Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 10, 2011, 10:46 pm
Class 4A Frisco running back Carlos Harris had a huge night on Friday as he carried 36 times for 446 yards with seven touchdowns, including six touchdown runs of 40 yards or more. With Harris piling up the yardage, Frisco moved up and down the field, ending the night with 680 yards of offense and s...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 5, 2011, 9:33 am
South Bend (Ind.) Washington receiver Gehrig Dieter set the national receiving record on Friday night with 447 yards and four touchdowns in a 63-10 victory over Elkhart Central to break the record previously held by Rose Bud, Arkansas receiver J.D. Felice, who had 421 yards in a game in 2008. In th...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 3, 2011, 1:14 pm
Friday night action was highlighted by the top two team in Class 2A going down and Class 1A Canadian losing to an out of state opponent. In Class 5A, Euless Trinity showed off their new Nike Pro Combat uniforms in a 34-17 win over Abilene, while Txprepsfootball.com class top ten 5A teams DeSoto ...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Aug 30, 2011, 9:34 pm
Here's a little information on the out of state teams scheduled to play in the Herbstreit Classic at Cowboys Stadium on Labor Day. Cocoa High, Florida just had their 38 game win streak snapped by Colerain, Ohio last week. Cocoa High, Florida The Douglass Trojans are the defending Oklahoma 4A state c...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Aug 28, 2011, 7:48 pm
I attended the Garland-Denton Guyer (albeit briefly) and the Highland Park-Everman games on Saturday and it was a case of survival as the games kicked off at 4-4:30 with temperatures in the 107 degree range. Saw players cramping up all over the field and Garland-Denton Guyer even cut the quarters b...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Aug 6, 2011, 12:47 pm
Without fail, we hear about football players and coaches every year that die or end up hospitalized due to excessive heat. Why is it football season starts in the hottest month of the year in Texas? Is it tradition? Is it because it just fits someones school year calendar better? If you took the ...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Jul 25, 2011, 4:37 pm
The UIL announced Monday that Cowboys Stadium will host all  the 11-man state football championships for the first time in history. UIL football championships in both divisions of 3A through 5A were held at Cowboys Stadium last season in front of near record crowds and will now be joined with the...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Jul 15, 2011, 8:40 am
Fox Sports Southwest will show live webcasts of 7-on-7 action this Saturday, July 16th. Here's the details.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Jun 1, 2011, 7:34 pm
Aledo, Katy, Euless Trinity and Allen are ranked in the national Top 25 just released by MaxPreps Football.        MaxPreps Rankings
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - May 1, 2011, 3:34 pm
Texans take pride in claiming to be the nation's high school football capital, and the state produces college and NFL players almost as fast as McDonald's produces Big Mac's. However, the conveyor belt slowed to a crawl this year compared to seasons past as only six players from Texas high schools ...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Apr 22, 2011, 5:50 pm
If Aledo's Johnathan Gray fulfills the verbal commitment he made to Texas today, it gives Texas the top rated running backs in Texas the past two seasons, after the Horn's nabbed Cibolo Steele powerhouse RB Malcolm Brown last year. The Longhorns ran a formidable spread offense when Vince Young and C...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Apr 15, 2011, 4:26 pm
According to his father, Aledo running back Johnathan Gray is set to announce his college choice next Friday on his birthday. Gray is one of the top backs in the nation and is positioned to break the state record for career touchdowns next season as he only needs eleven scores. That should come earl...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Feb 13, 2011, 8:11 pm
The Texas Longhorns have become synonomus with early recruiting in the past few years under Mack Brown, and they are at it again as they picked up their fifth verbal commitment Sunday from DeSoto lineman Curtis Riser. Earlier in the day they received a verbal pledge from Copperas Cove athlete Orlan...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Jan 24, 2011, 10:21 pm
We posted the upcoming details of a monument honoring Texas high school football and some of the finest players to grace the Texas high school gridirons to be held in conjunction with the Super Bowl in an earlier post. The details of the unveiling have been finalized and they're listed below. If yo...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Jan 8, 2011, 12:43 pm
The U.S. Army All American Bowl, featuring several of the top high school football players in Texas, is getting set to kickoff at noon on NBC. West Roster
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Jan 3, 2011, 9:28 pm
ATHLETIC REPUBLIC SHOWCASES ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC TESTING PROTOCOLS FOR U.S. ARMY NATIONAL COMBINE Athletic Republic's Proprietary Electronic Timing System and online "Locker Room" creates accurate synchronized data for high school athletes that rival the NFL combine. SAN ANTONIO- Dec. 28, 2010 - Ame...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Dec 11, 2010, 11:52 am
Two East Texas teams battled it out for the Class 3A DI State Championship Friday night with Henderson prevailing 28-21 over Tyler Chapel Hill. Tyler and Henderson are only 34 miles apart, and when you add in Carthage, who knocked off previously unbeaten Brownwood, 35-28, and meets Coldspring-Oakhu...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Dec 9, 2010, 10:16 am
Fox Sports Southwest and Fox Sports Houston have all the championship games covered this year either on live TV or live webcast. Most all newer TV's will allow a direct hookup to your computer, so if you have the setup, you can watch the live webcasts on your big screen. They are also broadcasting s...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Dec 4, 2010, 7:04 pm
High school football attendance is sometimes hard to get a handle on as the turnstile count is often an estimate or involves guesswork, but the thrilling Pearland / Katy game (Pearland won 38-35) played at Rice Stadium this afternoon had an announced crowd of 41,368, and that's good enough to mo...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Dec 4, 2010, 6:39 pm
Euless Trinity's 41-40 victory over Coppell Friday night was an instant classic. A few snippets from the game....... Euless Trinity extended it's winning streak to 27 games. There were exactly 0 punts in the game. Coppell scored all eight times it had the ball ( 4 TD's, 4 FG's), and it still wasn'...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Dec 2, 2010, 8:35 pm
Suffice to say that every game is big in the fourth round of the playoffs, but this week brings an extra special smorgasboard of enticing games. Start off with undefeated Euless Trinity and Coppell in Class 5A. The game sold out 48 hours in advance allowing it to be televised live and local in th...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Nov 24, 2010, 4:40 pm
Out of five schools in the Mesquite ISD, three made the playoffs, and all three are on to the third round of the playoffs. When you think of Mesquite, you would assume Mesquite or North Mesquite would be in the playoff mix, but this season, it is the other three schools in the district that have s...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Nov 20, 2010, 8:56 pm
Pearland has been flying under the radar all year, which is pretty hard to do when you are 12-0 on the season. The Oilers never were ranked in the AP Top Ten Poll during the year, and only garnered five points in the final poll of the season. Maybe voters were frightened off by several close call vi...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Nov 18, 2010, 1:12 pm
Here's a class 2A playoff bracket from 1950. This was the largest classification in the state at the time until the following year, when the UIL added 3A and 4A. Most of the the schools listed are 4A or 5A today, with the exception of Breckenridge, which remains 2A.  1950 Football Play-Off Bracket
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Nov 15, 2010, 9:54 pm
The Victoria West  vs. Weslaco East second round playoff game originally scheduled for 7 p.m. Saturday at Comalander Stadium in San Antonio has been moved to 5 p.m. Saturday.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Nov 12, 2010, 8:43 am
The Class 3A undefeated and #1 ranked Brownwood Lions have rarely been challenged all season, so one might expect some complacency to set in, but the Lions would have none of it in their opening round playoff game against Iowa Park. They scored a school record 88 points on their way to an 88-24 vic...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Nov 9, 2010, 12:46 pm
Class 5A Division I is loaded, and any team that makes to it through Regions I or II had better bring their "A" game each week in the playoffs. One thing is for sure. The state champion of  Class 5A Division I will probably have faced one of the toughtest roads to the title in the history of Tex...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Nov 5, 2010, 5:45 pm
Lexington and Rogers will settle the 12-2A Division II district championship tonight at Merk Field in Rogers. Both teams are 9-0 and ranked in the Class 2A top ten. This should be a good one, but it may be tough to top last season's tilt, won 21-20 by Rogers. The matchup to watch is a Rogers offense...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Oct 30, 2010, 2:02 am
It's finally official ....... at 12:53 AM on Saturday morning. The class 4A Jacksonville Indians and Nacogdoches Dragons sent fans on a search for the record books Saturday morning after playing twelve overtimes before Jacksonville finally prevailed, 84-81. It is believed that the twelve overtim...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Oct 26, 2010, 10:07 pm
The DeSoto Eagles will self suspend four players for their upcoming game against Mesquite, and Mesquite Horn will suspend one player, all with the approval of a district 11-5A committee, following a fight that took place during Friday's 61-47 DeSoto victory. The brawl started soon after a Mesqu...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Oct 18, 2010, 9:54 pm
The Katy Tigers perennially go 5A Division DII come playoff time, but this year could be different. There is at least an average to good chance they could end up in DI this season. If that happens, DI could end up with nine of our current top ten teams to create a "monster division". Can you imagi...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Oct 13, 2010, 9:32 pm
Who's the best winless team in Texas? Our hands down vote goes to Tyler Lee. The Class 5A Red Raiders, who are 0-6, have played a brutal schedule, and it doesn't get any easier this week when they take on 5A top ten DeSoto. Tyler Lee's previous opponents have a 34-5 record, and all but one are curre...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Oct 7, 2010, 4:55 pm
Only 64 coaches in the history of Texas high school football have 200 victories or more. A&M Consolidated head coach Jim Slaughter is on the verge of becoming the 65th, as he owns 199 career victories heading in to tomorrow's game with Bryan. Slaughter totaled 126 victories during 17 years as the h...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Oct 3, 2010, 10:58 pm
This week's games "we wish we had seen" are ...... #5 Class 3A Caldwell 21, Brookshire Royal 15 Caldwell stops Brookshire Royal in a battle of Class 3A unbeatens, as Caldwell's Kedrin Shepard rushed for 139 yards and two TDs. #4 Class 4A Nederland 39, Port Neches-Groves 32 Nederland pulls off the...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 25, 2010, 11:47 pm
Legendary Newton High School football coach Curtis Barbay has died of a massive heart attack at Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth this evening. Barbay, 68, coached for about 40 years and won three state titles at Newton High School. He won more than 300 games, and is the winningest football coach in ...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 24, 2010, 11:05 pm
Good one in Plano tonight as Abilene and Longview are tied. Abilene throws a TD pass with 16 seconds remaining....going to overtime. Longview is 1-3, but every game has come down to the end for them. Catch the overtime here.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 18, 2010, 6:12 pm
According to the Beaumont Enterprise, West Orange-Stark coaches confirmed that their next game, Saturday, September 25 against Giddings in Conroe, has been cancelled.  There has been no decision made about the Mustangs' game in two weeks against Kirbyville.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 17, 2010, 11:41 pm
It is being reported by Beaumont area media that Reggie Garrett, a senior quarterback at WO-S High School, was pronounced dead at Baptist Hospital Orange just after 9:30 p.m. tonight. Garrett jogged to the sideline after throwing a touchdown pass with nine minutes left in the second quarter, and pas...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 15, 2010, 10:50 pm
Abilene and Tampa Plant square off tomorrow night in Abilene in a game scheduled to be televised on ESPNU at 7 PM. Plant is led by RB James Wilder Jr., the son of former Tampa Bay RB James Wilder, while Abilene RB Herschel Simms is expected back from a shoulder injury. Plant QB Phillip Ely, who is ...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 14, 2010, 6:06 pm
AUSTIN -- Southlake Carroll senior quarterback Daxx Garman's appeal to be reinstated was denied Tuesday by the University Interscholastic League state executive committee in a unanimous vote. Waco ISD athletic director Johanna Denson, San Antonio ISD athletic director Gil Garza,Troy ISD superintend...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 12, 2010, 5:37 pm
Week two in Texas high school football featured a Florida invasion, plenty of big games and plenty of big performances. Here's our recap of week two.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 10, 2010, 10:58 pm
Class 4A #2 Aledo scores with six minutes remaining in the game and ends Lake Travis' 48 game win streak, 14-10.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 10, 2010, 10:37 pm
Aledo now leads Lake Travis for the first time, 14-10, as running back Johnathan Gray scored from the one yard line on 4th down with six minutes remaining in the game. Lake Travis has been turnover prone the second half.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 10, 2010, 9:38 pm
Lake Travis is leading Aledo 10-7 at the half. You can link to the Aledo broadcast here.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 10, 2010, 7:55 pm
If you are looking for the internet feed for the big class 4A matchup between Aledo and Lake Travis, you can find it here. Cavalier QB Michael Brewer's is not starting. You can find many other games on our broadcast links page.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 8, 2010, 11:24 pm
A District Executive Committe ruled by an 8-0 margin that Euless Trinity violated no rules in a seven on seven tournament that was aired in the DFW area by WFAA channel 8. The district released the following statement. DEC Decision: HEB ISD Did Not Violate UIL Rules After WFAA aired its story last...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 8, 2010, 3:05 pm
The Lake Travis Cavaliers are the owners of a 48 game win streak and three consecutive state titles, but they are about to be tested as never before over the past three seasons, including the playoffs. First the Cavaliers face 4A #2 Aledo Friday night at home, then they host 4A #6 Kerrville Tivy, wh...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 7, 2010, 5:11 pm
Here is The Associated Press high school poll for September 7, 2010, with first place votes in parentheses, records, points based on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1, and the team's ranking in last week's poll: Class 5A School Record Total Points Prv 1. Euless Trinity (22) (2-0) 246 1 2. Abilene (3) (2-0) 224...
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 6, 2010, 1:36 pm
Euless Trinity has amassed 455 yards of total offense and leads Shiloh Christian 53-20 at halftime. The announcers are trying to put a good face on this one, but it's apparent Shiloh Christian is out of it's league.
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Txpreps posted an article on Txprepsfootball.com Blog - Sep 6, 2010, 12:00 pm
Eulees Trinity jumped out quick on Shiloh Christian to go up 14-0, but Shiloh answered with a 96 yard kickoff return to make it 14-7. The Trojans answered right back to make it 21-7 with 8:33 still remaining in the first quarter. The game was scheduled to be broadcast on Fox SW Plus, but can't find ...
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