Is 1A football bad, or is Fort Hill just too good?
Fort Hill has won seven of the last nine Maryland Class 1A football state championships, and it'll be playing for another on Saturday.
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Alex does a great job at the Times-News.
Unfortunately, no matter how the MPSSAA structures the playoffs both the FH and Dunbar title roll would not have been altered. Class 1A is no worse now then it was 49 years ago when the playoffs were first implemented in Maryland. Back then Class 1A was referred to as Class C. It's just that teams like FH and Dunbar are an enigma to football. Their enrollment drops do not seem to affect their participation and talent levels.
I still feel that both FH and Dunbar could win the state title this weekend in every class but maybe 4A. More chatter about that after the games are final.
Unfortunately, no matter how the MPSSAA structures the playoffs both the FH and Dunbar title roll would not have been altered. Class 1A is no worse now then it was 49 years ago when the playoffs were first implemented in Maryland. Back then Class 1A was referred to as Class C. It's just that teams like FH and Dunbar are an enigma to football. Their enrollment drops do not seem to affect their participation and talent levels.
I still feel that both FH and Dunbar could win the state title this weekend in every class but maybe 4A. More chatter about that after the games are final.
Great article. And I like the fact that both Patterson and Alkire are very complimentive of each others program.
When you have a city of 700k from which to draw from as opposed to 19k, that shouldn't be surprising.
True, but some receipts are due to those guys. Not to mention, if Catoctin could beat them, seems logical that FH could too.
