Use of Mississippi High School Football Historians Association data

I'm glad you’ve found value in the data shared here. This website exists thanks to the tireless efforts of innumerable individual researchers who have gathered, verified, and contributed information to preserve the rich history of high school football.

You are welcome to use the data on this website for your own research, writing, projects, or just to satisfy your curiosity. I hope you find it useful!

Attribution & Sharing

I kindly ask that you acknowledge this website as your source when you use or share the data. There is not only an ethical argument to be made for attribution, but the practical argument is that it encourages further sharing because contributors feel comfortable they will be credited with the work they have done.

I’ve made it easy — there’s an attribution button at the bottom of the page for quick copying!

You can copy and paste this wherever you share or republish information from the site.

Sample newspaper attributions:

  • "Data courtesy of Mississippi High School Football Historians Association."
  • "...which, according to research compiled by the Mississippi High School Football Historians Association,..."
  • "The information in this article was sourced from the Mississippi High School Football Historians Association."
  • "Source: Mississippi High School Football Historians Association"

Sample blog attributions:

  • "A big shoutout to the Mississippi High School Football Historians Association for making all this data available. Check out their awesome work at hsfha.org!"
  • "Couldn’t have put this post together without the Mississippi High School Football Historians Association (hsfha.org). They’re doing incredible work preserving our state’s football legacy."
  • "I found most of these stats thanks to the Mississippi High School Football Historians Association (seriously, hsfha.org is an amazing rabbit hole for high school football fans)."

The Use Policy

The Use Policy is in the spirit of the Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC-SA) and the Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). Here’s what that means in plain language: You are free to copy, use, share, and adapt the data for your own use. Please attribute the website as your source. If you have additions or corrections, please consider sharing them back.

Questions or Contributions?

If you have questions about using the data, want to contribute, or spot something that needs correction, I’d love to hear from you! Please register as a member and reach out to me via the contact button.

Thank you for respecting the work of everyone who’s helped assemble this collection and for helping to keep it open and accessible for all!

Loren Maxwell

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