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Harrison with a 47-yard TD pass to Swathwood. Harrison leads McCutcheon 15-0 with 3 minutes left in Q1.

Harrison holds McCutcheon on first possession and scored on its first. 2-pt conversion is good. 8-0 with 7 left in Q1.

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Harrison 35 Marion 7 Final

Marion finally gets on the board. Trails Harrison 35-7. 9:57 left in game.

Harrison with another score. Leads Marion 35-0. Running clock with 3:50 left in 3Q.

Chris Ferguson with an 83-yard kickoff return to open the second half. Harrison leads Marion 28-0 with 11:45 left in Q3.

Tight game

Harrison leads Marion 21-0 at half. Harrison gets the ball to start the second half.

Harrison leads Marion 21-0 with 1:48 left in first half. Huber scores on 59-yard run.

Harrison leads Marion 14-0 with 2:57 left in Q1. Harrison has scored on both possessions. The last drive was three plays.

Thanks. @Titan32 posted similar on Monday ...

My bad ... here's a correction on this part ... you'd have a shot at a 45-yard field goal as you wouldn't have to worry about the snap, placement, and rush. Makes it a better deal because, you attempt one play that goes for no yards, that then turns into a 52-yard kick with a snap, placement, and rush, as opposed to a 45-yard kick with no rush/snap/placement issues.

I believe it's actually treated more like a punt rather than a kickoff. If it goes out of bounds, for example, on a kickoff it's a penalty on a kicking team. In a field goal situation, it's just a dead ball at the point where it goes out of bounds ... and the kicker gets razzed mercilessly on the bus ride home for such a shank.

Mainly because, if you fair catch a punt, you typically go on offense. If you've got two minutes left in the half, then you probably see about getting closer and then kicking a closer field goal or trying to get a TD. If you've got about 10 seconds left in the half and you fair catch that thing around the opponent's 35, you've got a shot at a 52-yard field goal with no rush. There's a decent number of kickoff kickers that can put a ball through the uprights at 50 yards with no opposing rush, snap, and set needed along with a run-up. Likely to take that as opposed to taking a shot at the endzone that results in 5 seconds left on the clock with an incomplete pass and a 52-yard attempt with a rush. As others have said, it's a pretty unique situation that needs to come together to make it a truly viable option.

Was Tipton on West Lafayette's schedule already for 2025? Since WL and Tipton are in different divisions in the HC, they will typically see each other for a two-year home-and-home, which would likely be 2023 and 2024, and then there's a likelihood that they then see the other teams to provide some round robin type activity in division crossover.

The best of luck to you and the HS kids! That's doing God's work there and one day those HS kids will realize what a role they played in helping the next generation enjoy the game. Hope you get all the support you and those kids need from those coaches. I'm encouraged by their "enthusiasm" in handling their fans.

We weren't perfect with this, but the league took steps to have the refs as a part of the league as opposed to like just gameday work. The refs were part of the league's board. They were part of the season prep and the season debrief. They also provided inputs to the coaches throughout the season. There were some coaches that just wanted to play on Sunday and win, but there were enough other coaches out there that would remind parents, before games, kind of exactly what you said; that they were there to cheer for the team and support their kid and let everyone else, coaches, refs, players, chain gang, concession stand folks, etc. do their jobs. For the most part, coaches did a good job of nipping stuff in the bud really quickly if a fan yelled out. Even got the kids involved in helping out and understanding the refs' role that, whenever there was a timeout or halftime, the kids bringing out the water would ask the refs if they needed some too. It was the only time the kids got to talk to the refs in games except to say "good game" at the end of the game or "heads" or "tails" or "that one" for the endzone to defend at the coin flip, so they thought it was something special.

We used to use this model, not so much for refs, but for coaches in the youth league and junior high. We always tried to catch guys that were sticking around town to go to Purdue or Ivy Tech or just back taking a gap semester. LCC has at least four current coaches that played high school ball there not too long ago. When I coached in the youth league, we paid money for Friday night refs to ref the youth games. Great experience for the kids as these guys spent lots of time helping the kids understand why things were being called and, probably more importantly, helped us coaches understand a lot of what was being called so we could then go back and reinforce with the kids. The other thing too is that they were ALWAYS dependable. We had a couple of older, really involved refs who I think headed up their own crews on Friday nights. They often brought some of the younger guys from their crews to come and get extra practice in a less hectic environment on Sundays to help them out. Toward the end of my time coaching, there was one head ref who was bringing an "extra" ref to the games and this was usually a guy who was training to be a ref, but hadn't been certified yet and the other refs helped him understand all of the things like communication, placement, working with the chain gang, etc.

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@Bobref's idea of good seats for coaches.

Plainfield holds on and grinds out the clock. 15-14 over Harrison. Final.

Plainfield drives in for TD. 2-point conversion is good. Leads Harrison 15-14 with 8:27 left in game.

Harrison and Plainfield each go scoreless on possessions in the 3rd. Harrison still leads 14-7 heading to 4Q.

With 4th and goal from the 13 and roughly 10 seconds in the half left, Plainfield's QB hits the receiver in the back corner of the endzone. PAT good. Harrison leads going into the half 14-7.