We put it on the ground a few times last week as well. Add that to about 100 yards worth of penalties and that's a recipe for disaster, but we still came away with a win. Closest game of the year and without a doubt against the most talented team we played. GC missed a fg up 7-0 as well and had they made it the momentum for them would have been huge.
Iowa High School Football Playoffs
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We put it on the ground a few times last week as well. Add that to about 100 yards worth of penalties and that's a recipe for disaster, but we still came away with a win. Closest game of the year and without a doubt against the most talented team we played. GC missed a fg up 7-0 as well and had they made it the momentum for them would have been huge.
I wouldn’t blame too many of the penalties. Several were pass interference penalties that saved touchdowns.
You may be right but you do realize Valley best Dowling earlier this year though right?
I attended both games, the first game Wapsie Valley just smoked Pekin, the look on the field of the Pekin players was something I had never seen before. The off tackle run that had worked for years, was getting smoked by WV. WV had a receiver that Pekin just could not cover, the kid was a hell of a receiver, but a slob. Would not even go into the huddle when the play was called. Just stood out there by himself, Pekin was double teaming him, and he ate them alive.
The next year in the semi finals, Pekin got their revenge. We were setting on the Bedford side of the UNI dome, for the first game. All the Bedford people wanted Pekin for the finals, we were telling them, "You do not want Pekin". They thought with their running back they would be fine. Boy were they wrong, the game was over by the end of the 1st quarter, like I said, that Pekin team was the best team I ever coached against or saw, and its not even close.
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Bedford was in our conference at the time but played up a class in football, they had some loaded teams during those years. Shafar the RB you mentioned broke state records and they had a lot of other really good players. I remember being surprised how bad Pekin handled them but I had a friend who had moved down near Pekin who told us, Bedford didn't stand a chance, he gave that team compliments similar to yours.
It's Bedford plays 8 man now but at that time, they had around a hundred kids out for football. There was an article in the Omaha World Herald that year that talked about it, the only kids that weren't out either excelled at cross country or had some medical condition that kept them out. We'd play them in JV, we might have 15 kids suit up and they would bring 3 bus loads of kids.
Has only been 1 "close" title game thus far. Hopefully get a couple here in the last 2 games.
From the looks of it, there were a couple of games in each class throughout the entire playoffs that were competitive.
I can remember the Harlan teams in the "80's. Their '83 team shut out all three teams they faced in winning the title.
They need to take these games outside. At least there’s a chance of some competitive balancing due to conditions.
