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53 years later, Hall's high school records intact (Sugarland, Texas)
AP via MSNBC ^
| Oct 11, 2006
| AP writers
Posted on 10/11/2006 2:12:20 PM PDT by Ready4Freddy
Sugar Land star averaged 337.1 yards, 32.9 points senior season
FREDERICKSBURG, Texas - Every football season, Ken Hall expects a call telling him that someone has broken his high school rushing records.
More than 50 years later, hes still waiting.
I am surprised, said Hall, now silver haired and 70. We didnt need to know at the time we were setting records. It was just a bunch of kids out there having fun.
A lot of it.
From 1950 to 53, Hall rushed for 11,232 yards for Sugar Land High School. His senior season was downright ridiculous he averaged 337.1 yards and 32.9 points a game, also national records. His 4,045 yards rushing that year remain a national record for a 12-game season.
Its special to have those. Theres joy in it, said Hall. But records are made to be broken. I dont know if anybodys shooting at it. But if they are, hey, I gave them something to shoot at.
Nicknamed the Sugar Land Express, Hall was also a track star, winning state championships in the 100-yard dash, long jump and shot put.
Now he shares a simple brick house in the Texas hill country with his high school sweetheart and wife of 50 years, Gloria.
They try to make every Fredericksburg High School home game, and theyre regulars at Memorial Presbyterian Church. Whenever someone asks Hall to relive the glory days, he patiently complies and tries to deliver a message along the way.
I answer them, because if theyre bringing it up, then it has some meaning to them, he said. But Ill say, I did set records, but I had help. You cant do anything in life by yourself. And pretty soon, were talking about something else.
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TOPICS: Local News; Sports
KEYWORDS: football; footballhall; hall; hallfootball; highschol; highschoolfootbal; highscoolfootball; kenhall; sugarland
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Day-ham - Sugar Land star averaged 337.1 yards, 32.9 points senior season
To: Ready4Freddy
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:16:12 PM PDT
by
Rocky
(Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
To: Ready4Freddy
Beyond legend! Hopefully, Joe Don Looney's history will come back to light.
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:19:15 PM PDT
by
100-Fold_Return
(Soros hates MEGA-churches, Televanglists, and Wal-Mart)
To: Ready4Freddy
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:23:00 PM PDT
by
BelegStrongbow
(www.stjosephssanford.org: Ecce Pactum, id cape aut id relinque)
To: Ready4Freddy
From 1950 to 53, Hall rushed for 11,232 yards for Sugar Land High School. His senior season was downright ridiculous he averaged 337.1 yards and 32.9 points a game, also national records. His 4,045 yards rushing that year remain a national record for a 12-game season. Geesh. Those numbers would even be gaudy in Tecmo Bowl.
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:26:36 PM PDT
by
Skooz
(Chastity prays for me, piety sings...Modesty hides my thighs in her wings...)
To: 100-Fold_Return
Joe Don Looney - the original Maurice Clarett!
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:27:02 PM PDT
by
whitedog57
(Holland)
To: Ready4Freddy
Bear Bryant misused him at A$M, and to his credit admitted it later.
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:28:03 PM PDT
by
gumboyaya
To: gumboyaya
Opps A&M, now that was a Freudian slip.
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:29:32 PM PDT
by
gumboyaya
To: Ready4Freddy
The only time my father took me to a football game was when my school "Aldine" played Sugar Land there.
He went to see Hall.
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:31:14 PM PDT
by
HuntsvilleTxVeteran
("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:33:50 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Ready4Freddy
![](http://www.wvah.com/programs/kingofthehill/hankhill.jpg)
"I'll tell you what..."
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:34:42 PM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: gumboyaya
Heheheh, and here I was thinking it was deliberate... lol
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:43:35 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Wake up and smell the jihad)
To: weegee
There ya go! Gotta have Hank on a thread like this! ;>)
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:44:09 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Wake up and smell the jihad)
To: 100-Fold_Return
Look up 'wasted talent' in the dictionary and they have a pic of Looney.
Read an article a while back about Joe Don, said that when he was found face up under a cactus after his fatal motocylce wreck he had his helmet on. They surmised that it might have been the only time he was caught doing the right thing...
Hopefully, Joe Don Looney's history will come back to light.
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posted on
10/11/2006 2:58:12 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Wake up and smell the jihad)
To: Ready4Freddy
The Fredericksburg Battlin' Billies aren't any slouches either. Fredericksburg has an excellent HS football program, as does Tivy.
To: Ready4Freddy
Nicknamed the Sugar Land Express"..." No, really, they nicknamed him that? Twenty years before the movie? That's wild.
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posted on
10/11/2006 3:06:08 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
("...fact is stranger than truth."--Louis "Grandpa" Jones)
To: RichInOC
Truly, 'art' (if I may be so bold :) imitating life, huh?
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posted on
10/11/2006 3:34:54 PM PDT
by
Ready4Freddy
(Wake up and smell the jihad)
To: Ready4Freddy
My kids used to attend school there 35 years ago, but the high school was named John Foster Dulles High School. They must have changed the name after this gentleman graduated.
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posted on
10/11/2006 3:50:46 PM PDT
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: weegee
Great show, fine episode.
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