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[51eleven]

Roddy Maddox, 1973. Thank you Don Hardin/Lonestar Football Network although I read a reprinted article about Maddox/Cherokee not too long ago. Maybe on here? Something OBK dug up? Also, didn't Lyle Campbell go to an Ivy League school & play Linebacker on a scholarship? Didn't his dad go to TCU? Not sure if he played or if so got a ride or waked on. There were 2 Hicks brothers at RS over a 3-4 year period I think Jared & J???.......
I digress too much, HPD beat me to it.

 

[granger]

HPD

I just wish I had the corn cob hat for that freezing game you guys played in Silverton in '94. Between that and the Championship game in Abilene, I thought you guys were bringing that horrible weather every time... at the Abilene game, I bought a hot dog at the concession during halftime and it was ice cold before I got to the field.

The corn cob was a fleecy bit of warmth I purchased from a guy selling them out of a duffle bag outside Memorial Stadium in Lincoln before a game about 9 years ago. I have never been able to find another. Other than the red 'N' on it, it is perfect is every way. It has started to stretch a bit, but does the trick on those 3 or 4 days a year when needed in central Texas. The kids have started taking a liking to it.

 

[granger]

51eleven wrote:
> Also, didn't Lyle Campbell go to an
> Ivy League school & play Linebacker on a scholarship? Didn't his dad
> go to TCU?

Lyle played at Dartmouth

 

[oldfat&bald]

smokeyjoe53 wrote:
> How about David Davis, Loop Longhorns, TAMU punter


I can't believe I forgot about him. He'd kick the ball off and split the uprights. That kinda does away with the possibility of big return.

He was a hell of a good linebacker too. I still shudder when I think about the way he kicked my butt 20+ years ago.

 

[High Plains Drifter]

Granger, had you been in Levelland in 95, you would have had to make a fire from the famed corn cob hat. 26 degrees at kickoff, wind out of north 20-25 with gusts. Luckily no moisture. Wife won that one by making a 5 gallon cooler full of chicken broth. Down a touchdown at half and got the players stripped off and got broth down them. K scored after half for us to go down two touchdowns and then ended up ending game by 45 in the fourth quarter. Never saw anything like it.

 

[smokeyjoe53]

High Plains Drifter wrote:
> Gonna go with Roddy Maddox and the year 1973
I was thinking earlier than that. I didn't say state title.
Never mind, I forgot that they had to forfeit their playoff wins in 1969 due to ineligible player. I was trying to get Billy Jones a mention. He was Roddy's head coach before Cherokee started their runs.

Ole "Gosh Darn Roddy" attributes a lot of his success to Coach Jones.

 

[High Plains Drifter]

True. Did not Billy die during the year and that is when Roddy became coach. Seems he had stud player named Charley Grey or Gray.

 

[51eleven]

That 1969 Regional Trophy now is in what school's display case?

 

[smokeyjoe53]

High Plains Drifter wrote:
> True. Did not Billy die during the year and that is when Roddy became
> coach. Seems he had stud player named Charley Grey or Gray.
I really think Billy passed away in the summer while harvesting wheat but I'm not sure. You're right about Charley Gray. He was quick and fast. I think he ran a sub 10 - 100. His dad, J.D., was a calf roper and he could scoot down the string pretty fast as well. I seem to recall Charley and J.D. pulling their boots off and running a match race against a quarterhorse at the Fredricksburg Fair one year.
Last I heard Charley was in Alaska.
Don't know where the '69 Trophy resides. Next time I see Roddy I'll ask.




"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect."
Benny Hill

 

[Blue Bird]

Cherokee's running back the first year that thay won state was Manuel Beltran. Charley Grey graduated in 1970. But Charley could run a 9.8 100....yards.

Trinadad had a big kid that played on Baylor D-line back when they were really pretty bad.

 

[High Plains Drifter]

Roddy also swore that Beltran was the best to ever play the game. I have my own favorite, but Beltran was plenty, plenty handy. Saw him play against Marathon a couple of times. I am thinking he passed away at a fairly young age. Great loss.

Roddy had some really good players and always got a lot of the players he had. Plus, he and James could coach a tad.

How great to me that he got to coach his grandson.

 

[smokeyjoe53]

I've said it here before but I'll say it again; Roddy could take his and beat yours or take yours and beat his.

 

[granger]

Here's a little Coach Maddox from an interview I did this past December with Oneday... in Cherokee

viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14543

 

[Dogface]

How about another question?
I feel I'm becoming less new
with each passing post.

 

[justobserving]

OK - here is another.

Name any school that has won 3 or more consecutive State Titles ... and the dates....

 

[smokeyjoe53]

Well the obvious is FT. Hancock 1989, 90, 91, 92. Nearly had a fifth. Now who are we missing that is not so obvious?

 

[High Plains Drifter]

I will take Ft. Hancock for $400, Alec.

 

[smokeyjoe53]

By the way, if anybody thinks it was a cakewalk for Ft. Hancock because of great athletes, coaches etc., just ask Richland Springs how difficult it really is to 3-peat.

 

[olderelk]

OK - here is another.

Name any school that has won 3 or more consecutive State Titles ... and the dates....

You said any, so at the risk of ridicule for not being sixman I’m going to mention these because I live in the vicinity of (4A) La Marque and (3A) Sealy and I think it’s interesting. From ’95 thru ’97 La Marque won 3 in a row, and from ’93 thru ’98 they were in 6 consecutive state championships. They lost to Stephenville in ’93, ’94 and ’98. All of their wins came against Denison, and Stephenville had two titles in a row on both ends of the La Marque wins. In this same timeframe Sealy won 4 in a row from ’94 thru ’97, then lost in the finals in ’99.

 

[smokeyjoe53]

good catch olderelk. he did say any. Sometimes I forget there is another type of football.