15. Thomas Tyner runs track on the football field
Thomas Tyner was one of the fastest sprinters in the country, and he showed it on the football field on a September night in Oregon, rushing for 644 yards and 10 touchdowns.
File photo by Jeff Napier
Aloha is a Hawaiian term that means hello and goodbye.
Thomas Tyner communicated that almost simultaneously on the gridiron while a senior at
Aloha (Beaverton, Ore.).
Thomas Tyner, Aloha
Photo by Tom Lemming
Considered
one of the fastest sprinters in the nation, Tyner recorded the third
biggest rushing day in prep high school history by going for 644 yards
and 10 touchdowns in a 84-63 win over Lakeridge on Sept. 15.
Tyner
scored on runs of 20, 41, 62, 60, 65, 48, 41, 40, 34 and 10 yards.
The
rushing yards record is held by John Giannantonio (Netcong, N.J.) who
went for 754 in a game against Mt. Lakes in 1950. The No. 2 total is 661
set in 2006 by Paul McCoy of Matewan, W.V. The record for rushing
touchdowns in a game is 12, set by two players.
Tyner put an exclamation point on a phenomenal career by
setting the Oregon single-season rushing mark in
Aloha's (Beaverton, Ore.) game against West Salem in the second round of the Class 6A state playoffs.
A 50-yard touchdown run helped Tyner move past the mark of 3,335 set by Cory McCaffrey of Sisters in 2006.
Tyner
entered the game with 3,241 yards. His sterling senior campaign comes
after a junior year that was plagued with injuries.
After
briefly decommitting, Tyner solidified his commitment and signed with Oregon in February.
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