Sports Center Saturday - Emerging Texas Football Star

Attention Aggies, Cowboys, and Texans recruiters! Today marks the start of the football career of Texas' most promising up-and-coming player!

Digital photograph, copyright Rana Cooper 2011.
Used with permission.

Pictured above in full uniform, James Cooper, special teams player for the Sherman Bearcats, is a young man to watch as his career develops. According to the most reliable source (his mother, who is also this writer's niece), Cooper is the "most focused, hardest working player on the team." Although the Bearcats lost today's game to the Anna Coyotes (30-8), those in the know say the Bearcats are just off to a slow start and will be a force to reckon with in future games.

Cooper follows in the tradition of his Spurlock relatives who were featured in a previous Sports Center Saturday post.



© 2011 Denise Spurlock

Sports Center Saturday - Friday Night Lights

In celebration of the kickoff of the NFL season, I am posting an article from The San Saba Daily News which proclaimed C. W. "Charlie" Spurlock (my first cousin, twice removed) as the father of high school football in Richland Springs, San Saba County, Texas:

Source: The San Saba News, 23 October 1930, p. 1, col. 5; digital images, NewspaperARCHIVE.com (www.access.newspaperarchive.com : accessed 11 August 2011.

This is a wonderful example of how research in historical newspapers can add to our knowledge of our ancestors' lives!

Go Chargers!

Courtesy of ClipArtGallery.com

© 2011 Denise Spurlock