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Harrison strips the punter and gets a scoop and score. 35-0 with a minute left in half

Harrison with 22 yard passing TD. Now leads Tech 28-0. 2:35 left in 2Q.

Another TD for Harrison 21-0 and Tech fumbles kickoff and Harrison recovers. 3 mins left in 2Q.

Harrison with the TD. Now leads 14-0 with 5:16 left in 2Q.

Harrison misses FG. Score remains 7-0 at 9:44 in 2Q.

Harrison forces a punt and scores on first possession. Leads Tech 7-0 with 3:29 left in 1Q.

I actually remember a couple of those in Texas too. Being from Texas you know about how it's really weird that even though it's below 32 degrees, it doesn't really freeze or snow there; at least in the large cities due to the trapped heat. Played an 8th-grade game where it was raining, but didn't freeze, so we were just wet in that cold the whole game. Being the center, I had a guy on the sideline dedicated to keeping my hands dry and rubbed down the whole game to keep them somewhat "bendy." Won the game 8-0. Headed to the locker room and realized that my hands were so frozen that I couldn't grip the latch to pull it up to open my locker. Had to sit there for 15 minutes waiting for the ability to pinch my fingers together to open the locker. The thing I always remember about that game/season was 1) our coach making us "warm up," butts on the ground stretches, in the water puddles on the field as the opponent's bus pulled in and 2) sitting in that locker room after the game waiting for my hands to thaw out. I thought our coach was kind of crazy for having us in that water before the game, but looking back, it was genius. The other team got there and avoided the water as long as they could and no one on their team hit the ground until the game started. Our team drove that first possession, being about as comfortable as you can be while wet and freezing, and scored while the other team got accustomed to being wet. Once they got over tiptoeing on the field and trying to avoid falling in the slime of mud and freezing water, they settled down after that first drive, but it turned into a stalemate for the rest of the game; giving us the win.

That was a colleague's take on punting as well in youth football games. He actually discounted the one good thing and considered the punter's knee touching the ground to retrieve the snap as being the best possible outcome in youth ball punting.

Ran into that a couple of seasons when Pioneer would come to town or the season that LCC and West Lafayette resumed play and the youth programs practice field became overflow parking. Now it's a tennis court and the youth practice on the strip between Field 51 ... a youth baseball field ... and the varsity practice field or sometimes directly in left field of Field 51.

My guess is there's plenty of "in kind" activity that goes on with high school football.

My practice field in Houston was a converted Brahma pasture that still had artifacts of the previous occupants.

I know. I quite recall the idea of Astroturf growing up in Houston. A lot of people had that stuff in their screened backyard porches right on top of the concrete with no padding ... which seemed to be the exact same way it was administered on early turf fields.

Been there, done that, got the "top-rash" elbows and knees.

When did carpet come into the mix with concrete? Most Catholic school kids probably recall that there really wasn't a true "playground" for recess in elementary school. After the cars dropped off kids in the morning, the parking lot became the playground. To make matters worse at our school, the school uniform required hard-soled shoes unless your class was on "gym day" ... then you were allowed to wear tennis shoes. You learned very quickly how to make cuts on concrete and oil slicks when you were playing and how to control your body to keep from ending up on that concrete surface. And God forbid it had rained before recess. Acrobatic catches are all the rage on ESPN, but try making those on concrete.

1 POINT GAMES Northwestern @ Western Twin Lakes @ Central Catholic Tipton @ Hamilton Heights 3 POINT GAMES Benton Central @ Rensselaer Cass @ West Lafayette Ben Davis @ Carmel Fort Wayne Dwenger @ Fort Wayne Luers Mooresville @ Whiteland Triton @ North Judson Scottsburg @ Mitchell South Newton @ North White Valparaiso @ Merrillville

I would also agree about Guerin being in the conversation unless there's some data that shows that Chatard played their JV to let the varsity heal up, some key Chatard playmaker being out or hampered, or something similar.

Just curious where you have fellow NCC-leader Harrison?

I wouldn't be surprised to find out I'm older, but I've only been in Indiana for about 21 years, so I wasn't here for the '76 team. I was in Texas when the bi-centennial rolled around. And before anyone cracks a joke, I was not alive during the centennial.

Just noticed that http://www.almanacsports.com/football/coaches.php?team=LAF_CC has the LCC 2017 coach info missing. Don Coller was the head coach of record at the start of the season. Went 2-7 and retired in mid-season around mid-October. Jeff Onken assumed interim head coach duties for the final three games of the season, going 2-1, with LCC finishing the season 4-8.

It wasn't The Rock yet! LCC must not have had soccer in '76.

"When you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness."

I agree that there's some good ball to be played in the south. But I also know what Scecina looked like last year against LCC and they aren't too far off of that again this season, so I know that was not just Lutheran picking off a straggler from the 2A herd. That's going to be a mountable rack. Little by little the Catholic schools have departed 1A. LCC's still small enough to be 1A by enrollment, but it's in 2A for at least another couple of seasons and maybe more. They may be close to 2A enrollment by the time they don't hit SF points in 2A.

With this last weekend, Lutheran seems to have fired a shot across the bow to anyone from the south who might be thinking of traveling to LOS for anything other than the popcorn ... the rings will be off limits.

In NFHS, the holder must disengage his knee from the ground to do anything other than hold the ball for the kicker. In a sense, he gets a "special allowance" to have his knee touch the ground as long as he's holding the ball for the kick so it isn't considered dead. Anything other than that ... if he passes, laterals, shovels, or even hands the ball off, he must disengage the knee, or knees if he's on both knees, from the ground BEFORE doing it or the play is dead.

Without regard for the knee, it appears to be a lateral ... just slightly behind the holder's position at the time of the catch. Probably wouldn't matter in HS as the ball is dead just like a short shotgun snap where the QB's knee comes in contact with the ground when trying to retrieve it. If it's allowed, on the other hand, it matters from a stat component, pass vs. run, and also if the receiver missed the ball. If forward, it's an incomplete pass, but if it's a lateral, it's a live ball.