Greatest high school football game ever? Ohio schools combine for 165 points

Bill Bender

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They will always talk about this one in Northwest Ohio. It might be the greatest high school football game ever played.

Tiffin Columbian beat Shelby 83-82 in overtime last Friday. The 165 points tied a state record set in 1921.

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Tiffin Columbian's Cliff Miller rushed 25 times for 516 yards and scored 10 TDs, including nine rushing TDs, which also tied a state record.

Shelby scored first in the overtime to take a 82-75 lead. Tiffin quickly matched the score, and Miller scored the game-winning two-point conversion.

"We decided if we scored (a touchdown) we were going to end the game," Tiffin coach Brian Colatruglio told the Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune. "We hadn't stopped them the entire half."

Source: Tiffin Advertiser-Tribune

Bill Bender

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Bill Bender graduated from Ohio University in 2002 and started at The Sporting News as a fantasy football writer in 2007. He has covered the College Football Playoff, NBA Finals and World Series for SN. Bender enjoys story-telling, awesomely-bad 80s movies and coaching youth sports.