Rebel96 Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Bob Cifers - Dobyns Bennett In 1938 he shattered the national high school football season scoring record of 211 points. He scored 235 points in his 1938 junior season. He led the nation again his senior year scoring 164 points. Cifers' high school record in Track and Field is even more improbable. He was a member of three Dobyns-Bennett TSSAA State Champion Track and Field teams (1936, 1937, 1940). He was also individually crowned TSSAA State Champion, a record ten times, in five separate events. The first and most impressive was winning the 1936 TSSAA state shot put crown as an eighth grader (Shot Put 50'-0" as an 8th grader!). A total of thirteen (ten individual, three team) TSSAA State Championships is a record in track and field that has stood for six decades and is currently not in jeopardy of being broken. Cifers set the single game punting record in the National Football League with an average of 61.8 yards for four punts. The record still stands. He had a good chance to win the Heisman trophy his senior season at UT, but he hastily signed a contract with the Detroit Lions negating his ability to continue playing for UT. I knew Bob when I was a boy in Chattanooga and he was a really great guy and his family was full of great athletes. Here's a link to an old article about Bob. : http://web.archive.org/web/20050112202643/...ffame/Cifers_B/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigHairyOwl Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Dante` Hickey from Cleveland High School 93-94-95 State Champs! John Chavis Said,"Dante` was the best player he has ever recruited!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunter Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 it has to be either reggie or big john Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DHSFB64 Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Doug Atkins from West TN. Played at UT, then on to the NFL. Legend has it he was an animal. You are correct.Humboldt,Tn late 40"s... also Phillip KING ala= "The Chief" as he became to be known from Dyersburg,Tn .. mid 50"s. went to Vandy were he was All-AMERICAN two years; played on NY Giants in their glory years ,played in infamous NFL Championship game against J.UNITAS n Balitimore Colts.. latter years of his career played for the Vikings. He was called "The Chief" because he was half Cherokee Indian, He was Competely unstoppable in h.s.,college in the" Good Ole Days" of the Single-wing. Doug Akins was a beast in h.s.,college,and pro ball= HALL OF FAMER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
salty Posted September 12, 2007 Report Share Posted September 12, 2007 Ditto Todd vs. Reggie umm............thinking here I'll say Reggie. took me 1.8 seconds for that one. duh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcwrestler Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Not sure who Todd is, but I bet most people know Reggie. That is a no brainer. A great player, a good guy, an untimly death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warlock Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Not sure who Todd is, but I bet most people know Reggie. That is a no brainer. A great player, a good guy, an untimly death. Todd Collins was the NATIONAL Defensive player of the year in 1987 who played at Jefferson County! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thorough97 Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 IMO, there are only 3 legitimate choices in this discussion - Doug Atkins - Humboldt, Reggie White - Howard, and John Hannah - Baylor. All 3 are Hall of Famers, 2 of the 3 are considered the best to ever play their positions by a number of experts (White and Hannah) and the 3rd is considered the prototype for his position (Atkins). Todd Colllins did play in the NFL, but is hardly considered a HOF caliber player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobcat93 Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 cedric wilson from melrose pretty darn good. i think he's got a state championship,college national championshio,and a super bowl champs ring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionheart6508 Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 well if we are going on straight high school careers, i would throw in Gerald Riggs Jr. from Red Bank. He was ranked 1 or 2 back in the nation, and some say he was a better linebacker(michigan & LSU) just to mention a couple! shattered all kinds of chattanooga records and didnt recieve the ball all that much!so if we are going on just high school i would consider him!Eric Westmorland great high school and college career at Tennessee! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoDoubt Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Gotta be REGGIE WHITE!!!! Yep... Reggie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBDAD Posted September 13, 2007 Report Share Posted September 13, 2007 Reggie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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