Victory or Loss Would Make Difference in the Playoffs
State Title At Stake Tonight?
November 28, 1969
It has all the ingredients of the Big Game of the year. At stake are undefeated seasons for both teams and nothing less than unofficial ranking as Florida's Number One Class A football team.
Yet it's almost anticlimactic.
For the Leesburg Yellow Jackets, ranked Number Two in Class A, the Big Game was last week, when they clinched the District title by beating Sanford, and therefore assured themselves of a berth in the state playoffs. That gave them a 9-0 record and capped a year of striking victories and heroics. For the Yellow Jackets, nothing is at stake besides a 10-0 record as opposed to an also fine 9-1 and the Number One ranking in a newspaper poll, which they will have plenty of opportunity to dispute once they get in the playoffs.
For Lake City's Tigers, it's a little different story.
Undefeated and ranked Number One, Lake City has yet to win its District 3-A title. For tehm, this is the Sanford game, the Big One, the one that could make or break the season. If they lose, all those victories go for nothing, because Perry, 10-0 and finished with its season, wins District.
For that reason, there was talk earlier this week that Jacket Coach Wilbur Lofton would put his team on the bus with the deliberate notion not going all out--playing second stringers for experience, not risking a key injury that would be harmful in the playoffs when each second counts.
Not so, comes the word from Lofton.
Even if you don't count pride-and that itself would probably make the case-the Jackets have more at stake tonight than paper honors. If they beat Lake City, a tough, tough team, Perry goes to State, possibly to meet the Jackets for the State Championship later--and Perry, says reports, is quite a bit weaker than Lake City.
The Jackets will be doing nothing less than playing for the State Championship tonight, if you look at it that way.
So wait for Mike Napier to throw to Greg Williams and Sherrill Lackey, Mike Chatman to run through holes made by Greg Johnson, Jim Mackey, David Osborne and Lynn Gilbert, and for the Jackets to make the game out of it that the paper possibilities said it could be.
State Title At Stake Tonight?
November 28, 1969
It has all the ingredients of the Big Game of the year. At stake are undefeated seasons for both teams and nothing less than unofficial ranking as Florida's Number One Class A football team.
Yet it's almost anticlimactic.
For the Leesburg Yellow Jackets, ranked Number Two in Class A, the Big Game was last week, when they clinched the District title by beating Sanford, and therefore assured themselves of a berth in the state playoffs. That gave them a 9-0 record and capped a year of striking victories and heroics. For the Yellow Jackets, nothing is at stake besides a 10-0 record as opposed to an also fine 9-1 and the Number One ranking in a newspaper poll, which they will have plenty of opportunity to dispute once they get in the playoffs.
For Lake City's Tigers, it's a little different story.
Undefeated and ranked Number One, Lake City has yet to win its District 3-A title. For tehm, this is the Sanford game, the Big One, the one that could make or break the season. If they lose, all those victories go for nothing, because Perry, 10-0 and finished with its season, wins District.
For that reason, there was talk earlier this week that Jacket Coach Wilbur Lofton would put his team on the bus with the deliberate notion not going all out--playing second stringers for experience, not risking a key injury that would be harmful in the playoffs when each second counts.
Not so, comes the word from Lofton.
Even if you don't count pride-and that itself would probably make the case-the Jackets have more at stake tonight than paper honors. If they beat Lake City, a tough, tough team, Perry goes to State, possibly to meet the Jackets for the State Championship later--and Perry, says reports, is quite a bit weaker than Lake City.
The Jackets will be doing nothing less than playing for the State Championship tonight, if you look at it that way.
So wait for Mike Napier to throw to Greg Williams and Sherrill Lackey, Mike Chatman to run through holes made by Greg Johnson, Jim Mackey, David Osborne and Lynn Gilbert, and for the Jackets to make the game out of it that the paper possibilities said it could be.
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1986 Varsity Jackets Football Lettermen #82
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