Football Friday Nighhh, uh ... Saturday Afternoon

By Tommy Kilpatrick
September 6, 2004

Ahhh… the high school football Saturday afternoon game. I’m still not sure if I like the idea of high school football during the day.

I think you tend to lose some of the intensity that goes along with Friday night games. That being said, Saturday was a great day to be a Cougar.

Cooper completely dominated Brownwood in every area of the game. Give credit to coach Secord for breathing new life into the defense, and to coach Churchman for establishing a balanced offense.

Daniel Overall stepped up and showed that he is a threat with the deep ball. Jerry Harper stepped up in his first game and showed that a defense will need 12 men on the field just to bring him down.

It was also a big day for the defense. Andy Walton, Evan Scrivner and Rodney Lewis all stepped up with huge games. We’re only two weeks into this season, but I don’t think it is too soon to say that the Cougars are playing some pretty good football.

Speaking of good football… As a fan of the game, I can’t help but look across the railroad tracks and see that Steve Warren’s Eagles are off to a dominating start.

You also have to look south of the Mall of Abilene and see that, once again, Hugh Sandifer has the Wylie Bulldogs rolling early.

All this looking begs the question… Is there a better town for high school football in West Texas? For the past few years the city of Abilene has sent both its 5A teams to the playoffs.

That’s something no other city in West Texas has ever been able to do, and we’ve done it five years in a row. Wylie has turned themselves into a dominating playoff force, and ACHS has a couple of 6 man state championship appearances to brag about.

Of course, if your going to look at all the success within the Abilene city limits, you have to look just past them and see the Jim Ned Indians, Merkel Badgers... well, that’s another blog.

God Bless and GO COOGS!!!
Tommy K.

Updated Cougar rosters, stats and standings:
www.geocities.com/coopercougars

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