Pawnee Heights running back Kade Scott breaks national six-man record in 118-85 win.
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Tigers' senior Kade Scott set the national six-man TD record with 14 in a playoff win last week.
Scott, a senior, rushed for 501 yards on 32 carries and 11 rushing touchdowns. He added four receptions for 90 yards and two scores and ran back a kickoff for a touchdown.
For the season, Scott has 53 touchdowns and 333 total points on the season. The national six-man record for touchdowns in a season is 90 by Dewayne Miles of Amherst (Texas) in 1995.
Pawnee Heights is in just its third year of six-man football after dropping its eight-man program in 2010. Kansas began developing a six-man football division in 2016. Pawnee Heights was 6-3 in its first season in the new format, 9-0 last year and is 8-1 this season. Pawnee Heights is ranked No. 2 in the state of Kansas by SixMania.com.
Scott breaks the record of 13 touchdowns, held by three different players: Harold Klausner of Woodlin (Colo) in 2005, according to the CHSAANow; Kyle Molter of Lometa (Texas) in 2015, according to sixmanfootball.com; and Carlos Ruiz of Melrose (N.M.) in 2004, according to the National Federation of High Schools record book.
Scott also kicked an extra point, giving him 85 points. This also breaks the previous record of 78 points held by Klausner, Molter and Ruiz.
Six-man football began in 1934 in Nebraska and is played in Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Montana, Kansas, Alabama and Wyoming.
The national record for touchdowns in a game is 14, set by John Cook of Beatrice (Neb.) in 1912 and tied by Leroy "Boney" Matthews of Roff (Okla.) in 1927. Both Cook and Matthews also scored 14 extra points and are tied for a national record of 98 points scored in a game, according to the NFHS record book.
