Sequoyah High School won the George B. Maloof Under Armour Team Passing Tournament, beating last season’s Class 3A runner-up Flowery Branch in the finals played Saturday at Roswell High School. Sixteen teams participated in the tournament as M.L. King finished third and Brookwood came in fourth. In Class 4A, Sequoyah was 10-2 last season, losing to Marist in the second round of the playoffs. Flowery Branch is led by highly recruited quarterback Connor Shaw, the brother of Georgia Tech signal caller Jaybo Shaw. Connor has committed to play his college football for coach Steve Spurrier at South Carolina.
The other two school’s to get to Saturday’s finals bracket were Roswell and Walton. Other teams involved were St. Pius X, Norcross, Dacula, Parkview, Towers, Blessed Trinity, Northview, Cartersville, North Cobb and Sprayberry.
Friday’s opening-round games were played at Roswell and St. Pius, where Maloof (pictured coaching at the school) was head coach for 26 years and won a state title in 1968. He was inducted into the Georgia Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame last weekend. His son Keith is the head coach at Norcross, while son Kevin is the top man at Dacula.
Said Keith Maloof, “It’s a great way to do something for my father. He gave so much to the kids, high school football and us as a family. It’s a small token of our appreciation.”
George Maloof not only was a great high school football coach but a very talented running back at Georgia Tech for head coach Bobby Dodd. Written about Maloof in a 2003 Georgia Trend magazine article, “Maloof will live forever in the hearts of Georgia Tech football fans and he will be forever No. 1 on the hate list of ardent Bulldog fans. In 1951, he scored four touchdowns in leading Tech to a 48-6 rout of the Bulldogs, an unbeaten season (11-0-1) and to the Southeastern Conference championship. No Jacket before or since ever put 24 points on the scoreboard against the Dogs.”
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