[pjdoug]

Useless knowledge my man, useless knowledge. It's just fun for HS sports geeks like ourselves. Haha (proud to be in that club)

Yep. You said it. Great examples.

Graves was probably the last one to immulate a Whitley County and others like them back in the day. I think Graves merged as one in 85? Somewhere around there. Logan County, like Whitley and Graves, was in the 80's, too. Early to mid...

I'd say those two (Graves and Logan) were probably two of the last consolidations where none of the schools that came together played football.

The only others I can think of that might have either come around at the same time or later (those that didn't have a football playing school before consolidation) is Trimble County. Which, unfortunately for them, they've never really gotten off the ground except for a couple years when Johnny Poynter was there.

Monroe became one in the late 80's (I want to say 88 or 89), but like I'd mentioned before, Tompkinsville HS was already playing football and a dang good program at that. Gamaliel might habe played football come to think of it...I'll have to ask somebody who would know for sure.

I wonder how many games of football have been played at Bugtussle in Monroe County? I've been to that county a few times,but honestly don't know if I even thought about football while I was there,but I was thinking about pigskin