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<blockquote data-quote="bavery" data-source="post: 238752" data-attributes="member: 25161">1976 was my senior year of football. It was also our first year of six-man football at Whitharral America. We previously played 8 man until the UIL abolished it that summer. We were put in a 16 team district with 8 teams in each zone. We won our zone and played Trent in Lamesa during a snow storm for the district championship. The first round of the play-offs we played Harrold at Paducah. They had twice the number of kids as we did and wore us down pretty well. I think we got beat 44-22, Clifton Gilmore (supt. at Aspermont) was the QB for them. They went on to get eliminated by the eventual state champions, Marathon. Several of us Panthers drove to Loop to watch that game. It was either an open date for us, or the game was played on Saturday, I can't remember why we were able to go, but we had heard how good Marathon was and we wanted to watch it. We had heard that their QB could throw the length of the football field, and we were able to see it happen against the Loop Longhorns that day. My team mate, Walter Kristinek and I, had the priviledge of playing in the All Star game that summer in Brownwood with 3 of the marathon players. Spread Back Ben Ramirez, Receiver Simon Martinez, and Center Leo Caviness, were half of our team. We were defeated by 4 points by the East. They were Coached by Grayum Hart, and their best player was Phil Mitchel. I remember Phil had a sprained ankle going into that all star game and he touched the ball only 4 times and scored on 3 touches. If he was healthy they would have taken the game over easily.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bavery, post: 238752, member: 25161"] 1976 was my senior year of football. It was also our first year of six-man football at Whitharral America. We previously played 8 man until the UIL abolished it that summer. We were put in a 16 team district with 8 teams in each zone. We won our zone and played Trent in Lamesa during a snow storm for the district championship. The first round of the play-offs we played Harrold at Paducah. They had twice the number of kids as we did and wore us down pretty well. I think we got beat 44-22, Clifton Gilmore (supt. at Aspermont) was the QB for them. They went on to get eliminated by the eventual state champions, Marathon. Several of us Panthers drove to Loop to watch that game. It was either an open date for us, or the game was played on Saturday, I can't remember why we were able to go, but we had heard how good Marathon was and we wanted to watch it. We had heard that their QB could throw the length of the football field, and we were able to see it happen against the Loop Longhorns that day. My team mate, Walter Kristinek and I, had the priviledge of playing in the All Star game that summer in Brownwood with 3 of the marathon players. Spread Back Ben Ramirez, Receiver Simon Martinez, and Center Leo Caviness, were half of our team. We were defeated by 4 points by the East. They were Coached by Grayum Hart, and their best player was Phil Mitchel. I remember Phil had a sprained ankle going into that all star game and he touched the ball only 4 times and scored on 3 touches. If he was healthy they would have taken the game over easily. [/QUOTE]

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