Saturday September 5th at 6:30 PM......................

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August 31, 2009

if you care about Six-Man football you are going to want to be in Trent, Texas to see what may well be the game of the year between Division 1 Richland Springs and Division 2 Borden County. Folks, I just don't think it can get much better than this match up.

Borden County is ranked the # 1 team in Division 2 of Six-Man no matter what Poll you might be looking at. They are the defending State Champion from Division 2 and many people believe that this team may be better than last year's group. They were the only undefeated team in either Division last season.

Richland Springs is ranked # 1 in at least 1 Poll In Division 1 and no worse than # 3 in other Polls. They have been State Champions themselves in 2004, 2006, and 2007. They had one loss last season and that was to Strawn in the playoffs. Strawn is your defending State Champion from 2008 for Division 1.

This should be an outstanding game. The line that I have seen on the game has Richland Springs as a 5 point favorite. It will be well worth your trip to come to this game no matter where you are coming from.


If you are interested in this game make plans to attend. The Abilene Reporter~News most likely will not cover the game because Richland Springs and Borden County are not in their circulation area. I am sure the 33 or so Six-Man schools with the ARN circulation area would love to see coverage but I was told that probably will not happen. That is too bad.

Note the game time is 6:30 PM. Trent officials have told me the gates will open at 5:00 PM. The seating capacity of Trent's stadium is about 1500. POTENTIALLY, the crowd could be and should be much larger than that. I am also told that Borden County will be the HOME team. Ticket prices will be $6.00 for adults and $4.00 for students. My suggestion is that you make plans to arrive early.

Melvin Clements will toss the coin before the opening kick off. He is a gentleman that lives near Rotan. He is 90 years old. He has been chosen to participate in the coin flip because he was a player in the first Six-Man game ever played in Texas. That game was played in Rotan between the teams of Sylvester Cardinals and the Dowell Bulldogs. The game was played September 29th, 1936.

There are only a few records of this game that have survived the test of time. Thanks to some fine "historical" work by Leman Saunders of Blackwell, we now know that Melvin Clements is a true pioneer of the sport so many of us love. Six-Man football. It is a great game. Make plans now to come out and watch a great game and help honor Mr. Melvin Clements.

See you at The Trent Tussle.

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