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Ranking the top programs in Georgia
Which Georgia
schools have the most football tradition? Former Morgan
County football coach (and current school football
historian) Alvin Richardson devised a formula. Below are his
rankings and explanations. First, GHSF Daily wishes to plug
his book, "It's A Dawg's Life, 60 Years of Morgan County
Football." It's one of the handful of best histories of a
high school program that we've come across.
Here's Coach Richardson's look at football tradition:
"I took a look at high school football programs in Georgia
in an attempt to determine the schools with a strong
tradition. Ranking them is obviously a subjective matter. In
this listing I have used research from 1948 through the 2008
season to come up with a number of teams that seem to
qualify as tradition-rich. In this first section the 10
teams chosen had to meet two criteria. 1. Have won a minimum
of 400 games, and 2. Have won a minimum of five state
championships. The following teams (based on my findings)
are the only ones in Georgia that meet both. I then assigned
points based on those two categories in order to rank the
teams against each other. One point was awarded for each
victory and 10 points were awarded for each state
championship won. These were the only teams that qualified
on both criteria." |