A Pittsburgh High School Won Its Football Game 68-0 With Just 11 Players and Only Using 10 on Defense
Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Academy had about 30 players suspended for its game last Friday night after an altercation in the school's previous contest, meaning the Bulldogs would have to play Perry Academy with just 11 players.
Westinghouse's 11-man team went out there and won 68-0. It was 60-0 at halftime when the teams agreed to play six-minute quarters in the second half.
Now, this is a remarkable story, but I'm actually not really all that interested in Westinghouse. They're obviously very well-coached and have built a program the right way to be able to sustain something like this. I want to learn about the team over at Perry Academy that gave up 68 points and couldn't score against a defense that played most of the game with 10 players to rest a lineman each drive.
The 11 players Westinghouse had were apparently the Bulldogs' starting offense, so it's at least somewhat defensible for Perry to give up some points — probably not 68, but maybe Westinghouse really opened up the playbook. But then 10 of those 11 were going right back out onto the field to play defense, giving Perry a conditioning advantage as well as the de facto power play and they couldn't even find the end zone once. That's about as demoralizing as it gets.
Perry is 1-7 this season and has been outscored 318-64 in its eight games. I'm now maybe even more interested in the team Perry beat 28-6 than either of these teams.
Shoutout to the Westinghouse Elite 11, though. I'd hate to see what this score would have been with a full team and playing all 48 minutes.
