6 man History

[wildcatfan4]

If you can find the picture of the Hobbs 1971 football that would be awesome.

My dad graduated from Hobbs and played football for them. I still have his football jersey.

 

[ModeratorMike]

I’m trying to pull this article up but it’s blank. Is there another place I can go to view it?

I've got to find my old files. I'll repost it as soon as I can find them.

Looks like there are quite a few files that are like that. I'm guessing something went wrong during the software change last year. I'll do some digging over the next several days and see if I can get it fixed. Assuming they worked fine before, I still have a backup I can use to revert the ones I find that are broken.

 

[wildcatfan4]

Looks like there are quite a few files that are like that. I'm guessing something went wrong during the software change last year. I'll do some digging over the next several days and see if I can get it fixed. Assuming they worked fine before, I still have a backup I can use to revert the ones I find that are broken.

Thank you Mike

 

[Old Bearkat]

Yep, in the previous decade, you had Garden City, Water Valley, Sterling City, Rankin, Hart, Crowell, Paducah, Throckmorton, Fannindel, Robert Lee, Rising Star, Petersburg, Ft. Davis, O'Donnell, Evant, Chester, Apple Springs, and Leverett's Chapel.

The turn of the 21st century started the rush to 6 man as the rural populations in Texas started dropping rapidly.

Everyone, both rural and urban has to remember how to have kids again. The average is less than 2 per family now.

 

[JDV]

Re: List of most years playing 6 man. Here’s a few questions.

How long has Woodson been playing 6 man?
Did they ever play 8 or 11 man?

Same questions about Utopia.

1974 and 1975 they played 11 man prior to that they were 8 man. They been six man since 1976.

 

[Leman Saunders]

Blackwell has played the most total seasons of 6man football (not most consecutive)

 

[Old Bearkat]

If you can find the picture of the Hobbs 1971 football that would be awesome.

My dad graduated from Hobbs and played football for them. I still have his football jersey.

Here you go, 1970 and 1971 Hobbs

 

[Old Bearkat]

Same questions about Utopia.


I never found many Utopia scores. I know they played 6 man from at least 1949 to 1957 and then 8 man from 1958 to 1963. After that they quit football.

Utopia Buffaloes

LoneStarFootball.net - Comprehensive Texas High School Football Coverage

lonestarfootball.net

 

[Pdevitt13]

@Old Bearkat or @Leman Saunders was flipping through an old DCTF mag from 1991. The main six man article was talking about the enrollment change. Why did they make drop from 95 to 75 to be in six man?

 

[Old Bearkat]

@Old Bearkat or @Leman Saunders was flipping through an old DCTF mag from 1991. The main six man article was talking about the enrollment change. Why did they make drop from 95 to 75 to be in six man?

Probably to force out Ft. Hancock and Christoval

 

[Pdevitt13]

@Leman Saunders or @Old Bearkat is there a list or database of defunct Texas high schools? Besides the Ghost League site

 

[Leman Saunders]

Defunct schools that played football at least one game Im assuming is what you are talking about...IDK I know when the Bob Bullock Museum did their exhibit on Texas High School Football in 2010 they created a database of every school that played at least 1 football game and I helped them with the "Ghost" schools...I do not know how to access that or where to find it. I know I have found scores for school since then as well. We were trying to get mascot and school colors too...which in many cases was impossible

 

[Old Bearkat]

The Ghost League site here and on Lone Star are the only ones I know of.

 

[shoelscher6]

Does anyone have film of the 08-09 panther creek panthers?

 

[Pdevitt13]

@Leman Saunders @Old Bearkat what year did DCTF start their 6 man preview coverage?

 

[Leman Saunders]

1984...May preseason #1, Highland #2

 

[dietritus]

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.

El Jardin part of Brownsville ISD. Wilson Tract and Stuart Place part of Harlingen CISD.

 

[dietritus]

I'm trying to place all of these schools on Google Earth. Through research I have managed to find at least the general vicinity of all of these schools except one: Wilson Tract. Any ideas where this school was located?

Wilson Tract is located in Primera , Tx. Part of Harlingen CISD as an elementary school. What is left of the original school.

 

[wildcatfan4]

Here you go, 1970 and 1971 Hobbs
View attachment 3575View attachment 3576

Maybe I’m off a year. Do you happen to have 68 or 69 football year?

 

[Old Bearkat]

Maybe I’m off a year. Do you happen to have 68 or 69 football year?

I'll root around and see if I do, Leman might have something also.