Athletics and records · For football coaches and athletic directors
A football record board for every game, season and career mark
Keep your program’s passing, rushing, receiving, defensive and kicking records in one place, split into single-game, season and career lists, with a profile for every player.
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What is a football record board?
A football record board lists a program’s best single-game, season and career marks in passing, rushing, receiving, defense and kicking, with the player and year, and it usually hangs in a locker room hallway or field house. With HistoryShowcase, each time span becomes its own ledger with a category filter, and every mark opens to the player’s profile.
Updated
- Made for
- Football coaches and athletic directors
- Where schools put it
- Locker room hallway, Gym lobby on homecoming weekend, Football program website
- Layouts
- Honors ledger, Timeline
- Visitors can filter by
- Category, Position, Year
- Cost
- Free to use. No payment details required.
Football keeps three record books, not one
Every football stat has three records: the best single game, the best season and the best career. Multiply that by passing, rushing, receiving, tackles, sacks, interceptions and field goals, and a program has dozens of marks. No painted locker room wall has room for that, so most schools post a handful of yardage records and the rest live in a coach’s binder.
A football record board organizes them the way the record book does. Single-game, season and career records each get their own collection, with the category as a filter, so a visitor can choose rushing and see all three. When a quarterback sets a new season passing mark in the playoffs, the coach can update it before the banquet, and the previous holder moves into record history instead of being erased.
How does a football record board compare with a coach’s record book binder?
| What matters | Record book binder | HistoryShowcase |
|---|---|---|
| Who can see it | Whoever has the binder | Anyone walking past, or anyone with the link |
| Single-game, season and career lists | Pages in one binder | Three ledgers with a category filter |
| Defense and special teams | In the binder, not on the wall | Same space as passing and rushing |
| Earlier record holders | Crossed out or retyped | Kept in a record history timeline |
| Adding older records | Retype pages by hand | Smart Add suggests entries from an uploaded program |
What to include on a football record board
Passing records
Completions, yards and touchdown passes, in single-game, season and career lists.
Rushing and receiving
Rushing yards and touchdowns, receptions and receiving yards, each with the game or season it came from.
Defensive records
Tackles, sacks, interceptions and fumble recoveries, the marks that rarely make the painted wall.
Special teams
Longest field goal, most field goals in a season, and kick and punt return records.
Team records
Most wins in a season, longest winning streak, most points in a game and playoff appearances.
Player profiles
Each mark opens to the player’s profile with their position, class year, biography and game photos.
How to organize football records
Mirror your record book: separate ledgers by time span, with a filter for the stat category. Profiles carry the stories from Friday nights.
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- Single-game recordsHonors ledger
The best individual games, with the opponent and date in the subtitle.
- Season recordsHonors ledger
The best full seasons, by category and year.
- Career recordsHonors ledger
Career totals, with the years the player was on varsity.
- Team recordsHonors ledger
Wins, streaks, points and playoff runs for the program as a whole.
- Record historyTimeline
Broken records in the order they fell, so earlier players stay on the board.
Visitors can narrow it by
- Category
- Position
- Year
How do you set up a football record board?
Open the record book
Type up the current record book, or upload it and let Smart Add suggest each record with its source for you to check.
Sort it by time span
File records into single-game, season and career collections, and tag each with its category so the filter works.
Update before the banquet
After the season, add any new records, preview the board privately and publish before the awards banquet.
Where should a football record board go?
- Locker room hallwayPlayers walk past the marks they’re chasing every day of the season.
- Gym lobby on homecoming weekendFamilies and alumni look up old records when the most former players are back in the building.
- Football program websiteShare the board’s web address with alumni, families and players being recruited.
Football record board questions
We have dozens of records. Will they fit?
Yes. Records live in collections that visitors browse and filter, so there’s no wall space to run out of. Split them into single-game, season and career lists, and let visitors filter by category.
Can we show who held a record before?
Yes. When a record falls, update the current entry and move the previous holder into a record history collection, with their profile and photos intact.
Our records from the 1970s are incomplete. Is that a problem?
No. Add what you can confirm now and fill in the rest as alumni send old programs or newspaper clippings. Smart Add can read a program you upload and suggest entries for you to review.
Can we include defensive and special teams records?
Yes. Add any category your program tracks, from tackles and sacks to field goals and return yards. Each category can have single-game, season and career records.
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