Protime’s Pigskin Parlance – 2024 Milestones, Record Breakers & Game Shakers – Edition 5
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Phil Myers | September 25, 2024
Protime’s weekly column will attempt to get readers up to date on current football facts, stats, and miscellaneous tidbits of information from across the entire state of Pennsylvania. His crack staff of one will peruse some, but not all newspapers and other sources for hopefully what will be up to date scoop on the previous week’s games, records, and hitherto unknown factoids of the sort.
Trivia question of the week: Can anyone name the top 10 winningest college football teams? One hint: Four of them are currently in the Big 10.
Couple Notes from Prior Weeks
Twin Valley’s Evan Johnson became the all-time TD leader in Twin Valley history the Friday before last.
Program Wins Milestones
Schuylkill Haven won their 600th game in memorable fashion by beating Minersville 72-52 last Thursday. Juniata Valley chalked up their 400th program win when they upended West Branch 49-16. The third team to reach a century pinnacle was Pine Grove who got their 300th career victory by downing Shenandoah Valley 28-21. Congratulations to the Schuylkill Haven Hurricanes, the Juniata Valley Hornets, and the Pine Grove Cardinals!!!
Coaching Milestones
None that we are aware of this week.
Team Achievements
Deer Lakes is 5-0 for the first time in program history dating back to circa 1969 when the school opened and began playing football. Johnstown won its second game in a row after losing 43 straight. Sophomore QB Julius Reed threw for 374 yards and 3 scores to lead the Trojans who once were one of the powers in Pennsylvania high school football.
Individual Achievements
Last Friday Matt Sieg, Fort Cherry’s sensational quarterback, became the first player in District 7 (WPIAL) history to rush for 5,000 yards and pass for 3,000 yards in a career. Even the great Terrelle Pryor (Jeannette), who passed and ran for over 4,000 yards each, never rushed for 5,000. Stone Saunders of Bishop McDevitt tied Steelton-Highspire grad Alex Erby’s career touchdown pass mark of 176. Saunders will more than likely break that record this week and probably will break Erby’s career passing yardage record of 13,562 later in the year. Imhotep’s new quarterback, Joe McLeish, came within a few yards of breaking Mikal Davis’s single game passing record in Tep’s win over Abraham Lincoln. He threw for 5 touchdowns which may be a record but that has not been verified. He’s only a sophomore, so one day he probably will own many Imhotep passing records.
School Record Breakers
Protime loves to see field goals and Grant Argiro, Pine Richland’s kicker extraordinaire, booted five last week, two of which were over 40 yards. That tied a state record for most field goals in a game held by two others. Speaking of kicking, Corey Warren, a junior at Susquenita, tied the school career mark for kicking points last week. Needless to say, that record will be shattered by the time Corey graduates. Brady Martin, Quakertown, broke a 64-year-old school record by throwing for 363 yards in a thrilling win over Souderton. See games of the week below! He also tied the single game touchdown pass record of 5. Bryce Gumby of Berks Catholic broke his school’s single game rushing record by galloping for 268 yards. Montour’s Trey Hopper set the school’s single game passing record with 436 yards through the air.
Interesting Tidbits
Da Bears are apparently back. Clairton has outscored their opponents 229-7 so far. Da Bear defense has not allowed a single point in five games! The touchdown Steel Valley scored was on a fumble return. So now you wonder who has scored the most points? Schuylkill Haven has scored 279 and Port Allegany 278.
Games of the Week
In Protime’s humble opinion there were 4 this week. New Castle trailed Knoch 32-20 with 4 minutes remaining after a Knoch score. Then motivated by a kickoff return TD, the Red Hurricanes scored 22 points to come away with the 42-32 triumph.
Game two was the Easton-Emmaus contest. Emmaus jumped off to a 14-0 lead, but Easton scored before the intermission to cut the lead to 14-6. The Easton Red Rovers controlled the second half and eventually took a 21-14 lead after three. Emmaus put together a drive and tied the game late in the 4th quarter and then had the ball inside the Easton ten, but missed a field goal to send the game into overtime. Easton won 28-21 thanks to a penalty that cost Emmaus the possible tie or win.
Game three was the Central Bucks South vs. Central Bucks West classic. West went on top 10-0, but South tied the game by the time the half rolled around. CB South goes up 16-10 in the third but missed the point after. CB West uses five minutes to score and go ahead in the 4th quarter leaving only 49 seconds for South to work with. CB South gets as far as the 39-yard line of West with time for one play left. The Hail Mary pass ends up being caught in the end zone for the dramatic game-winning touchdown and South won 22-17 before the hometown crowd.
CB South’s game-winning catch by #1 Danny Gies.
Game four was the best of the bunch, an instant classic. Souderton dominated the first quarter of their game with Quakertown and scored 4 touchdowns in less than 12 minutes to lead 28-0 at the end of one quarter. By halftime Q’town still trailed but it’s 34-15. The Panthers had some momentum, and the hometown fans had some hope. At the end of three Souderton’s lead had shrunk to 34-29 and the Quakertown fans were going nuts. But it still took a miracle to win. Late in the game, Souderton could not completely run out the clock and had to punt. So, Quakertown got the ball back with 17 seconds left at their own 20. A 12-yard pass and a subsequent 15-yard penalty took 5 seconds off the clock. A Hail Mary caught in a deluge of bodies put the ball at the Souderton ten where Q’town spikes the ball with 2 seconds remaining. A perfect in stride pass for the TD polishes off the improbable drive and comeback for Quakertown as they won 35-34 and gave fans a memory they will never forget.
Answer to trivia question: #1 is Michigan with 1,007 wins, #2 is Alabama with 968 W’s, #3 is Ohio State with 967, #4 Texas has 952 wins, #5 Notre Dame has 951, #6 is Oklahoma with 947, #7 is Yale with 937, #8 is Penn State who has 933 wins, #9 is Nebraska with 920, and #10 Harvard has 901. These are also the only ten schools with more than 900 all-time wins.
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