Coldest HS Game you played, coached, or attended?

[revno]

Mine was at Jasper. 20° and getting colder at kickoff, then it started raining. It was the end of the year and there was no grass to begin with. Mud Bowl against a better team was bad enough. 0-34 result. On the way home, the bus overheated, and we were stranded on an icy I-44. Fun times!

 

[LawCoMo]

1991 week 9 at Cassville. Wind chill in the single digits. Ground had been muddy, but by game time was frozen. Previous cleat marks in mud were now like jagged rocks every time you hit the ground. Getting the win made it not feel so bad, but it was damn cold.

 

[NikeFootball59]

Coached in a District Championship game @ Moberly High School. The temperature was 17 degrees, but it felt like probably 8 or 9. The wind was blowing directly in our face on the sideline. It was a snow game, and everything from the numbers to sideline was a sheet of ice. Last game on their grass field. We won the game 12-6 as an underdog, which was an awesome feeling as I had lost to them on the same field, in the same game a year previous (different school).

 

[Graphic Edge Guy]

In 1991 our Ottawa University team played a late season game at now defunct St. Mary's of the Plains in Dodge City, KS.

It snowed followed up by freezing rain an the field was a solid sheet of white ice.

They couldn't clear the field...so they painted the yard lines and numbers in BLACK on the white field.

Tempature was in the teens and the wind was howling...wind chill had to be below zero.

We lost 12-8...miserable experience.

 

[Veer_left]

Webb City vs Lees Summit West. 6 degrees at kickoff. Webb won 10-6. Defensive battle. Think it was Lee's second year of football.

 

[freezeoption]

1995 at Chillicothe last game of the year. Chilli had propane heaters on their sideline. We had nothing. I had layered everything I could. I bought neoprene socks which I still have best investment I made. We beat them at their place. No love lost between us two. 1996 almost whole playoffs was stinking cold. This was back in the day when I had to go to the game and scout by hand.

 

[Arcola]

A little before my time but my family talked about the Greenfield at Tarkio game and how cold it was back in the late 70s.

 

[dashana]

November 9, 2018, Borgia @ Camdenton, District Championship. 7 degrees at kickoff, 25 MPH winds. Below zero by end of game. Borgia lost 24-13.

 

[r14veer]

Webb City vs Lees Summit West. 6 degrees at kickoff. Webb won 10-6. Defensive battle. Think it was Lee's second year of football.

1996 Webb City vs Center was a pretty cold one too. Each individual blade of grass was its own icicle.

 

[thetophat2021]

Kearney vs. O'Hara at Center back in 1986. It and 1991 still own many November cold records in the KC metro area.

 

[tigers#1fan]

Two of them, @ Liberal early Nov 1973. Rained on Thursday during a Jr Hi game, temp was in the 40s. They chewed the field up pretty good. Overnite the temperature dropped into the low 20s, & stayed there. Lockwood varsity game there Fri nite field was a frozen mine field with craters everywhere. State Championship game in 74 @ Maryville. 20 degrees, 8" of snow, felt like 70 degrees on our side of the ball!!!

 

[ugaboz]

when i played juco ball at middle ga we played at kemper military in boonville
snow first time i saw it, and 12 degrees at kick off
damn cold for a ga boy

 

[Veer_left]

1996 Webb City vs Center was a pretty cold one too. Each individual blade of grass was its own icicle.

I was on the sidelines. My tongue bleed bc of the severe cold.

 

[Throw n bricks]

1991 Branson at Reeds spring temperature about 20 north wind about 25 mph. The cow pasture they used for a field was frozen. The next week at aurora wasnt much warmer

 

[revno]

little before my time but my family talked about the Greenfield at Tarkio game and how cold it was back in the late 70s.

The colder it was the better for those Wildcat teams of the 70's!

 

[stocktiger82]

1991 Branson at Reeds spring temperature about 20 north wind about 25 mph. The cow pasture they used for a field was frozen. The next week at aurora wasnt much warmer

I was going to mention that game at Reed Springs. I was a young asst for Coach Hancock, it was a cold one for sure. Wind was brutal.

 

[ChaoticFanatic]

A little before my time but my family talked about the Greenfield at Tarkio game and how cold it was back in the late 70s.

Tarkio is always cold in the late fall / winter.

And there’s a reason the town is surrounded by windmills, so I’m sure that was a cold one.

I’m assuming that was in the state playoffs?

 

[Arcola]

Tarkio is always cold in the late fall / winter.

And there’s a reason the town is surrounded by windmills, so I’m sure that was a cold one.

I’m assuming that was in the state playoffs?

I said Tarkio but I know they played King City for the state championship.

 

[panther72]

Years ago, when scouting FB games on a real cold night, I would bring 3 or 4 ink pens and when the one I was writing notes with started to freeze up I would stick it inside my tightie-whities and bring out another that was warm. My wife had me neutered years ago so at least I had a use for the family jewels.

 

[HomeyR]

Years ago, when scouting FB games on a real cold night, I would bring 3 or 4 ink pens and when the one I was writing notes with started to freeze up I would stick it inside my tightie-whities and bring out another that was warm. My wife had me neutered years ago so at least I had a use for the family jewels.

That sounds like a ringing endorsement for the use of pencils ! LOL

 

[revno]

In the 70's there were just four classes that each had statewide semifinals. Held at one of the semifinalist's home fields. Same with the finals. Greenfield won in it all in '77 and were runners up earlier. We had some cold years for a stretch there. I believe some of these ice bowls convinced MSHAA to move to larger stadiums.

 

[panther72]

Actually, it was the decision to have all State Championship games at one site and in 1979 the Show Me Bowl was hosted at Busch Stadium.

 

[thetophat2021]

Years ago, when scouting FB games on a real cold night, I would bring 3 or 4 ink pens and when the one I was writing notes with started to freeze up I would stick it inside my tightie-whities and bring out another that was warm. My wife had me neutered years ago so at least I had a use for the family jewels.

 

[shoot90draw]

Did ink ever turn brown??

 

[stocktiger82]

I said Tarkio but I know they played King City for the state championship.

1977

 

[stocktiger82]

David McNeal, James Reeves and company.

 

[revno]

Quite a team. They beat Marionville 7-0 in the '77 quarterfinals.

 

[mosofan]

Actually, it was the decision to have all State Championship games at one site and in 1979 the Show Me Bowl was hosted at Busch Stadium.

"Busch or bust" was Jasper's slogan during their state championship run in 1979.

 

[stocktiger82]

Quite a team. They beat Marionville 7-0 in the '77 quarterfinals.

I was an 8th grader that yr, Greenfield and Marionville didnt play in regular season in 77. Best two teams, Greenfield was huge, even by todays standards. McNeal was an absolute std qb and ilb. Started at Mizzou at lb, all Big 8 if I remember correctly.

 

[revno]

I was an 8th grader that yr, Greenfield and Marionville didnt play in regular season in 77. Best two teams, Greenfield was huge, even by todays standards. McNeal was an absolute std qb and ilb. Started at Mizzou at lb, all Big 8 if I remember correctly.

I was unfortunately, a senior. Both teams smoked my poor little bunch from PC. Only games we lost.

 

[stocktiger82]

I was unfortunately, a senior. Both teams smoked my poor little bunch from PC. Only games we lost.

Heck I watched you that yr from the stands, had a cousin who was a jr lineman for the tigers. Alot of good teams and games from the old Midwest Conf.

 

[Arcola]

I was an 8th grader that yr, Greenfield and Marionville didnt play in regular season in 77. Best two teams, Greenfield was huge, even by todays standards. McNeal was an absolute std qb and ilb. Started at Mizzou at lb, all Big 8 if I remember correctly.

Was Marionville not in the Midwest or did the conference have more teams than schedule allowed?

 

[kaching]

Windsor at Seneca 1986 playoffs. Coldest game ever. They painted the yard lines back then and they froze. Players would get cut when they fell on them. Windsor had a kid whose face mask broke because of the cold. The refs kept calling “TV timeouts” so the kids could go to the sideline to warm up. A concern was that the home team had several large heaters while the visiting team had one small heater. Shannon Crouch was Seneca’s star and he had entourage of underclass men who would drape him with coat and gloves when he came to the sideline. The cameraman hands were so cold he couldn’t move his fingers. So the game film was running all the time with no break between plays.
Always hospitable, Windsor got ice cold soda delivered to their lockerroom after the game. Seneca came back from a half time deficit to win the game. It was a thriller.

 

[revno]

Was Marionville not in the Midwest or did the conference have more teams than schedule allowed?

Marionville was in the Midwest. 10 teams in the conference I think, every year you rotated and skipped a team. Just so happened that year, that it was the 2 best teams that didn't play each other. The playoff game was a quarterfinal. The first year they had them. Prior to that, the point system would've kept one of the two undefeated teams at home. Great game at Marionville, huge crowd.

 

[CoachFox-ScreamingEagles]

Semi Finals at Lutheran North in 2017, rained the whole game and cold- had to be below20 degrees.

 

[BoosterBosko]

Years ago, when scouting FB games on a real cold night, I would bring 3 or 4 ink pens and when the one I was writing notes with started to freeze up I would stick it inside my tightie-whities and bring out another that was warm. My wife had me neutered years ago so at least I had a use for the family jewels.

Did ink ever turn brown??

 

[HomeyR]

Uranus Brown 25 !!! 😂

 

[panther72]

Some of you all have a different definition of "family jewels" than I do.

 

[Veer2Eternity]

Mine was at Jasper. 20° and getting colder at kickoff, then it started raining. It was the end of the year and there was no grass to begin with. Mud Bowl against a better team was bad enough. 0-34 result. On the way home, the bus overheated, and we were stranded on an icy I-44. Fun times!

1984 Quarterfinals at Wentworth against Wellington. It was a good day to be a freshman alpha dog since we had limited 'stadium coats' available. I held on to the late Trent Scott's because I knew that dude never left the field.

All week we'd been told how WN hadn't a rushing TD scored on them all year. After we scored the first one, I remember Randy Morrow saying "That's one!". Think we won like 30-7.

I was not warm.

 

[BoosterBosko]

Uranus Brown 25 !!! 😂

My favorite planet!