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Mighty, mighty Matadors : Estacado High School, integration, and a championship season /

Strongly inviting comparisons with the movie Remember the Titans, this inspiring story of the 1968 state champion Estacado Matadors carries a distinctly Texan flavor. Veteran sports journalist and author Al Pickett interviewed the players, Coach Jimmie Keeling, members of the Lubbock Independent Sch...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pickett, Al (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2017].
Edition:First edition.
Series:Swaim-Paup-Foran spirit of sport series.
Subjects:
Estacado Matadors (Football team) > History > 20th century.
Estacado Matadors (Football team) > Biography.
Estacado High School (Lubbock, Tex.) > Football > History > 20th century.
School integration > Texas > Lubbock > History > 20th century.
School integration.
Estacado High School. > Matadors.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.