PAWHUSKA’S KANE FOREMAN PUTS UP BIG NUMBERS IN THE BLUE-GRAY ALL-AMERICAN BOWL IN TEXAS
Pawhuska High School’s quarterback, Kane Foreman, passes the ball during the Blue-Gray All-American Bowl last Sunday held at the AT&T Stadium - the home of the Dallas Cowboys.
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By Mike Tupa
Dec. 18, 2025
BARTLESVILLE AREA SPORTS REPORT
Very few of us will ever experience the kind of majestic 11-day period that Pawhuska High School quarterback Kane Foreman recently lived through.
On Dec. 5, Foreman, a senior, led the Pawhuska Huskies close to what would have been a colossal upset in the Class A-I semifinals. Rejoice (13-1) held on by its fingernails to beat the Huskies, 42-34, and went on to crush Tonakwa in the state championship game, 34-13.
On Dec. 12, Foreman flew to Dallas to prepare for the Blue-Gray East vs. West All-American Bowl, along with many of the top high school football players in the nation.
On Dec. 14, Foreman played in the “small” crib known as AT&T Stadium, or the home of the Dallas Cowboys, in front of some of the most well-known college football coaches in America.
And he played exceptionally well. (More about that in a moment.)
And on Dec. 16 — with just a few hours rest under his belt — he suited up and played a full game for the Pawhuska boys varsity basketball team and drilled two three-pointers in a loss at Dewey.
Whew!
During the next few months, Foreman will wrap up a flamboyant prep athletic career that has witnessed him help spearhead Copan High football to back-to-back playoff appearances (for the first time since 2008-09), establish himself as a basketball stalwart for Copan, and to transfer his senior year to Pawhuska and engineer the offensive attack during an 11-2 season and state semifinal appearance.
And then there was the invitation several months ago to participate in last weekend's Blue-Gray All-American Bowl.
Kane arrived in Dallas last Friday evening and checked in Saturday morning for the weekend event. He went to an hour-long meeting Saturday morning and practiced for three hours.
The game took place on Sunday.
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Pawhuska High School’s Kane Foreman looks downfield during the Blue-Gray All-American Bowl last Sunday, held at the AT&T Stadium - the home of the Dallas Cowboys.
Courtesy photo
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Suiting up for the East team, Foreman turned in some extraordinary numbers — 20-of-23 passing and 217 yards while rotating with two other quarterbacks every third series, for a total of five rotations per quarterback.
“He was probably the most sharp quarterback the whole weekend for both teams,” said Marshall Foreman, Kane’s father and an honest soul who admits he’s a teeny bit biased toward his boy.
Three of Kane’s possessions started inside his team’s 10-yard line — two of them at the one-yard line.
“He had a couple of real big plays,” Marshall said.
On one of them, he scooped up a bad snap to the end zone and got the ball to a running back that made the first down.
Kane also completed the two longest pass plays of any of the quarterbacks — one for 35 yards to the 16-yard line and another on a dump to the running back who fumbled the ball away inside the 10-yard line. (His best starting position was his own 25-yard line.)
The team missed a field goal on two of Kane’s other possessions.
The East lost, 16-7, largely due to four turnovers.
On Kane’s first throw of the day he zipped the ball to a running back — who dropped it.
“Kane found out real quick that not all running backs can catch the ball like (Pawhuska’s) Vann Wildcat and Jenson Snodgrass,” Marshall said.
On Kane’s next throw, a 6-foot-5 defensive end elevated and knocked the ball down, furthering Kane’s education about the level of play of the athletes in this game.
After that he connected on 19 straight passes. On his final throw of the day, the receiver dropped it.
“He moved the ball good all day,” said Marshall. “After the game some college coaches were talking to him and said they’d get a hold of him this week. We’ll see how that turns out.”
What a week!
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Marshall’s future
Meanwhile, Marshall Foreman is contemplating stepping away from coaching — or at most filling a less stressful role — for a while.
During the five seasons from 2020 to 2024 he helped shape as the head coach a Copan football program that had won perhaps 10-to-12 games in the previous 10 seasons into a winning concern.
During the offseason of 2024-25, he resigned as Copan coach and worked on the Pawhuska staff after Kane had transferred to Pawhuska.
Foreman is a lay coach and said he needs to step away and detox from the pressure and time commitment of everyday coaching.
He left a small door open that he might serve under new Bartlesville High School head football coach Matt Hennesy — who left Pawhuska to lead the Bartlesville Bruins — in a less demanding role.
Foreman starred for both Copan and Sedan high schools’ sports programs in the late 19990s/early 2000s. His father, Kevin, is a former long-time Copan boys basketball head coach.