Is West York’s Brandon Real the best local running back ever?
West York’s Brandon Real looks for running room against Littlestown this season.The senior holds several YAIAA rushing records. Background posts: York County Tech sports: ‘If they took something like that away it really would destroy the school’ and ‘When people are looking back into Pa. basketball history … it’s great’.
Has West York’s Brandon Real scored the best season ever for a YAIAA running back?
York Daily Record Sean McLernon has posed that question in a Line Up Card blog post.
Here’s a quick look at Real’s stats, according to McLernon and newspaper reports:
Touchdowns, 2008 season: 51.
Career touchdowns: 69 (area record beating Littlestown’s Jeremiah Collins’ 67).
Yards rushing, 2008 season: 2,513 (on 252 carries, bettering Jason Jarvis, New Oxford, 1996, who rushed for 2,200 yards).
Single game high: 407 yards (topping Dallastown’s Chris Moore, 336 in 1998, and Tracy Smith, 317 in 1983).
Sean McLernon asks his readers – and I do the same here: Does anyone want to argue for a better local prep football season than that put forth Brandon Real?
Also:
– Red Lion’s Scott Fitzkee ranks as York/Adams Greatest Athlete
– Who were most prominent 20th-century sports heroes in York and Adams counties?
– To learn how to purchase a book about the West York Bulldogs 2008 championship season, visit: ‘The dogs got out’.
– For information about books about William Penn boys and York Catholic girls championship basketball seasons in 2008, click here.
