Back Roads

Texas 1A Fan Podcast

Season 4: 2022-2023

Episode 1: Division I Six-man preview. Cross Country. Band.
Episode 2: Division II Six-man preview.
Episode 3: Guest Josh Stanaland, Jayton Jaybirds with the 19th Annual Gridiron Classic. Week 1 Top 10 games. Scrimmage #2 summaries. Top 10 Cross Country. Top 10 Volleyball.
Episode 4: Guest Caleb Callaway, Knox City. Week 1 game review with scores and player stats. Helmet sticker winners. Volleyball Top 10. Shoutout to some really cool people and the six-man community.
Episode 5: Guest Coach Vance Jones, Balmorhea. Week 2 review with scores & player stats. Volleball and Cross Country Top 10. Leman's Six-Man 101 about the 45-point rule and its origins!
Episode 6: Guest Coach Jake Popham, Loraine. Week 3 review with scores & player stats. Volleyball and Cross country Top 10. Leman's Six-Man 101 about debate about the "Clear pass" vs the "hand-off" in 1953.
Episode 7: Guest Coach Mike Reed, Gordon. Week 4 review with scores & player stats. Volleyball Top 10. Cross country - times from Region 3 as well as an update on Isaiah Billingsley & Brandon Passman running in Division I SEC. We talked about strangeness this week and the UIL executive committee. Leman's Six-Man 101 about rule changes in 1938.
Episode 8: Guest Coach Josh Bragdon, Union Hill. Week 5 review of scores & player stats. Volleyball Top 10 and Cross Country Top 10 in boys and girls for regular season poll #2. We talk about some great notes from around the state from awesome 1A schools. Leman's Six-Man 101 discusses the Reverse Snap!
Episdoe 9: Guest Coach Jeremy Holt, Whitharral. Week 6 review of scores & player stats. Volleyball Top 10, Cross Country Top 10 and district, region, and state coming quickly! Cool stories from around the state and Leman's Six-man 101 with 1955 champions and some stat leaders from Texas.

Links
Six-Man 45 Point Rule, 1952 Six-Man Magazine and 1939 Six-Man Rulebook

First Texas Six-Man State Game: 1972 O'Brien vs Jarrell in Coleman, Texas

Article about Nathan Pena of Marfa honoring the 911 firefighters

Video of Grady vs Whitharral where Reverse Snap is used (1976)

2022: Chester's Jaxon Gay sets a new six-man record for longest return (89 yards)

Texas 1A Fan: Go Forward & Do Good! wristbands How do you get one? Be GOOD! You never know where we are watching during a 1A event or activity! (Episode 9)

1947 Six-Man Football Magazine (referenced in Episode 8)

Sopapilla Cheese Cake at Blackwell concession stand (Episode 8)

Whiteface fireworks after winning their Homecoming game (Episode 8) Photo credit to Big Joey Alvarez

Joaquin “Hawk” Bustamante, Sierra Blanca (Episode 9)

Jordan Terpstra from Sidney - 1st in 12-year-old age group in the Super Luck 5k, a charity to help families that have children battling cancer (Episode 8)

Nathan Pena, Marfa (Episode 7)

Isaiah Billingsley, McMullen/Auburn, and Brandon Passman, Guthrie/Univ of Alabama, racing in an SEC cross country race (Episode 7) Photo credit to Theresa Passman

Happy Birthday, Craig Sperry!

Terlingua first XC practice (Episode 5)

Hadyn & his chicks from Cranfills Gap! We love them! (Episode 3)

Season 3: 2021-2022

Terlingua Basketball

No gym... just open sky. They call it the Sky Dome and generations of kids have played basketball out in the wide open. The Sky Dome and Terlingua's basketball team have been highlighted in a several articles (2007, 2009, and 2021). Since the school's inception in 1996, all girls have played on the outdoor court, surrounded by dirt, gravel, and the open desert. In July 2022, Terlingua will have its own multipurpose building including a gym for the beloved sport. No more sliding in the gravel when a ball goes out of bounds: Link to Article in October 2021 Big Bend Gazette

Thank you to Marcy Reed for the pictures and sharing this awesome long-standing tradition!