6 man History

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

Another article on 6 man football from the September 21, 1941 Galveston Daily News.

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

From the September 22, 1941 issue of the Corsicana Daily Sun on the upcoming area 6 man games. Of all the schools listed, only Rice is still in business.

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

From the Brownsville Herald September 23, 1941 on the upcoming El Jardin-Wilson Tract game. Both schools have ben absorbed long ago into the Brownsville school system.View attachment Brownsville Herald September 23, 1941 on El Jardin-Wilson tract game.png

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

Brownsville Herald September 27, 1941 on San Perlita joining the Lower Valley 6 man league. The article was wrong on them no having played football before. I'm sure there were some from the 1939 11 man team.

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

Leman,

Here's a guy after you're own heart. A letter to the sports editor of the Brownsville Herald on why they never include any stats on six man game articles. September 30, 1941.

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

From the October 1, 1941 Brownsville Herald an article on the upcoming 6 man games with a little history and editorializing on the sport. The writer was off by one point on field goals in both sports......

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

Note the schools participating in this district. One was Brownsville St. Joseph, which still plays football. The UIL did let some small parochial schools participate in 6 man districts if they wanted to and had a good reason. Price Memorial Catholic played in a UIL district with Groom, Booker, Darrouzett, Kelton, and Alanreed that year too. The UIL changed the next year and did not allow parochials to be in UIL districts.

Los Fresnos, now a 5A school
Mission Sharyland, also 5A and in the same district as Los Fresnos
La Joya also 5A and in the same district as the previous 2
Santa Rosa, now a 2A school
San Perlita, still a small Class A school, but one of the non-football sissy schools
Brownsville St. Joseph, TAPPS Div 1
El Jardin and Stuart Place are Ghost League schools now.

olderelk · Mar 16, 2013

Old Bearkat":3prukn8s said:
La Marque is a 3A school (when did they drop from 4A?)

The last realignment
http://blog.chron.com/prepsports/2012/0 ... -released/

freeagent · Mar 16, 2013

Old Bearkat":3rfkrfp4 said:
Note the schools participating in this district. One was Brownsville St. Joseph, which still plays football. The UIL did let some small parochial schools participate in 6 man districts if they wanted to and had a good reason. Price Memorial Catholic played in a UIL district with Groom, Booker, Darrouzett, Kelton, and Alanreed that year too. The UIL changed the next year and did not allow parochials to be in UIL districts.

Los Fresnos, now a 5A school
Mission Sharyland, also 5A and in the same district as Los Fresnos
La Joya also 5A and in the same district as the previous 2
Santa Rosa, now a 2A school
San Perlita, still a small Class A school, but one of the non-football sissy schools
Brownsville St. Joseph, TAPPS Div 1
El Jardin and Stuart Place are Ghost League schools now.

I think LaJoya has two 5A schools ... I think there may be a significant "visiting population" because when I last drove through LaJoya a couple years ago, it wasn't a 5A town, if you get my drift.

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

lifegatesports":1lbx6bwq said:
Old Bearkat":1lbx6bwq said:

Note the schools participating in this district. One was Brownsville St. Joseph, which still plays football. The UIL did let some small parochial schools participate in 6 man districts if they wanted to and had a good reason. Price Memorial Catholic played in a UIL district with Groom, Booker, Darrouzett, Kelton, and Alanreed that year too. The UIL changed the next year and did not allow parochials to be in UIL districts.

Los Fresnos, now a 5A school
Mission Sharyland, also 5A and in the same district as Los Fresnos
La Joya also 5A and in the same district as the previous 2
Santa Rosa, now a 2A school
San Perlita, still a small Class A school, but one of the non-football sissy schools
Brownsville St. Joseph, TAPPS Div 1
El Jardin and Stuart Place are Ghost League schools now.

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I think LaJoya has two 5A schools ... I think there may be a significant "visiting population" because when I last drove through LaJoya a couple years ago, it wasn't a 5A town, if you get my drift.

understood.....

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

Hey OFB!!

Have you ever heard about Draw-Redwine? They had a school there that played 6 man for a few years. Scores have been few and far between for them though.

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

Millersview, an old 6 man school now consolidated with Eden.

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

Old Glory now closed for many years. I have only one score for them from 1944.

Old Bearkat · Mar 16, 2013

Another old closed 6/8 man school from the panhandle, Pettit

freeagent · Mar 17, 2013

Speaking of private school (high schools) playing 6 man football, I understand that St. Mary's School in Fredericksburg, when it operated high school grades (40s, 50s) also played six-man football. The school is now elementary only.

There are quite a number of elementary only Catholic schools playing six-man football; I believe there is a league of about six or eight schools in Houston, Kerrville Notre Dame and San Antonio Holy Name schools also play six-man in our San Antonio area league.

Old Bearkat · Mar 18, 2013

From Doc WeeWee a page from the 1948-49 Megargel yearbook. Note the different schedule the high school and Jr High played. It looks like that year teh high school played a 6 man schedule and the jr high an 11 man schedule.