6 man History

[Old Bearkat]

Eula is selling T-shirts that say "Property Eula Football" on one side and "Undefeated since 1941 on the other.

Are they getting ready to field a team again? I would think they would be big enough to have to be in 11 man this time.

 

[Blue Bird]

Eula is in a "sixman" district for basketball. But so is Cross Plains and Baird.

 

[sinfonian]

No, they are still afraid to play. They just are selling the shirts as a fundraiser.

 

[CT6MFL]

Sounds like some other schools I know that play just basketball.

 

[CT6MFL]

http://www.lasportshall.com/inductees/football/kenny-konz/?back=inductee

I wonder why Kenny Konz isn't in the Texas Six-Man Hall of Fame?

 

[Old Bearkat]

http://www.lasportshall.com/inductees/football/kenny-konz/?back=inductee

I wonder why Kenny Konz isn't in the Texas Six-Man Hall of Fame?

Need to let them know....I wonder if he's still alive?

 

[CT6MFL]

No he passed away in 2011. 3 years after he was inducted to the Texas HS Football Hall of Fame.

You should really take a look that document. I wonder how many other unsung 6 man heros there are.

 

[Leman Saunders]

about a year slow on that one CT6MFL! I nominated him last year and they voted on him and selected him at this years coaching school

LSU helped out with some cool info on him, including high school stats

 

[Leman Saunders]

plus his local town paper is all online from his senior year which has a ton of info as well...

 

[Leman Saunders]

part of the submission form:

-Four Year Letterman in Football at Weimar High School – 1943-46 football seasons
-1946 - Voted Most Outstanding Player of Six-Man District 21, and 1st Team at the Back position by a poll of writers and coaches for the Austin American Newspaper
-Scored 281 Points in 1946 for Weimar HS
-Scored 120 career touchdowns, passed for 40 TDs, rushed for over 8,000 yards, passed for 3,800 yards, kicked 160 PATs, scoring over 1,000 total career points, and averaged 44.6 yards per punt in his four years at Weimar HS
-Only Freshman to make the Varsity team at LSU in 1947
-In the 1949 game against Tulane, Konz returned and early punt 92 yards, and intercepted 3 passes on defense leading LSU to a 21-0 win over a highly ranked Tulane (and avenging a 46-0 loss to Tulane in 1948)
-Senior Year at LSU named “SEC All-Around Best” by the Associated Press
-MVP of the 1950 Blue-Gray College Football All-Star Game
-1st Round Draft Pick (#14) of the 1951 NFL Draft by the Cleveland Browns
-Member of the Cleveland Browns for 7 seasons (1953-1959) playing in 84 games. Starter at Defensive Back and Punt Returner, occasionally punted, kicked PATs, and returned kick offs; 30 career INTs returning 4 for TDs
-While at Cleveland Konz played in 4 NFL Championship games (2-2) and played with both Otto Graham and Jim Brown
-Selected to the 1956 NFL Pro-Bowl
-Member of LSU Athletic Hall of Fame – Elected in 2000

 

[CT6MFL]

Well atleast he made it. Ill look for another.

 

[CT6MFL]

Do you know why he made varsity at lsu his freshman year?

 

[Leman Saunders]

think he returned back to back punts in his first practice and they put him on varsity as a result

 

[CT6MFL]

Yeap. pissed the special team coaches off

 

[CT6MFL]

Is Orangefield on the list of used to play six-man?

 

[Old Bearkat]

Is Orangefield on the list of used to play six-man?

Yes, I found a few scores in Beaumont/Port Arthur papers in the archive.

 

[CT6MFL]

ok just making sure. I was reading an article on Bill Godwin, who was coached by Bear Bryant (After the Junction I believe) and that he had played six-man at Orangefield.

 

[Leman Saunders]

Found I think the first score for a Nome, TX football game...I believe it is from the 1938 season but could be 1939...the beat East Chambers High of Winnie Texas in a six-man game 24 to 18

 

[Old Bearkat]

Not quite 6 man history, but this has a lot in common as it was at a game of two 8 man schools (at the time) at a game on Halloween Night in 1969 at a game between Blue Ridge (now 2A D1) and Tom Bean (now 3A D2).

BLU E RIDGE, Tex. (U P I)
— A high school football game between Blue Ridge and Tom Bean was stopped for 30 minutes
last night when seven hogs entered the contest. The hogs, grunting loudly, trotted out on the field briskly
but ignored the ball.

Since enrollment at the two schools is small, their football teams play eight-man
football. The two teams combined forces against the hogs. It took only 20 minutes to
overcome six hogs but the seventh was faster than the football players and it took 16 men 0 minutes to bring him down.

Blue Ridge, being in a farming community, goes in heavily for agricultural instruction
and the seven pigs were in a pen near the football field.

They got out and were attracted to the game by the bright lights. Nobody appears to know
how th pigs got out of the pen but spectators said the same thing happens every Halloween.
With the hogs in their pen again, Blue Ridge won, 30 to 0.

This could have been an inspiration for a song titled "Who Let the Hogs Out".

 

[Old Bearkat]

From the December 4 1952 issue of the Ft. Stockton Pioneer, the 1952 Buena Vista 6 man squad.