1962 KHSAA Football Playoffs

1962 KHSAA football playoffs

CLASS AAA (St. X. had won the city title; Valley won the county championship.) County championship: Valley 19, Seneca 0 (8-2) Coach: Ron Cain--1

Sat, Nov. 17th Championship (at Manual) St. Xavier 7, Valley 6 (10-2) Coach: Dallas Arnold--11 (9-1) Coach: Johnny Meihaus--11

St. X. blocked a Valley punt with 2:41 to go in the game, picked it up “and sloshed 33 yards for the tying touchdown…then kicked the extra point to win.”

Some regions were divided into two districts…resulting in a few more playoff teams. A & AA finals were played at U.K’s Stoll Field in Lexington Thanksgiving Day, November 22nd

(home team underlined) CLASS AA 1st Region Owensboro Sr. 6, Paducah Tilghman 0 Record: 8-1-2 Coach: Ed Rutledge--1 2nd Region Danville (winner of the only district in this region) 3rd Region Ft. Thomas Highlands (winner of the only district in this region) 4th Region Corbin 7, Hazard 6 Record: Coach: Walt Green--1

Danville 22, Owensboro 12 Record: 10-3 Coach: Ralph Genito--7 Corbin 10, Ft. Thomas Highlands 0 Record: 9-1-1 Coach: Owen Hauck--1

final Danville 13, Corbin 6 Record: 9-2-1 Coach: Ledger Howard--(1 or 2) Record: 9-2-1 Coach: Ray Callahan--4 (the semi-final loss for Highlands was its first in 35 games…since the 1959 championship…though it had been tied by Lex. Lafayette earlier in the ’62 season)

CLASS A 1st Region Murray (winner of the only district in this region) 2nd Region Versailles (winner of the only district in this region) 3rd Region Mt. Sterling (winner of the only district in this region) 4th Region Lynch East Main 27, Lily 0 Record: Coach: Joe Lankford

Versailles 21, Murray 13 Record: Coach: Ty Holland--33 Lynch East Main 13, Mt. Sterling 6 Record: Coach: Phil Owen--8

final: Versailles 21, Lynch East Main 0 Record: 9-4 Coach: Ed Miracle--5 Record: Coach: John Snowden--5 Mt. Sterling beat Paintsville on a statistical tie-breaker Final AP poll (14 sportswriters/broadcasters state-wide did the voting)

1st place TOTAL TEAM votes POINTS 1. St. Xavier 13 139 2. Male 108 3. Owensboro 83 4. Highlands 81 5. Danville 72 6. Paducah Tilghman 1 69 7. Hopkinsville 40 8. Corbin 39 9. Caldwell County 36 10. Shelbyville 28 Valley 28 12. Trinity 21 13. Bowling Green 6 14. Lex. Lafayette 4 15. Manual 3 Hazard 3 17. Versailles 1 Richmond Madison 1 Murray 1 Louisville Flaget 1

A high school team could run, pass, or kick… for a one-point conversion following a touchdown.

Final Western Kentucky Conference standings

AA Division A Division Bowling Green 21.25 Murray 22.50 Hopkinsville 21.25 Fulton 18.75 Caldwell County 21.25 Russellville 15.00 Franklin-Simpson 10.00 Trigg County 15.00 Mayfield 10.00 Providence 11.00 Warren County 10.00 Crittenden County 10.00

Overall champion: Paducah (Paducah…nor any of its games…were allowed to count in the Division Standings because of a league rule that said you had to play at least four other members of the conference. Tilghman was so strong nobody would schedule them… hence they didn’t get to play at least four conference games.)