CLINTON – One more and it’s a streak.
Clinton’s rich football tradition includes a player, Randy Kiesau, and a coach, Fred Friedrich, who have been remembered through awards given every year at the CHS football banquet.
The Corn Bible Academy football team always finds a way to compete when push comes to shove, even if that means playing with only two subs in the eightman game.
The Clinton football team was chasing a shot at a state title for the better part of the last decade, and it still is, but it’s no longer off Class 4A’s radar.
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After much criticism for its up-anddown play in 2019, the Clinton offense rebounded for a much better year in 2020 and even morphed somewhat into a methodical sledgehammer in the postseason.
Across the last three years, the Clinton football team has boasted one of the best defenses in the state.
It’s a different year, but the same story for the Clinton football schedule, as it features five “true” playoff teams from last year on its 2021 schedule, including four teams that reached at least the second round of the postseason or further.
Through three years of his head coaching tenure with Clinton football, John Higbee has proven he was the right hire to take Clinton back to the mountain top.