Tough Tennessee High School teams of the Past

[SweetScience]

1969 Morristown East Cyclones coached by Rex Dockery

11-1 State Champs (first playoff state champion in state's highest class)

 

W 7-6 Science Hill

L 13-14 Dobyns-Bennett

W 63-0 Cocke Co

W 43-0 Sevier Co

W 27-2 Greeneville

W 40-0 Jefferson

W 34-0 Tennessee

W 31-8 Elizabethton

W 39-8 Unicoi Co

W 30-0 Knox Central (KY)

 

Playoffs:

Semis

W 27-26 Franklin Co

 

Championship

W 15-12 Memphis Southside

Was Randy Sanders the QB on that team? Nevermind, he came later I think.

Edited February 7, 2017 by SweetScience

[CU06]

Was Randy Sanders the QB on that team? Nevermind, he came later I think.

 

Yes, Randy was much younger than that.  I'm not sure what years he was at East but I know he was playing at UT in 1987-88.

[Cactus Jack]

 

 

Oak Ridge High School Wildcats * 1958

 

Regular Season Record     10-0 

 

Knox. East    54-0    W

Chattanooga City    46-6    W

Knox. South   34-0   W

Science Hill   27-0    W

Unicoi County   52-0  W

McMinn County   40-14  W

MBA    56-0   W

Cookeville    54-0    W

Fulton   61-0     W

Chattanooga Central    14-6     W

 

Coach  Jack Armstrong

Average Points For/Game43.8

Average Points Against/Game2.6

 

[WilleTheWildcat]

Only Chattanooga Central's Purple Pounders gave Oak Ridge a game that season. Central's coach, the legendary Red Etters, would later go on to coach Chattanooga Baylor.

My wife is a Central alum and when we got married we were living in the house Coach Etters lived in during his Baylor days. I would go down in the basement and talk about Oak Ridge football to see if his spirit was in the house. It wasn't.

We sold that house and now live in Hixson. No ghost in this house either LOL.