My sister-in-law gave me a copy of this book for Christmas the year it was first published.
This was before I was even introduced to 6 man and I wondered why she gave me this particular book.
I still don't know but I'm glad she did.

Curious about the Forsan 1938 picture. My dad went to high school in Forsan and played 6man around that time. Any names listed on the picture. Looking for Darrell Adams.

The Wimberley team pictured here (1944) could have been a junior high team, as the writer mentions that teams were formed in the late 40's, but the last HS class there was 1942.

Most of the players do look a little young.....

I am enjoying the posts about football years past. This is a thread I would like to keep going.

Here is one from Oklahoma in honor of my DSW who was born in that state.....

1940 Oklahoma STATE CHAMPIONS Kiowa

Top Row L-R:
J. A. Darden, Charlie O'Daniel, James Prather, Frankie Russell, Leroy Jarvis, J. B. Ray, Charlie Stites.

Bottom Row L-R: Leon Wheeler, Junior Derryberry, George Kaleta, Wayne Rowe, Roger Allen, J. L. Ragun, Paul Shouse, Coach Earl Cartwright.

and another from South Dakota:


South Dakota State Six-Man Football Champs of 1947
Source: From http://www.six-man.com/Mickey%20Vickers%20Collection

and from Louisiana:

It began in 1949 under the leadership of Coach Robert J. Segura and Coach Travis Kendricks. Recognized at the game will be the 1949 football team. 1949 football team included Vories Stoutes, Richard Dubois, Andre Dubois, Calvin Landry, Jimmy Suire, Farrell Desormeaux, Paul Broussard, Daniel Nunez Curtis Bernard, Donald Primeaux, Allen LeBlanc, Harold “T-Beb” Broussard, Douglas Mergist, Raymond Bares, Roland Landry, J.D. Granger, Kenneth Menard, James LeBlanc and Carol Treadway. The group was honored in 1999 during Erath’s Centennial celebration, which was also the 50th Anniversary of the EHS football team.

I just found a reference to a school in Illinois that played 6Man in the '30's and 40's, Sherrard High School (Sherrard, IL). Anybody have any info on that? OBK?

Is it the way the uniforms fit, or did South Dakota just grow their boys with no necks back then?

I see smokeyjoe's been making good use of the internet!

I have some cool pictures of live game action from a six-man game being played in California in the 40s...with the Mojave Desert as a back drop!

I can remember seeing Pics of high school football teams from the 40's and 50's on high school walls when I was young. You can only wonder where those old pics go when new schools are built. The history that just disappears.

dawg...if you are lucky...in a closet...

While we are on this...

The Blackwell school library was dedicated to my grandmother back in 95, and there was a nice bronze plaque and a framed photo of her that hung on the wall...when they tore down the school and built the current one...I stopped in to remind them to not forget to put up the plaque and picture in the new building....that's been about 3 years ago...they never have done it!

She was a local historian and collected a lot of old photos and stuff that pertained to the school and town and had it in the old library...it's all packed up in a closet and I bet some of it has "walked off" in the move. They don't care about anyone but themselves and the here and now...no respect and don't care about doing the right thing!

Welp that got me on my soap box!

Leman Saunders

PS: I have been VERY tempted to just go to the school and take back all the stuff she collected for them during her 25 years of service to the school!

I had found an old photo of the school several years ago and I don't have it any more. Illinoisy consolidated almost all the small schools 20 years ago and nixed 6 and 8 man football for those that remained.

Neither.
The photographer just said,
"1, 2, 3, shrug."