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2008 FULTON FOOTBALL GAME NOTES FULTON FOOTBALL 2008 Class 3A State Champions 2003, 2004, 2006 Fulton Falcons (3-3) vs. Kingston Yellow Jackets (5-1) October 10, 2008 Dr. Nat Sugarman Memorial Field ________________________________________________________________ Setting The Scene 2008 Schedule Tonight’s match-up between Fulton and Date Opponent Kingston could very well be a pre-playoff 8/14 Halls (Jamboree) L, 7-0 playoff game. The winner will pick up an all- 8/29 @Oak Ridge L, 21-13 important 3 rd region win, and the loser will 9/5 Anderson Co. L, 28-13 likely need to pick up a win over Catholic or 9/12 Chatt. Tyner L, 32-28 A-E to stay in the playoff hunt…The Falcons 9/19 @Stone Memorial W, 45-7 come into tonight’s game on a 3-game 9/26 Morristown East W, 31-21 winning streak, following a 35-17 win at 10/3 @Scott W, 35-17 Scott…The Fulton offense racked up a season 10/10 @Kingston high 451 yards against the Highlanders… The 10/17 Catholic CSS-TV Falcons have averaged 35 points a game 10/24 Austin-East during this winning streak…Fulton is 2-1 in 10/31 @Livingston Acad. Region 2-3A play this year…The Falcons are hoping to keep a streak of 15 consecutive N otable Notes playoff appearances alive…Fulton leads the all-time series with Kingston 8-6, and has won rd - Fulton has earned trips to the BlueCross the last 7 meetings…This marks the 3 Bowl in 5 out of the last 6 seasons, winning 3 consecutive year that Kingston has come into state championships the Fulton game with a 5-1 record. - Fulton returns only 5% of its offensive yards from the 2007 season. Returning players only accounted for 232 of the Falcons’ 4614 Fulton Quick Facts offensive yards in 2007. No one that caught a pass in 2007 returns to the receiver and Location…………….. Knoxvile running back position. Opened……………… 1951 - The Maroon and White must replace skill players on both sides of the ball in 2008. The Enrollment…………. 983 secondary recorded 29 interceptions in 2007. Region/Class……….. 2-3A No player that had an interception in 2007 Home Field…………. Bob Black Field returns this year. Principal……………. Dr. Jon Rysewyk - The Falcons will play 6 teams in 2008 that made playoff appearances last year. Athletic Director…… Jody Wright - Fulton’s all-time football record stands at Head Coach………… Buck Coatney 353-269-11 (58 years). Seasons…………….. 17 - Four of the first five teams that Fulton played Record……………… 128-79 in 2008 were ranked in the AP Top 10. Seasons Played…….. 58 - Despite having a 3-3 record, Fulton is ranked #4 in the state in the Sonny Moore computer All-Time Record…… 353-269-11 poll, and #6 in Earl Nall’s Prep Performance Playoff Appearances.. 18 Ratings. Playoff Record……… 31-15 - Five out of Fulton’s first seven 2008 opponents currently have a winning record. About Fulton High School Coach Buck Coatney Fulton High School opened in 1951 as one of Fulton High School’s 44-16 semi-final win Tennessee’s first comprehensive high schools, over Pearl-Cohn in 2007 a milestone victory combining a complete academic curriculum for Head Football Coach Buck Coatney. The with a full vocational program. Fulton is Falcons gave Coatney his 125 th coaching located in historic North Knoxville just 5 victory as FHS head coach. This is an amazing minutes from the University of Tennessee feat, considering that when Coatney was hired campus. The school is named for noted in 1992, Fulton was slated to be closed. industrialist and inventor Weston M. Fulton. Coatney’s job looked to be a temporary one. Fulton has developed a reputation for turning Interest in football was slipping at the school, out graduates who have followed the school as many players moved to other schools due to motto “enter to learn- go forth to serve.” A the proposed closing. The 1992 team suffered tradition of outstanding athletic teams has through a 1-9 season, but the lone win was an been born at the school. Famous former overtime victory over arch-rival West. The Falcons include College Football hall of famer Fulton program improved throughout the early and former Dallas Cowboy D.D. Lewis, UT 90s. The Falcons made their first of 15 basketball All-American Bill Justus, former consecutive playoff appearances under Vol linebacker Jackie Walker, and four-sport Coatney in 1993. By the year 2000, Fulton had letter winner Ron Widby. Fulton’s destiny re-established itself as a football power in the was almost sealed in 1992 when the Knox Co. Knoxville area. In 2002, Coatney led the School Board voted to close the school, but Falcons to their first undefeated regular season strong protests by alumni and supporters since 1974, ending the season at the BlueCross helped to reverse the decision. A multi-million Bowl. Coatney became the first-ever coach in dollar renovation of Fulton High was Knoxville to lead his team to back-to-back completed in 1998 which created new state football championships in 2003 and classrooms, including band and music rooms, 2004. Fulton returned to the pinnacle of Class and a new gymnasium. 3A football in 2006, as the Falcons ended the Fulton High School responded to the season with a 14-1 record and the school’s challenges of the No Child Left Behind Act third state championship. Fulton showed during the 2008-2009 school year by constant improvement in 2007, and earned completely changing its organizational another trip to the BlueCross Bowl. Currently, structure to focus on small learning Coatney has a 128-79 record as Fulton’s head communities. This change will allow Fulton coach. High School to become an innovative center Coatney’s roots are colored maroon and of learning, and produce students who enter to white, as his father John captained Fulton’s learn and go forth to serve. 1959 team. Coatney was known as a hard- The Falcons clinched their first state nosed linebacker and tight end on the Falcon championship in any sport in 2003 defeating teams of the late 70s. He was named to the all- Covington for the class 3A football title. state team and the Knoxville Journal defensive Fulton began their title defense on a rocky player of the year, as he led Fulton to a region note in 2004, losing 2 of their first 4 games, championship in 1979. Current Vanderbilt but showed constant improvement throughout coach Bobby Johnson recruited Coatney to the season. The Falcons hit their stride in the Furman University where he earned playoffs, advancing to their 3 rd consecutive Honorable-Mention All-American honors. He BlueCross Bowl. Fulton’s 2 nd state began his coaching career at Furman as a championship was sewn up after a 34-6 defeat graduate assistant. After leaving Furman, of Greenbrier. The Falcons returned to Coatney spent two years as an assistant coach championship form in 2006, finishing with a at Middlesburg High School in Florida. He 14-1 record and a BlueCross Bowl victory returned to Fulton in 1987, where he served as over David Lipscomb. The Fulton basketball Defensive Coordinator. He was named team earned its first AA state championship in Fulton’s 11 th head coach in 1992. Coatney is 2008 with a 74-68 victory over Memphis the only football coach to win three Mitchell. consecutive KFL/PrepXtra Coach of the year honors (2002-2004). For his work in 2004, This Week in Region 2-3A Coatney was named state coach of the year by the Tennessee Sportswriters Association, and Fulton at Kingston the Tennessee Titans. Coatney served as the Austin-East at Anderson Co. defensive coordinator of the 2005 Tennessee Stone Memorial at Bledsoe Co. High School All-Star team. He earned his Scott at Livingston Academy fourth PrepXtra Bob Polston Coach of the Year award, and his third TSWA state Coach Next Week in Region 2-3A of the Year honor following the 2006 season. Coatney is scheduled to serve as the defensive Catholic at Fulton coordinator of the Tennessee team in the 2009 Kingston at Scott Border Bowl all-star game. Livingston Academy at Anderson Co. Stone Memorial at Austin-East Coatney’s Milestone Victories #1 1992- FHS 17 West 7 (OT) Last Week- FHS 35 Scott 17 #25 1998- FHS 1 Union Co. 0 (forfeit) #50 2001- FHS 36 Seymour 26 #75 2003- FHS 42 Seymour 10 There were plenty of fireworks last week on #100 2006- FHS 26 Austin-East 7 Homecoming night in Huntsville; both on and #125 2007- FHS 44 Pearl-Cohn 16 off the field. Fulton and Scott combined for nearly 800 yards of offense in the Falcons’ 35- Wins Over Top TSSAA Coaches 17 victory. The Highlanders got the pyro show started early by converting a Fulton turnover Coach Buck Coatney’s Fulton teams have into a 31-yard field goal to take a 3-0 lead. recorded wins over 5 of the top 15 coaches (by Fulton answered late in the first quarter with a winning percentage) in the state. They are… 2-yard TD run by Dametrius Thomas on 4 th #3 Gary Rankin (Alcoa) down. Thomas scored 2 TDs for the Falcons, #5 Clint Satterfield (Trousdale Co.-retired) and became the first FHS back to rush for over #6 Stanton Stevens (Austin-East/Oak Ridge) 100 yards in 2008. He ended the game with #10 Glenn McCadams (David Lipscomb) 194 yards on 17 carries. #13 Gary Householder (Seymour) Scott’s quick passing game gave Fulton fits in the 1 st half.