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Letter From AFM

Here at AFM, we do everything we can to stay on top of the high school football scene around the country. But, with over 14,000 teams, occasionally a story slips by unnoticed. Such was the case with a small school in a small town in the heartland that was racking up win after win and championship after championship but flying under the national radar. Until October, 2007, that is, when they broke the 82-year-old record for most points scored in a quarter by putting up 72 in the first quarter of a game. Even more incredible was that, at that point in the season, the team was 9-0 and had outscored their opponents 640-0. That season, they eventually won their 4th consecutive Kansas 2-1A State Championship, finished with 884 points to their opponents’ 20 and were ranked 35th nationally in one poll. All from a school with about 150 students, total. The team, of course, was the Smith

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