Brad Sherman, back in his record-setting days. (Photo courtesy Sherman family)
The current CHS football record board. (Shelli Trumbull photo)
It’s a work in progress.
That we even have a Coupeville High School football record board up on the wall is a HUGE accomplishment.
For a school that has done remarkably little to hold on to its athletic history, the recent efforts of Wolf gridiron coach Brett Smedley and associates to throw a target up on the wall for current players, is a landmark change.
I applaud the effort, heartily.
But…
Since they didn’t have access to full records, some of those names and numbers were best guesses, and they skewed heavily towards modern-day play, which is the only records they could find.
Having gone through a mountain of paperwork left behind by former CHS coach Tom Roehl, however, I can say with out a doubt, there are a few discrepancies.
Earlier this month, we brought you facts to back up the case for Ian Barron rightfully owning the single season and career rushing records.
Now, I’d like to toss another name in the arena.
Brad Sherman, and not the guys currently on the board, owns the school career marks for passing yardage and touchdown passes.
Though, I will add two caveats.
I’m missing stats for four games from Sherman’s senior season, so his numbers should be higher.
But, even with the missing games, he already betters what’s on the board.
And, since we don’t have stats from the ’50s, ’60s, ’70s or a good chunk of the ’80s, there is always a shot someone else with eye-poppin’ stats is lurking out there, ready to bump Sherman like he’s bumping the guys who came behind him.
You find me those stats in a file cabinet someplace and we’ll talk.
For the moment, it’s Sherman and here’s the case for him.
The board lists Joel Walstad with 18 career touchdown passes and Jason Bagby with 2,224 career yards.
Sherman, with a full season of stats from 2001 (his junior campaign) and stats from five of nine games in his senior season of 2002, has 2,706 yards and 24 touchdown passes.
Boom. End of story.
For the curious, here’s how it played out:
2001:
@ King’s — 204 yards, 1 TD
@ Tacoma Baptist — 374, 4
Charles Wright — 187, 4
Life Christian — 163, 4
@ Concrete — 127, 1
@ ATM — 184, 1
Friday Harbor — 206, 0
@ Orcas Island — 161, 2
La Conner — 62, 0
Seasons totals: 1,668 yards and 17 TD (one shy of Walstad’s single-season record)
2002:
Cascade Christian — 159, 1
@ Life Christian — STATS MISSING
@ King’s — 192, 0
Charles Wright — 134, 1
Concrete — STATS MISSING
@ La Conner — 250, 2
ATM — 303, 3
Orcas Island — STATS MISSING
@ Friday Harbor — STATS MISSING
Seasons totals — 1,038 yards, 7 TD through 5 games
