High School Player rambles for 10 TDs, 658 yards in a single game

[WA_Vol]

Talk about padding your stats

and, believe it or not, may not have set a national record with his feat.
The total tops the National Federation of State High School Association's listed record of 619 yards set by Ronney Jenkins of Oxnard, Calif., in 1995. But high school records historian Doug Huff said Saturday the recognized record is 739 yards by John Giannantonio of Netcong, N.J., in 1950, against Mountain Lakes.
McCoy piled up his yardage on just 29 carries -- an average of 22.7 yards per attempt -- and scored 10 touchdowns as Matewan beat Burch 64-0 on Friday. McCoy racked up 477 of his yards scoring on TD runs of runs, which covered 69, 1, 52, 56, 52, 20, 31, 84, 87 and 25 yards.
He also had a 77-yard TD run called back because of a penalty.
"The National Federation book for some reason does not include that (the 739 yards), and I think the reason is there's a formal process for submitting those things," Huff said Saturday. "This school doesn't exist anymore. The papers recognized it. The school had a special ceremony. It's been in my records for years."
McCoy did set a state record with his 658 yards, and his 10 TDs would tie him with two others for the second most nationally. The record is 12, set by Ken Pearson of Hugo, Colo., in 1930.
McCoy, averaging 345 yards per game, has 1,723 yards and 26 touchdowns this season.

[GAVol]

I wonder what the final score was. Sounds like some serious running up of the score.

[Hoosier_Vol]

Final score was 64-0. I don't care how bad the other team was, that's impressive!

[mattvols]

I heard its below what would be 1a ball here in tennessee but i dont care who your playing thats pretty awesome.

[mattvols]

here is his profile. Didnt expect him to be a white boy.
Paul McCoy - Football Recruiting

[russvol]

wow

[ardent enthusiast]

Classless. Overkill.

This same small school had to forfeit a few games earlier this year due to using an ineligible player. The player was a starting linebacker and the backup running back. Coach was probably smug about "not having a backup" and "having to" play his starter the whole game. Meh.

No class.

[vader]

Originally Posted by mattvols

here is his profile. Didnt expect him to be a white boy.
Paul McCoy - Football Recruiting

The cleaners called. Your sheets are ready.

[therealUT]

I do not know if you could call this classless. If this kid rumbled for 658 yards, then I guarantee you that the second and third string RBs would have been putting the ball in the endzone at the same pace. 64-0 is 64-0 no matter who the tailback is. If you are going to beat someone that badly, does it really matter if you break a record in the process?

[ardent enthusiast]

Well, it's a matter of opinion, and it was fairly classless in mine. I'm glad that the coaches I played for and have worked with that they played the backups when the game was a blowout. In a small school, with a phenomenal back (and I played at such a school...21 players on the varsity), there was a large difference in the starter and the backup. One game in particular our starter was already on the bench and the backup got 100 yards. Out you go, son. In went our starting left guard at tailback. He hadn't practiced there before, but it was an interesting way to slow down the game.

I read an article about it that said his coach was about to put the backups in when he heard that the young man could break the record, so he kept his starters in. So, run him some more. Meh.

You can't stop a 2nd string player from trying to run for a touchdown every time he carries the ball, but you could definitely take your time getting to the line. You could take your time getting up off the pile. You could line run the fullback dive out of some sort of goalline formation and eat up the clock.

A running clock (don't know if they use that or not in WVA) would have been an excellent deterrent. I remember being against this type of rule when I first heard about in Missouri, but I like it now from a coaching aspect. Well, sort of. Again, I'd like to get my younger players and backups some playing time. A blowout is a good opportunity to do that.

Then again, you could be a classless fool, again my opinion, and try to break a record because you played an ineligible player and lost 2 games. Way to send a message, coach. Then again, West Virginia has a weird way of determing their playoff teams.

Personally, I'll be trying to follow the rest of the season, and hope that some team drops 70 on them.