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Early 14 Clifton 0 continued

By Tracy Ebarb
September 26, 2005

Early Longhorns 14 Clifton Cubs 0

As they say, this one wasn’t exactly ‘pretty’, but it is a “W”, and the Early Longhorns have never looked better at 4 – 1 going into the bye week. Actually, there were some really beautiful parts of this game – we got to spoil Clifton’s Homecoming; the defense forcing 7 Clifton turnovers; outclassing the host team with the Longhorn’s Tunnel, stadium flags, banners, and awesome “tailgate party”, to name a few.

But maybe the most beautiful, the most classy, the most indicative demonstration of what Early Students are all about, was the performance of the Early High School Marching Band, under the leadership of our Director of Half-time Operations – Jerry Everett. Since it was Clifton’s Homecoming, the Cub’s Band performed before the game. At half-time, when it came time for the Longhorn Band to perform, they had the hometown fans standing and applauding! But that’s not all. The Longhorn Band wasn’t finished by a long shot. You see, Mr. Everett and crew have set a new standard for Band Students everywhere, they’ve started doing something at the end of every game, that one Early ISD Administrator said he’s never seen done in his 26 years of service. After the game was over, after their instruments were packed away, after the bus was loaded, after most everyone else was headed home, the Early Band Students went out and picked up trash on the Visitor’s side of the Field. Make sure you understand what I’m saying – the Band Students cleaned up the opposing School’s facility, just because! At Early, it’s not just about what happens during the game that makes us proud, it’s the whole package, Team, Band, Flag Corp, Heartland Belles, Cheerleaders, Students, Booster Club, etc., etc., etc..

This week is the bye week for all Longhorn teams except one: the Freshman Longhorns. If you’re like me, you can’t go 14 days without cheering for the Early Longhorns, so try to make it over to Comanche this Thursday, the 29th, for a 5:30pm kickoff.

We’ll wait until next week to look at the stats for the pre-District games, and make some comparisons for District match-ups. Between now and then, I would love to hear any comments and/or predictions for what the Horns are facing. We travel to Ballinger a week from Friday to face 6’5” QB Wes Vanicek and a currently undefeated Bearcat team. Early surprised the ‘Cats last year with a 14-7 win on District’s opening night, what do you think things will look like this year? The Longhorn’s defense has now notched 14 quarters without allowing a touchdown(and only 19 points allowed in the last 4 games), does anyone in our District have an answer for that? Teams in our District are a combined 20 – 8(I think), so far this year, is this one of the toughest 2A Districts in the State? I’d love to hear what you think, and to let everyone else know what you think as well, so comment early and often. Go Horns.

Note: To the Longhorn fans that brought their FM radios to Clifton for the in-stadium broadcast, thanks for listening, and yes, we did realize that you could hear our comments during the commercial breaks, although I not sure we were using an abundance of caution. Oh well. Also, best wishes and get well soon to Bart Holliman.

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