Jackson Noe!!!

Brad just sent a lot of us this article, but I thought it was worthy of posting on here! Way to go Jackson- grandpa is smiling very proudly on you!

The disappointment that surrounded eighth-grade St. Albert football player Jackson Noe when he broke his collarbone in the first game of the season was nowhere to be found yesterday.Jackson, part quarterback, part running back, part everything, propelled St. Albert to victory at the 59th Toy Bowl at Trinity High School’s Marshall Stadium.

“He’s an incredible talent. So the idea was, just give him the football,” St. Albert coach Randy Smith said after his squad — which was 2-4 during the regular season without Jackson — beat Notre Dame Academy/St. Paul 32-0 in the Catholic School Athletic Association Class AAA finals.In the final game, St. Albert continued its hot streak by blanking Notre Dame 32-0 in the AAA finals, for the largest schools. St. Albert led 22-0 at halftime, as Jackson scored on runs of 64 and 45 yards. He also played defense.

After the win, St. Albert players couldn’t find a big cooler to dump its icy contents over Smith’s head, so they used water bottles to douse the ecstatic coach.St. Albert finished the season 5-4; Notre Dame was 7-2. Smith heaped praise on Jackson. “It’s not every day you find a kid that fractured a collarbone and come back at this age and have that courage,” Smith said. “He came back and you’d have never thought he got hurt. Most kids would come back and shy away from contact. He couldn’t wait to hit somebody.”