Best Team in your Program's History

[TRENCHFOOT]

Good question, I can't think of any. It was a shame though, back then only 4 teams made the playoffs. Don't know how the regions worked backed then but Logan ended up that year 8th in the State in AAA and didn't make it in. They was way better than 8th Imo.[/quote

Kinda like this year Logan's opponents didn't give them much help that year,they finished 8th in their region over 40 points out of 1st.

Can't blame that on school size though back then really/strength of schedule. So the others must not have won much then. Ironton was double A and was good. Hilliard was triple A I believe and won some games. Weird stuff back then. Still think The 77 Chiefs would have made some big noise if they would have made it in. Solid team and was loaded for bear.

[loganlocos]

1997 Meigs Marauder team or maybe one of the mid to late 80's teams. Anything before that is a little before time.

1967 Meigs team was REALLY good. Finished 9-1. SEOAL Champions.

First season after consolidation of Middleport, Pomeroy, and Rutland.

Home - WIN - Meigs 20, Wahama (WV) 0
Home - WIN - Meigs 36, Fairfield School for Boys 0
Away - WIN - Meigs 12, Athens 8 (SEOAL)
Away - WIN - Meigs 8, Gallipolis 6 (SEOAL)
Home - WIN - Meigs 14, Logan 8 (SEOAL)
Away - WIN - Meigs 14, Wellston 6 (SEOAL)
Home - LOSS - Meigs 0, Ironton 8
Away - WIN - Meigs 50, Jackson 14 (SEOAL)
Home - WIN - Meigs 28, Nelsonville-York 0
Home - WIN - Meigs 36, Parkersburg South (WV) 0

Scored 218, Allowed 50

Only Jackson scored twice against them, and that was a 50-14 game. Recorded 4 shut outs.

Perry Kennedy (Tackle) was the SEOAL MVP.

Charles Chauncey was the Coach of the Year.

Quarterback Rod Gilkey was All-SEOAL and had transferred from Gallia Academy (he was all league in '66 at GAHS)

Other All-SEOAL selections were:
1st Team - Pat Story (Senior, Center) (was All-SEOAL at Pomeroy in '66)
1st Team - Bill Swan (Senior, End)
1st Team - Mark Tannehill (Senior, End) (was HM All-SEOAL at Middleport in '66)
1st Team - Lennie Van Meter (Senior, Fullback) (was All-SEOAL at Pomeroy in '66)
HM - Mike Hargraves
HM - Roger Black

[Bird Dog]

1997 Meigs Marauder team or maybe one of the mid to late 80's teams. Anything before that is a little before time.

1967 Meigs team was REALLY good. Finished 9-1. SEOAL Champions.

First season after consolidation of Middleport, Pomeroy, and Rutland.

Home - WIN - Meigs 20, Wahama (WV) 0
Home - WIN - Meigs 36, Fairfield School for Boys 0
Away - WIN - Meigs 12, Athens 8 (SEOAL)
Away - WIN - Meigs 8, Gallipolis 6 (SEOAL)
Home - WIN - Meigs 14, Logan 8 (SEOAL)
Away - WIN - Meigs 14, Wellston 6 (SEOAL)
Home - LOSS - Meigs 0, Ironton 8
Away - WIN - Meigs 50, Jackson 14 (SEOAL)
Home - WIN - Meigs 28, Nelsonville-York 0
Home - WIN - Meigs 36, Parkersburg South (WV) 0

Scored 218, Allowed 50

Only Jackson scored twice against them, and that was a 50-14 game. Recorded 4 shut outs.

Perry Kennedy (Tackle) was the SEOAL MVP.

Charles Chauncey was the Coach of the Year.

Quarterback Rod Gilkey was All-SEOAL and had transferred from Gallia Academy (he was all league in '66 at GAHS)

Other All-SEOAL selections were:
1st Team - Pat Story (Senior, Center) (was All-SEOAL at Pomeroy in '66)
1st Team - Bill Swan (Senior, End)
1st Team - Mark Tannehill (Senior, End) (was HM All-SEOAL at Middleport in '66)
1st Team - Lennie Van Meter (Senior, Fullback) (was All-SEOAL at Pomeroy in '66)
HM - Mike Hargraves
HM - Roger Black

Thanks, great info and love to hear about the history.
I played for Mr. Chancey and even though I'm much younger Ive met and heard of most of those guys. I work with several guys that use to work with Perry and they always talk about what a tough man he was, never got to meet him but knew his boys.

[Poo Bear]

Who in the area actually has a state championship ?
I know
Nelsonville York
Ironton
Wheelers burg

[Raider6309]

Who in the area actually has a state championship ?
I know
Nelsonville York
Ironton
Wheelers burg

Amanda and Crooksville

[Raider6309]

Amanda had a powerhouse in the late 1990s and early 2000s

[Poo Bear]

I would take the Ironton team as the best team to EVER come out of southern Ohio

[Mad-Dogg]

The 1989 title season for burg of course. This year's team is one of the best teams I've seen at burg in a long time. Both sides of the ball is crazy.

I honestly think we could give coldwater a game should the two meet

[Bird Dog]

The 1989 title season for burg of course. This year's team is one of the best teams I've seen at burg in a long time. Both sides of the ball is crazy.

I honestly think we could give coldwater a game should the two meet

I sure do agree with you and I hope they both make it cause that'll be epic.

[Mad-Dogg]

The 1989 title season for burg of course. This year's team is one of the best teams I've seen at burg in a long time. Both sides of the ball is crazy.

I honestly think we could give coldwater a game should the two meet

I sure do agree with you and I hope they both make it cause that'll be epic.

IKR!! It could be one of the best games ever

[YOU'RE TIGER BAIT]

The 1989 title season for burg of course. This year's team is one of the best teams I've seen at burg in a long time. Both sides of the ball is crazy.

I honestly think we could give coldwater a game should the two meet

that was a special year . I watched my tigers and your pirates take it all that weekend.

[Mad-Dogg]

The 1989 title season for burg of course. This year's team is one of the best teams I've seen at burg in a long time. Both sides of the ball is crazy.

I honestly think we could give coldwater a game should the two meet

that was a special year . I watched my tigers and your pirates take it all that weekend.

Yes it was a very good yr for southern oh

[billcox]

The 2014 Athens team is the best to ever come out of SE Ohio imo. Some of the other teams mentioned may have been more physical but they wouldn't have handled the Athens athletes in space.

[noreply66]

Logan might have 5 years to pick from as better team. Lot depends on who has been able to watch each team. It really doesn't always depend on how far you went on the amount of games. Also are we talking about team or class. Example Logans team with Gasser/Hummel finished 10 and 0 but some of that team went something like 7 and 3 the next year. The Conrads may have went 12 and 1 with the next year going undefeated in the regular season. A two year team having a 20+ win record.

[noreply66]

The 2014 Athens team is the best to ever come out of SE Ohio imo. Some of the other teams mentioned may have been more physical but they wouldn't have handled the Athens athletes in space.

I would put up a couple great Ironton teams against Athens. Not saying what team would win but The Ironton teams would have beat the Athens team up during the first three quarters where the Bulldogs would be unable to keep up. At the same time the Tigers might have been gassed with Athens game.

[fbnut]

The 1989 title season for burg of course. This year's team is one of the best teams I've seen at burg in a long time. Both sides of the ball is crazy.

I honestly think we could give coldwater a game should the two meet

The 89 team accomplished the most but I wouldn't put them in my top 5 burg teams. Head to head there's been a few other burg teams that would have beat that 89 team.

[Poo Bear]

Vinton County Vikings 1993
Needs to me mentioned. Lost to Ironton in overtime, ironton went on to lose the state championship by a field goal.
Easily the best team in vc history was good enough to win a state championship in D 3

[Ironman92]

For an old curmudgeon, Waverly's teams 1967-1969 would have my vote. A know the latest generation of high school athletes are big, stronger, faster. and better trained, but players such as DeVito, Hance, Williams, Johnson, Schmidt, Varney, Adams, Foil, Welch, Kalfs, Downing, Dixon,
and even Pekala were great in their day. A record of 27-1-2 speaks for itself.

Ted Downing? What position was he?

[Raider6309]

Vinton County Vikings 1993
Needs to me mentioned. Lost to Ironton in overtime, ironton went on to lose the state championship by a field goal.
Easily the best team in vc history was good enough to win a state championship in D 3

Vinton defiently could beat anyone that year. Cory Griggs of Waueson just couldn't lose that year

[NYBuckeye96]

1981 Nelsonville-York Buckeyes - Division IV State Champions - 13-0 (6-0) TVC

Crooksville 8-0
@ Wellston 32-15
Logan 40-0
Miller 41-0
@ Alexander* 50-6
@ Warren* 34-13
Belpre* 28-0
@ Federal Hocking* 38-0
Vinton County* 52-0
@ Trimble* 40-12
# Coal Grove 14-12 - Division IV Regional Championship @ Ironton
# Wheelersburg 14-0 - Division IV State Semifinals @ Ironton
# Otsego 34-16 - Division IV State Championship @ Groveport

Streak of 24 straight wins continued into 1982: 11-1 (7-0) TVC - Regional Champions/State Semifinals
@ Crooksville 14-6
@ Miller 45-0
@ Logan 35-13
Wellston* 41-0
Alexander* 58-0
Warren* 14-6
@ Belpre* 18-13
Federal Hocking* 63-0
@ Vinton County* 51-0
Trimble* 28-12
# Crooksville 20-13 - Division IV Regional Championship @ Lancaster
# West Jefferson 14-22 - Division IV State Semifinals @ Lancaster


Other top NY teams of note:

1992 - 10-1 (8-0) TVC - 7 shutout wins
@ Athens 35-0
Logan 33-7
@ Meigs* 29-0
Alexander* 34-0
@ Miller* 34-0
@ Vinton County* 41-7
Federal Hocking* 41-0
@ Belpre* 34-0
Wellston* 27-0
Trimble* 34-14
# Ironton - 0-14 - Division III Regional Semifinals @ Portsmouth


1994 - 11-1 (4-0) TVC OHIO - Division IV Regional Runner Up
@ Athens 28-0
Logan 20-19
@ Portsmouth West 16-6
Alexander 48-14
Trimble 58-0
@ Vinton County* 26-21
@ Meigs* 43-6
Wellston* 41-3
@ Belpre* 47-6
@ Jackson 48-7
# Coshocton 41-6 - Division IV Regional Semifinals @ Zanesville
# Wheelersburg 7-28 - Division IV Regional Finals @ Portsmouth


1997 - 11-1 (5-0) TVC OHIO - Division IV Regional Runner Up
Athens 48-7
@ Logan 27-17
@ Coal Grove 20-13
@ Miller 13-0
@ Trimble 54-0
Vinton County* 20-12
Meigs* 30-0
@ Wellston* 39-20
Belpre* 13-3
@ Alexander* 41-0
# Wheelersburg 41-14 - Division IV Regional Semifinals @ Lancaster
# Bellaire 6-39 - Division IV Regional Finals @ Zanesville

1998 - 9-3 (4-1) TVC OHIO - Division V Regional Runner Up
@ Athens 21-20
Logan 29-34
Coal Grove 17-14 OT
@ Chesapeake 28-14
Trimble 29-25
@ Vinton County* 34-18
@ Meigs* 15-26
Wellston* 33-6
@ Belpre* 27-16
Alexander* 49-13
# Lucasville Valley 21-14 - Division V Regional Semifinals @ Athens
# Wheelersburg 19-61 - Division V Regional Finals @ Portsmouth

2006 9-2 (5-0) TVC OHIO - 9 win regular season
@ Athens 56-16
River Valley 47-6
Fairfield Union 22-35
@ Crooksville 22-0
Trimble 35-0
@ Vinton County* 32-13
@ Meigs* 36-19
Wellston* 21-14 OT
@ Belpre* 28-7
Alexander* 47-6
# Columbus Academy 21-55 - Division V Regional Quarterfinals @ Nelsonville-York

2011 9-2 (4-1) TVC OHIO - 9 win regular season
@ Trimble 42-6
@ Newark Catholic 34-12
Berne Union 57-0
@ Bishop Ready 47-13
Logan 42-6
Wellston* 48-0
@ Meigs* 41-14
Vinton County* 41-0
@ Alexander* 53-0
@ Athens* 21-24 OT
# Portsmouth West 12-18 - Division V Regional Quarterfinals @ Nelsonville-York