Team USA didn’t just beat Canada on July 4 in Meeteetse, Wyoming - it made a statement. The Americans rolled to a 60-0 shutout in the 2026 Can-Am 6-Man All-Star football game, extending their run of control in the series with a fifth straight win.
The U.S. roster was built from players out of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska and Texas, and the headliner was Jayton High (Tex.) running back Bode Ham. Ham got the Americans moving early with two touchdowns and was a major force in a game that never gave Canada much breathing room.
Ham’s senior season at Jayton already had him in the spotlight. He helped lead the Jaybirds to a 15-0 record, and the team capped the year by putting up 99 points in a win over Richland Springs.
That victory delivered Jayton’s 30th straight win. The school, with an enrollment of just 58 students, won back-to-back Texas state titles behind Ham, a two-time Player of the Year who will continue at Hardin-Simmons University.
His final game against Richland Springs was the kind of performance that turns heads even in a state full of football stars. Ham set a state record with 13 touchdowns, including 10 rushing, and piled up 548 yards, 430 of them on the ground.
The Stars & Stripes had plenty of other standouts, too. Nolan Kamerman of Custer-Hysham-Melstone (Montana) earned Offensive MVP honors, while Colorado’s Austin Wright, from Arickeree School District, was named Defensive MVP. Another Colorado player, Jadyn Martinez, picked off two passes and returned one for a touchdown.
Nebraska quarterback Houston Billeter also made his mark. The 6-foot-1, 170-pound senior from Southwest High School in Bartley threw two touchdown passes and caught another from Kamerman on a trick play. Billeter had guided his school to an 11-1 record in his final season.
The Can-Am Bowl has been going since 1997, and the Americans have owned most of it. Team USA now leads the series 23-5 and has won 14 of the last 15 meetings. Canada’s last victory came in 2019, a 40-28 result.
This year’s game was the second in three years played in Meeteetse, a town of 316 people. The United States beat Canada 65-44 there in 2024. In 2025, the Stars & Stripes won 70-52 in Rosetown, Saskatchewan.
The first 23 games in the series were played in Canada. The first one on American soil came in 2022 in Lambert, Montana, after the event was not held the previous two years because of COVID-19 restrictions.
Six-man football brings its own quirks. The game is played on a smaller field, every player is eligible to catch and advance the ball, and teams need 15 yards for a first down instead of the usual 10 in 11-man football. The quarterback also has a different job, since he cannot directly run past the line of scrimmage and must hand off, toss or throw the ball to someone else.
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