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I remember the 1965 game at Highlands. NewCath (back when it was still [COLOR="Yellow"]"Stud Hill,[/COLOR]" girls went to OLP) won the game 12-0. NewCath had running back named Ed Zeigler and Coach Frederick. Highlands was coached by Owen Hauck. I seem to recall that some of the NewCath fans were headed for the game as we were getting out of school. Newport Catholic and Highlands had not played for since 1950 (15 years) and did not play again until 1974 (9 years).

That was the first year that Highlands did NOT make the playoffs (started in 1959) in Class AA. NewCath went to the playoffs and lost at Middlesboro in the semifinal. Hopkinsville won the championship that year.

As another part of the history:

KY had three classes back in those days.
Class A was the smaller schools outside Jefferson County plus a small Jefferson County school (a military academy).
Class AA was the larger schools outside of Jefferson County.
Class AAA was the rest of the schools in Jefferson County.
This setup lasted thru the 1974 season when KY went to 4 classes.

Teams made the playoffs using what was called the Dickinson System where a team got more points for beating team with a winning record and fewer points for beating a team with a non-winning record.

Each of Class A and AA had 4 regions. Each Region, except Class AA region 3, had two districts. Class AA Region 3 only had one district, which contained Highlands, NewCath, Holmes, Dixie Hts, Simon Kenton, McKell, Boone Co., Campbell Co. etc. Class AAA had only had two regions, Louisville city schools and Jefferson county schools (they were separate school districts until 1975). In 1960, the Class AAA state championship game was played so late (after Male vs Manual Thanksgiving day game) that Eastern forfeited to Male and settled for the County championship.

I thought it was "Homo Hill"nicker: