games against BL and maybe others. BL wins the league in 1953 going 7-0.
In 1954 Quantico (VA) departs and Maret (DC) "who had been playing the six-man game for a number of years" joins. BL repeats as league champion.
In 1955 the league sees no changes. Howard County fields a JV team this year as well. BL goes 7-0 to win another title. After 1955 Howard County departs six-man football.
At no time did the number of official teams in any league rise above six.
In and among these official league games were games against neighborhood rec programs, as I understand it since Baltimore County public schools didn't have football, there were sponsored 16-19 year old rec teams. Some of these played six man. I have a list of almost 80 of these now. There are articles about rec six man football teams being organized through September, 1981.
What I really got out of all of this was a feeling of sadness for BL Coach Claxton "Okey" O'Connor who devoted twenty years of his life trying to get six-man football off the ground in Maryland. He had some really good ideas, spoke to the press frequently, documented how his players' injuries decreased by 80% during their first year playing, held coaches clinics, showed highlight films (in color in the 40s/50s) and even published an informational pamphlet and magazine.
In 1945 he came very close to seeing his dream realized. The MSA announced they would sponsor the league going forward and the public school AD's held a meeting and decided to propose six-man football for Baltimore County public schools with a playoff against the MSA champion. At the behest of MPSSAA (or whatever it was called when it reformed in '45) administrators O'Connor would furnish two teams for exhibition games in Frederick and Greenbelt to try to grow the game with MPSSAA programs further afield. And then nothing happened. By 1957 BL was reduced to playing rec teams and their own Alumni to fill a schedule and were posting in the paper looking for games.
As a final blow, BL would lose the final six-man championship in 1959 to Catonsville's rec team. Coach O'Connor won over 300 games in lacrosse and posted a 107-17-1 record in six-man football. A giant in a sport he couldn't get anyone else around here to care about. He would leave BL when the school was moved to its' current location in 1960 as he was vehemently opposed to the move.
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Post by themamba on Apr 29, 2020 21:39:28 GMT -2
I went digging through the Sun Archives because what else is there to do. I think I figured out the whole six-man league's (really 4 distinct leagues) history: 1935 was just a demo game, there were also demo games in 1937 and 1938 1939-1942 league was a six-man JV league for teams who played 11-man at the varsity level 1943-1945 was the Baltimore Six-Man League. The first two years was BL against "neighborhood boys." In 1945 it became a scholastic league. 1946-1949 was the MSA Six-Man League 1949-1956 was the Interstate Six-Man League (announced 1949; not formalized until 1951) 1957-1959 was the Town & Country Six-Man League (part of the Baltimore Department of Parks and Rec but still BL's varsity team) 1960 BL moves to 11-man football and scholastic six-man football in Maryland ends Here's the relevant part for Howard County: Clarksville joins the league in 1951. At that point the other members were BL, Warren School (Olney?) and Saint Stephen's (VA). Clarksville was the first team in the league to play night games. They played at "the old Clarksville junior high school." Final standings for 1951: Saint Stephen's (VA) 6-0 Boys' Latin 4-2 Clarksville 1-5 Warren School 1-5 The same four schools return in 1952. Clarksville becomes Howard County High School after merging with Elicott City and others. Saint Stephen's wins the league at 6-0 again. BL is second at 4-2. In 1953 Warren School drops out and is replaced by Quantico Post High School (VA). Mount Saint Joseph, which has placed as many as 2 varsity and 2 JV six-man teams in the league before, rejoins the league for the first time since 1950 with a single team representing their "residents," which I don't know if it means boarders or something else because one of their "resident" players in 1946 is listed as being a "former member of the Navy." Honeywell Foundation/School (Bethesda?) is also around and plays games against BL and maybe others. BL wins the league in 1953 going 7-0. In 1954 Quantico (VA) departs and Maret (DC) "who had been playing the six-man game for a number of years" joins. BL repeats as league champion. In 1955 the league sees no changes. Howard County fields a JV team this year as well. BL goes 7-0 to win another title. After 1955 Howard County departs six-man football. At no time did the number of official teams in any league rise above six. In and among these official league games were games against neighborhood rec programs, as I understand it since Baltimore County public schools didn't have football, there were sponsored 16-19 year old rec teams. Some of these played six man. I have a list of almost 80 of these now. There are articles about rec six man football teams being organized through September, 1981. What I really got out of all of this was a feeling of sadness for BL Coach Claxton "Okey" O'Connor who devoted twenty years of his life trying to get six-man football off the ground in Maryland. He had some really good ideas, spoke to the press frequently, documented how his players' injuries decreased by 80% during their first year playing, held coaches clinics, showed highlight films (in color in the 40s/50s) and even published an informational pamphlet and magazine. In 1945 he came very close to seeing his dream realized. The MSA announced they would sponsor the league going forward and the public school AD's held a meeting and decided to propose six-man football for Baltimore County public schools with a playoff against the MSA champion. At the behest of MPSSAA (or whatever it was called when it reformed in '45) administrators O'Connor would furnish two teams for exhibition games in Frederick and Greenbelt to try to grow the game with MPSSAA programs further afield. And then nothing happened. By 1957 BL was reduced to playing rec teams and their own Alumni to fill a schedule and were posting in the paper looking for games. As a final blow, BL would lose the final six-man championship in 1959 to Catonsville's rec team. Coach O'Connor won over 300 games in lacrosse and posted a 107-17-1 record in six-man football. A giant in a sport he couldn't get anyone else around here to care about. He would leave BL when the school was moved to its' current location in 1960 as he was vehemently opposed to the move. Interesting. Thanks for sharing. The articles I have do mention as Clarksville being the only school with lights. They were put in in ‘51. Funny story, after Clarksville Junior High on Rt 108 (Clarksville Pike) moved to another location, that building later turned into Gateway School, Howard County’s alternative school, which turned into Homewood Center, which is where I work today. The school moved several miles east on 108 in 2002, but my sister, who works with me at Homewood, spent two years at the old three-story box brick building, when it was Gateway School. We share a parking lot with the Board of Education. We’ve had a countless number of great athletes at Homewood throughout the years, but because of grades and other factors, many never play/ed at their ‘home’ schools. We did have a kid play at Damascus (football) last year, before he returned to Homewood in January. We also had a starter on Wilde Lake’s basketball team last year. We (Gateway) had an All-Met basketball player, Anthony Breland (Oakland Mills), in ‘99, and another played for my brother at Marriotts Ridge in 2012, who made All-County, before my brother moved on to Reservoir the following year. One kid, two years ago, who never played high school, could throw a football 62 yards through the air, and threw a 90 mph fastball.
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Post by eaglesinsider on Apr 30, 2020 23:55:34 GMT -2
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. The articles I have do mention as Clarksville being the only school with lights. They were put in in ‘51. Funny story, after Clarksville Junior High on Rt 108 (Clarksville Pike) moved to another location, that building later turned into Gateway School, Howard County’s alternative school, which turned into Homewood Center, which is where I work today. The school moved several miles east on 108 in 2002, but my sister, who works with me at Homewood, spent two years at the old three-story box brick building, when it was Gateway School. We share a parking lot with the Board of Education. We’ve had a countless number of great athletes at Homewood throughout the years, but because of grades and other factors, many never play/ed at their ‘home’ schools. We did have a kid play at Damascus (football) last year, before he returned to Homewood in January. We also had a starter on Wilde Lake’s basketball team last year. We (Gateway) had an All-Met basketball player, Anthony Breland (Oakland Mills), in ‘99, and another played for my brother at Marriotts Ridge in 2012, who made All-County, before my brother moved on to Reservoir the following year. One kid, two years ago, who never played high school, could throw a football 62 yards through the air, and threw a 90 mph fastball. I'm only slightly familiar with Homewood/Gateway through Troy Gibson who I got to know through him coaching at Spalding but I know you guys do a good job over there with a real tough assignment. I'm guessing that original building got torn down now. Having gotten to know Coach McLeod over at Silver Oak through the years and seeing a few of the athletes they had come through there, it definitely doesn't shock me you've had some great athletes there. Of course, the Silver Oak kids are usually in more much more serious offenses than Homewood/Gateway but some of them definitely shine on the football field. I saw them play Fort Hill a few years back and their RB is the only HS player I ever saw outrun Ty Johnson. He was a freak and easily had 150+ yards against a state champion FH team with the worst OL imaginable. Pretty sure outside of him, they had negative yardage as a team. That whole game was pretty surreal, they played at the Deer Park Rec field in Westminster, which has some temporary aluminum and wooden bleachers (seating for maybe 250) and no locker rooms or anything of that sort. Fort Hill being Fort Hill the 100+ student band was there along with all their cheerleaders and their whole varsity roster. They also brought two buses worth of fans and countless more drove. Ended up being a few thousand people ringed around the field. Very unique atmosphere. On a side note, Silver Oak's football kids are usually the most polite kids on any field. I remember seeing them at the Ravens 7-on-7 one summer and they were the only group there that didn't once argue with the refs.
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Post by themamba on May 1, 2020 0:09:57 GMT -2
Interesting. Thanks for sharing. The articles I have do mention as Clarksville being the only school with lights. They were put in in ‘51. Funny story, after Clarksville Junior High on Rt 108 (Clarksville Pike) moved to another location, that building later turned into Gateway School, Howard County’s alternative school, which turned into Homewood Center, which is where I work today. The school moved several miles east on 108 in 2002, but my sister, who works with me at Homewood, spent two years at the old three-story box brick building, when it was Gateway School. We share a parking lot with the Board of Education. We’ve had a countless number of great athletes at Homewood throughout the years, but because of grades and other factors, many never play/ed at their ‘home’ schools. We did have a kid play at Damascus (football) last year, before he returned to Homewood in January. We also had a starter on Wilde Lake’s basketball team last year. We (Gateway) had an All-Met basketball player, Anthony Breland (Oakland Mills), in ‘99, and another played for my brother at Marriotts Ridge in 2012, who made All-County, before my brother moved on to Reservoir the following year. One kid, two years ago, who never played high school, could throw a football 62 yards through the air, and threw a 90 mph fastball. I'm only slightly familiar with Homewood/Gateway through Troy Gibson who I got to know through him coaching at Spalding but I know you guys do a good job over there with a real tough assignment. I'm guessing that original building got torn down now. Having gotten to know Coach McLeod over at Silver Oak through the years and seeing a few of the athletes they had come through there, it definitely doesn't shock me you've had some great athletes there. Of course, the Silver Oak kids are usually in more much more serious offenses than Homewood/Gateway but some of them definitely shine on the football field. I saw them play Fort Hill a few years back and their RB is the only HS player I ever saw outrun Ty Johnson. He was a freak and easily had 150+ yards against a state champion FH team with the worst OL imaginable. Pretty sure outside of him, they had negative yardage as a team. That whole game was pretty surreal, they played at the Deer Park Rec field in Westminster, which has some temporary aluminum and wooden bleachers (seating for maybe 250) and no locker rooms or anything of that sort. Fort Hill being Fort Hill the 100+ student band was there along with all their cheerleaders and their whole varsity roster. They also brought two buses worth of fans and countless more drove. Ended up being a few thousand people ringed around the field. Very unique atmosphere. On a side note, Silver Oak's football kids are usually the most polite kids on any field. I remember seeing them at the Ravens 7-on-7 one summer and they were the only group there that didn't once argue with the refs. LOL! I actually just got off a 3 hour zoom meet-up with Troy and 7 others from Homewood. He’s a great friend of mine. As far as football, Troy, for a relatively young guy, has a great offensive play-calling mind. The building was finally torn down four years ago. There is now a shopping center in its place. It was right next to the Wendy’s, across from the River Hill shopping center. On the surface it would seem Silver Oak kids have much more serious offenses, but in reality there’s very little difference. We’ve had kids charged with the most serious of offenses, and many have daily and weekly obligations they have to meet for the state.
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