6 man History

1940 Collin County 6 man District
Allen
Justin
Josephine
Westminster (closed, merged with Anna)
Blue Ridge
Floyd
Nevada Community
Princeton
Southmayd
 
1941 Collin County 6 man district
Allen
Blue Ridge
Josephine
Princeton
Nevada Community
Floyd
Justin

Looks like all the schools dropped football in 1942-1944 for the War. I could find nothing in the McKinney papers that any of them played football.
 
In 1946 Josephine, Nevada Community, and Blue Ridge rejoined. This looks like it was the last year for not only football, but a school for Josephine.
 
In 1947, Anna replaced Josephine. In 1948, Anna and Blue Ridge went 11 man, leaving the district consisting of just Allen and Westminster again. It was the same for 1949. In 1950 Blue Ridge came back to 6 man and Prosper started their first year of football. This was one of the zoned mega-districts. Allen, Westminster, Prosper, and Blue Ridge were the North Zone. Corsicana Mildred, Rice, Abbott, Palmer, Venus, Mount Calm, and Richland were the South Zone.
 
For the 1952 and 1953 seasons, Lone Oak, Quinlan Ford, Collinsville, and Gunter came in from 11 man.

Allen
Blue Ridge
Collinsville
Gunter
Lone Oak
Prosper
Quinlan Ford
Westminster

Quinlan Ford ended up forfeiting the last few games due to a lack of players and they did not play in 1953. Celina replaced them.
 
For 1954 the district was:

Allen
Blue Ridge
Celina
Collinsville
Gunter
Lone Oak
Prosper
Westminster

In 1955 Caddo Mills and Nevada Community came in from 11 man and formed a 10 team district. In 1956 and 1957, it was broken up into two districts with Sadler and Southmayd both fielding teams. In 1958, one of the districts went 8 man and the other stayed in 6 man for the 1958, 1959, and 1960 seasons. in 1961, the surviving schools went 8 man.
 
A little blurb in the November 20, 1936 Winters Enterprise talked about a brand new fence just put in around the Norton football field. It was notable for the fact it was made of barbed wire.......
 
Old Bearkat":229vfydb said:
1939 Collin County 6 man League
Allen
Princeton
Blue Ridge
Nevada Community
Floyd
Josephine
Murphy
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Here's a 1920's Collin County map showing most of the member's location.

CollinCountyTX1920sMap.jpg
 
I've been looking up some of the schools from when you were posting about the ghost conferences. I have been able to fill in a few of the question marks.
Ghost conference 6-man
The Desert Conference:
Barstow - Merged with Pecos in 1969
Toyah - Merged with Pecos in 1973. Fought in court but Pecos ISD won
Pyote - Merged with Monahans in 1965

The High Plains Conference
Alanreed - Merged with Lefors in 1993
Bula - Merged with Three Way ISD in 1975
Carey - Merged with Childress in 1960’s
Dickens - Merged with Spur and Patton Springs in ??
Dodson - Merged with Wellington in 1969
Draw - Merged with O'Donnell in 1944
Estelline - Merged with Memphis in 1989
Flomot - Merged with Motley County in 1966
Kelton - Merged with Wheeler in ??
Lakeview - Merged with Memphis in 2000
Lela - Merged with Shamrock in 1990
Lipscomb - Merged with Higgins in 1976?
McAdoo - Merged with Spur in 1985
Mobeetie - Merged with Briscoe to form Ft. Elliott in 1991
Morse - Merged with Pringle to form Pringle-Morse
Oklahoma Lane - Merged with Farwell in 1949
Pettit - Merged with Levelland in 1964
Pringle - Merged with Morse to form Pringle-Morse
Pringle-Morse - Merged with Gruver in ?? (Gruver and Pringle Morse both appear to still have schools?)
Quail - Merged with Hedley in ??
Quitaque - Merged with Turkey in 1972 to form Valley
Roaring Springs - Merged with Motley County in 1966
Samnorwood - Merged with Wellington in 2012
Spade - Merged with Littlefield in 2005
Swenson - Merged with Aspermont in the 1940's
Tarzan-merged with Grady?
Union Terry - Merged with Wellman in 1997 to form Wellman-Union
Three Way - Merged with Sudan in 2003
Turkey - Merged with Quitaque in 1972 to form Valley
Wellman- Merged with Union Terry in 1997 to form Wellman-Union


The Permian Basin Conference
Ackerly - Merged with Knott in 1959 to form Sands ISD
Courtney - Merged with Stanton in the late 1950's
Divide - Merged with Blackwell in 1985
Dunn - Merged with Ira in ??
Eola - Merged with Eden in 1983
Flower Grove - Merged with Klondike in 1973
Fluvanna - Merged with Snyder and Borden County in 1975
Knott - Merged with Ackerly in 1959 to form Sands ISD
Millersview - Merged with Eden in ??1959?
Pyron - Merged in 1949 with Hermleigh and Roscoe
Sparenburg - Merged with Klondike in 1948
Union Dawson - Merged with Klondike in 1952
Wingate - Merged with Winters in 1991


The Big Country Conference
Avoca - Merged with Lueders in 1966 to form Lueders-Avoca
Bradshaw - Merged with Ovallo and Tuscola in 1946 to form the South Taylor CSD
Burkett - Merged with Coleman and Cross Plains in 1957
Carbon - Merged with Eastland in 1990
Centennial - Merged with Talpa in 1957 to form Talpa-Centennial
Comyn - Merged with Commanche in 1952
Desdemona - Merged with Lingleville in 1969
Dowell - Merged with Rotan in 1946
Girard - Merged with Jayton in
Goree - Merged with Munday in 2003
Hobbs - Split between Roby, Rotan, and Snyder in 1990
Lawn - Merged with South Taylor in 1957 to form Jim Ned
Lueders - Merged with Avoca in 1966 to form Lueders-Avoca
Mattson - Merged with Holliday in ??
McCaulley - Merged with Hamlin and Roby in 1987
Mingus - Merged with Gordon in the 1950's
Morton Valley - Merged with Eastland and Ranger in 1949
Mozelle - Merged with Talpa-Centennial in 1986 to form Panther Creek
Norton - Split between Ballinger, Bronte, and Winters in 1968
Novice- Merged with Coleman in 2013
O'Brien - Merged with Knox City in 1975
Olden - Merged with Eastland in 1969
Old Glory - merged with Aspermont in 1985
Ovallo - Merged with Bradshaw and Tuscola in 1946 to form the South Taylor CSD
Peacock - Merged with Jayton in 1964
Pioneer - Merged with ?? in ??
Putnam - Merged with Baird? in ??
Rochester - Merged with Haskell in 2005
Rockwood - Merged with Santa Anna in the 1940's
Sagerton - Merged with ?? in ??
Scranton - Merged with Cisco in 1946
South Taylor - Merged with Lawn in 1957 to form Jim Ned
Sylvester - Merged with Roby in ??
Talpa - Merged with Centennial in 1957 to form Talpa-Centennial
Talpa-Centennial - Merged with Mozelle in 1986 to form Panther Creek
Thurber - Merged with Strawn in the 1930's
Tuscola - Merged with Ovallo and Bradshaw in 1946 to form the South Taylor CSD
Vera - Merged with Benjamin in 1960
Weinert - Merged with Haskell in 1990

The North Central Conference
Boxelder - Merged with Annona in ??
Caddo - Merged with Breckenridge? in ??
Eliasville - Merged with Graham in ??
Five-in-One - Merged with Lockett in ??
Lockett - Merged with Vernon in 1969
Geraldine - Merged with Holliday in 1941
Masonic Home - Closed in 2004
Medicine Mound - Merged with Chillicothe in ??1940’s
Megargel - Merged with Olney in 2006
Odell - Merged with Chillicothe in 1958?
Oklaunion - Merged with Vernon in 1967
Sadler - Merged with Southmayd in 1960 to form S&S Consolidated
Southmayd - Merged with Sadler in 1960 to form S&S Consolidated
Thalia - Merged with Crowell in 1943
Westminster - Merged with Anna in 1989


The Hill Country Conference
Adhall- Merged with Cameron in 1958
Alexander - Merged with Stephenville? in ??
Bertram - Merged with Burnet in 1969
Buda - Merged with Kyle in 1968 to form Hays Consolidated
Carlton - Merged with Hico in 1969
Dale - Merged with Lockhart? in ??
Dowdy - Merged with Seguin in 1951
Fairy - Merged with Hamilton in 1967
London - Merged with Junction in 1963
Mosheim - Merged with Valley Mills in ??
Pearl - Merged with Gatesville and Evant in 1956
Pottsville - Merged with Hamilton in 1989
Richland - Merged with Pflugerville in 1945
Seaton- Merged with ?? in ??
Sharp - Merged with Rockdale in 1960
Turnersville - Merged with Gatesville and Jonesboro in 1967
Uhland - Merged with Hays ISD in ??

The East Texas Conference

Avery - Merged with ?? in 1956 (Still has a school district)
Batson - Merged with West Hardin in 1961
Bedias - Merged with Madisonville in 1940's
Butler - Merged with Fairfield in 1969
Byrd- Merged with ?? in 1957
Camden - Merged with Corrigan in 1972 to form Corrigan-Camden CSD
China - Merged with Hardin-Jefferson in 1961
Como - Merged with Pickton in 1966 to form Como-Pickton CSD
Corrigan - Merged with Camden in 1972 to form Corrigan-Camden CSD
Crescent - Merged with Eagle Lake in 1961
Devers - Split between Liberty and Hull-Daisetta in 1952
Eagle Lake - Merged with Sheridan in 1970 to form Altair Rice ISD
Enloe - Merged with Cooper? in ??
Fannindel - Merged with Ladonia in 1961 to form Ladonia-Fannindel
Greenwood Merged with Slidell?? in ??
Gaston - Merged with New London to form West Rusk CSD in 1965
Ladonia - Merged with Fannindel in 1961 to form Ladonia-Fannindel
Leesburg- Merged with Pittsburg in 1955
Nome - Merged with Hardin-Jefferson in ??
Pickton - Merged with Como in 1966 to form Como-Pickton CSD
Purdon - Merged with Dawson in 1937
Sheridan - Merged with Eagle Lake in 1970 to form Altair Rice ISD
Streetman - Merged with Fairfield in 1948
Union Ridge- Merged with Gilmer in 1949
Wallis - Merged with Orchard in 1974 to form Brazos Consolidated.

The South Texas Conference
Asherton - Merged with Carrizo Springs in the 1980's
Barksdale - Merged with Camp Wood in 1956 to form Nueces Canyon CSD
Big Wells - Merged with Carrizo Springs in 1953
Camp Wood - Merged with Barksdale in 1956 to form Nueces Canyon CSD
Dowdy - Merged With Seguin in 1950
El Jardin - Merged with Brownsville in 1952
Harwood - Merged with Gonzales in the 1950's
Hot Wells - Merged Sierra Blanca?? in 1952
Mirando City - Merged with Webb ISD in 2005
Nixon - Merged with Smiley in 1985 to form Nixon-Smiley CSD
Pawnee - Merged with Beeville in 1979
Smiley - Merged with Nixon in 1985 to form Nixon-Smiley CSD
Stuart Place - Merged with Brownsville ISD in 1946
Sutherland Springs - Merged with Floresville in 1954
Wilson Tract - Merged with Harlingen in 1948
 
Around Evant and Jonesbore are some old school buildings and corresponding communities that are intriguing. Some of the names that had schools at one time, according to Momma are Pearl, Ireland, Purmela, Adamsville, Center City, as well as the most recent closure at Star.

Earl Burl Ethridge and Beatrice Bell Carlisle (?) went to school at Democrat where Maw Maw was a basketball phenom. When she was four her parents and little brother died in the Influenza epidemic of 1919, so lived with an aunt she came to loathe until her marriage to Earl at the ripe old age of 16. He was 19.

The Democrat school house was converted into a Baptist church in the early '60s and moved to Paw Paw's place on Trigger Mountain. I remember lots of winter gatherings in that old building with heat provided by a wood burning stove set in the middle of the aisle. It had a large painting of a shepherd climbing a mountain reaching for a lost lamb with dark storm clouds all around.
I'd give my left kidney for that picture.
 
Old Bearkat":1mcx2ys5 said:
Old Bearkat":1mcx2ys5 said:
1939 Collin County 6 man League
Allen
Princeton
Blue Ridge
Nevada Community
Floyd
Josephine
Murphy
Click to expand...

Here's a 1920's Collin County map showing most of the member's location.

CollinCountyTX1920sMap.jpg
Click to expand...

And then now mighty State Power 6A Southlake Carroll used to play Princeton.
 
Oh wow! That's it, the third one from the left!! Those storm clouds were mountains.
51eleven, if you were a woman I'd be knocking on your bedroom windar. (:


May have mentioned this some time ago...Dad played Copperas Cove in a six-man playoff game his senior year. It was way back in the year of our Lord, 1953. When he passed away in 2013 I found his High School scrap book loaded with a dozen or more newspaper articles of games from all four football seasons. One covered the CC loss. And if my memory serves me correctly there was one, maybe two articles of their yearly clash with Christoval led by you know who. One had a picture of my pop wearing a leather helmet, no mask.
Dad always said his team averaged maybe 135 pounds soaking wet, while Pardee was a strapping 190. That's all I will repeat about Dad's opinion of him.

That scrapbook is buried in storage.
 
Some of the names that had schools at one time
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Turnersville and Flat

Pidcoke from what I have seen never played football but was the home NFL player Clyde Douglas "Bull Dog" Turner. The only sports activity I have seen for Pidcoke came from round ball.

Pidcoke was unrooted by Ft. Hood around 1943
 
The Hill Country Conference
Adhall- Merged with Cameron in 1958
Alexander - Merged with Stephenville? in ??
Bertram - Merged with Burnet in 1969
Buda - Merged with Kyle in 1968 to form Hays Consolidated
Carlton - Merged with Hico in 1969
Dale - Merged with Lockhart? in ??
Dowdy - Merged with Seguin in 1951
Fairy - Merged with Hamilton in 1967
London - Merged with Junction in 1963
Mosheim - Merged with Valley Mills in ??
Pearl - Merged with Gatesville and Evant in 1956
Pottsville - Merged with Hamilton in 1989
Richland - Merged with Pflugerville in 1945
Seaton- Merged with ?? in ??
Sharp - Merged with Rockdale in 1960
Turnersville - Merged with Gatesville and Jonesboro in 1967
Uhland - Merged with Hays ISD in ??
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Flat Yellow Jackets Merged with Gatesville in 1963
 

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