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How well do you know your Hawaii high school championship football history and trivia? If you can get half of these right without looking up the answers, consider yourself an expert — or just the right age where you can remember a lot of things without forgetting.
1. “Us young guys watched our brothers lose. I had three brothers who lost in this game. That was a lot of motivation for us.” Who said that, and why?
2. Who won the last Prep Bowl that was not won by Saint Louis?
3. How many Prep Bowls were won by head coaches with the first name Cal?
4. Who scored on a 14-yard run with less than four minutes left to give Kamehameha its first Prep Bowl win and first of three in a row in 1974?
5. What two neighbor island teams have won football state championships?
6. A total of 98 points was scored in the 2014 Division I State Championship game. But who was the defensive player who scored for the winning team, and forced a game-saving fumble in the final minute?
7. Who caught two touchdown passes and threw for another for the team that scored the most points in any Prep Bowl or state championship final?
8. Can you name the school that has played in at least one Division I state final and is unbeaten?
9. Who helped his team win its only Prep Bowl, and later coached his alma mater to its only state championship?
10. The quarterback who led his team to the 2007 Division I State Championship is now the offensive coordinator at his old school. Can you name him?
11. When Saint Louis won its first Prep Bowl in 1983, who did it beat?
12. What were the teams, score and year of the only tie in Prep Bowl/state championship history?
13. In Damien’s one previous state championship final appearance, the Monarchs had co-head coaches. Can you name them?
14. Who was the quarterback who won the last Prep Bowl and the first state championship?
15. When was the first Prep Bowl? Who won, and by what score?
16. Who coached his alma mater to multiple state football championships after he was an award-winning high school journalist?
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ANSWERS FOR DAVE REARDON’S COLUMN
1. Kahuku quarterback ‘Inoke Funaki, after his team beat Saint Louis 26-20 in the 2000 state championship final, ending the Crusaders’ 14-year stranglehold on Prep Bowl and state title victories. Kahuku had lost in five of the previous seven finals.
2. In 1985, Pac-Five beat defending champion Saint Louis 10-0 in the Prep Bowl.
3. 17 (14 for Saint Louis’ Cal Lee and three for Kamehameha’s Cal Chai).
4. Blane Gaison, in the second of just two Prep Bowls played at Honolulu Stadium.
5. King Kekaulike in 2006 and Lahainaluna in 2016 (both in Division II).
6. Ty Purcell-Apana scored on an 83-yard interception in the first half of Mililani’s 53-45 win over Punahou in 2014. His forced fumble near the goal line prevented a Buffanblu touchdown that could’ve resulted in tying the game in the final minute.
7. Tight end George Smith, for Pac-Five in a 56-7 win over Waianae in 1985.
8. Kamehameha won the Division I state final in 2004 and 2009.
9. Rich Miano intercepted two passes as Kaiser beat Kamehameha in the 1979 Prep Bowl. In 2013, he led the Cougars over Kauai in the Division II state final.
10. Andrew Manley. The current Leilehua OC was a freshman when he quarterbacked the Mules to a 20-16 win over Saint Louis in the 2007 final.
11. Saint Louis edged Nanakuli 15-12 in the 1983 Prep Bowl.
12. ‘Iolani and Waianae battled to a 7-7 tie in 1980.
13. Dean Nakagawa and Rudy Alejo co-coached Damien in 2003 when it lost to Aiea in the Division II state final.
14. Timmy Chang was the Saint Louis quarterback when the Crusaders won the last Prep Bowl in 1998 and the first Division I State Championship game in 1999.
15. The first Prep Bowl was in 1973. Waianae beat Saint Louis 6-0 as Victor Humalon threw an 11-yard touchdown pass to William Pimental in the closing minutes.
16. Kahuku football player Siuaki Livai was voted most valuable by his fellow staffers of their school paper, The Country Chronicle, in 1978. In 2000, when he coached the Red Raiders to their first state championship, he was a Kahuku math teacher.
Reach Dave Reardon at dreardon@staradvertiser.com or 529- 4783. His blog is at Hawaiiwarriorworld.com/quick-reads.
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