Top 20 Greatest Putnam Football Teams in the Last 40 Years: Continuing Success

Talented 1982 Palatka squad followed up with another long postseason run

  • Palatka High School’s Jimmy O’Neal goes for yards in the team’s state tournament opening-round victory at home against Jacksonville Lee in 1982. (Daily News file photo)
    Palatka High School’s Jimmy O’Neal goes for yards in the team’s state tournament opening-round victory at home against Jacksonville Lee in 1982. (Daily News file photo)
A state championship will put any team on a pedestal. But the 1982 Palakta High School football team wanted to maintain that standing. “We were optimistic going into the season,” said Jim McCool,…

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