Cisco High School, Cisco, Texas 1919 Football Team Photo

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In the photograph: Coaches J. J. Godbey and A. G. Walker. Players Emmett Price, Eugene Ames, Odwin Cate, Frank Turner.

The rest of the players are unknown. You might recognize some of them.

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Wichita Falls Junior College, Wichita Falls, Texas 1924 Football Team

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In the photograph:

Thurman, Weeth, Cantwell, Downing, Morton, Beauty, West, Clary, Hirschi, Whitelaw, Coburn, Zetsche, Mosley - coach, Caskey, Keevil, Timmons, Cox, Crites

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Sam Houston Normal College, Huntsville, Texas 1922 Football Team Photo

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Sam Houston Normal College (now Sam Houston State Univerity) Football Squad: Everett McKay - captain, Clam Mayes, Robert Samuels, Jake Alley, Carl Anderson, Boyd Mayes - quarterback, T. J. Hightower, E. D. Bolton, G. B. McAdams, Joe Kirk, T. L. Duffy, Robert Needham, Paul Elrod, Farrington Malone, Herbert Sandel, Shelton Scarborough, O. C. Webb, I. B. Redding, Wade Bolton.

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Del Rio: Property owner uproots, hides state historical marker

Home for sale: 2 brdm, 1 bath, 1 historical marker

Perry Denison cares deeply about the history and traditions of Del Rio, as evidenced by his family’s 43-year stewardship of what may be the oldest standing structure in Val Verde County still retaining a semblance of historic integrity.

But now, Denison believes a commemorative plaque threatens to cost him a minor fortune. Denison, a San Antonio medical equipment repairman, owns the Taylor-Rivers House, 100 Hudson Drive, in the heart of south Del Rio’s historic residential neighborhoods.

In 1983, a handsome, cast-metal marker was planted in the side yard of the unassuming, stuccoed home at the intersection of Nicholson Road and Hudson Drive.

Now the plaque has been taken down and stashed away in darkness, considered by Denison as a liability to his effort to sell the property for an “asking price” of $95,000.

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Keeping Jasper County History Alive

Family Records, Old Newspapers, and Local History Kept Safe at the Jasper County Jail

Bertie Bryant, Jimmie Tanner and their cohorts at the Jasper County Historical Commission (JCHC) have the distinction of talking their way into jail, and they're proud of it. Up until a few years ago, members of the commission kept the important county archives in their own homes, but then the Texas Historical Commission started requiring that records be kept in a central location with public access.

About the same time, Jasper County built the new jail adjacent to the sheriff's office and decommissioned the old jail on the courthouse square.The old jail then got a second life protecting the records of the Jasper County Historical Commission....

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Texas Woodmen of the World Delegates 1915

Texas, New Mexico and Arizona Delegates to the Woodmen of the World Convention in St. Paul, MN in July 1915.

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In the photograph: W. A. Fraser, front row with two little girls in front of him; John Stephens of El Campo (unsure which one is John).

The rest are unknown. You might recognize some of these folks.

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