Corsicana, Texas —
There is a mammoth Golden Circle football games on tap for november 20.
For residents of the Frost and Blooming Grove, it will be a gridiron battle that nobody likes to have ever seen.
Well, not in the last 20 years at least.
When the adjacent cities meet on Blooming Grove high school next month, it will mark the first area Alumni soccer games — full pads, full contact — for graduates of the respective schools.
A time-and-for-all settlement of all the poker table compete.
The idea, by an organization called the United States, Alumni Football was started by Northern California coach almost 20 years ago.It first took root in Texas last september, starting early in the year and growing by the month. Two area games is scheduled this year between the Lions and Bears, as well as Dawson and rice.
The organization provides pads, officials, emergency personnel and the teams give athletes and meeting place.Half of all ticket sales go back to high schools.
But think again, if this sounds like a half-hearted, glorified flag football game.
"Sometimes I'm amazed how intense games," says Tim Bishop, the Organization's State Director in Austin. "It is kind of like an all-star game ".
Players from each squad, are invited, when they sign up to list their high school credentials. they range from a college All-American, Frost's Johnny McRae, who earned glory by Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., to one Blooming Grove player if the performance read, "Hospitalized 25 opponents."
Frost Captain Ronnie Cooper said Polar Bears squad came faster than he expected. within one day of the hearing of the idea enrolled 25 players.
Polar Bears practice twice a week, including the much-needed conditioning, in preparation.
"I have already received oxygen tank ordered", he said, half-joking. "Believe me, we will be on that sucker. "
Colleague Captain Jeremy Woods said the experience each bit as a little stale, as it was in his high school days.
"I think we are more intense and more nervous than we were, because it was so long ago," he said. "We are not so athletic, which we used to be, but that is where the fun begins. "
Note: the eight players were enrolled in corsicana, Texas's team as of press time. While the window of the scheduled game closes, Ennis had a full squad and was looking for an opponent. register at http://www.alumnifootballusa.com
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