List of Louisiana state high school football champions

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Below is a list of Louisiana state high school football champions sanctioned by various organizations since they began holding formal high school football state championship games in Louisiana in 1909, as well as informal state championship games held since 1907. High schools in the state are currently divided between the Louisiana High School Athletic Association, a small number of independent private schools, and those private schools that choose to compete across state lines for Midsouth Association of Independent Schools honors. In the past schools also competed under the auspices of the Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Organization, the Louisiana Independent School Association, the Louisiana Christian School Athletic Association, and the Association of Christian Educators of Louisiana.

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Background

Although numerous late-season games are known to have been hastily scheduled between prominent teams and informally dubbed "state championship" games back in high school football's early years, [11] :32 these games generally based their authority solely on general acclamation and were held without formal, independent third-party sponsors. Several early games are notable exceptions to this, but even then these games usually featured a home team as a draw; neutral playing sites may have given this series of games a stronger sense of legitimacy.

For what it is worth, in high school football's earliest days multiple New Orleans-area regional organizations—that were at times administered by Tulane University—came and went [11] :8 [11] :16 that could have theoretically also determined de facto state champions based sheerly on the lack of existing teams in other parts of the state. The first of these organizations, the Interscholastic Football League, was sponsored by the Tulane Athletic Association and began play for the city's pennant during the 1895 campaign. [11] :8

Informal state championship games (1907–1929)

In high school football's early years, a number of prominent schools added late season games against other strong teams and claimed that these games would be for the "state championship." In some cases a third team that felt unfairly left out of the process would then challenge the winner of that state championship contest to a game of their own shortly afterward, essentially meaning that there would be a second state championship game that very same season—effectively creating a de facto early form of playoffs, just without the sponsorship of a controlling legal authority that could award a trophy. In 1914 and 1917, there were three or even four games that had been designated as state championships, as the annual State Fair of Louisiana in Shreveport and National Farm and Live Stock Show in New Orleans respectively had staged games for the title that had been considered too early in the season by some schools to truly settle the issue of crowning a champion.

The first ever champion, Jefferson College of Convent, had a campus that consisted of a high school, junior college, and college. At the time, the school regularly scheduled a mixture of high school and university-level club, junior varsity, and varsity teams. [12] It defeated Boys High (later called Warren Easton) of New Orleans in 1907 for the first high school state title, by a score of 27–0. [13]

Year(no classifications)
1907 Convent Jefferson College [13] [14]
1908 Jennings [15] (first game)
Jennings [11] :24(second game)
1909* Baton Rouge [16] [17] (first game)
1911Baton Rouge [18]
1912 New Orleans Easton [19] [20] (first game)
New Orleans Easton [11] :31(second game)
1913Baton Rouge [21] [22] (first game)
Baton Rouge [11] :32(second game)
1914**Baton Rouge [23] (second game)
New Orleans Easton [11] :33(third game)
New Orleans Easton [11] :33(fourth game)
1917†Baton Rouge [11] :42(second game)
Baton Rouge [11] :43(third game)
1919Baton Rouge [11] :49
1920‡New Orleans Easton [11] :55(first game)
1926 Baton Rouge Colored [24]
1927 Baton Rouge McKinley [25] [26]
1928 Ruston Lincoln [26]
1929Baton Rouge McKinley [27]

Notes: *—second state championship game that season was sponsored by the Louisiana State University Athletic Department (see the "Louisiana State University Athletic Department" subsection for more information); **—first state championship game that season was sponsored by the State Fair of Louisiana (see the "State Fair of Louisiana" subsection for more information); †—first state championship game that season was sponsored by the National Farm and Live Stock Show (see the "National Farm and Live Stock Show and Live Stock Buyers' Convention" subsection for more information); ‡—second state championship game that season was sponsored by the Louisiana High School Athletic Association (see the "Louisiana High School Athletic Association" subsection for more information)

Louisiana State University Athletic Department (1909)

In 1909 the athletic department of LSU sponsored a state championship game, complete with a trophy. The hometown school, Baton Rouge High, defeated Boys High in the game, 17–5. [11] :27

Year(no classifications)
1909 Baton Rouge

Calcasieu–Louisiana Fair (1910)

The first annual Calcasieu–Louisiana Fair [28] scheduled a high school football game between the hometown Lake Charles High team and Boys High, billing it as being for the state championship. The game was a very successful draw, as 3,000 of the fair's 10,000 attendees watched LCHS' 17–11 victory. [29]

Year(no classifications)
1910Lake Charles

State Fair of Louisiana (1914–1915)

The Shreveport-based State Fair of Louisiana, which was known to host football games in conjunction with the fair—the Louisiana State Fair Classic for college teams, for example—also sponsored a series of games involving high school teams in the 1910s. Although earliest teams do not appear to have been billed as facing off for the state crown, [30] the fair began to promote later games as being for a formal state championship. [31] However, even these games did not necessarily resolve the issue of a true state champion—and indeed may have even actually helped generate further controversy—since the annual fair always scheduled its championship game participants well before the end of the high school football season (meaning that the games may have only reflected the best teams from the first half of the season). [11] :42 Also, the local team from Shreveport High (later called C. E. Byrd) was usually invited to play as the representative of North Louisiana in the state fair's game, which was a particular concern in 1916 when SHS had a down year. [32] Also, the newly-created LHSAA was largely rendering it obsolete any way.

Below is a listing of all state fair football champions.

Year(no classifications)
1914* Shreveport [33]
1915Shreveport [34] [35]

Notes: *—championship disputed (Baton Rouge High later maintained that shortly before game time Shreveport High, later called C. E. Byrd, acknowledged fielding an ineligible player, so BRHS only agreed to continue if the game would be re-designated as an informal exhibition game; neither SHS nor the State Fair of Louisiana is known to have been documented as having corroborated this claim) [11] :32

Times–Picayune (1915)

The New Orleans Times–Picayune sponsored a game (for the state championship [36] ) between two city schools, Easton and New Orleans Jesuit. The two schools had tied 6–6 earlier in the season, so the game was seen as an opportunity to both break the tie and to serve as a fundraiser for the newspaper's Doll and Toy Fund drive for needy children's Christmas presents at the same time. However, Jesuit's starting quarterback had been injured in the first game and was not able to recover in time to participate in the second game. Easton won, 13–12.

What set this state championship game apart from the state fair's game earlier that season is that this one included a private school, the first time that a private school had been allowed to compete for a state crown. [11] :37 Easton had actually approached Shreveport High, the state fair's champion, about playing earlier in the season but was turned down. [11] :36 It is not immediately clear what, if anything, of Easton's offer to play was considered objectionable to SHS.

This game was a forerunner to the annual "Toy Bowl" that the Times–Picayune began sponsoring annually in 1933 to raise money for its Doll and Toy Fund—and was occasionally held in conjunction with state championship games. [37] [38]

Year(no classifications)
1915 New Orleans Easton

Louisiana High School Athletic Association (1916–Present)

The Louisiana High School Athletic Association (LHSAA) was founded in 1915 to serve as an interscholastic governing organization [39] for white public high schools (since private schools were not included, a similar, competing regional organization called the "Prep School Athletic Association" was formed for New Orleans-area private schools later on that same year [40] ). Additional discussions continued on into 1916 for improving and strengthening the new body (including the drafting of a constitution [11] :40). Among the earliest controversies that the fledgling LHSAA would be called upon to resolve were competing claims to the 1916 football crown. Shreveport High's regular season shutout loss to Minden High suddenly made the state fair's previously-scheduled game between SHS and Easton seem far less useful for determining the state championship. MHS and Easton quickly attempted to fit a replacement match into their existing schedules, but no firm playing date could be arranged; the LHSAA ended up siding with Easton's claim to the title. [11] :38–40 The LHSAA also faced much more serious issues in its early years, with older students enrolling in the military for the war effort and with Spanish Flu victims in general. Numerous teams were disbanded and games canceled during the outbreak, and a travel ban greatly limited the remaining active teams. [11] :44

The association split into classifications based upon enrollment numbers in 1921. [11] :55 Private schools (1929) [11] :81 and schools with enrollments that were entirely African American (1968) were later extended membership [41] relatively without incident (integrated schools, however, had never been expressly prevented from joining [42] ). The association also survived two major attempts at schisms. In 1946 the stronger public school football programs of the then-top class (Class AA) attempted to form a "Big 12" that would play a round-robin schedule to determine its champion instead of using the playoff system. [43] After being decisively outvoted at the next LHSAA meeting, the Big 12 was not particularly forthcoming about its future plans. One of the private school representatives at the meeting likened the effort to having "bordered on fascism" for acting without private schools. [44] In 2013 the association moved schools that had selective student body enrollments into separate divisions; the move was driven by the principal of Winnfield Senior High to minimize the impact of successful private schools John Curtis Christian of River Ridge and Evangel Christian of Shreveport [45] (however, despite now having a much smaller pool of teams to compete against in the playoffs, Curtis and Evangel have only won two championships combined since the split). Schools deemed as "selective" included charter, dual-curriculum, laboratory, magnet, and private schools [46] (it did not, however, include schools with gifted education programs or, notably, schools allowed to have a parish-wide attendance zone for football players if designated as the sole football-playing public school within that parish; Winnfield Senior High is the only football-playing school in Winn Parish [47] ). Though largely opposed to the split, in 2019 select schools voted to create their own "Louisiana Select Association" (LSA) to manage issues that they felt had not been properly addressed by the LHSAA membership as a whole. [48] Shortly afterward, this new LSA—led by a number of South Louisiana schools that accused the LHSAA of not living up to its obligations to share revenue from the football championship games held at the Caesars Superdome—then declined to use the Superdome for its own select division championship games, starting with the 2019 event. [49] However, all select championship games moved back to the Superdome in 2022. [50] The LHSAA, which is based in Baton Rouge, has been recognized as Louisiana's sole representative to the National Federation of State High School Associations over other competing private school associations. The 2016 Louisiana floods caused extensive damage to the LHSAA's offices. [51] Shortly before that event the LHSAA "was legally deemed a private organization"—which could hold future ramifications over the transparency of its inside activities, as well as its member schools' ability to internally and publicly challenge its decisions in a court of law. [52]

Below is a listing of all LHSAA football champions since its founding. [53] In recent years, six championship games (played between 2005 and 2020) were ordered forfeited by the LHSAA. In each early case, as per LHSAA rules, the runner-up was recognized as the new state champion and awarded its respective trophy, [54] [55] except for Baton Rouge University Lab's 2013 team, which could only be nominally acknowledged as champion since Curtis sought to challenge its forfeiture in court—and the LHSAA physically issuing the championship trophy to University Lab cannot be "revisited" until the pending lawsuit is decided. [52] Early indications are that Baton Rouge Catholic's recently forfeited 2017 and 2020 Select Division I titles may not necessarily be reissued to the respective runners-up. [56] [57] It is not immediately clear why that is, given the past precedents.

The Caesars Superdome in New Orleans: a regular venue for LHSAA Prep Classic state championship football games since 1981. Mercedes-Benz Superdome Poydras bike.JPG
The Caesars Superdome in New Orleans: a regular venue for LHSAA Prep Classic state championship football games since 1981.
Independence Stadium in Shreveport: a temporary venue for LHSAA Nokia Sugar Bowl Prep Classic state championship football games in 2005, due to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Independence Stadium.jpg
Independence Stadium in Shreveport: a temporary venue for LHSAA Nokia Sugar Bowl Prep Classic state championship football games in 2005, due to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Harry Turpin Stadium in Natchitoches: a temporary venue for LHSAA Prep Classic state championship football games in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Harry Turpin Stadium (Natchitoches, Louisiana).jpg
Harry Turpin Stadium in Natchitoches: a temporary venue for LHSAA Prep Classic state championship football games in 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Year(no classifications)
1916* New Orleans Easton [11] :40
1917**(no champion)
1918**(no champion)
1919**(no champion)
1920New Orleans Easton [11] :55

Notes: *—association withheld formal sanctioning of postseason games but declared champion instead; **—association withheld formal sanctioning of postseason games but also declined to declare champions

YearClass A
1921 New Orleans Easton
1922*(no champion)
1923** Morgan City
1924† Haynesville
1925** Ruston
1926** [58] Shreveport Byrd
1927 Bastrop

Notes: *—association withheld formal sanctioning of postseason games but also declined to declare champion; **—association withheld formal sanctioning of postseason games but declared champions instead; †—Class A championship game ceded, by Shreveport High [59] :26 (later called C. E. Byrd)

YearClass AClass B
1928 Homer Kentwood
1929 Haynesville Rayville
1930 Shreveport Byrd Jonesboro
1931Shreveport ByrdRayville
1932Lake Charles Tallulah
1933* New Orleans Jesuit Tallulah
1934Shreveport ByrdTallulah
1935Shreveport ByrdVinton
1936HaynesvilleVinton

Note: *—Class A championship game tie broken by total 20-yard line penetrations [60]

YearClass AAClass AClass B
1937 Shreveport Byrd Homer Columbia
1938 Baton Rouge Istrouma Minden Lake Charles LaGrange
1939* ** Jennings Homer Kentwood
1940 New Orleans Jesuit Ponchatoula Arcadia
1941New Orleans Jesuit Ruston Donaldsonville Catholic
1942†New Orleans Easton Bossier Lake Charles Landry Memorial
1943‡New Orleans Jesuit Sulphur Waterproof
1944 Baton Rouge Sulphur Slidell
1945New Orleans Holy Cross Jonesboro–Hodge Slidell
1946New Orleans JesuitSulphur Tallulah
1947 Bogalusa Ruston Baker
1948§New Orleans Fortier BossierTallulah
1949Shreveport Byrd Destrehan Boutte Hahnville
1950Baton Rouge IstroumaBakerClinton
1951Baton Rouge IstroumaRustonDelhi
1952Shreveport Fair Park Springhill Kenner
1953New Orleans Jesuit Westlake Ferriday

Notes: *—Class AA championship game ceded, by Baton Rouge Istrouma; [61] **—Class A championship game tie broken by total first downs; †—Class AA championship game played under "Toy Bowl" moniker; [37] ‡—Class B championship game ceded, by New Orleans Academy; [62] §—Class AA championship game played under "Toy Bowl" moniker [38]

YearClass AAAClass AAClass AClass B
1954Lake CharlesMinden Ferriday Donaldsonville
1955 Baton Rouge Istrouma Monroe Neville Ferriday New Orleans Holy Name
1956Baton Rouge IstroumaMindenFerridayMangham
1957Baton Rouge Istrouma Morgan City Tallulah Delhi
1958Lake Charles Reserve Leon Godchaux TallulahGreensburg
1959Baton Rouge IstroumaMonroe Neville Houma Central Catholic Vacherie St. James
1960New Orleans Jesuit Pineville TallulahVacherie St. James
1961Baton Rouge IstroumaMonroe NevilleTallulahOberlin
1962Baton Rouge IstroumaMonroe Neville New Iberia Catholic Clinton
1963New Orleans Holy Cross Minden Amite Lockport
1964 Baton Rouge Napoleonville Assumption Lockport Metairie Ridgewood Prep
1965 Sulphur Larose–Cutoff Lake Charles Landry Memorial Arcadia
1966Baton Rouge Broadmoor Central BurasVacherie St. James
1967 Bossier City Airline Shreveport Jesuit Kinder Ville Platte Sacred Heart
1968Shreveport Woodlawn Boutte Hahnville Thibodaux E. D. White Catholic Clinton
1969 Bogalusa NatchitochesThibodaux E. D. White Catholic Kentwood
YearClass AAAAClass AAAClass AAClass A
1970 Harvey West Jefferson Hammond Haynesville Elton
1971* New Orleans Brother Martin Cut Off South Lafourche Haynesville Edgard Second Ward
1972** Monroe Neville Boutte Hahnville Lake Charles W. O. BostonEdgard Second Ward
1973 Shreveport Captain Shreve Destrehan Crowley Notre Dame Donaldsonville Ascension Catholic
1974 Baton Rouge Tara Monroe Richwood Opelousas Catholic Baton Rouge University Lab
1975New Orleans St. Augustine Lutcher River Ridge John Curtis Christian Gilbert
1976 Covington Shreveport Jesuit Crowley Notre Dame Franklin Hanson Memorial
1977Cut Off South Lafourche Haughton River Ridge John Curtis Christian Natchitoches St. Mary's Catholic
1978New Orleans St. AugustineLutcherKinder New Roads Catholic
1979†New Orleans St. Augustine Vacherie St. James River Ridge John Curtis ChristianPort Sulphur
1980 Reserve East St. John MindenRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianBaton Rouge Southern Lab
1981 Marrero Ehret St. Martinville River Ridge John Curtis ChristianPort Sulphur
1982 Ruston Eunice WinnfieldBaton Rouge Southern Lab
1983Monroe NevilleLutcherRiver Ridge John Curtis Christian Kentwood
1984Monroe NevilleSt. MartinvilleRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianHaynesville
1985Marrero EhretRiver Ridge John Curtis Christian Springhill Monroe Ouachita Christian
1986‡RustonMonroe Wossman KentwoodBaton Rouge Southern Lab
1987Marrero Shaw River Ridge John Curtis Christian Jonesboro–Hodge Haynesville
1988RustonRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianJonesboro–HodgeBaton Rouge University Lab
1989Monroe Ouachita Parish CrowleyJonesboro–Hodge Oak Grove
1990RustonRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianBurasHaynesville

Notes: *—Class AA championship game tie broken by total first downs; **—Class AAA championship game tie broken by total first downs; †—Class AAA championship game determined by overtime; ‡—Class AAAA championship game determined by overtime

YearClass 5AClass 4AClass 3AClass 2AClass 1A
1991* Thibodaux Bourg South Terrebonne Mansfield Haynesville Oak Grove
1992* Lafayette Carencro Boutte Hahnville Jennings Coushatta Donaldsonville Ascension Catholic
1993** West Monroe River Ridge John Curtis Christian New Orleans Karr Haynesville Shreveport Evangel Christian
1994Boutte Hahnville Slidell Salmen Amite HaynesvilleShreveport Evangel Christian
1995 Monroe Neville Slidell Salmen Breaux Bridge Cecilia HaynesvilleLogansport
1996†West MonroeRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianShreveport Evangel ChristianHaynesville Baton Rouge Southern Lab
1997West MonroeRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianShreveport Evangel ChristianMonroe Ouachita Christian Kentwood
1998West MonroeRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianShreveport Evangel Christian Edgard West St. John Kentwood
1999Shreveport Evangel ChristianRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianAmite Iota Oak Grove
2000West MonroeSlidell Salmen Crowley Notre Dame Monroe Ouachita ChristianHaynesville
2001Shreveport Evangel ChristianRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianBaton Rouge Parkview Baptist Farmerville Oak Grove
2002Shreveport Evangel ChristianRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianBaton Rouge Redemptorist Port BarrePort Sulphur
2003Boutte HahnvilleBaton Rouge Redemptorist Lutcher Edgard West St. John Abbeville Vermilion Catholic
2004Shreveport Evangel ChristianRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianAmiteEdgard West St. John St. George Dunham
2005‡West Monroe Breaux Bridge Baton Rouge RedemptoristRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianShreveport Evangel Christian
2006Lafayette Acadiana Bastrop LutcherRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianShreveport Evangel Christian
2007 Destrehan BastropBaton Rouge Parkview BaptistRiver Ridge John Curtis Christian Buras South Plaquemines
2008Destrehan Belle Chasse LutcherRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianBuras South Plaquemines
2009West MonroeMonroe NevilleCrowley Notre DameShreveport Evangel ChristianHaynesville
2010§Lafayette Acadiana Franklinton Baton Rouge Parkview BaptistShreveport Evangel ChristianWhite Castle
2011West MonroeMonroe Neville LaPlace St. Charles Catholic River Ridge John Curtis ChristianMonroe Ouachita Christian
2012 Metairie Rummel New Orleans KarrBaton Rouge Parkview BaptistRiver Ridge John Curtis ChristianMonroe Ouachita Christian

Notes: *—Class 5A championship games determined by overtime; **Class 3A championship game determined by overtime; †—Class 1A championship game determined by double-overtime; ‡—Class 4A championship game determined by forfeit, by Bastrop; [63] §—Class 4A championship game determined by overtime

YearNon-select Class 5ANon-select Class 4ANon-select Class 3ANon-select Class 2ANon-select Class 1ASelect Division ISelect Division IISelect Division IIISelect Division IV
2013* Lafayette Acadiana Metairie East Jefferson Farmerville Union Parish Kinder Haynesville Metairie Rummel Baton Rouge University Lab Shreveport Calvary Baptist Abbeville Vermilion Catholic
2014Lafayette Acadiana Monroe Neville Livonia Many Haynesville New Orleans Jesuit Baton Rouge University LabShreveport Calvary BaptistMonroe Ouachita Christian
2015** Zachary Monroe Neville Lutcher Kinder Kentwood Baton Rouge Catholic Baton Rouge Parkview Baptist Crowley Notre Dame Natchitoches St. Mary's Catholic
2016**New Orleans Landry–Walker Prep New Orleans Karr LutcherMonroe SterlingtonLogansportShreveport Evangel Christian Lafayette St. Thomas More Catholic Reserve Riverside Youngsville Ascension Episcopal
2017†ZacharyNew Orleans Karr St. Francisville West Feliciana Welsh Edgard West St. John Baton Rouge CatholicBaton Rouge University Lab New Iberia Catholic Lafayette Christian [64]
2018ZacharyNew Orleans Karr Eunice Amite Kentwood River Ridge John Curtis Christian Baton Rouge University LabCrowley Notre DameLafayette Christian [65]

Notes: *—Non-select Class 3A championship game determined by double-overtime and Select Division II championship game determined by forfeit, by River Ridge John Curtis Christian; **—Select Division IV championship game determined by forfeit, by Baton Rouge Southern Lab; [52] †—Select Division I championship game determined by forfeit, by Baton Rouge Catholic [66] (the LHSAA is not yet documented as having formally recognized runner-up River Ridge John Curtis Christian as the new champion)

YearNon-select Class 5ANon-select Class 4ANon-select Class 3ANon-select Class 2ANon-select Class 1ALouisiana Select Association Division ILouisiana Select Association Division IILouisiana Select Association Division IIILouisiana Select Association Division IV
2019 Lafayette Acadiana New Orleans Karr Vacherie St. James Ferriday Oak Grove Metairie Rummel Lafayette St. Thomas More Catholic Lafayette Christian Monroe Ouachita Christian [67]
2020*Lafayette AcadianaLafayette Carencro Baton Rouge Madison Prep Many Oak GroveBaton Rouge Catholic Lafayette St. Thomas More CatholicLafayette Christian Shreveport Calvary Baptist [68]
2021 Zachary New Iberia Westgate Monroe Sterlington Amite Homer [69] Baton Rouge Catholic [70] Baton Rouge University Lab [69] LaPlace St. Charles Catholic [71] Baton Rouge Southern Lab [69]

Note: *—Louisiana Select Association Division I championship game determined by forfeit, by Baton Rouge Catholic [66] (the LHSAA is not yet documented as having formally recognized runner-up Shreveport Byrd as the new champion)

YearNon-select Division INon-select Division IINon-select Division IIINon-select Division IVSelect Division ISelect Division IISelect Division IIISelect Division IV
2022 Destrehan [72] Lutcher [73] Many [74] Oak Grove [75] River Ridge John Curtis Christian [76] Lafayette St. Thomas More LaPlace St. Charles Catholic Monroe Ouachita Christian [75]
2023 Ruston Opelousas Farmerville Union Parish Oak Grove Baton Rouge Catholic Lafayette St. Thomas More Shreveport Calvary Baptist Baton Rouge Southern Lab

National Farm and Live Stock Show and Live Stock Buyers' Convention (1917)

The 1917 National Farm and Live Stock Show was held in New Orleans, complete with a relatively early-season state championship football game between Easton and Minden High that was won by Easton, 44–7. [11] :42

Year(no classifications)
1917 New Orleans Easton [77] [11] :42

Spalding's Official Foot Ball Guide (1918)

Despite the various wartime shortages and Spanish Flu-related travel restrictions and disbandments of teams, apparently enough games did manage to be held in 1918 that Easton would later be described as state champions by a national publication. [78] Otherwise, the new LHSAA passed on designating its own champion, and a proposed, unsponsored championship game between Easton and Winnfield never got past the planning stages. [11] :45

Year(no classifications)
1918 New Orleans Easton

Texas–Louisiana Football Series (1922–1923)

In 1922 and 1923, attempts were made to pair the state champions of Louisiana and Texas in a postseason event.

In 1922, without any official explanation, the LHSAA issued a simple statement that it would not endorse any playoff games or otherwise declare a champion for that season. [79] Speculation was that the primary playoff contenders were just simply too far spread out from each other to make it worth the effort, [80] especially since they had fared only modestly better over the course of the season than the non-contenders had. [11] :62–63 As far as the Texas–Louisiana series was concerned, Shreveport High (which had at least managed to defeat all of its in-state opponents) was considered the champion of Louisiana [81] for the sake of the game. [82]

The following year, the LHSAA declined to recognize the already-scheduled state championship game between Homer and Morgan City, and declared Morgan City its champion instead. [83] The game was played any way, with Homer winning. Homer was then designated as Louisiana's representative for the planned New Year's Day face-off between the Louisiana and Texas champions at Centenary College, under the proposed backing of the Shreveport Chamber of Commerce. [84]

Year(no classifications)
1922 Shreveport
1923 Homer

Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Association (1936–1949)

The Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Association (LIALA) was created for African American high schools in 1935, with the merging of two regional interscholastic organizations and the backing of Southern University. [85] It sponsored its first football championship in 1936. [86]

An early power in black high school football was McKinley High School in Baton Rouge, which won every game from the start of the 1933 season going into the 1940 postseason's Magnolia Bowl against Monroe Colored High [87] (later called Carroll High School)—part of that time with Eddie Robinson at quarterback. [88] In 1939 the Capital City Free Workers attempted to host a black state championship game that included (then-independent [89] ) McKinley [90] in a fundraiser for the local Lions Club that would also feature the LIALA champion, Bogalusa Central (later called Central Memorial)—with the winner to host a black national championship game on New Year's Day. [91] However, McKinley ended up opting out of postseason play, [92] leaving Central the overall state champion of record by default [93] and ending any hopes of holding a national championship game (by the next season McKinley had joined the LIALA but was still ineligible for its state title because they had played too few conference games, hence the aforementioned appearance in the Magnolia Bowl instead of the state playoffs [93] ). They were finally able to capture the LIALA crown in 1942. [94]

Year(no classifications)
1936 New Orleans Xavier Prep [95]
1937New Orleans Xavier Prep [93]
1938 Bogalusa Central [96]
1939Bogalusa Central [91]
1940 New Orleans Xavier Prep [97]
YearClass AAClass A
1941 New Orleans Xavier Prep [98] Baton Rouge Southern [99]
Year(no classifications)
1942 Baton Rouge McKinley [94]
1943 Ruston Lincoln [100]
1944*(no champion) [86]

Note: *—championship game not held but league also declined to declare champion

Year
1945 New Orleans Gilbert Academy [11] :246 Bogalusa Central Memorial [101]
1946New Orleans Booker T. Washington [102] Bogalusa Central Memorial [101]
YearClass AAClass A
1947* Baton Rouge Southern [103] Bossier City Colored [104]
1948 Ruston Lincoln [105] Bossier City Colored [104]

Note: *—Class A championship determined by declaration because North Louisiana champion had no available opponents (no members of Class A were located in the southern part of the state) [106]

YearClass AAClass AClass B
1949 New Orleans Booker T. Washington [102] Baton Rouge Southern [107] [108] Bernice Colored [109]

Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Organization (1950–1969)

In 1950, after the LIALA rechristened itself as the "Louisiana Interscholastic Athletic and Literary Organization" (LIALO), it openly worked with the LHSAA to restructure itself from a coordinating body into more of a governing body, with stronger rules and enforcement power. However, by 1951 the LIALO had already been accused by the principal of Winnfield Winn Training (later called Pinecrest) of "trying to purge certain members of vocal opposition to friendship politics;" he threatened to join with the other "purged" members to create a new high school athletic association. [110] The LIALO was again accused by him in 1956 of selectively enforcing its rules with a tilt toward the southern part of the state, and thirty North Louisiana schools attempted to break away from the LIALO to form the "Louisiana Secondary School Association" as an alternative, competing organization. [111] During the years 1965 and 1966, a tragic but also inspiring story arose out of DeQuincy as four members of their small, Class A-sized Grand Avenue team died in a car wreck just two hours after returning from winning the state championship game over Good Pine, 27–0. [112] However, the team was able to pull together the next year and persevere as repeat-champs by an even larger margin of victory over Good Pine, this time 56–6. [113] At the end of the 1967–68 school year, New Orleans St. Augustine left the LIALO to join the LHSAA [41] as part of the process of desegregation efforts within the New South. Further accelerating the disbanding of the LIALO was the 1968 revelation that the association had never formally incorporated and was therefore technically not even a legally-recognized entity under Louisiana law—leading to questions over who exactly was running the organization and what they were using its membership fees for. This concern came to light when H. C. Ross of Crowley attempted to challenge the LIALO in court over one of its rulings but was then informed that there was no such organization to serve lawsuit papers to; Ross promptly withdrew from the LIALO and applied for admission to the LHSAA. [114] By early December 1969, a rumor spread that the LIALO would disband with its remaining members joining the LHSAA [115] —this, despite the difficulties that St. Aug faced when transitioning over to LHSAA rules (19 football players quickly lost eligibility). [116] Furthermore, what ended up being the last-ever LIALO state championship game was delayed a full month until mid-January 1970, as it "had been plagued with protests, courts suits, and counter-protests." [117] Some dialogue began between the two organizations [118] and, by the end of the 1969–70 school year, all remaining LIALO members had moved over to the LHSAA. [119] The LHSAA is apparently in possession of few, if any, archival records from the organization, and surviving records are otherwise scarce. [120] In addition, in 2016 the LHSAA's offices in Baton Rouge received major damage from a flood, [51] which could have potentially destroyed any remaining records. It is not immediately clear if Southern, which helped sustain the organization, [85] has retained any documents concerning the LIALO (Southern appears to have at least remained distant enough from the LIALO over that time period to have avoided being pulled directly into its aforementioned legal disputes). However, there is at least some LIALO-related paperwork among the Charles B. Roussève papers maintained by the Amistad Research Center at Tulane. [121]

YearClass AAClass AClass B
1950* New Orleans Booker T. Washington [122] [11] :248 Lake Charles W. O. Boston [123] Winnfield Winn Training [110]
1951 Shreveport Booker T. Washington [124] Winnfield Winn Training [125] Haynesville Colored [126]

Notes: *—Class AA championship game tie broken by total first downs; [127] Class B championship disputed (Winnfield Winn Training, later called Pinecrest, later claimed that it was the legitimate champion because it maintained that its scheduled championship game opponent, Lake Charles W. O. Boston, had acknowledged having too many students to participate in Class B and had not even played any conference games before being considered for South Louisiana's automatic bid to the contest—neither WOBHS nor the league is known to have been documented as having corroborated this claim, but Pinecrest is known to have refused to play the game; [110] notably, the 1951 WOBHS annual yearbook describes its school as having won the 1950 Class A state championship instead [123] )

YearClass AAClass A
1952 Shreveport Booker T. Washington [124] [128] Jonesboro Colored [129]
1953* Monroe Carroll [130] Lutcher Cypress Grove [131] [132]
1954 Baton Rouge McKinley [133] [134] Haynesville Colored [135] [132]
1955Baton Rouge Capitol Avenue [136] [137] Haynesville Colored [138]
1956** Mansfield DeSoto [139] [140] Zachary Northwestern [141] [142]

Notes: *—Class AA championship game tie broken by total penetrations; [130] **—Class AA championship game tie broken by total yardage [143]

YearClass AAAClass AAClass A
1957 Mansfield DeSoto [144] [140] Clinton East Feliciana Industrial Training [145] Marion Industrial [146]
1958Mansfield DeSoto [140] Lake Charles W. O. Boston [147] [148] DeQuincy Grand Avenue [149]
1959 New Orleans Landry [150] Bastrop Morehouse [151] Lillie Westside [152] [153]
1960Lake Charles Washington [154] Rosedale Levy [155] Westlake Mossville [153]
1961* Monroe Carroll [156] Homer Mayfield [157] Shreveport Notre Dame [158]
1962Monroe Carroll [156] Monroe Richwood [159] Shreveport Notre Dame [160]
1963New Orleans St. Augustine [156] [161] Monroe Richwood [159] Leesville Vernon [162] [163]
1964Shreveport Booker T. Washington [164] Monroe Richwood [159] Angie Ray [159]
1965New Orleans St. Augustine [164] [161] Baton Rouge Southern Lab [165] [105] DeQuincy Grand Avenue [112]
1966New Orleans St. Augustine [166] West Monroe Richardson [167] [168] DeQuincy Grand Avenue [113]
1967 Marrero Lincoln [169] West Monroe Richardson [170] Leesville Vernon [171]
1968Monroe Carroll [172] [173] Baton Rouge Southern Lab [174] [105] Leesville Vernon [175]
1969Baton Rouge Scotlandville [176] Princeton [177] Farmerville Eastside [178]

Note: *—Class AA championship game determined by forfeit, by Bogalusa Central Memorial [157]

Louisiana Prep Grid Standard (1957–1959)

Lee L. Meade, Sr., a Minnesotan who would later become sports editor of The Denver Post and then help form the American Basketball Association, World Hockey Association, World TeamTennis, Major League Volleyball, and International Basketball Association sports leagues, briefly worked in Louisiana with the Lafayette Daily Advertiser and the Lake Charles American Press. [179] While in Lake Charles he established a sports rating system that could both rank LHSAA teams and also determine possible point spreads of upcoming games, similar to what the Dunkel System [180] and Jeff Sagarin do for various sports, most notably college football. His mathematical system, dubbed the "Louisiana Prep Grid Standard" (LPGS), was considered quite accurate by his journalistic peers. [181] It correctly projected the results of 80% of the 1957 playoff games, including 100% of the four championship games. [182] One of the LPGS' more notable game predictions in 1959 was that one team would beat another by a seemingly absurd point margin of 74 points; the team actually ended up winning by 75 points. [181] In January 1960 the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate drew up a man-made postseason ranking of the top ten LHSAA Class AAA teams from 1959 to compare with the findings of the LPGS mathematical system; the two rankings ended up very similar, as all ten teams were the same with few noteworthy disagreements in the order of those ten. [180] At the time, the Associated Press only ranked the LHSAA's Class AAA, while Meade ranked teams in all of the classifications of the LHSAA. [182] While the season's final AP poll was announced before the LHSAA playoffs, [183] Meade's final rankings were issued after the playoffs—and while usually matching the actual LHSAA champions, did occasionally deviate from them, much to the benefit of several Baton Rouge-area schools (and the dismay of his readers from Lake Charles High). Baton Rouge Istrouma, for example, won all LHSAA Class AAA titles between 1955 and 1959 except for 1958—but was then able to grab the top spot in Class AAA in the LPGS' 1958 final postseason ratings as well. [180]

YearOverallClass AAAClass AAClass AClass B
1957 Baton Rouge Istrouma [184] Baton Rouge Istrouma [185] Morgan City [186] Baton Rouge University Lab [187] Delhi [188]
1958Baton Rouge Istrouma [187] Baton Rouge Istrouma [180] Reserve Leon Godchaux [186] Tallulah [187] Vacherie St. James [188]
1959Baton Rouge Istrouma [189] [190] Baton Rouge Istrouma [180] Monroe Neville [186] Baton Rouge Redemptorist [180] Vacherie St. James [188]

Morning Advocate (1959)

Though the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate was normally content to just let the LHSAA teams determine the championships among themselves within the framework of the playoffs, shortly after the 1959 season they did issue a one-time postseason ranking of the top ten Class AAA teams to compare with the results of the Louisiana Prep Grid Standard mathematical system. The two rankings ended up "almost identical." [180]

YearClass AAA
1959 Baton Rouge Istrouma

Louisiana Independent School Association (1970–1991)

In 1970 twenty private schools, many of which could probably be classified as segregation academies, formed the "Louisiana Independent School Association" (LISA). By 1971 LISA had increased its membership to 54 schools. It also included at least one Arkansas school during its existence. [191] When LISA disbanded many of its member schools joined the Midsouth Association of Independent Schools, with some joining the LHSAA.

Below is a listing of all LISA football champions. [191]

Year(no classifications)
1970 Amite City Valley Forge
YearClass AAClass A
1971 Ferriday Huntington St. Joseph Tensas Academy
1972 Reserve Riverside Tallulah Academy
1973Reserve RiversideNatchitoches Academy
1974 Clinton Silliman Hammond Southwood
1975Reserve Riverside Opelousas Belmont
1976 Metairie Barthe Gonzales East Ascension Academy
1977 Rayville RiverfieldSt. Joseph Tensas Academy
1978Hammond SouthwoodSt. Joseph Tensas Academy
1979 Lake Providence Briarfield Tallulah Academy
1980Reserve RiversideTallulah Academy
1981Plain Dealing Academy Haynesville Claiborne
1982 Amite City Valley ForgeSt. Joseph Tensas Academy
1983Reserve Riverside Franklinton Bowling Green
1984Reserve Riverside West Monroe Ridgedale
1985Reserve Riverside Shreveport First Baptist
1986Reserve RiversidePlain Dealing Academy
1987West Monroe RidgedaleHaynesville Claiborne
1988 Bastrop Prairie ViewPlain Dealing Academy
1989 New Roads False River Lake Providence Briarfield
1990 Monroe River Oaks Haynesville Claiborne
1991Rayville RiverfieldLake Providence Briarfield

Midsouth Association of Independent Schools (1988–Present)

The Mississippi Private School Association was formed in 1968, and individual Louisiana schools have been participating in it since at least 1988. [191] When the LISA disbanded after the 1991–92 school year, a number of former LISA schools joined it. The association changed its name to the "Mississippi Association of Independent Schools" (MAIS) in 2009, and then to the "Midsouth Association of Independent Schools" in 2019 to more fully reflect its member institutions from Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. As of 2020 there are thirteen MAIS schools located in Louisiana. Due to restrictions issued by the state government, Louisiana's MAIS schools were initially the only Louisiana high schools that could play football during the COVID-19 pandemic, provided that they not play their games within the borders of Louisiana. [192]

Below is a listing of all Louisiana-based MAIS football champions [193] (beginning with the 2019 season, classes A and AA were reorganized to reflect the winners of MAIS' eight-man football championships [194] and, as such, is not included with this listing).

YearClassSchool
1992ATallulah Academy
1996AAA Clinton Silliman
1997AA Franklinton Bowling Green
2001AAAClinton Silliman
2002AA Amite City Oak Forest
2004A Haynesville Claiborne
2005A Monroe River Oaks
2007A Minden Glenbrook
2010AAMonroe River Oaks
2014AAA–IIAmite City Oak Forest
2015AAAClinton Silliman
2019AAAA Rayville Riverfield
2020AAAARayville Riverfield [195]
20225AAmite City Oak Forest [196]

Louisiana Christian School Athletic Association (2006–2011)

The Louisiana Christian School Athletic Association (LCSAA) began competition during the 1981–82 school year, [197] [198] with formal championship competition between its 24 member schools coming during the 1984–85 term. [199] Although very similar in nature to the make-up of the LISA, it differed slightly in that LISA schools were not necessarily parochial schools while LCSAA schools always were. Regardless, LISA schools did have a tendency to be Protestant-based academies, concentrated within Protestant-majority North Louisiana; [191] LCSAA schools—also largely Protestant academies—were more often clustered in Louisiana's predominantly Catholic Acadiana region, [199] giving its schools much fewer potential students to draw from. With smaller schools than the LISA, it initially could not sustain eleven-man football programs (although it did manage to foster six-man [200] and eight-man football competition [201] ). It did eventually attempt to add eleven-man football as a league sport for the 2006 season, starting with four teams. [202]

Year(no classifications)
2006 Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship [203]
2007Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship [204]
2008 Abbeville Lighthouse Christian Prep [205]
2009Breaux Bridge Christian [206]
2010 Houma Covenant Christian [207]
2011Houma Covenant Christian [208]

Association of Christian Educators of Louisiana (2012–2014)

In 2012 the LCSAA was "reformed" as the "Association of Christian Educators of Louisiana" (ACEL). Although it had more than 30 member schools in 2013, most did not field football teams. It actually featured two "divisions" for football, however, including one for eight-man football that contained 7 schools. [198] However, after three seasons it no longer had enough schools sustaining eleven-man football teams to warrant sanctioning further championship competition and, as of the 2020 season, has not resumed sponsoring the sport. [209] However, with five schools still fielding eight-man teams, the ACEL has been able to continue fostering competition for that particular form of the sport. [210]

Year(no classifications)
2012 Lafayette Acadiana Home School Athletics [211]
2013 Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship [212]
2014Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship [212]

Louisiana Independent Football Tournament (since 2015)

With the ACEL membership no longer fielding enough eleven-man football teams to merit additional formal championships, some remaining teams [213] (primarily those with homeschooling backgrounds, which are able to rely on a growing number of students [214] ) went outside the association to continue participating in championship competition. They formed the "Louisiana Independent Football Tournament" (LIFT) to compete in.

Year(no classifications)
2015 Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship [212]
2016Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship [215]
2017 Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics [216]
2018Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics [216]
2019Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics [217]
2020Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics [218]
2021Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics [219]
2022Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics [220]

State championships by school*

Wall of the John Curtis Christian School gymnasium: The school has the most football state championships in LHSAA history Patriot Power sign on side of the John Curtis gym.jpg
Wall of the John Curtis Christian School gymnasium: The school has the most football state championships in LHSAA history
School**MunicipalityParishState championship(s)Season(s)Note(s)
1 John Curtis Christian Patriots River Ridge Jefferson 271975, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2018, 2022
2 Haynesville Golden Tornado Haynesville Claiborne 171924, 1929, 1936, 1970, 1971, 1984, 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2000, 2009, 2013, 2014
3 Evangel Christian Academy Eagles Shreveport Caddo 141993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2010, 2016
4 Neville Tigers Monroe Ouachita 121955, 1959, 1961, 1962, 1972, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2009, 2011, 2014, 2015
5 (tie) C. E. Byrd Yellow JacketsShreveportCaddo101914, 1915, 1922, 1926, 1930, 1931, 1934, 1935, 1937, 1949won in 1914, 1915, and 1922 as Shreveport High
5 (tie) Istrouma Indians Baton Rouge East Baton Rouge 101938, 1950, 1951, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1961, 1962
5 (tie) Southern Lab KittensBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge101941, 1947, 1949, 1965, 1968, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1996, 2015, 2016, 2021won in 1941, 1947, and 1949 as Southern High
8 (tie) Kentwood Kangaroos Kentwood Tangipahoa 91928, 1939, 1969, 1983, 1986, 1997, 1998, 2015, 2018
8 (tie) Lutcher Bulldogs Lutcher St. James 91975, 1978, 1983, 2003, 2006, 2008, 2015, 2016, 2022
8 (tie) Riverside Academy Rebels Reserve St. John the Baptist 91972, 1973, 1975, 1980, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 2016
8 (tie) Tallulah Trojans Tallulah Madison 91932, 1933, 1934, 1946, 1948, 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961
8 (tie) Warren Easton Eagles New Orleans Orleans 91912, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1920, 1921, 1942
13 (tie) Baton Rouge Golden BulldogsBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge81909, 1911, 1913, 1914, 1917, 1919, 1944, 1964
13 (tie) Jesuit Blue JaysNew OrleansOrleans81933, 1940, 1941, 1943, 1946, 1953, 1960, 2014
13 (tie) Ruston Bearcats Ruston Lincoln 81925, 1941, 1947, 1951, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990
13 (tie) University Lab CubsBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge81957, 1974, 1988, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021
13 (tie) Ouachita Christian EaglesMonroeOuachita81985, 1997, 2000, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2019, 2022
13 (tie) West Monroe Rebels West Monroe Ouachita81993, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2005, 2009, 2011
19 Oak Grove Tigers Oak Grove West Carroll 71989, 1991, 1999, 2001, 2019, 2020, 2022
20 (tie) Acadiana Wreckin' Rams Lafayette Lafayette 62006, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2019, 2020
20 (tie)Acadiana Christian Athletics DefendersLafayetteLafayette62017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
20 (tie) Amite Warriors Amite City Tangipahoa61963, 1994, 1999, 2004, 2018, 2021
20 (tie)Christian Home Educators Fellowship PatriotsBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge62006, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
20 (tie) Destrehan Fighting Wildcats Destrehan St. Charles 61941, 1949, 1973, 2007, 2008, 2022won in 1941 as 6-man team [221]
20 (tie) Edna Karr CougarsNew OrleansOrleans61993, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
20 (tie) Hahnville Tigers Boutte St. Charles61949, 1968, 1972, 1992, 1994, 2003
20 (tie) Notre Dame Pioneers Crowley Acadia 61973, 1976, 2000, 2009, 2015, 2018
20 (tie) St. Augustine Purple KnightsNew OrleansOrleans61963, 1965, 1966, 1975, 1978, 1979
20 (tie) St. James Wildcats Vacherie St. James61958, 1959, 1960, 1966, 1979, 2019
30 (tie) Ferriday Trojans Ferriday Concordia 51953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 2019
30 (tie) Homer Fighting Pelicans Homer Claiborne51923, 1928, 1937, 1939, 2021
30 (tie) Jonesboro–Hodge Tigers Jonesboro Jackson 51930, 1945, 1987, 1988, 1989won in 1930 as Jonesboro High
30 (tie) McKinley PanthersBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge51926, 1927, 1929, 1942, 1954won in 1926 as Baton Rouge Colored High
30 (tie) Minden Crimson Tide Minden Webster 51938, 1954, 1956, 1963, 1980
30 (tie) Parkview Baptist EaglesBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge52001, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2015
36 (tie) Carroll BulldogsMonroeOuachita41953, 1961, 1962, 1968
36 (tie)Central Memorial Spartans Bogalusa Washington 41938, 1939, 1945, 1946, 1961won in 1938 and 1939 as Central High
36 (tie) Claiborne Academy RebelsHaynesvilleClaiborne41981, 1987, 1990, 2004
36 (tie)Kinder Yellow Jackets Kinder Allen 41967, 1978, 2013, 2015
36 (tie)Lake Charles Wildcats Lake Charles Calcasieu 41910, 1932, 1954, 1958
36 (tie)Lafayette Christian Academy KnightsLafayetteLafayette42017, 2018, 2019, 2020
36 (tie) Redemptorist WolvesBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge41959, 2002, 2003, 2005
36 (tie) Richwood RamsMonroeOuachita41962, 1963, 1964, 1974
36 (tie)Riverfield Academy Raiders Rayville Richland 41977, 1991, 2019, 2020
36 (tie) St. Thomas More Catholic CougarsLafayetteLafayette42016, 2019, 2020, 2022
36 (tie) Silliman Institute Wildcats Clinton East Feliciana 41974, 1996, 2001, 2015
36 (tie) Sulphur Golden Tornadoes Sulphur Calcasieu41943, 1944, 1946, 1965
36 (tie)Tallulah Academy TrojansTallulahMadison41972, 1979, 1980, 1992
36 (tie)Tensas Academy Chiefs St. Joseph Tensas 41971, 1977, 1978, 1982
36 (tie) West St. John Rams Edgard St. John the Baptist41998, 2003, 2004, 2017
36 (tie) Xavier Prep Yellow JacketsNew OrleansOrleans41936, 1937, 1940, 1941
36 (tie) Zachary Broncos Zachary East Baton Rouge42015, 2017, 2018, 2021
53 (tie) Archbishop Rummel Raiders Metairie Jefferson32012, 2013, 2019
53 (tie) Ascension Catholic Bulldogs Donaldsonville Ascension 31941, 1973, 1992won in 1941 as Donaldsonville Catholic
53 (tie) Bastrop Rams Bastrop Morehouse 31927, 2005, 2006, 2007
53 (tie) Booker T. Washington LionsNew OrleansOrleans31946, 1949, 1950
53 (tie) Booker T. Washington LionsShreveportCaddo31951, 1952, 1964
53 (tie) Briarfield Academy Rebels Lake Providence East Carroll 31979, 1989, 1991
53 (tie) Calvary Baptist Academy CavaliersShreveportCaddo32013, 2014, 2020
53 (tie)Carter G. Woodson TigersHaynesvilleClaiborne31951, 1954, 1955won in 1951, 1954, and 1955 as Haynesville Colored High
53 (tie)Clinton EaglesClintonEast Feliciana31950, 1962, 1968
53 (tie)DeSoto Tigers Mansfield DeSoto 31956, 1957, 1958
53 (tie)Grand Avenue Tigers DeQuincy Calcasieu31958, 1965, 1966
53 (tie) Jennings Bulldogs Jennings Jefferson Davis 31908, 1939, 1992
53 (tie)Lincoln Black BearsRustonLincoln31928, 1943, 1948
53 (tie) Many Tigers Many Sabine 32014, 2020, 2022
53 (tie)Oak Forest Academy Yellow JacketsAmite CityTangipahoa32002, 2014, 2022
53 (tie)Plain Dealing Academy Lions Plain Dealing Bossier 31981, 1986, 1988
53 (tie)Port Sulphur Bronchos Port Sulphur Plaquemines 31979, 1981, 2002
53 (tie) River Oaks MustangsMonroeOuachita31990, 2005, 2010
53 (tie) St. Charles Catholic Comets LaPlace St. John the Baptist32011, 2021, 2022
53 (tie) Salmen Spartans Slidell St. Tammany 31994, 1995, 2000
53 (tie)Vernon Lions Leesville Vernon 31963, 1967, 1968
53 (tie)W. O. Boston PanthersLake CharlesCalcasieu31950, 1958, 1972
75 (tie) Arcadia Hornets Arcadia Bienville 21940, 1965
75 (tie) Baker Buffaloes Baker East Baton Rouge21947, 1950
75 (tie) Bogalusa LumberjacksBogalusaWashington21947, 1969
75 (tie) Bossier Bearkats Bossier City Bossier21942, 1948
75 (tie) Bowling Green Buccaneers Franklinton Washington21983, 1997
75 (tie)Buras Wildcats Buras Plaquemines21966, 1990
75 (tie) Carencro BearsLafayetteLafayette21992, 2020
75 (tie) Catholic BearsBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge22015, 2017, 2020, 2021
75 (tie) Catholic Panthers New Iberia Iberia 21962, 2017
75 (tie)Charlotte A. Mitchell Grizzly BearsBossier CityBossier21947, 1948won in 1947 and 1948 as Bossier City Colored High
75 (tie)Covenant Christian Academy Lions Houma Terrebonne 22010, 2011
75 (tie)Delhi Bears Delhi Richland21951, 1957
75 (tie) East St. John WildcatsReserveSt. John the Baptist21958, 1980won in 1958 as Leon Godchaux High
75 (tie) E. D. White Catholic Cardinals Thibodaux Lafourche 21968, 1969
75 (tie) Eunice Bobcats Eunice St. Landry 21982, 2018
75 (tie) Holy Cross TigersNew OrleansOrleans21945, 1963
75 (tie) John Ehret Patriots Marrero Jefferson21981, 1985
75 (tie)Landry Memorial TigersLake CharlesCalcasieu21942, 1965
75 (tie)Lockport Pirates Lockport Lafourche21963, 1964
75 (tie)Logansport Tigers Logansport DeSoto21995, 2016
75 (tie) Loyola College Prep FlyersShreveportCaddo21967, 1976won in 1967 and 1976 as Jesuit High
75 (tie) Morgan City Tigers Morgan City St. Mary 21923, 1957
75 (tie)Notre Dame BloodhoundsShreveportCaddo21961, 1962
75 (tie)Pinecrest Yellow Jackets Winnfield Winn 21950, 1951won in 1950 and 1951 as Winn Training
75 (tie)Rayville HornetsRayvilleRichland21929, 1931
75 (tie)Richardson BearsWest MonroeOuachita21966, 1967
75 (tie)Ridgedale Academy RaidersWest MonroeOuachita21984, 1987
75 (tie) St. Martinville Tigers St. Martinville St. Martin 21981, 1984
75 (tie) St. Mary's Catholic Tigers Natchitoches Natchitoches 21977, 2015
75 (tie) Second Ward EaglesEdgardSt. John the Baptist21971, 1972
75 (tie) Slidell TigersSlidellSt. Tammany21944, 1945
75 (tie) South Lafourche Tarpons Cut Off Lafourche21971, 1977
75 (tie) South Plaquemines HurricanesBurasPlaquemines22007, 2008
75 (tie)Southwood Academy Spartans Hammond Tangipahoa21974, 1978
75 (tie) Springhill Bulldogs Springhill Webster21952, 1985
75 (tie)Sterlington PanthersMonroeOuachita22016, 2021
75 (tie) Union Parish Fightin' Farmers Farmerville Union 22001, 2013won in 2001 as Farmerville High
75 (tie)Valley Forge Academy RebelsAmite CityTangipahoa21970, 1982
75 (tie) Vermilion Catholic Eagles Abbeville Vermilion 22003, 2013
75 (tie)Vinton Lions Vinton Calcasieu21935, 1936
115 (tie)Acadiana Home School Athletics CommandosLafayetteLafayette12012
115 (tie) Airline VikingsBossier CityBossier11967
115 (tie) Alcée Fortier TarponsNew OrleansOrleans11948
115 (tie) Archbishop Shaw EaglesMarreroJefferson11987
115 (tie) Ascension Episcopal Blue Gators Youngsville Lafayette12016
115 (tie) Assumption Mustangs Napoleonville Assumption 11964
115 (tie) Belle Chasse Cardinals Belle Chasse Plaquemines12008
115 (tie)Belmont Academy Eagles Opelousas St. Landry11975
115 (tie) Breaux Bridge Tigers Breaux Bridge St. Martin12005
115 (tie)Breaux Bridge Christian Academy KnightsBreaux BridgeSt. Martin12009
115 (tie) Broadmoor BuccaneersBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge11966
115 (tie) Brother Martin CrusadersNew OrleansOrleans11971
115 (tie) Capitol Golden LionsBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge11955won in 1955 as Capitol Avenue High
115 (tie) Captain Shreve GatorsShreveportCaddo11973
115 (tie) Catholic Hornets New Roads Pointe Coupee 11978
115 (tie) Cecilia Bulldogs Cecilia St. Martin11995
115 (tie) Central Wildcats Central East Baton Rouge11966
115 (tie)Columbia Crimson Tide Columbia Caldwell 11937
115 (tie)Coushatta Choctaws Coushatta Red River 11992
115 (tie) Covington Fighting Lions Covington St. Tammany11976
115 (tie)Crowley Fighting GentsCrowleyAcadia11989
115 (tie)Cypress Grove BobcatsLutcherSt. James11953
115 (tie) Donaldsonville TigersDonaldsonvilleAscension11954
115 (tie) Dunham Tigers St. George East Baton Rouge12004
115 (tie)East TigersClintonEast Feliciana11957won in 1957 as East Feliciana Industrial Training
115 (tie)East Ascension Academy Broncos Gonzales Ascension11976
115 (tie) East Jefferson WarriorsMetairieJefferson12013
115 (tie)Eastside DemonsFarmervilleUnion11969
115 (tie)Elliot Giants Bernice Union11949won in 1949 as Bernice Colored High
115 (tie) Elton Indians Elton Jefferson Davis11970
115 (tie) Fair Park IndiansShreveportCaddo11952
115 (tie) False River Academy GatorsNew RoadsPointe Coupee11989
115 (tie)First Baptist Academy PatriotsShreveportCaddo11985
115 (tie) Franklinton DemonsFranklintonWashington12010
115 (tie)Gilbert Demons Gilbert Franklin 11975
115 (tie) Gilbert Academy TigersNew OrleansOrleans11945
115 (tie)Glenbrook Academy ApachesMindenWebster12007
115 (tie)Greensburg Tigers Greensburg St. Helena 11958
115 (tie) Hammond TornadoesHammondTangipahoa11970
115 (tie) Hanson Memorial Tigers Franklin St. Mary11976
115 (tie) Haughton Buccaneers Haughton Bossier11977
115 (tie)Holy Name Blue KnightsNew OrleansOrleans11955
115 (tie)Huntington HoundsFerridayConcordia11971
115 (tie) Iota Bulldogs Iota Acadia11999
115 (tie)Jackson WahasJonesboroJackson11952won in 1952 as Jonesboro Colored High
115 (tie) Jefferson College Blue Backs Convent St. James11907
115 (tie)Kenner Thunderbolts Kenner Jefferson11952
115 (tie) L. B. Landry BuccaneersNew OrleansOrleans11959
115 (tie) LaGrange GatorsLake CharlesCalcasieu11938
115 (tie) Landry–Walker Prep Charging BuccaneersNew OrleansOrleans12016
115 (tie)Larose–Cut Off Bulldogs Larose Lafourche11965
115 (tie)Lighthouse Christian Prep EaglesAbbevilleVermilion12008
115 (tie)Lincoln TrojansMarreroJefferson11967
115 (tie) Livonia Wildcats Livonia Pointe Coupee12014
115 (tie)Madison Prep Academy ChargersBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge12020
115 (tie)Mangham Dragons Mangham Richland11956
115 (tie)Mansfield WolverinesMansfieldDeSoto11991
115 (tie)Marion Industrial Lions Marion Union11957
115 (tie)Mayfield RaidersHomerClaiborne11961
115 (tie)Morehouse TigersBastropMorehouse11959
115 (tie)Mossville Pirates Westlake Calcasieu11960
115 (tie)Natchitoches Red DevilsNatchitochesNatchitoches11969
115 (tie)Natchitoches Academy TrojansNatchitochesNatchitoches11973
115 (tie)Northwestern BravesZacharyEast Baton Rouge11956
115 (tie)Oberlin Tigers Oberlin Allen11961
115 (tie) Opelousas Catholic VikingsOpelousasSt. Landry11974
115 (tie) Ouachita Parish LionsMonroeOuachita11989
115 (tie) Pineville Rebels Pineville Rapides 11960
115 (tie) Ponchatoula Green Wave Ponchatoula Tangipahoa11940
115 (tie)Port Barre Red Devils Port Barre St. Landry12002
115 (tie)Prairie View Academy SpartansBastropMorehouse11988
115 (tie)Princeton Dragons Princeton Bossier11969
115 (tie) Ridgewood Prep Golden EaglesMetairieJefferson11964
115 (tie) Sacred Heart Trojans Ville Platte Evangeline 11967
115 (tie) Sam Barthe HornetsMetairieJefferson11976
115 (tie) Scotlandville HornetsBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge11969
115 (tie) South Terrebonne Gators Bourg Terrebonne11991
115 (tie) Tara TrojansBaton RougeEast Baton Rouge11974
115 (tie) Thibodaux TigersThibodauxLafourche11991
115 (tie)Thomas A. Levy Tigers Rosedale Iberville 11960
115 (tie) Vandebilt Catholic Fightin' TerriersHoumaTerrebonne11959won in 1959 as Houma Central Catholic High
115 (tie)Washington IndiansLake CharlesCalcasieu11960
115 (tie) Waterproof Tigers Waterproof Tensas11943
115 (tie) Welsh Greyhounds Welsh Jefferson Davis12017
115 (tie)Wesley Ray Eagles Angie Washington11964
115 (tie)West Feliciana Saints St. Francisville West Feliciana 12017
115 (tie) West Jefferson Buccaneers Harvey Jefferson11970
115 (tie) Westgate TigersNew IberiaIberia12021
115 (tie) Westlake RamsWestlakeCalcasieu11953
115 (tie)Westside Tigers Lillie Union11959
115 (tie)White Castle Bulldogs White Castle Iberville12010
115 (tie)Winnfield TigersWinnfieldWinn11982
115 (tie) Woodlawn KnightsShreveportCaddo11968
115 (tie) Wossman WildcatsMonroeOuachita11986

Notes: *—although MAIS championships are not, strictly speaking, "state" championships per se, those titles are included with these totals for comparative purposes; **—most recent school name is used, when available

National championships by school

Several Louisiana high schools have also won national championships.

The state of Louisiana itself actually had a direct impact on several early high school national crowns as the Louisiana Sports Association hosted a series of games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge called the "National High School Championship" in 1938 and 1939, [222] the latter of which included an appearance by Louisiana's own Baton Rouge High. [223] McKinley had the chance to host a similar national championship game for black schools [224] but, after deciding against participating in the postseason, [92] went to watch the Baton Rouge High game instead. [223]

Rebel Stadium at West Monroe High School: The school has the most football national championships in LHSAA history Wmrebelstadium.jpg
Rebel Stadium at West Monroe High School: The school has the most football national championships in LHSAA history
SchoolMunicipalityParishNational championship(s)Season(s)
1Acadiana Christian Athletics Defenders Lafayette Lafayette 42019, [225] 2020, [226] 2021, [227] 2022 [228]
2 West Monroe Rebels West Monroe Ouachita 21998, 2000
3 (tie) Bogalusa Lumberjacks Bogalusa Washington 11969
3 (tie) Evangel Christian Academy Eagles Shreveport Caddo 11999
3 (tie) John Curtis Christian Patriots River Ridge Jefferson 12012
3 (tie) Ruston Bearcats Ruston Lincoln 11990

Team and coaching superlatives

Nineteen different schools in the parish of East Baton Rouge have won 72 total titles, including 14 different schools within the city limits of Baton Rouge that have won 63 total titles (this city total does not include, however, 4 championships forfeited by Catholic High and Southern Lab—or any won by Central High or Dunham, which used Baton Rouge postal ZIP Codes at the time but are now considered part of the newly-incorporated cities of Central and St. George respectively).

Curtis is the school with the most championships (27), and Lafayette Acadiana Christian Athletics is the school with the most consecutive championships (6). Haynesville is the public school with the most championships (17)—and most consecutive LHSAA championships (4), tied with Ferriday and Edna Karr of New Orleans (although Istrouma as a public school actually won 5 consecutive crowns when counting its 1955, 1956, 1957, and 1959 LHSAA titles along with its top-place finish in the 1958 Louisiana Prep Grid Standard final postseason rankings). Istrouma is the school with the most championships within the LHSAA's highest classification (9). Curtis is now a member of the New Orleans Catholic League, a district within the LHSAA that is well-represented on the listings above.

Long-term successful teams like Curtis, Haynesville, and Istrouma are known for having programs with extensive family ties. Curtis' head coach, John T. Curtis Jr.—the second-winningest head coach in high school football history—is the son of the school's founder and has had numerous family members serve as assistant coaches or players for the team. [229] He has also won more state championships than any other coach in the country. [230] Haynesville has had a very successful transition of its head coaching position from Alton "Red" Franklin to his son, David. [231] Istrouma similarly had a very successful transition of its head coaching position from Ellis A. "Little Fuzzy" Brown to his twin brother, James E. "Big Fuzzy" Brown. [232] In addition, Robert Andrew "Racer" Holstead, Sr., formerly the winningest high school football head coach in the state, coached Tallulah High to four LHSAA football championships, Tallulah Academy to three LISA championships and one MAIS championship—and even Plaquemine to one LHSAA basketball championship; recently his grandson, Chad Mahaffey, also coached University Lab [233] to four state championships. Like Holstead, Baton Rouge Christian Home Educators Fellowship (LCSAA, ACEL, and LIFT), Easton (Times–Picayune, National Farm and Live Stock Show, and LHSAA), and Southern Lab (LIALA, LIALO, and LHSAA) have also won trophies from three different sources.

Records from schools and coaches with documented all-time won–loss standings, however, indicate that having programs among the winningest in the state does not necessarily always correlate with earning state championships.

SchoolYearsWinsLossesTiesPct.State
championship(s)
1 Haynesville 1907 [234] –201982829934.728 [235] 17
2 Monroe Neville 1931 [236] –201976625620.745 [235] 12
3 New Orleans Jesuit 1895 [11] :8–201972535334.667 [235] 8
4Shreveport/Shreveport Byrd 1905–201965542335.604 [237] [238] 9
5Winnfield1909 [239] –201960344236.574 [235] 1
6 River Ridge John Curtis Christian*1969–2019592666.896 [240] 26
7 Lutcher*1945–201958126114.687 [241] :16 [241] :249–261 [242] 8
8 Sulphur 1930 [243] –201957334412.623 [235] 4
9 Oak Grove 1928–201957232210.638 [244] 5
10 Reserve Leon Godchaux/East St. John 1924–201954137015.592 [245] :176 [246] [247] [248] 2
11 Crowley Notre Dame 1967–20195331273.806 [249] [250] 6
12 Vacherie St. James*1950–201950229122.629 [251] :9 [251] :223–234 [252] 6
13 Baton Rouge University Lab*1956–20194822132.693 [253] 7
14 Leesville 1910–201946943617.518 [254] :64–780
15 Thibodaux E. D. White Catholic*1950–201945030517.594 [255] :207–218 [256] 2
16 Thibodaux*1950–201937430614.549 [257] 1
17Monroe Ouachita Christian 1977–20193591560.697 [258] [259] 7
18New Orleans Brother Martin 1969–20193452125.618 [260] [261] 1
19Shreveport Evangel Christian 1989–2019330820.801 [262] :198 [263] [264] 14
20Baton Rouge Episcopal 1970–20192842473.535 [265] [266] 0

Note: *—although school is known to have participated in football as a varsity-level sport prior to years listed, records for those seasons are not fully documented

CoachSchool(s)YearsWinsLossesTie(s)Pct. [240] State
championship(s) [53]
1 John T. Curtis Jr. River Ridge John Curtis Christian 51592666.89226
2Jim Hightower New Roads Catholic 464291281.7713 [267]
Lafayette St. Thomas More Catholic
3 (tie) Red Franklin Haynesville 35365768.82211
3 (tie)Lewis Cook Rayne 34365840.8125
Crowley
Crowley Notre Dame
5 Don Shows Farmerville 32345780.8178
Jonesboro–Hodge
Pineville
West Monroe
6 Vic Dalrymple Oak Grove 32320990.7634
7Dale Weiner Plaquemine St. John 353171090.7441
St. George Trafton
New Roads Catholic
Baton Rouge Catholic
8Racer Holstead Tallulah 413101558.6648
Tallulah Academy
9 Richard McCloskey Franklin Hanson Memorial 392861416.6671
10 Hank Tierney Marrero Shaw 332811170.7061
Harvey West Jefferson
Ponchatoula
Marrero Shaw
11Frank Monica Lutcher 29277840.7672
Reserve Riverside
New Orleans Jesuit
LaPlace St. Charles Catholic
12Dee Faircloth Vidalia 452741976.5710
13Dutton WallPort Sulphur382731532.6380
Welsh
Ville Platte Sacred Heart
14Johnny BuckKinder362711327.6702
Opelousas Catholic
15Hoss Garrett Arcadia 3927012219.6803
Ruston
16Tim DetillierLaPlace St. Charles Catholic302661120.7034
Lutcher
17David Currier Kentwood 312641120.7022
Franklinton Bowling Green
18 Charlie Brown Monroe Neville 30263666.7943
19 Joe Keller Reserve Leon Godchaux 382627315.7701
20Lewis Murray Bogalusa 352591237.6751
Franklinton Bowling Green

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