Mighty, Mighty Matadors : Estacado High School, Integration, and a Championship Season Hardback
by Al Pickett
Part of the Swaim-Paup-Foran Spirit of Sport Series series
Hardback
Description
Strongly inviting comparisons with the movie Remember the Titans, this book by veteran sports journalist and author Al Pickett is an inspiring, insider account of the Lubbock Estacado Matadors, who came together for love of a sport to become Texas State AAA High School football champions in their first year of eligibility. In the late 1960s, the Lubbock Independent School District was pressured by the courts to address its still-segregated system, and its response was the new, integrated Estacado High School.
Estacado’s first head football coach, Jimmie Keeling, formed and fielded a team of young men who had never played together before and who came from widely differing parts of the social spectrum.
Remarkably, he forged a unit that was not only cohesive but highly competitive, rolling undefeated toward a historic championship finish. Mighty, Mighty Matadors features action-packed accounts of Estacado’s championship season, but even more, it offers heartwarming glimpses of the lifelong friendships formed by players who joined hands across racial and social divides to accomplish a goal.
In the process, they helped bring pride and unity to their hometown.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages, 8 colour, 17 black & white photographs
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2017
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- ISBN:9781623495510
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages, 8 colour, 17 black & white photographs
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781623495510
