Football

Rain and a sloppy playing field did little to mask the charged atmosphere surrounding last season’s 24-6 win by the Irish. Offseason issues and facing their former coach, Irish skipper Scott Meadows, fueled the Governors enough to remain within 7-6 ...

The Rebels pounded the Cherokees, in convincing fashion, 49-6, last season at Shields Stadium. Maryville touched McMinn County for scores on four of its first five possessions. The Rebels put a whopping 410 yards of offense in the Cherokees, equal ...

The Governors rallied from a 28-0 deficit with nine minutes to play in the half to roar back and shock the Patriots, 38-35, last season at Mike White Field. William Blount quarterback Zach Witt ran for a pair scores, adding ...

The Eagles forced a pair of first-half safeties and picked of two Mountaineer passes in turning back Heritage, 21-7, last season, halting a 3-0 start to the year for the Mounties. Heritage never began a drive beyond its 30-yard line. ...

No one who saw it will ever forget the sinkhole game. With a little over six minutes remaining in last year's contest in Knoxville, a sinkhole the diameter of a lighting pole opened along the Fulton sideline. Play was suspended ...

he Governors were spoiling for one of the early season’s biggest upsets a year ago, leading the Bulldogs, 10-0, at the half. Super-quick Bearden back Devrin Young, who’s been offered by Stanford, was held to less than 100 yards rushing, ...

Maryville’s Rebels opened last season’s meeting with a 15-play, eight-minute statement drive and never looked back in rolling to a 38-17 rout of West. Maryville limited West to a field goal through three quarters and yielded only 59 yards of ...

The Tornadoes were coming off a win over Maryville a year ago heading into this one, and it showed. The Redskins trailed, 7-0, at the half and remained close until Alcoa opened some breathing room with two third quarter touchdowns ...

The Mountaineers blew out the Panthers, 31-3, last season in Lenoir City. The story of the game was defense. While the offense struggled for a half, Heritage trailing, 3-0, at the break, end Evan Brown and the defense kept the ...

It’s easy to forget it was 27-24 Alcoa with less than a minute to play in the third quarter. Maryville didn’t have the ball very much in what became a 41-24 loss to the Tornadoes last season at Goddard Field, ...

After a turnover, the Mountaineer defense withstood a Cherokee drive that began first-and-goal at the Heritage 7-yard line with seven minutes remaining in Week 1 last season. South-Doyle would net 2 yards in four snaps in a 26-19 Mountaineer win. ...

The Governors won in a thriller a year ago, getting a two-point conversion run after a touchdown with four seconds remaining to extract a 35-34 win. It was 14-14 at the half on a night William Blount passed for 192 ...

Anyone familiar with Tony Ierulli is aware the Maryville College football coach knows a thing or two about being tough. The Fighting Scots weren’t even in full pads yet, and Ierulli’s voice was already getting hoarse on Monday. His toughness, ...

You saw it in Rommel Hightower’s declining numbers. You saw it in the injuries to quarterbacks. Maryville College needed a bigger line. “It all starts up front,” sophomore Lane Dodson said. “If we can’t move the (opposing) linemen, if we ...

“The Six Million Dollar Man” went to high school there. Harvey Lee Yeary, a.k.a. actor Lee Majors, was a pretty good football player for the Middlesboro Yellow Jackets back in the 1950s. The future Col. Steve Austin was talented enough ...