2023 Week 17B: Just Call This High Scoring Cardinal Sir
SirDarius Autry, a 160-pound junior running back, wide receiver, and cornerback, became the 37th player in County history to score at least 200 points in a season.
“Sir” Autry also became the third running back to finish first in the County in the Hoover Cardinals’ 94-season history, according to available statistics from newspapers and Max Preps research.
Autry matched the total of Terry Rodgers of Sweetwater, the first to score 200, hitting that number in 1985.
Hoover’s Roy Engle and Oceanside’s Bobby Betoncini led County scorers with 57 points each in 1935 and the Cardinals’ Eddie Crain scored 25 points in the abbreviated, 1943 wartime campaign.
Autry bettered the reported school one-season record of 132 points by Deontray Johnson in 2008. Bob Miller in 1947, Terrell Williams in 2000, and Damonte Holiday in 2013 each had 126.
SOME HIGH SCORERS, PRE-SAN DIEGO SECTION
(Game stats haven’t always been reported or published and individual records haven’t always been accurate .
| YEAR | NAME | TEAM | GAMES | TD | PAT | Pts. |
| 1916 | Bryan (Pesky) Sprott | San Diego | 11 | 22 | 0 | 132 |
| 1925 | Bert Ritchey | San Diego | 11 | 26 | 0 | 156 |
| 1929 | Frank Greene | Coronado | 9 | 23 | 26 | 164 |
| Blas Torres | St. Augustine | 9 | 17 | 11 | 108 | |
| 1944 | Ralph Swain | San Dieguito | 7 | 16 | 4 | 100 |
| 1946 | Art Preston | Grossmont | 10 | 20 | 3 | 123 |
| 1947 | Preston | 11 | 22 | 0 | 132 | |
| Bob Miller | Hoover | 9 | 21 | 0 | 126 | |
| 1950 | Harry Sykes | Coronado | 9 | 15 | 10 | 100 |
| 1952 | C.R. Roberts | Oceanside | 9 | 31 | 1 | 187 |
| 1953 | Roberts | 9 | 30 | 14 | 194 | |
| 1954 | John Adams | Hoover | 10 | 17 | 6 | 108 |
| 1956 | Chuck Wood | Escondido | 10 | 14 | 19* | 106 |
| 1957 | Hal Tobin | Coronado | 9 | 20 | 24 | 144 |
| 1958 | Gary Mayer | Ramona | 11 | 25 | 43 | 193 |
| 1959 | H.D. Murphy | San Diego | 11 | 21 | 6 | 132 |
*Includes field goal.
Lists of Top Annual Scorers and All-Time Individual Scorers.