West York's Brandon Real looks for running room against Littlestown this season.The senior holds several YAIAA rushing records. Background posts: Who is rightful owner of the area's basketball scoring record?, York County Tech sports: 'If they took something like that away it really would destroy the school' and 'When people are looking back into Pa. basketball history ... it's great'.
Has West York's Brandon Real scored the best season ever for a YAIAA running back?
York Daily Record Sean McLernon has posed that question in a Line Up Card blog post.
Here's a quick look at Real's stats, according to McLernon and newspaper reports:
Touchdowns, 2008 season: 51.
Career touchdowns: 69 (area record beating Littlestown's Jeremiah Collins' 67).
Yards rushing, 2008 season: 2,513 (on 252 carries, bettering Jason Jarvis, New Oxford, 1996, who rushed for 2,200 yards).
Single game high: 407 yards (topping Dallastown's Chris Moore, 336 in 1998, and Tracy Smith, 317 in 1983).
Sean McLernon asks his readers - and I do the same here: Does anyone want to argue for a better local prep football season than that put forth Brandon Real?
Also:
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- To learn how to purchase a book about the West York Bulldogs 2008 championship season, visit: 'The dogs got out'.
- For information about books about William Penn boys and York Catholic girls championship basketball seasons in 2008, click here.
The best running back ever in YAIAA? That's an under-statement! To put up those kind of statistics is astounding!
Brandon- you have my vote for the "Best Ever Running Back" in the YAIAA.
Your web site is outstanding!
Here is the url of the blog from the Archives of the Sandusky Library, if you care to take a look:
http://sanduskyhistory.blogspot.com
Woody Bennett is the best running back in York County history. You can't compare the stats between AAAA York High and rinky dink WY.
He was a good shifty back. But no back, no matter how good, goes anywhere without a line. He had a good line who knew how to hold and get away with it (Thanks to the horrific York County officiating). He wasn't that great he was just hard to tackle. I mean he went to bloomsburg which isn't terrible but if he was that good he would have went D1. He's like 5'8 and 150lbs. Best of luck with those numbers. He'd better stick to running track.