Having difficulty contacting moderators. Need permission and instructions to post the pictures of Melvin Clements of Rotan when he was recognized at the Rotan / Knox City game recently.
Listening to 98.1 FM (ESPN Sports Feed ) this morning out of Abilene and some guest was promoting an area football scoreboard show. He said " scores from 5- A all the way down to our "Little Buddies" in 6- Man.
He obviously didn't see the Throckmorton vs Rotan game. Throckmorton team...
Plans are to honor Mr. Melvin Clements in Rotan on Friday night ---September 7 th. Game starts at 7:30 but our plans are to have Mr. Clements toss the coin prior to kickoff. Hope the event goes as planned. Mr. Clements had a pacemaker for his heart installed about 2 weeks ago and put our...
Not only will we be recognizing Mr. Melvin Clements in Rotan -----he will be in fact representing both teams (players and coaches) for their pioneering historic effort. Even though all the other players and coaches are now deceased ----maybe their family members can feel that same historic...
For any of you folks that are interested in 6-Man Football History --go on "Facebook" and type-----Six-man football --in the search block. The first 6-man football game played in Texas was on Sept. 29, 1936 between Sylvester High School and Dowell High School (country school about 3 miles...
Guess Rotan can thank it's previous departed coach for setting up the "Toughest Schedule in the State" before leaving. Like the saying goes "what goes around --comes around". Just hope we get a chance to payback someday. We sure as heck will not forget any time soon.