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Here's a photo indentified only as "County Champions" BHS 108 ------ 30. We take this to mean a Bluffton football team in 1904 was the best squad in Allen County, scoring 108 points and having only 30 points scored on them. We don't know how many games they played or who were their opponents.

For example, if they played five games, they averaged 21.6 points (three touchdowns per game) against only 1 for their opponents. 

There's one thing curious about the photo. In the front row (second from left) is R.L., Triplett, who graduated from BHS in the class of 1902. We'd like to think that he was a coach.

Anyway, this was a pretty good squad despite the fact that they didn't have an off-season weight lifting program.

(From the collection of Fred Steiner)