The sixman football experiment in oregon this season has coaches and players scrambling to learn the games finer points. Six a football coachs journey to a national record is a heartwarming, feelgood story of a special man and all he accomplished in his amazing hall of fame career. This is a test to see whether we can improve the experience. While the concept of the sixman game remains the same, there are some distinct differences too with the rules of play. Sixman football is a variant of american football played with six players per team, instead of 11. A small high school in a town of 250 people decides to start a football team. They wear sweatshirts with the numbers painted on them.
In the early 1940s, towns that sixty years later still play sixman football, such as harrold, trent, novice, groom and oglesby, were playing. Football records books since 2004 the ncaa football records books were separated into two different publications one for division i and one for division ii and iii from 2004 through 2010. After graduating from midwestern state university, he returned to teach at obrien and to coach sixman football. These links direct the user to the division i publications only during that time period. Broncos year wlt ptsopp coach 2008 460 214346 john campbell 2009 r 1220 459187 john campbell. Dave campbells texas football maintains the states most widely respected and cited texas high school football record book. Selfproclaimed city boy helps sixman football in texas.
How a crazy, recordbreaking sixman shootout could have. I love football,love to watch it and love to read about it. The sixman game has been played in nebraska for a long time. Sixman teams get center stage at asco midland football. Da bear chicago mens football athletic sports fan, journal 6 x 9, 100 page blank lined paperback journalnotebook. Osaatoday burnt river sixman football team an entirely.
More new records updated records through the 2016 football season are and volumes of new material have been added for your viewing. Nebraska high school football records as compiled by stu pospisil of the worldherald and the nsaa. Game film from the claremont honkers 1952 and 1954 national record setting six man football teams. The first recorded 6man football game in texas took place on september 29. Underwood is a lifelong educator who first played sixman football while a student at obrien texas high school, where in 1962 his team was the undefeated regional champion. Prior to the consolidation the grafton comets and eaton brown bombers played six man football against the other smaller school districts in lorain county, many of. The seventh man, released in 2003, documents two years in the lives of the panther creek panthers, one of the storied programs in texas sixman football. The road to sixman football in south dakota got a little longer for a few teams, including the edgemont moguls, tuesday with the announcement that the new classification would likely.
Because of the continual sprinting, dodging, and aggressive contact demanded in every one of the forty minutes of. When dewaine lee began his coaching career in 1993, he thought his future was in 11man football. It is a story that will be enjoyed by sports fans, those interested in rural life, stories about overcoming obstacles and history buffs in general. The state high school activities association voted to eliminate class 9b and create a class to better fit south dakotas smallest high schools. Montana has the sixman record for consecutive state champions with 5 for. According to the bible of sixman football in texas, here are a few basic rules of sixman football. Updated 10419 includes all games played during a season. Sixman football breathes life into sleepy colorado prairie town. Home rankings scores schedule message board weekly spreads. The uil added sixman football as a sanctioned sport. Although this year saw four new teams join the ranks, there were still only 11 total teams in nebraska. I was not disappointed by the explanation of six man football. American sixman is a fastmoving game played on an 80 yard long 73 m by 40yardwide 37m field instead of the normal 100yd 91m by 53. The field is 40yards by 80yards, rather than 50yards by 100yards.
The biggest addition as of june 26, 2017 is seasonbyseason records of thousands of u. Uil sixman football championships live webcasts fox sports. Sixman is a fastmoving game played on an 80yard 73 m long by 40yard wide 37 m field instead of the normal 100yd 91 m by 53 1. Kade scott is going to go down in kansas high school football history. Furthermore, the game specifies a 15yard distance 14m from the line of scrimmage to gain a first down. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers all about six. The strawn varsity football team won thursdays neutral playoff game against rival school gordon tx by a score of 6440. Sixman football by reed underwood, paperback barnes. The sixman game between campbell and fannindel was a record breaker but.
Since i have never heard of six man football,i was intrigued by the subject. City boy granger huntress helps sixman football in texas grow in scope. Sixman history varsity football avalon independent school. Campbell, fannindel set sixman football record in 125122. Interview with the author if six and photographs of the mighty claremont honkers national record setting six man football teams from 1947 to 1953. Six a football coachs journey to a national record game. Six man football started in chester, nebraska in 1933 during the depression. The goalpost crossbars are built out of two by fours. Here for your consideration is what i have determined are the top5 record holders for 6man football in the state of texas. Bill welsh strode into town in 1947, started a sixman team at the high school, and six years later had racked up a national record of sixtyone consecutive victories. Ladonia campbell rallied from a 7330 deficit to outscore fannindel 125122 in a sixman football game that was called with 7. Here is the 2019 allwest texas sixman football team, honoring the best players from the san angelo standardtimes coverage area. Game film from the claremont honkers 1952 and 1954 national record setting six man football.
On the mushers second possession, he took an option. The sixman game between campbell and fannindel was a record breaker but there could have been an even crazier result. This game was part of the 2019 football state championships 2019 football 6man 1a d2 tournament. Sixman football was developed in 1934 by stephen epler in chester, nebraska, as an alternative means for small high schools to field a football team during the great depression.
Texas sixman team featured on espn unable to play football in 2017. Welcome to our new and improved comments, which are for subscribers only. The simplest and easiest form to convert and make publicly make all these films availible is by using the popular video platform there i have created a channel called sixman films where i have been slowly digitizing and uploading the over 2,000 game films i have been trusted with over the years. As sixman football showcases have popped up across parts of texas the last few years, henderson, who. This is list of sixman football venues in texas note. Kansas player scores 14 tds in 6man playoff game sporting news. But nowhere is the learning curve steeper than at burnt river high school in the baker county town of unity, where the sixman roster is composed entirely of exchange students who are football. Unique perspectives on the daily sports topics that matter most. Amidst receiving national attention after their 2016 football season was saved by. But with football participation falling nationwide, the sport could be on its way to california. Next fall, south dakota will reintroduce sixman football to the state. His career as a highschool football coach is without equal. Trinity sanders roots for her sons, jonesboro players keith sanders. Strawns lee crafts impressive career in sixman football, despite initial 11man dream.
Sixman in nebraska has rested in a precarious position in recent years. Six man, texas, released in 2008, is a documentary film that explores sixman football as identity in the public high schools of the 160 small towns in texas that play it. Midview began playing football in the fall of 1955, the first year of newly consolidated school district. The senior fullback at pawnee heights high school in rozel, kansas. Granger huntress went from handing out newsletters at football games to becoming the nations top sixman football. But also appearing on those early charts were the then tiny towns of katy, friendswood, dripping springs, copperas cove and pearland. Wayne henderson sees todays game as an opportunity. This website is dedicated to the players, coaches, fans, and most importantly the communities and towns who support their local sixman football teams across this great country. This volume, that jack pardee terms a dissertation on sixman football, is not only the definitive rule book for the sport, but includes a thorough sixtyfiveyear history of texas sixman competition, the teams that have played, and the coaches who have developed and led them. Sixman football was invented in 1934, by a high school coach from chester.
Because there are so few teams remaining, the nebraska school activities association nsaa no longer sanctions sixman football and hasnt since 1998. The combined 247 points are a record for a sixman football game, according to campbell coach paul johnston. Sixman football was developed for smalltown schools. Sixman football returns to southern idaho southern. It sounds a bit like a script for a television show or film under the disney umbrella.
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