Would this have been an historic event?

[Mark Padgett]

On a different thread, I mentioned the 5th grade "competitive" girls game I worked last night. It turns out that it was actually a 5th grade team playing a 6th grade team, mostly since only two 5th grade teams joined that league this season. Anyway, the game begins and right after the opening tip, the 5th grade team (team A) gets the ball and A1 shoots it into the wrong basket. She was just confused. We told the scorer what to do and continued on. Team B seemed to score with relative ease and team A couldn't score at all.

At halftime, it was 28-0. I told my partner that we might be witnessing an historic event. He asked me to explain. I said even though there would really be no way to research it and/or prove it, if team A didn't score in the entire game, we would have a game in which a team scored more points for its opponent than for itself! I can't imagine that ever happening before at any level, anywhere.

He looked amazed and said I might be right but, of course, there would be no way to verify it. Anyway, team A finally scored with about 3 minutes left in the 3rd quarter and wound up losing 46-10. They did miss all 12 of their free throws. Even if they had only scored that one basket, we still would have had a situation in which a team scored the same number of points for its opponent as it scored for itself.

Can any of you come up with an instance of anything like this happening previously?