Square dance to state champ -- Putting the pieces together -- Adjusting to a new school -- A new beginning -- No margin for error -- Bragging rights -- But we won -- Seven down, three to go -- Setting the table -- For all the marbles -- Slaying the Lions -- Surviving an air attack -- A smothering defense -- 14-0 -- Epilogue: Changing lives -- Appendix -- About the author
Summary
Strongly inviting comparisons with the movie Remember the Titans, this book by veteran sports journalist and author Al Pickett is an inspiring, insider account of the Lubbock Estacado Matadors, who came together for love of a sport to become Texas State AAA High School football champions in their first year of eligibility. In the late 1960s, the Lubbock Independent School District was pressured by the courts to address its still-segregated system, and its response was the new, integrated Estacado High School. Estacado's first head football coach, Jimmie Keeling, formed and fielded a team of yo
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