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Bob Burns (center) and the O'Gorman High School principal (right) holding the school's "mythical" state title trophy in 1978 - - three years before South Dakota implemented the state championship football tournament.
Coach Burns talks to his O'Gorman team at half-time of the 1981 State Championship game at the DakotaDome. The Knights defeated the Yankton Bucks to win the first ever South Dakota Class AAA State High School Football Championship.
Coach Burns (right) and an assistant coach being carried off the filed in Sioux Falls, South Dakota after defeating North Dakota State University in 1959. They went on to win the North Central Conference Championship (NCC) that year. 1959 was the last time Augustana won the NCC Championship.
Burns and one of his Augustana College players.