North-South game was one for the books
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Staff Report - Published: November 27, 2009
Dave Giles, a high school football historian from Minnesota, said that Saturday's 61-39 victory by the South in Vermont's North-South Senior Bowl Classic is the second-most points ever scored in a major high school all-star game.
He defines major as statewide games or interstate games such as the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl played between Vermont and New Hampshire.
Giles has scores from over 2,500 high school all-star football games.
What's more, the 2000 Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl in which Vermont defeated New Hampshire 47-40, ranks No. 4 on the list.
The top five games for total points:
1. The 103 points scored in the 2006 Big 33 Classic which saw Pennsylvania prevail against Ohio by a score of 61-42, a game played in Hershey, Pa., coincidentally the same town in which Wilt Chamberlain scored his NBA record 100 points.
2. The 100 points in Saturday's Vermont North-South Senior Classic that saw the South win 61-39 despite six touchdown passes by North quarterback Max Librizzi.
3. The 90 points put on the scoreboard in the 1967 Mississippi North-South All-Star Game in which the North won 57-33 with Archie Manning heaving five touchdown passes.
4. The 87 points in the 2000 Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl that saw Mount St. Joseph Academy's Mike Keenan lead Vermont's 47-40 victory by throwing a Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl record six TD passes.
5. The 86 points amassed in the 2007 Governor's Cup All-Star Game as Connecticut outgunned Rhode Island, 59-27.
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