6 man History

As someone in another thread put it, the yo-yo effect. Schools that have switched from one style of football to another several times.

Balmorhea: 11 man 1936-1937, 6 man 1938-1964, 11 man 1965-1983, 6 man since 1986
Benjamin: 6 man 1940-1959, 8 man 1960-1964, 6 man since 1965
Blackwell: 11 man 1930-1933, 6 man 1938-1947, 11 man 1948-1951, 6man since 1952
Borden Conty: 6 man 1952-1957, 8 man 1958-1975, 11 man 1976-1979, 6 man since 1980
Buena Vista: 6 man 1938-1957, 8 man 1958-1965, 11 man 1966-1984, 6 man since 1985
Christoval: 11 man 1946-1947, 6 man 1948-1957, 8 man 1958, no fb 1959, 6 man 1960-1993, 11 man since 1994
Cotton Center: 6 man 1953-1961, 8 man 1962-1973, no fb 1974-1975, 6 man since 1976
Follett: 11 man 1922-1941, 6 man 1945-1954, 11 man 1955-1971, 8 man 1972-1975, 11 man 1976-1988, 6 man since 1989
Fort Hancock: 11 man 1941-1953, 6 man 1954-1965, 11 man 1966-1983, 6 man 1984-1993, 11 man 1994-2007, Outlaw 6 man since 2008
Garden City: 6 man 1938-1957, 8 man 1958-1975, 11 man 1976-2003, 6 man since 2004
Grandfalls: 11 man 1935-1947, 6 man 1948-1950, 11 man 1951-1959, 8 man 1960-1961, 11 man 1962-1992, 6 man since 1993
Guthrie: 6 man 1949-1957, 8 man 1958-1972, no fb 1973, 6 man since 1974
Harper: 6 man 1946-1961, 8 man 1962-1975, 11 man 1976-1981, 6 man 1982-1991, 11 man since 1992
Harrold: 6 man 1938-1957, 8 man 1958-1975, 6 man since 1976
Hermleigh: 11 man 1936-1969, 6 man 1970-2003, 11 man 2004-2005, 6 man since 2006
Highland: 6 man 1943, 11 man 1946-1952, no FB 1953-1958, 6 man since 1959
Irion County: 11 man 1933-1941, 6 man 1946-1957, 8 man 1958-1959, 6 man 1960-1975, 11 man since 1976
Jayton: 11 man 1925-1943, 6 man 1944-1946, 1952-1957 (no fb 1947-1951), 8 man 1958-1963, 11 man 1964-1983, 6 man since 1984
Klondike: 11 man 1936-1938, 6 man 1940-1957, 8 man 1958-1975, 11 man 1976-1985, 6 man since 1986
Knox City:11 man 1921-1935, 6 man 1940-1951, 11 man 1952-2005, 6 man since 2006
Loop: 6 man 1946-1957, 8 man 1958-1975, 6 man since 1976
Miami: 11 man 1919-1945, 6 man 1946-1959, 8 man 1960-1962, 11 man 1963-1965, 8 man 1966-1975, 11 man 1976-1981, 6 man since 1982
Nazareth: 6 man 1956-1961, 8 man 1962-1963, 11 man 1964-2011, 6 man 2012
Northside: 6 man 1952-1957, 8 man 1958-1975, 6 man since 1976
Nueces Canyon: 6 man 1955-1961, 8 man 1962-1973, 11 man since 1974
Rankin: 11 man 1928-1946, 6 man 1947-1951, 11 man 1952-2005, 6 man since 2006
Ropes: 11 man 1935-1989, 6 man 1990-1997, 11 man 1998-1999, 6 man since 2000
Sands: 8 man 1959, 11 man 1960-1963, 8 man 1964-1967, 11 man 1968-1985, 6 man since 1986
Sierra Blanca: 6 man 1946-1963, 8 man 1965-1966, 6 man 1967-1975, 11 man 1976-1983, 6 man since 1984
Smyer: 6 man 1951-1957, 8 man 1958-1975, 11 man 1976-1984, 6 man 1985-1993, 11 man since 1994
Southland: 11 man 1938-1941, 6 man 1942-1957, 8 man 1958-1969, 6 man 1970-1973, 8 man 1974-1975, 6 man since 1976
Sterling City: 6 man 1938-1957, 8 man 1958-1973, 11 man 1974-2007, 6 man since 2008
Trent: 11 man 1933-1936, 6 man 1938-1943, 11 man 1945-1969, no fb 1970, 6 man since 1971
Valley: 11 man 1972-1989, 6 man 1990-1993, 11 man 1994-1999, 6 man since 2000
Water Valley: 6 man 1938-1957, 8 man 1958-1959, 6 man 1960-1979, 11 man 1980-2001, 6 man since 2002
Welch Dawson: 6 man 1951-1957, 8 man 1958-1959, 6 man 1960-1961, 8 man 1962-1975, 11 man 1976-1979, 6 man since 1980
Wellman: 11 man 1950-1954, 6 man 1955-1957, 8 man 1958-1975, 6 man since 1976
Whitharral: 11 man 1938-1943, 6 man 1944-1945, 11 man 1946-1963, 8 man 1964-1975, 6 man since 1976
 
Throckmorton-Windthorst 2012 was not the first hybrid football game.

September 12, 1958 Harrold and Vera played a mixed 6/8 man game in a strange way. Vera won 36-18

From the Abilene Reporter-News
HAROLD (RNS) - Vera toppled Harold, 36 - 13, here Thursday night in one of the screwiest football games in many moons. Vera plays a six-man brand of football and Harold is one of the slate's few eight-man teams. When Vera had the ball, the game was played under the six-man rules. However, when Harold controlled the ball, the "contest" was played under eight - man rules. Harold scored two touchdowns in the first quarter and held a 12-8 halftime lead, but the winners soared in the third quarter and won finally, 36-13
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Most of the hybrid games were one half 6 man and one half 8 man. Miles and Sterling City played a lot in the late 60's and their games were 8 man if at Sterling City and 6 man if at Miles. The same with Wall and Harper.
 
While cleaning out my email this afternoon, I saw one from Cowboy which had an article from the November 1938 Reader's Digest on 6 man football.
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This is not exactly 6 man history, but it applies to it too. The November 10, 1967 Denton Record-Chronical had an article on the official UIL reasons for not having Class B state championship and a reference to the one (unofficial) Class B state game between Anson and Marlin in 1926.

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It was all unofficial, but back in 1926 Texas high school football
had a Class B state champion.There has been some agitation
through the years to have an official race. Obviously, however,
this may never come about.

Class B schools have enrollments of 114 or less and always
have had a manpower problem. Some don't have enough players
for 11-man football and have to drop back lo six and eight-man.

There now are four state playoffs—in Classes AAAA, AAA, AA
and A. The latter is for schools with 115 to 225 pupils. There is
No manpower difficulty in the top three classes, but Class A
has it—and Class B has it even more.

Actually, there is a strong possibilily that Class A eventually
will eliminate a state championship race because the number of
schools is decreasing due to consolidations. Consolidations
also are taking a toll in Class B.

While manpower is the major problem for Class B, the financial
aspects also must be considered. Many of the Class B schools
don't have the gates to pay expenses of the regular
campaign, much less for travel over the state in the playoffs.

R. J. Kidd, director of the Texas Interscholastic League,
says there are Class B schools that won't clear more than $100
per game. The school board has to pick up the deficit.

The plan for a Class B state championship playoff never has
been submitted to a referendum because there are not enough,
Class B schools that want it, says Interscholastic League officials.

The league operates through what is known as the advisory
council. This group is made up of school administrators in all
classes. It meets each year to consider what, if any, changes
are to be made.

The Class B state championship idea has been considered
by the council a couple of times in the past several years.

"Not educationally sound," said the school men.

Six of the 22 members of the Council are from Class B
schools. Only one of the B men favored a state playoff.

If enough ever come to the support of a B playoff, it will be
submitted to a vote. But that seems far away.

While there once was a B state championship game, it did not
find its way into Interscholastic League records.

Eck Curtis, one of the early coaches now retired, insisted it.
Curtis had an undefeated team at Anson when the smaller
schools had been forbidden to compete with the best. In fact
it was 1926 when such school as Anson, Itasca, Lorena et al
were told they could not contest for the state championship.
Previously all had been in one class.

But Curtis read the !eague rule that said Class B school
play to bi-dislrict championship (now they go to regional title)
but did not specifically say they could not play beyond that.

Dewey Mayhew, who was to become one of the state's great
coaches at Abilene, was handling Marlin that year. And since
couldn't play such schools as Waco in its area because th
latter was considered too large, Marlin was undefeated.

Mayhew wanted to play Anson at Abilene on New Year's Day
for the B championship. All he asked was expenses.

The Abilene Reporter-News underwrote the game, and they
played it. John Baker kicked field goal with less than three
minutes to go to give Anson the victory. The game paid a profit
of $1200.

But that ended Class B championships. The league adopted
a rule that specifically prohibited Class B schools from going past
bi-district, later it changed to regional.

And so it seems that unless the advisory council has
change of heart, Anson will forever be the only Class B champion
of Texas schoolboy football. Today it is in Class AA and
couldn't defend its title even the occasion arose.
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As we all know, 5 years later it changed and we got state championship playoffs in Class B 11/8/6 man.
 
From the Port Arthur News September 12, 1946

ORANGE, Sept. 12
Ornngefield will be one of eight schools with six-man football teams in
District 35 this year. A seven-game schedule to decide the district championship
was drawn up by coaches in a meeting last week.

The eight schools in the district are China, Devers, Fannett, Hamshire,
Orangefield, Winnie-Stowell, High Island and Sabine Pass.

First games will bo played Friday night. Sept. 20, with the opening weekend seeing
China at Winnie, Fannett at Orangefield, Hamshire at Sabine Pass and High
Island at Devers.

The six-man games will be run off every Fnday night until the schedule is completed.

The district is under the sponsorship of the Interscholastic league
and the winner will meet the District 14 champions in a bl-district
game.
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Not quite 6 man history, but I found the score from a football game played between Blackwell and Guthrie on October 23, 1924 in the October 24, 1924 Corsicana Daily Sun. Blackwell won 6-0.
 
Old Bearkat":2e3g4xdl said:
Not quite 6 man history, but I found the score from a football game played between Blackwell and Guthrie on October 23, 1924 in the October 24, 1924 Corsicana Daily Sun. Blackwell won 6-0.
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Don would have really liked that..............
 
Yesterday I looked at the Sweetwater Reporter from 1924 and from 1942...found nothing on anything but Sweetwater HS Football in 1924...found one six-man score for Dowell v Divide and one article about six-man District 7 being formed in the 1942 issues...article said that the district formed and was announced by R. Kidd of the UIL...so I have a new theory on why the official forms on file do not have District 7 as forming in 1942 (as well as others through out the 40s)...cotton season...maybe the official lists of participating schools in the UIL districts was compiled in early september and the districts that had schools that would let out or start later for cotton picking season weren't sure if they would have enough kids or teams to play so they didn't form until after cotton stripping was over and school back in progress...District 7 was formed in early October 1942...I think that fits...I would have to double check the newspapers because they usually announced when schools let out for cotton picking and resumed...but I am pretty sure October was when school resumed
 

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