Mine told me that he would receive extreme sexual gratification if the opposing qb’s helmet were knocked off and his head remained in it. He also happened to be the coaches relative.. This was in the mid seventies and in our attempt to please him he did go off on a stretcher.
Speaking of laying a QB out I have always thought this was an amazing sequence.
Corbin was always very good in football. We always played them, and they almost always beat us, even when two of my older brothers played and we won our conference. we were a VERY small school, 33 in my graduating class. In 1952 when I was a freshman, we beat them handily, and I didn't play as a freshman. They didn't win a game that year. My sophomore year I played and we beat them 25-0 IIRC, we had college level RB.
My junior year we had a great QB for high school, should have played college but joined the marine corp, (probably didn't help that he was a target, was kicked in the cheekbone while down and missed the last two games of his senior year also) threw as pretty a pass as I ever saw, and I have seen a lot, they looked like Rick Norton's passes. He was the starting QB in the 8th grade. We played at the tiny town of Pineville, probably smaller enrollment than us, but they recruited a lot (had to) and were number one in the state poll when we played them in Pineville. We were leading them 14-7 at the half, and our QB was having a great game. Reference your post, I met a player on their team my first year in college that said their coach told them at half time he didn't care how they did it but get that QB out of the game. They did and we lost, 41-7, the backup QBs first snap in a varsity game.
The next game we played in was a very strong Corbin team that was starting to make some noise, played on the city golf course because their field was flooded. Ed Selvy, Frank's brother, was a very good senior QB for them, and our QB was still out of action, but we had a week off and switched to the single wing in that week off. We had enough offense to tie them 0-0, one of the most improbable results you could expect, although I didn't realize it at the time. The next week they upset the still #1 team in the state, Pineville.
That was the springboard to their great team in 1955 that was number one in the state all year, (they also had to recruit a lot, but I knew several of their players that were natives) when Calvin Bird ran wild. Fortunately for us, best move our coach ever made, he let them drop us from their schedule to play a big Louisville school so they would have the credentials to be the state champions, and they beat them handily and won the state title that year. They didn't have divisions back then, one state champion.
Calvin Bird was awesome in high school, glad I didn't have to TRY to tackle him.
Anyway I have always wanted to tell that story, a great story that probably most don't realize happened, that Corbin team went from zero wins to an undefeated season and state champions with those freshmen that lost every game, and I think our team had a small part in it.
With some of these coaches tales I can imagine what their coach said to them between us tying them without our QB and them upsetting the number one team in the state and going on to be the great team they had in 1955, might make some of these coach tales pale in comparison.
I hope UK can do almost as well, from two two win seasons to SEC east champs, at least, strange things happen in football..
