Week 8 Alabama High School Football Scores

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Thursday’s Scores

Buckhorn 38, Lee-Huntsville 20

Central-Phenix City 55, Lee-Montgomery 20

Chambers Aca. 56, Abbeville Chr. 7

Danville 49, Asbury 6

Decatur Heritage 49, Woodville 8

Donoho 48, Talladega Co. Central 14

East Limestone 54, Lawrence Co. 13

Edgewood 35, Macon-East 34

Elba 62, Georgiana 28

Foley 55, Alma Bryant 32

Gordo 35, Fayette Co. 0

Gulf Shores 49, Elberta 3

Homewood 31, Chilton Co. 10

Hooper 72, Sparta 50

Houston Aca. 52, Northside Methodist 0

J.B. Pennington 55, Brindlee Mountain 0

Mountain Brook 35, Parker 6

Patrician 34, Lowndes Aca. 6

Pelham 30, Benjamin Russell 20

Plainview 33, Sylvania 30

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Ramsay 56, John Carroll 7

Sidney Lanier 41, Stanhope Elmore 17

Southside-Selma 52, Greensboro 30

St. John Paul II 27, New Hope 20

St. Michael 49, Wilcox Central 6

St. Paul’s 39, Robertsdale 14

Thompson 51, Oak Mountain 0

Valley Head 34, Appalachian 28

Westminster-Huntsville 70, Madison Co. 42

Williamson 20, Citronelle 0

From the AHSAA:

The AHSAA was saddened to learn of the untimely passing of Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame Coach Don Creasy, 79, who died in a car accident Tuesday, October 4 at Sheffield.

“Our thoughts and prayers go out to the Creasy family,” AHSAA Executive Director Alvin Briggs said in a release. “Coach Creasy was an outstanding coach who truly had a major influence on the lives of the many student-athletes placed in his care. His legacy will live on.”

Inducted into the Alabama High School Sports Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Colbert County Sports Hall of Fame in 2003, Creasy compiled a 186-76-3 football coaching record over 23 seasons. He graduated Colbert County High School in 1961 earning All-State honors as a senior. He also played in the North-South All-Star Game in 1961 and then moved to Florence State College (University of North Alabama) where he was a three-time letterman and named the most valuable lineman in 1964.

He served as an assistant coach at Sheffield for three seasons after college, then moved back home to Leighton where he serve four seasons as an assistant coach for Coach Manley – including serving on the staff of the 1972 team which went 13-0 and produced future collegiate stars Ozzie Newsome, Phil Gargis, and Thad Flanagan.

The 1972-73 period at Colbert County High School is arguably the greatest single year in AHSAA history. The Indians won the Class 3A state basketball championship in the winter of 1972 with future Alabama Sports Hall of Famer Leon Douglas and his younger brother on the squad. The next fall, Colbert County finished undefeated to win the Class 3A state football crown, and in the spring of 1973, the Indians’ baseball team reached the state finals falling to Chilton County 6-5, 9-6 in the Class 3A championship.

Creasy spoke on numerous occasions about that group of kids.

“I don’t think any other school in this state has ever had such an incredible run of athletes and success as Colbert County did during that time period,” he told The Birmingham News in 1989.

Creasy, who followed Manley as head coach at Colbert County in 1978, compiled a 126-25-1 record over the next 12 years reaching the state finals and finishing as Class 3A state runner-up in his first season (1978), tying Jackson 0-0 in the to earn a co-championship in 1979, winning the Class 5A state title in 1985, reaching the semifinals in Class 5A in 1987, in Class 4A in 1988, and reaching the 4A finals in 1989 falling to Pike County 20-19. His 83.2 winning percentage was among the leaders during that stretch. Colbert County won 32 regular-season games at one stretch from 1981-1984.

He also had head-coaching stints at Central-Florence, Coffee, and Mountain Brook. Creasy’s son Allen Creasy followed his dad into coaching. He compiled a 100-88 record in 12 seasons as head football coach at Athens High School.