Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 69, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 2001 Page: 9 of 22
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By VAN THOMAS
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ORRIGAN—It’s not our
• * •' fault that we in the Great State of
Texas are so crazy about football.
We were bom that way.
Shoot, some of us might have
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!>« been born on Friday after the big
Thanksgiving- Day game—Texas
^ vs. Texas A&M—in the joyous
celebration after the Big Win.
bs For sure, it didn’t start with us.*
°0; Our daddies and mommas are as
^ much to blame, as are their daddies
„; and mommas.
to Source of pride
-it The point is, football has long
***• been more than a source of pride,
more than the backbone of our
_nr sense of self-worth. It’s been the re-
ligion we are all brothers and sisters
„ in, the faith that sustained us
© through the dark times of Depres-
sion, Wars and Civil RTghts
And it’s that time again. Football
110 percent,” a mathematical im-
possibility that might explain why
so many of our athletes have trou-
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We, the fans, don’t ask for any-
thing more than the best you’ve
got. Sure, we want you to win. We
hope you win. Maybe we get real
mad when you don’t win. But after
we’ve sobered up, if you’ve played
hard, we can live with the results.
2. It’s OK to be emotional. The
rules-makers might be against it,
but when you make a.big play,
we’re excited, so why shouldn’t you
be excited, too? When you score a
touchdown on a 90-yard drive with
five seconds left in the game, it is
OK to get together with your
teammates in the end zone and
week. You’re supposed to be a stu-
dent in high school. Go to class,
maybe even study once in awhile,
and it would it toe too much to ask
for you to find your way to the li-
brary once a semester? It’s that big
room or rooms with all the books.
Friday night
The lights, whistles and cheers of
Corrigan-Camden High School
football will return on Friday night
when Hamshire-Fannett High
School Longhorns come to town
for a 7:30 p.m. game in Bulldog
Stadium.
This is Zero Week for many,
many schools across the Lone Star
State that elected to play 10 games
during 11 weeks, according to UIL
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fellows to whom we’ve
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aloft the standard of the of Alma
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high-five and bump chests or spon-
taneously collapse into the end
zone. We understand.
3. That having been said, there is
a fine line between “attitude” and
“poor sportsmanship.” If you take
a guy out with a hit, don’t stand
over the guy, taunting him. If you
can’t give him a hand up, then turn
your back on him and walk
away Trust me, it’s cool. It’s cool.
And likewise, if you been taken out
with a big hit, accept it. Besides,
there’s nothing better than a sympa-
thetic cheerleader when the game is
over.
4. Speaking of when the game is
over, we’d prefer not to continue to
see you making news all during the
rules.
September 6-7
Most schools will kickoff the
season on Thursday and Friday,
September 6-7.
Bi-district play will begin on
Thursday, Nov. 15 for all schools.
Pep rally
First thing’s first. Corrigan-
Camden High School’s first weekly
pep rally will be held Friday after-
noon at 3 o’clock in Bulldog Gym.
Fullback/linebacker Alex Adams,
a5-foot-ll, 195-pound senior, will
kickoff the pep rally with his color-
ful stuffed Bulldogs that have made
the rallies for the past few years.
Adams’ parents, Mr. And Mrs.
Tommy Adams, buckled the Bull-
dogs in the back seat of their car
and the ‘Dogs make each Bulldog
football game in East Texas.
Adams won the stuffed Bulldogs
at the Astroworld several years ago.
“These ‘Dogs are part of our fam-
ily,” Alex said, who is the only
Corrigan-Camden senior boy a
member of the 2001-2002 National
Honor Society.
“I told Alex we will carry the
Bulldogs in our car to the game,”
Mrs. Adams said. “But no way can
we bring them into the stadium.
The stuffed ‘Dogs are just too big.”
Ranked No. 6
The Bulldogs are ranked No. 6 in
the preseason Class 2A football
poll by the Associated Press and the
Texas Sports Writers Association.
“We have a chance to go all the
way (state finals in late Decem-
ber),” Adams ' said. “But anything
can happen.
“It is nice to look way ahead,” he
said. “But we all know you get bet-
ter each week by winning each
week. We must play them one at a
time.”
Corrigan-Camden during the
2000 season posted a 10-4 record
and 5-0 in District 22-AA.
The Bulldogs started the presea-
son drills on Monday, Aug. 6 with
18 returning lettermen from last
year’s team. There are seven offen-
sive and eight defensive regulars
back.
The Bulldogs defeated Leon Bull-
dogs, 14 to 7, in a mud-bowl bi-
district game played in Crockett
Bulldog Stadium. After the first
quarter of play you had trouble lead-
ing the numbers on the football jer-
seys. It was truly a mud-bowl
game.
Corrigan-Camden blanked Garri-
son, 20 to 0, in Area playoff; de-
feated Troup, 41 to 20, in Regional
III and lost a heart breaker to Mart,
20 to 6, in the Regional III quarter-
finals.
Two scrimmages
The Bulldogs of Coach York
have had two outstanding scrim-
mages against Class AAA powers
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 69, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 2001, newspaper, August 30, 2001; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth790946/m1/9/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.