Unfortunately sacks have never been tracked for the Cov Cath record book. It's all superfluous, but a little bit of a Covington Catholic football record book history lesson: Some years ago I sat down and talked record book with longtime Lynn Ray assistant coach, Tim Hobbs. Hobbs was the one who first compiled the football record book back in the early 1980s. So Coach Ray started coaching at Bryan Station in 1970 under former Cov Cath head coach Tony Lanham. He moved back up to NKY and ended up coaching as an assistant for a year at Lloyd Memorial where he met fellow Lloyd assistant coach Tim Hobbs. The following year when Fred Bernier took over as HFC at Cov Cath, Coach Ray followed the advice of his former boss (and former Cov Cath HFC) Tony Lanham and accepted the job as Coach Bernier's DC, and Hobbs went to Cov Cath with Coach Ray. Bernier left Cov Cath following the 1974 season to become an assistant coach under Owen Hauck at Boone County and Coach Ray took over as HFC at Cov Cath, with Hobbs becoming his OC. Fast-forward a few years to the 1977 football season. Doc Brueggemann's son Mark arrived at Cov Cath as a freshman and was clearly a very talented running back. Coach Hobbs pulled Brueggemann up to play varsity tailback as a freshman, playing as a compliment in the backfield to fullback Gary Hebbeler, a junior. By the time Brueggemann's senior season rolled around in 1980, his four years as a varsity starter made him a clear owner of the "all-time leading rusher" title in the history of Cov Cath's football program, based on common knowledge. In the football program's earliest years there were 2 and 3 running backs sharing rushing duties each season, and in the remaining years prior to Brueggemann's arrival the program hadn't had had any offensive units successful enough to produce the kind of rushing yardage that Brueggemann had gotten. So that was how the first football record at Cov Cath was officially created. Two years later in 1982, with a football statistician officially on the scene for Cov Cath, senior defensive lineman Paul Gallenstein was having a banner year tallying tackles for loss. Toward the end of the season the discussion that "surely Gallenstein's TFL numbers must be a program record" started coming up frequently. Without having hard data to backup the record there wasn't a sure way to tell, but Coach Hobbs took that on as a personal challenge. Former Cov Cath HFC Rudy Tassini had re-joined the faculty at Cov Cath that year and was now an assistant on Coach Ray's football coaching staff. Hobbs had a sit-down with Tassini and then arranged for a sit-down with former Cov Cath HFC Fred Bernier, and with the help of Kentucky Post sports writer (and Cov Cath graduate) Terry Boehmker the group felt confident in establishing that, despite lacking a complete accountancy of all previous players' TFL figures, Paul Gallenstein's 32 tackles for loss that season was, in fact, a single-season record for the Covington Catholic program. Gallenstein's record is still standing, and is currently the oldest standing single-season football record at Cov Cath by 15 years. The Cov Cath football record book has been kept continuously since it was first compiled at the end of the 1982 season. Interestingly enough, this past summer I came across Courier-Journal and Enquirer newspaper articles from the 1972 football season mentioning how Cov Cath defensive back Bill Holocher had pulled down 4 interceptions in a game against Trinity. (One article noted that Holocher also had a 5th interception in the game. However, when a Cov Cath player was called for offensive holding on Holocher's return following the INT - despite arguments from the Cov Cath sideline - officials inexplicably decided that Trinity would be given the ball back due to the penalty and the Rocks were able to re-play the down.) Anyway, the Cov Cath record book had the single-game interception record listed as being set at 4 by Jim Schwartz against Holmes in 1983, and I was able to get the record book updated to have Holocher & Schwartz shown as co-owners of the single-game interception record. That said, the current defensive records that aren't tracked at Cov Cath are: Most Tackles (Solo): Single-Game Most Sacks: Single-Game, Single-Season, Career Most Tackles For Loss: Single-Game, Career
