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Moeller, 1976
The statistics don't lie when it comes to picking what some might argue to be the best high school team Greater Cincinnati has ever seen. Coach Gerry Faust's Crusaders scored 490 points in 10 games, while yielding just 40. And that was with seven juniors starting on defense. Moeller finished first in the final AP poll, and beat Gahanna Lincoln 43-5 in one of the most lopsided state championship games. In the state semifinal game the week before, the Crusaders crushed Youngstown Mooney the AP's No.2 team- by a 48-0 score. "We lined up in the same defensive scheme on every snap," said Bob Crable, a linebacker who went on to play for Notre Dame and the New York Jets. "It was nothing fancy back then. We just outmanned whomever it was that we played." Quarterback Tim Koegel opened up the team's offense by throwing the ball consistently well to receivers Dave Condeni and Bobby Massong.