Arkansas power leads team 29-0 before it can run a play

Arkansas power leads team 29-0 before it can run a play
By Cameron Smith

Because of the great variety in high school sports, it's exceedingly rare that a statistic pops up that is nearly unfathomable. Yet, in a much ballyhooed Arkansas matchup between perennial power Little Rock (Ark.) Pulaski Academy and Cabot (Ark.) High, one figure in particular jumped off the page: Pulaski led the game 29-0 before Cabot ever ran a play.

If you're anything like Prep Rally, this is where you stop and say, "Wait, what? That's impossible!"

Using conventional football wisdom, such a scoreline absolutely would be impossible. For Pulaski head coach Kevin Kelley, whom this Sports Illustrated feature calls one of the least predictable thinkers in high school football, a 29-0 scoreline before a foe gets to possess the ball only requires thinking outside the box and a whole lot of onside kicks, all of which you can see above.

"That game the other night, they were just stunned," Kelley told Sports Illustrated about the early lead. "Emotionally, it takes so much out of you when the other team goes for it successfully or recovers an onside kick -- or three of them in a row."


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This is absolutely insane! They just keep onside kicking the ball and recovering it. Amazing!

This isn't college, but it's pretty cool none the less.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/writers/scorecasting/09/15/kelley.pulaski/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

thats awesome, wish my high school coach had the balls to do that. then maybe we wouldnt have gone 1-11 and only scoring one touchdown the whole season and that was on the opening kick off of the first game. we won that game 7-0 and never loss by less than 40 the rest of the year.......man we were good

That's great.


Arians employs a slightly different strategy ... We have a great defense, so lets either hurry up and score or go 3 and out so we can get them back on the field.

I'm not sure how I missed it, but Buddha posted this item first in the Miscellaneous Sports forum, so I'll combine this one with his.