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Harvester Good
The sun wasn’t even up when Trent Loter returned from the kitchen with another Diet Mountain Dew. He drank seven cans of the stuff a day, but this morning he was putting them back with purpose. That’s...
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Why You Should Root For Booker High School’s Football Team to Win the State...
The high school football playoffs began this week, and if you aren’t already cheering for a child’s school or an alma mater, might we suggest adopting the Booker High Kiowas as your home team away from...
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Allen’s Eagle Stadium Is Set To Officially Reopen On Friday
The story of Allen’s Eagle Stadium has been one of excess and prosperity, disappointment and schadenfreude. The most expensive high school stadium in the world opened in 2012 with no small amount of...
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On John Jay High School Football And The ‘Friday Night Lights’ Mythology
Friday night’s John Jay-Marble Falls football game made national news after two Jay players targeted and tackled referee Robert Watts from behind. The video of the attack, which is maybe the clearest...
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It’s Time To Stop Spending Tens of Millions of Dollars On High School...
It’s no revelation to say that in this state of ours, football is the second most cherished religion we’ve got—right after Christianity and just before complaining about the heat. But the trend of high...
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Phil Danaher Becomes Texas’s All-time Winningest High School Football Coach
Phil Danaher doesn’t remember who said it, but it was one of the first lessons he learned as a young coach: write down your goals. You may not look at them every day, but writing them down helps you...
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Watch the Moment Mount Vernon Learned Art Briles Would Be Its Next Head Coach
On Friday evening, Mount Vernon ISD announced its incoming head football coach: Art Briles, the former Baylor head coach who was dismissed from the university in 2016, after Texas Monthly reported on...
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Following Protests, the Plano Senior High vs. El Paso Eastwood Football Game...
On Friday afternoon, Plano Senior High School overturned a highly criticized decision its administrators made the day before. Plano ISD announced on Thursday that it would be canceling its...
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Art Briles Is Coaching High School Football in Texas. What’s His Endgame?
Mount Vernon hasn’t traditionally been a football town. Their high school team has enjoyed some recent success—they’ve made the playoffs the past three seasons—but many locals say this East Texas town...
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How High School Quarterbacks Prepared for the Strangest Season in Football...
Quarterback Caden Cooley stepped up to the line and surveyed the defense spread out before him. First, the freckled teenager looked at the safeties to determine if the middle of the field was open or...
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‘Texas 6’ Offers a Glimpse at the State’s Smallest Football Dynasty
About halfway through the second episode of Texas 6, scrawny quarterback Blaze Duncan cooks fajitas with orange juice. The OJ, he explains, makes the beef more tender, giving the aspiring chef’s...
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More Than a Game
It was supposed to be just another game. The Eastwood High School–Plano Senior High matchup had been scheduled for more than a year, a routine early-season nondistrict contest. Then, on August 3, a...
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From a Private Harris County High School, Three Players Appear to Be NFL-Bound
Among the most improbable storylines of this year’s NFL draft is that one of the big winners was a tiny, private high school in the Houston suburb of Bellaire. Who needs Nietzsche and Yeats when you...
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‘12 Mighty Orphans’ Is the Cornball Texas Football Movie We Need Right Now
It’s a true story so implausible that it had to be made into a movie. The triumph of the Mighty Mites, the Depression-era high school football team of the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home in Fort Worth,...
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Texas High School Football Didn’t Have to Lose Quinn Ewers
Twenty years from now, football fans are sure to look back on this summer and wonder why the eighteen-year-old superstar quarterback at Southlake Carroll skipped his senior season of high school...
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Coach Gary Joseph Has the Katy Tigers Eyeing Back-to-back State Titles
Gary Joseph points toward a bookcase behind his desk in the head football coach’s office at Katy High School. It contains boxes of cards and letters that, he hopes, tell another part of the story of a...
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Texan Deuce Vaughn Is Kansas State’s Big 12 Wild Card
Last September, in the second game of his college career, Kansas State running back Chris “Deuce” Vaughn stamped his arrival to the world of Big 12 football. Vaughn, a five-foot-six, 173-pound spark...
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On the Field With the Smallest Texas High School Playing Football This Year
At small schools across Texas, attendance from the entire school district is required to put the pep in a pep rally. Such was the case at Dell City School one Friday this month, hours before the...
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The Great Burkburnett Football Field Feud of 1972
How’s this for trash talk: weeks before Burkburnett High’s Bulldogs began practicing for their 1972 football opener, a 78-year-old resident of nearby Wichita Falls marched onto their field, planted a...
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Dave Campbell Made Texas Football the Juggernaut It Is Today
Dave Campbell, who died at 96 years old last Friday, was a man of such humility and kindness that it’s easy for those of us of a certain age to overlook how important his Texas Football magazine was in...
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