Mike AdamsSUMMERVILLE, Ga. – Reputations are hard to change, especially one built on decades of results.
The Chattooga High School football program doesn’t have a reputation for losing. Neither, however, does it have one for winning.
The Indians have played the sport since the early 1960s and usually manage to win their share of games. Over the last quarter century the program has had 15 seasons of five wins or more.
None of the wins, though, had come after week 10. The label of “scrappy team that comes close” has been thrown around Summerville for so long that what happened last Friday surely felt like a dream for longtime fans.
Chattooga defeated Lamar County 44-14 in the first round of the GHSA Class AA playoffs. The win didn’t change the program’s perception on a large scale, but back home it meant everything, especially to a group of seniors tired of falling short.