In a season full of monster performances, Dixon senior running back Landon Knigge had his best yet to finish the regular season.

Knigge had one of the best games running the ball in the last 10 years of IHSA football by yardage, rushing for 447 yards and five touchdowns in a 58-20 win over Genoa-Kingston.

His 447 yards rushing are the 13th-most in a single game according to IHSA.org records entering the season. It was the best game rushing by yardage in a Big Northern Conference game since Rockford Lutheran’s James Robinson ran for 454 yards against Dixon in 2015. Robinson is the IHSA career rushing yards leader with over 9,000 yards.

Like most of Knigge’s huge games this season, a majority of that yardage came in just the first half. Knigge also shattered Arthur Cox’s single-game sch

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