Montavin Quisenberry is Boyle County's leading scorer this season with 96 points. (Chris Zollner Photo)
Friday could be a historic night for Boyle County High School football when it plays at Russell County.
The unbeaten Rebels are an overwhelming favorite and if they do win it will be the school’s 500th win and improve coach Justin Haddix’s record to 45-3 in his fourth season with the Rebels.
Former coach Chuck Smith had a 212-44 record in 19 seasons and built Boyle into a state powerhouse during his first stint with the Rebels from 1992-2004 when he went 143-32 and won five state championships and finished second once. Smith also won another state and got beat in the title game once during his second stint at UK from 2014-19.
Coach Larry French was 71-11 in six seasons and won two state championships while Haddix already had three state crowns.
Ed Rall is the school’s second winningest coach as he went 94-57 from 1974-87.
Since 2008, Boyle has 184-26 record with six state championships.
Former Boyle County player Paul Dean is a historian and shared these tidbits about 61 years of Boyle football
— Boyle County Football played its inaugural season ibn 1963 after consolidation of Perryville, Forkland, Parksville and Junction City High Schools.
— If Boyle wins Friday it will have a record of 500-221-7 in its 61st season.
— The Rebels first win came in its first ever game at Greensburg High School (27-0). The Rebels did not have a home field in their inaugural season, so they played home games at Lancaster High School, Mercer County High School and Harrodsburg High School. The first team went undefeated under the leadership of head coach Jim Farley in his only season at Boyle.
— Win 100 came in the first game of the 1980 season under coach Ed Rall when Boyle Washington County 18-0 in its 174th game.
— Win 200 came during the 1997 season under coach Chuck Smith when Boyle beat Estill County 54-15 in a first-round playoff game.
— Win 300 came during the 2005 regular season as coachChris Pardue’s team defeated Marion County 49-6.
— Win 400 came during the 2015 regular season under Smith when Boyle won 42-20 at Danville.
— Boyle County’s biggest victory (largest margin) was on 9/30/1966 when it beat Mercer County 80-6 on homecoming forr coach Dennis Sexton. The worst loss Boyle County has endured happened on 10/4/1968 when Somerset defeated the Rebels 60-0 and on 9/16/1977 when Harrodsburg defeated the Rebels by the same score.
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I played in the 100th. game. Watch the game from the stands on the 200th. win and was on the sideline for the 300th., 400th. and will be for the 500th. game.
As a middle school boy I attended the Harrodsburg game back in 1977 when Boyle lost by 60. Boyle took that loss personally and shut out Harrodsburg the following 3 years in 1978, 1979, & 1980.
That is very, very cool David