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The High School Football National Championship is a national championship honor awarded to the best team(s) in the based on rankings from and the National Prep Poll. There have been some efforts over the years at organizing a single-game playoff for the national championship. Sometimes a dominant team in one state would defeat a dominant team in a neighboring state after the regular season and then would self-claim the national championship. However, sometimes such a game could not be scheduled, like in 1936 after of, refused to withhold its black players in a proposed game with segregated of. Central High subsequently proclaimed itself national champion that year. On December 31, 1938, of, and of played in an actual national championship game in Baton Rouge with the Louisiana Sports Association as the formal sponsor – and, by extension, the Committee, which held a series of sporting events leading up to the Sugar Bowl game itself. Manual won, 28–20.
The following year, on December 30, the game featured, which defeated by a score of 26–0. This series of games proved difficult to organize, due to some states' prohibition of postseason play.
Pine Bluff, for example, had to receive a special waiver from its state to participate in the game. In 1939, the National Sports Council, chaired by columnist Grantland Rice, staged a national championship game Christmas Night in the Orange Bowl, won by Garfield High School, Garfield, New Jersey, 16-13, over Miami High School, Miami, Florida. Unlike the LSA Game, it featured two undefeated and untied teams from different sections of the country. In 1962, Florida state champion beat in the and was recognized by Imperial Sports Syndicate of California as a national champion. See, for 'USA Today Super 25' teams and 'USA Today Super 25 regional rankings' (top 10 in each region: East, South, Midwest, West). ^ George Abraham (December 31, 1939). Baton Rouge Morning Advocate (p.
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City of Champions Tatra Press, New York. Groeschen, Tom (2001-08-24). Retrieved 2008-01-26. Klonne was asked to resign despite a 19-season record of 169–48, including two state titles (1982, '85) and a USA Today national championship in 1982.
. Schooldigger calculates school rankings based onACT Aspire English, ACT Aspire Math, ACT Aspire Science, ACT Aspire Readingtest scores released by theArkansas State Board of Education. These rankings were last updated onJuly 1, 2019, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from theArkansas State Board of Education, usually on a yearly basis. Our sources of data include theNational Center for Education Statistics, U.S.
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