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    SW Indiana Fans Choice

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted

    Okay here is the 2023 SW Indiana All-Area Fans Choice Team!

    Player of the Year: Elijah Wagner (Bosse)
    Coach of the Year: Todd Wilkerson (Heritage Hills)

    Offensive Team
    Quarterback: Jett Goldsberry (Heritage Hills)
    Running backs: Sean DeLong (Gibson Southern)
    Running backs: Jed Galvin (North Posey)
    Wide receivers: Luke Ellspermann (Memorial)
    Wide receivers: Hayden Summers (Reitz)
    Wide receivers: Roland Vera Jr. (Reitz)
    Offensive linemen: Quentin Boeke (Reitz)
    Offensive linemen: Timothy Dixon (North)
    Offensive linemen: Kalon Egan (North Posey)
    Offensive linemen: Parker Hart (Heritage Hills)
    Center: Caige Christie (North Posey)
    Kicker: Kiefer Sanderson (Reitz)

    Defensive Team
    Defensive linemen: Kaleb Harris (North)
    Defensive linemen: Gavin Myers (North Posey)
    Defensive linemen: Levi Oxley (Reitz)
    Linebackers: Braydon Durham (Heritage Hills)
    Linebackers: Jace Gauer (North Posey)
    Linebackers: Beau Rose (Gibson Southern)
    Linebackers: Ayden Wells (Reitz)
    Defensive backs: Ty Brown (South Spencer)
    Defensive backs: Kasey Hospelhorn (North)
    Defensive backs: Wyatt Stratman (Mater Dei)
    Defensive backs: Noah Terry (Tell City)
    Punter: Lane Gabbard (Central)

    Full voting results are here: https://www.almanacsports.com/article.php?news_id=2023123101

    Thanks for the nudge @Titan32 🙂

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    100 Years of West Lafayette Football

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    On 9/15/2023 at 3:53 AM, Ballhawk said:

    Just think of what HS football was like 100 years ago.  You see a lot of small colleges on the schedules in the early 1900s.  Think about WL playing Wabash back in the day.  I know Wabash shows up on the Sheridan schedule a few times.

    Sheridan celebrates their 100th Homecoming tomorrow night.  The Blackhawks were reportedly the first school in Indiana to celebrate homecoming.

    We could probably ask Coach Wright what the festivities were like 😂

     

    Actually I did a book about Indiana high school football in 1923!

    Please check it out if you’d like 😊

    https://www.amazon.com/Indiana-High-School-Football-Machine/dp/B0C2S7VJ85

    Looking for Previous Sagarin Ratings

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    On 7/31/2023 at 6:58 PM, hhpatriot04 said:

    Anyone happen to be archiving Sagarin ratings for Indiana high school football?

    Ideally, they would be archives of the entire rankings saved as a .html, .pdf, .xls, or .doc file, but just the team names and the predictor rating would do.

    @Rudy? 

    I have finally made some updates to predictor.gridirondigest.net -- check it out -- and would love to add Sagarin ratings for at least every year, if not for every week.

    Sagarin has them on his website back to 2009

    http://indianahsfootball.homestead.com/pastfb/archives.htm#loaded

    I checked the Internet Archive too but nothing was archived under his new website Sagarin.com. Maybe his old one but I can't find that address.

    Reitz reverting to Purple & Orange to honor 100th anniversary of first city title

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    To celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Reitz Football’s first city championship, the Panthers will once more don their original school colors.

    The Blue & Gray will be put away for the Central game and Reitz will sport the Purple & Orange for the first time in almost a century.

    “I vividly remember watching that game in 1923,” remarked Mike Whicker, local author and former Reitz teacher and coach. “It was the first time we beat Central and it was a huge upset.”

    The idea came from Cory Brunson, the Panthers’ head coach.

    “Before there was the Blue & Gray, I remember hearing the stories about the Panthers playing in Purple & Gold. I wanted to bring that back, if only for one night.”

    He said the plan is to only use the alternate colors for the Central game, but could use them again for other special circumstances.3838F5EF-4480-443F-AD88-D38B9622E9C1.thumb.jpeg.7f728a4c0c5099f382bf578814ffa6ed.jpeg

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    Voting is now open for 7th Annual Southwestern Indiana Fans Choice All-Area Team!

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    Yes they were in that conference. There’s definitely an argument that Linton is in SW Indiana.

    I’ve gone back and forth on whether to include them or not but ultimately I’d decided to keep it to the schools listed in the counties above.

    I now have info for the whole state but the all-area team is kind of a throwback to when I only covered teams in SW Indiana.

    Hey Rudy! Look what I found!

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted

    On 9/24/2022 at 10:42 AM, hhpatriot04 said:

    God's work. You deserve to be inducted into the football and media HoF.

    I appreciate that. Not sure if that’s true but appreciated nonetheless. It’s just something I enjoy doing 😊

    On 9/24/2022 at 12:02 PM, Esso Ayche said:

    Fact. This archive has to be one of the most, if not THE most, comprehensive collection of state HS football data in 'murica. Admittedly, I've not dug into any of the other 49 states... but I will just go ahead and stick with my initial assumption and never look back.

    Great work @Rudy!!

    Alabama has a really good one. Michigan and Tennessee do, as well. Few more too but I’m partial to this one 😊

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    Hey Rudy! Look what I found!

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    21 hours ago, hhpatriot04 said:

    Are these all new games for @Rudy? Will he start archiving partial box scores?

    I created a feature on the website that lets me have box scores and stats and even links to game recaps (see games from 2009 and 2010 seasons) but scouring all the news sites, finding these and inputting proved to be too time consuming and I stopped. 

    My goal is to have every score in state history on the site. For the older years, I’m doing one season at a time. I’m currently working on 1946 but I’ll definitely get these added to the site eventually!

    Thanks again for sharing!

    All Time Winning Percentage

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    3 hours ago, hhpatriot04 said:

    https://www.footballfridaynight.com/RecordsTeamWins.php?qState=US

    https://www.footballfridaynight.com/RecordsTeamWins.php?qState=IN

    Those are from atelltexan on www.TexasHSFootball.com

    @Rudymay have something on AlmanacSports.com. Regardless, you should buy his books.

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    If I recall from my time in Bloomington when Bloomington H.S. was consolidated (year?), it became Bloomington South while Bloomington North started at 0-0-0 -- please correct me if I'm wrong.

    Bloomington High became Bloomington South in 1973. The old Bloomington University High either merged into Bloomington North but I haven't been able to find if BN claims University's athletic lineage or not.

    Here's an excerpt from Page 29:

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    Thanks and any if any Bloomington folks can help clarify this, please let me know!

    Dan "Rudy" Engler

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    All Time Winning Percentage

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    3 hours ago, hhpatriot04 said:

    https://www.footballfridaynight.com/RecordsTeamWins.php?qState=US

    https://www.footballfridaynight.com/RecordsTeamWins.php?qState=IN

    Those are from atelltexan on www.TexasHSFootball.com

    @Rudymay have something on AlmanacSports.com. Regardless, you should buy his books.

    image.thumb.png.378b238b89354d35772c1f7911cc1c47.png

    If I recall from my time in Bloomington when Bloomington H.S. was consolidated (year?), it became Bloomington South while Bloomington North started at 0-0-0 -- please correct me if I'm wrong.

    Thanks @hhpatriot04!

    This is from Page 8 of the Indiana High School Football Records Book (which can be found here😞

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    Chatard has the advantage in all-time percentage with 537-168-1, which is .7613.

    Hobart is #30 with 649-323-16, which is .6650.

    The #1 team is Fort Wayne Snider. They are 503-143-3, which is a .7773 win percentage.

    Thanks and let me know if you have any follow-up questions!

    Dan "Rudy" Engler

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    Indiana High School Football Records Book now available on Amazon!

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted

    First off, thanks to TGD admin for allowing me to post this. I'm excited to announce that the Indiana High School Football Records Book is now available!

    This 493-page resource has taken me 15 months to compile and 25+ years of research, but it's finally a reality and features:

    • Part 1: State Championships - list of state champs back to 1895, including win/loss record and coach
    • Part 2: Information for all 497 teams since 1890 that have ever played Indiana high school football, including yearly win/loss records, coaching information, and information on 13,194 first-team All-State players
    • Part 3: Conference standings going back to 1947, including conference champions, IHSAA football tournament results since its inception in 1973 and cluster standings
    • Part 4: Statistical records, including team and individual all-time leaders in multiple categories
    • Part 5: Statistics for 3,423 coaches, including win/loss records, when they coached, games coached and win percentage. 

    It's available on Amazon in print or ebook form!
     
    Thanks and I hope you enjoy!
     
    Dan Engler

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    Tim Adams - In Memoriam

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted

    Tim was an amazing man. Most of our communication was through email or on here, but when you saw him in person, he was just a warm, personable and larger than life individual.

    A little background, in Nov 1999, Rivals hired me to be the Indiana high school football editor for Rivals and I opened HoosierPreps.com. The 2020 season was my first covering football and I had a message board that was somewhat active but nowhere near TGD levels, even in those days. I can't remember if Tim found my site first or I found his, but we were online "rivals" (pun intended) but had a mutual respect for what each of us were doing.

    When the dotcom bust happened and Rivals went bankrupt, it shut the site down. I reopened it as AlmanacSports.com but didn't even bother to reintroduce the message board because TGD was already so strong.

    Tim and I had a meeting set up to talk about merging the sites or at least working more closely together, but it got postponed and ultimately never happened because he passed away 😞

    Tim was an awesome guy and I miss him. Thanks @Bobref for starting this thread. Definitely brought back good memories.

    I would love to see him inducted into the Indiana Hall of Fame. He definitely deserves it for all his contributions to Indiana High School Football.

    Dan "Rudy" Engler

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