The only fact confirmed is that they played on a field at Camp Jordan.
The rest of the story may grow into legend after a pickup game between East Ridge football players during their off week.
"It was two-hand touch," junior running back Traneil Moore said with a slight grin. "They stopped throwing me the ball because I was scoring so much."
Word came to Pioneers coach Tracy Malone that they weren't playing two-hand touch as much as two-hand shove. No worries, he figured, just good fun for the guys who were enjoying time off last week after winning their first seven games of the season, including a 3-0 start to their Region 3-3A schedule.
Moore and his rushing capabilities are a big reason for the sixth-ranked Pioneers' perfect start. Much like his team's success, Moore has been just as much of a surprise considering he was an unknown transfer from Tyner, had one carry in a jamboree - resulting in a fumble - and two carries in the first game this season.
East Ridge's Traneil Moore gains yards in the game against Notre Dame Friday, October 2, 2015 at Notre Dame High School.But over the past six games, Moore has moved up to second among Chattanooga-area rushers with 1,037 yards and is also tied for second with 13 rushing touchdowns.
Malone said he sent video clips of Moore to every Division I coach in the country earlier this week. He added that more than 20 replied with a positive response indicating they'd be in touch, and several FCS coaches expressed even more interest, with one calling Moore "the real deal."
Moore's journey to being recruited by college coaches isn't new. But his story is exclusive to him. The short version is that attending Tyner, a magnet school, wasn't working out for his family, so he transferred to the school closest to home, East Ridge, for his junior year.
The transfer made sense, and the TSSAA approved.
Malone believed Moore could be a good player, but the coach also had a solid backfield returning.
"He looked good," Malone said of his first introduction to Malone at a parent-teacher meeting. "But you didn't know. The running joke was that we'd look real good with him on our JV team this year."
Malone still didn't know after summer workouts and preseason camp. There were two other running backs on the depth chart ahead of Moore entering the season. But they were also two of the Pioneers' best defensive players, which made them more valuable to the team inflicting hits than absorbing them.
Moore ran for 112 yards and two touchdowns against Brainerd in the second game of the season, and that shifted the depth chart on both sides of the ball for the Pioneers. The next week he went for 140 yards and two more scores against Signal Mountain.
Two weeks later, he had the breakout game of his career with 217 yards and five touchdowns in a blowout win over Red Bank.
"He cut loose at Brainerd, then Signal Mountain he did it again," Malone said. "After that he just exploded. He's a very natural runner and does a really good job of setting up his blocks. Most kids in high school will either run around you or run over you. He can do both. He's the best running back I've coached in some 18 years."
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