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  1. I have already paid but I will do this for maybe next year or even this year if you can give me credit somehow. I am a student UK and a graduate of Boyle County. Boyle County football may not have the rich tradition of the other big name schools like the Trinity’s, the Male’s or even the Danville’s however they have had their fair share of success. The first year of Boyle County football would date back to the year 1963 and in that year they went 9-0. I heard some players from that team say that it was just a group of kids that would go out and play their hearts out and would practice by the old Junction School I believe and there were less than 20 players on the team. Many say had this team been able to play for a state championship they could of won it however since this was their first year of football, they couldn’t compete for any championships. I can’t name any players from this team though and I probably can’t even name any players till the 90’s. In the 60’s they had a little success and this would lead to a fairly good next 10 years of football. In the early 70’s coach John Buchanan wasn’t having much luck winning many game he had only 2 winning seasons so they hired a coach by the name of Ed Rall. Ed had several good football players and a lot of success. Other Rebel fans it’d be great to help me out with some of the names of people on these early teams before the 90’s. Coach Rall has one of the longest coaching tenures in his 13 years of coach at the county he lead them to a 83-47 record and only having 3 loosing seasons. The years after coach Rall weren’t so great. After he left in 1987 former player at Danville and player at Georgia Tech, coach Sam Burke took over the rebel football program for a year. This team went 2-8 and the next 3 years weren’t so hot either. John Griggs came in and took over the program for the next 3 years and he only won 5 ball games and he was finally shipped out in 1992 when coach Chuck Smith came in. In his first year of coaching the Rebel program he lead them to a 7-4 season and their first playoffs since the 80’s. The next year wasn’t that hot and he only won 2 ball games that year going 2-8 with some very lopsided losses. But the next few years under Smith they did really well. In 94 and 95 they just couldn’t get over the hump and couldn’t over come the Regional finals game but in 96 they compiled a 11-3 record under the guidance of QB Bart Johnson and they went to Breathitt Count and lost a heartbreak 12-7. To get to this game, Boyle beat Rockastle 17-14 off of a field goal in the pouring down rain in overtime at Rockastle. The second game they were pitted against their cross town rival Danville and they wont that game 12-0 in a thriller. The next game they traveled to Madison Southern and were down with less than 2 minutes to go in the ball game 28-22 and they got the ball back deep in their own territory and with Bartley Johnson and the helm, the lead them to the end zone for a score and maybe one of the greatest games in Boyle County football. In 97 they had a lot coming back. They had their QB coming back, talented wide receivers in Neal Brown, a good O-Line and a talented defense. They went 10-0 in the regular season and were favored to win the state championship however they were upset in the second round of the playoffs by eventual state champ Bourbon County in the “mud” bowl. Bourbon had two great running backs in wiggles worth and Tim Persian. They just ran all over the Boyle D. In 1998, they were expecting to have a good year however injuries plagued them all year long and behind a young O-line Bart didn’t have much time to throw the ball. However, in1999 Boyle was loaded with talent and really wasn’t expected to do that much. They had a good o-line for the next two years that would be junior oriented with 5 juniors starting. Starting at QB would be eventual Mr. Football Jeff Duggins and at LB/TE is eventual freshmen all American Bobby Leffew. Their D was tenacious. The next year boyle had their nucleus of the previous years state title team. They were preseason favorites in all the polls and demolished about everyone they played. They beat their cross-town rival Danville in a manor of 47-0. Kind of ironic the streak ended at that and to Danville. But anways the 2000 teams was in my opinion the best team ever at boyle county. They had the eventual Mr. Football in Duggins at QB, at RB they hard a hard nosed runner in Quinn, they had a fast WR in miller who now plays at eastern, a talented but not big offensive line, and their D was just unreal. On the D-line they had 2 future Louisville players in Justin Nichols and Travis Leffew, at LB’s were Webb, Quinn, McCoy, Duggins, and in the secondary you had boomer Johnson, miller, and Tamme for part of the year. This team was loaded and they proved that all throughout the season by just killing pretty much everyone they played. The next year boyle wasn’t expected to do much. They lost pretty much all of the previous years team and were supposed to be in a rebuilding year. During the regular season they had only one close game and that was to Danville and many people counted boyle out after this game. However, they worked their butts off for the next 12 weeks and ended up playing on the carpet and beating Rockastle for their 3rd straight title. Bu to get their they played a better team in Hopkinsville which many called the state title game the past two years in what was probably one of the top games I have ever seen in high school football. To top off the state title Duggins led the UK team down to Knoxville as Mr. Football and played an outstanding game. He then goes on to a small school in NY, Alfred State, and wins pretty much every award that a freshman can win. Everyone said that would be boyle’s down year b/c they moved up a class but again…the proved critics wrong. This past season boyle was going for the “streak:” and I think they overlooked their opponent Danville who stopped the streak. They won in routes the first few ball games but Danville just stomped boyle’s tails in week 3 and busted the bubble. Then, 2 weeks later they loose to west jess amine 13-7 and everyone including myself got very ticked off at the rebels. People even on here started doubting them but again, coach smith turns it up a couple notches and the players start believing in one another and they end up playing in Louisville in their 4th straight state title game and again they beat Rockastle who was supposed to be one of the better teams in the state. Boyle pretty much only had one scare after the west jess amine game and that was to a very talented ball club in Hopkinsville at rebel stadium. To conclude, the Rebel football program has been around for a while and had success on and off during the 70’s and 80’s but I really think this program took a turn for the good back in 1992 when chuck smith arrived on campus. He got the athletes in the school to come out and play and he disciplined them to eat sleep and dream about football. My hats off to chuck smith for putting Boyle county football on the map. GO REBS!!
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