Gardendale High School football

Gardendale is a large school in Alabama.

Coming soon

Alabama is coming to Hometown Line

You’re in the right place, and the whole site is open to you. We only show scores a state’s association lets us read and credit, and Alabama’s aren’t readable yet. Here’s how Gardendale gets on, and how to play in the meantime.

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Getting Gardendale on the site

Alabama isn’t published yet. The AHSAA's site asks every automated reader to stay out, so we have not read it.

In the meantime, a coach, athletic director or team manager can put a school’s season on the site through the Team Desk, and the letter below still asks them to publish.

Ask them

Write to Alabama High School Athletic Association or your school's athletic director. Address it to the association’s office or your athletic director — the contact page on their site has it.

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Subject: Schedules and scores for Alabama high-school football

Dear Alabama High School Athletic Association,

I am a fan of Gardendale. I follow the season on Hometown Line (hometownline.com), a free game of skill and prediction for high-school football. There is no money in it: readers predict results and are scored on how well they read the games.

Alabama is not on the site yet because the schedules and scores are published in a way that does not allow another site to read them. I am writing to ask that Alabama High School Athletic Association allow Hometown Line to read the schedules and scores it already publishes, or publish them as a feed. The site reads only what it is allowed to, identifies itself, and credits Alabama High School Athletic Association on every game.

Thank you for considering it.

Yours sincerely,
A supporter of Gardendale

Every state, and why

Start a league for Gardendale families

Parents, alumni, the bleachers: everyone picks Gardendale’s games and the schools around them, and Saturday’s table settles who knows best. Free, about a minute, one link to the group chat.

Start a Gardendale league

Gardendale High School (GHS) is a public high school located in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb of Gardendale. It is currently operated by the Jefferson County Board of Education. GHS was established in 1956 as a result of population growth in the area.

From the school’s Wikipedia article, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is on record

Wherereal: Alabama; A real programme in a real place.
Sizereal: 1,063 students; From the school's own article. A large school.
Groupingthis site's: Region 3 (AL); This site's grouping, built by region so travel and rivalry look plausible. It is not the state association's alignment and will not match a real bracket.
Mascotreal: Rockets
Foundedreal: 1956
Typereal: Public
School districtreal: Jefferson County Board of Education; The body that runs the school. Not the grouping above, which is ours.
Plays inreal: AHSAA Class 6A; The association's own classification, not ours.
Coloursreal: Maroon and gray

The programme

Notable alumni: 8 in all, 4 of them in football; Counted from the school’s own article, which lists people notable enough to have been written up. A programme with none has not produced none.

Everything above comes from Gardendale’s own article — except the few lines that name a different one — and is real. Hometown Line also runs a scoring model over Alabama high school football. Every prediction it makes is the model’s own. Where Alabama publishes a schedule the site may read, the games ahead are that schedule; where it does not, the fixtures ahead are generated so the model has something to predict. A result is shown only where its source is named.

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