For Red Raider 'Eleven', the Accolades Pouring In

One of the more appealing aspects of this autumn's Barnstable High School football team has been its humility.

Now the time has come to list some of the records set and milestones reached, both individual marks and team records.

This season was the most prolific in Barnstable High School's 120 seasons. Founded in 1893 by the Red Raiders' first-ever captain, Warren R. Bowen, no Barnstable High team since has scored as many points as the 2012 Red Raiders. It is likely that no other Red Raider team's offense, combined with special teams output, has been as productive either. While the results have not yet been completely tallied, the Red Raiders accumulated more than 5,000 all-purpose yards including passing/receiving yardage, rushing yardage, kick- and punt-return yardage as well as yards gained after turnovers (fumble and interception returns).

Some may attribute this milestone to a speedy offense, remarkably gifted at its skill positions, but the fact of the matter is that an offense is only as good as its offensive line. This year's offensive line, anchored by center Tom Grimmer, along with brother Billy Grimmer, and fellow linemen Allen Buckley, Chris Kennedy, Owen Murray, Tom Harrington and even for two games, Andrew Ellis, began working together at Barnstable Middle School and in the Barnstable Silver Bullets youth football program. To a great degree, they deserve as many accolades as are merited.

- Barnstable High scored 423 points this season, eclipsing the previous record set of 372 points in 2010. Many of the aforementioned linemen were also a part of that previous record-setting, as well.

- Tedaro France's three touchdowns in Saturday's Super Bowl at Gillette Stadium gave him 19 for the season and placed him in some pretty rare Red Raider company. France, a senior, finished his high school football career at Barnstable with 180 points scored, tying him for third place, all-time, with the Class of 1981's Brian Reid for most career points scored.

 - France also finished tied with the team lead for touchdown receptions this season, (13), with Dylan Morris, also a senior, who tallied 13 touchdown receptions. France led the Red Raiders in receiving this season with 889 yards.

- He also tied the all-time mark for longest kick-off return touchdown - 100 yards - on the first play of the 2012 season versus Durfee. The record was set in 1970 by Art Pacheco.

- Junior running back Hayden Murphy finished the 2012 season with 1,049 yards rushing and 10 touchdowns. He is just the 9th Red Raider running back in school history to reach the 1,000-yard rushing milestone. He is also the first Red Raider in the past 10 season since Erik Ellis broke the 1,000-yard plateau in 2003.

- Senior quarterback and captain Nick Peabody's 2,661 yards passing ranks second, all-time, for most yards passed in a season. The record of 2,813 was set in 2010 by Peabody's former teammate D.J. Crook.

- Peabody's 34 touchdown pases, however, sets a new all-time record at Barnstable High for most touchdowns passed in a season. The mark breaks the former record of 33 touchdown passes set in 2010, again, by former BHS QB D.J. Crook.

- Peabody's 98-yard touchdown pass to Dylan Morris versus Dennis-Yarmouth in September was the second longest touchdown pass in Red Raider history, just two yards shy of the 100-yard mark set on October 10, 1964 versus Dennis-Yarmouth from Bob Starck to Steve Adams.

- Banstable's 11 team victories matches the all-time mark set in 1995 for most wins in a season.

- Defensive end Jason Frieh's interception returned for a touchdown versus Bridgewater-Raynham - perhaps the single most important play that led to the Red Raiders' OCL championship title and a playoff berth - was just the second time in Red Raider history that a defensive lineman has intercepted a pass and returned it for a touchdown.

- Barnstable had 12 Old Colony League all-stars selected from the 2012 team, the most all-stars ever selected from a single team in any sport, in any one season, in the entire 140-year history of Barnstable High School (established in 1873). Those OCL all-stars were: Nick Peabody (QB), Tedaro France (WR), Dylan Morris (WR), Kevin Hardy (S), Tom Grimmer (C), Ryan Litchman (LB), Jason Frieh (DE), Bryan Hardy (LB), Andrew Ellis (LB), Hayden Murphy (RB), Chris Kennedy (G) and James Burke (WR).