While covering the latest Richmond High School Athletic Hall of Fame ceremony, I was reminded of the ways Missouri prep football has changed dramatically over the past 62 years. I got that reminder while covering the induction of Richmond’s 1962 team (see related story above and on page 12). As was pointed out in the event program and again by team member/presenter Norman Bowman, the Spartans went 9-0-1 and won the Missouri River Valley Conference (MRVC) title that season. That sentence alone shows two ways high school football has changed: a) games no longer end in ties and b) there is no longer a sole MRVC champion. If memory serves, the shift to an overtime format to settle games knotted after four quarters took effect in the late 1970s or early ’80s. The earliest I remember hearing about it was the fall of 1980, when I was in Bob Gibson’s eighth-grade English class. Gibson was assistant football coach then under the legendary Tom Adams, and somehow, the conversation before the…