Penn (14-0) won its first Class 5A state title and second football state championship overall by claiming five Evansville North turnovers and turning three into first-half scores to down the first-time state finalist, 35-13. Fourth-ranked Penn was the Class 4A state champion in 1983 when the lHSAA Football Tournament format consisted of four classes. The Kingsmen were the Class 5A state runner-up in 1989 and 1991. The Kingsmen, who entered the 1995 state tournament after extending their state-record regular-season winning streak to 83 games, were coached in all of their state finals appearances by Chris Geesman. Penn's opportunistic defense authored five shutouts during the 1995 season and Evansville North (13-1) was only the third team to score two touchdowns. The Kingsmen finished the year at plus-36 in turnover ratio. Penn built a 22-7 halftime lead as Josh Jordan ran for touchdowns of five yards and one yard. Jordan added a six-yard rushing touchdown early in the third quarter to give the Kingsmen a 28-6 advantage that proved to be insurmountable for Evansville North. The fifth-ranked Huskies were the first Evansville public school to reach the IHSAA Football State Finals since Evansville Reitz in 1977. Deke Cooper led Evansville North with 110 rushing yards, highlighted by a 75-yard touchdown run in the first quarter. He also added 51 receiving yards on three catches. The IHSAA Executive Committee selected Matt Geesman of Penn High School as the 1995 recipient of the Phil N. Eskew Award for Mental Attitude in Class 5A Football. Geesman, the son of Penn Coach Chris Geesman and the team's starting quarterback, ranked No. 1 academically in his senior class. Farm Bureau Insurance, corporate sponsor of all IHSAA tournaments, presented a $1,000 scholarship to Penn High School in Geesman's name.
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