This game was canceled because of Hurricane Rita. The Strake
Jesuit administration decide not to make the game up. The impact on the
playoff picture of 19-5A? I'll tell you that at the end of the season.
The First High School Football Game ...at Reliant Stadium Katy 21 - A&M Consolidated 17 Click Here for Details
The "Ticket" to the
event. At $13.00 the most I ever paid for a
High School Football game. .
Greatest Upset in a 2000 5A Regular Season Game District 4- 5A Regular Season Game
Odessa High School vs. Midland Lee
(an unused ticket to this great game)
Ever Fall in Texas literally thousands of High School students
play UIL sanctioned football. They work, they sweat, they struggle to win that elusive
Friday night icon and put one in the win column. The truth is most players never go to the
first level of the playoffs. Texas high school football is real, and it's played by
athletes that play for the love of the game. There is an old axiom in High School
Football. Any team can beat any other team on any given Friday night. This game was a good
example.
Midland Lee, two time 5A
Texas State Champion, rank #4 in the state polls and ranked in the top 10 in
the USA Today poll was defeated by the 30 point underdog Odessa High Bronchos.
They're wining strategy? Contain Cedric Benson. Cedric Benson is a name you will hear
again. He was the first High School player ever on the cover of Dave Campbell's "Texas
Football Magazine". Contain they did. At the half Midland took a 14 - 13 lead into
the locker room. The Bronchos held tough. Final score 27 - 17, Odessa wins.
Post Script: Midland went on to win the 2000 5A Division 1 State
Championship
The UIL deemed the Katy Tigers ineligible to compete in the state championship 30
minutes before the teams boarded the bus for Texas Stadium in Dallas. The
infraction? A backup defensive player had falsified the grades on his eligibility
report and played in three plays at the end of a game three week prior to the championship
game.
Midland Lee went on to defeat San Antonio Mac Arthur handily. The San Antonio
team, that had been beaten by Katy the week before, had to track down players and re-issue
equipment with only a 24 hour notice that they would be playing in the championship game.
Midland Lee went on to win the game and 5A Division II Championship* for
1998.
(I'm still crying about this one.)
*Through no fault of there own, the Midland Lee Championship will always have an
asterisk by it.
The win ended Permian's reign over the cross-town rivalry that began in
1965. OHS tied Permian in 1980 and was credited with a victory by forfeit in 1993, but
Friday's was the first win on the field since 1964.
``I brought in a speaker this week that said it took 40 years for the Israelites to get
to the promised land, but we wouldn't have to wait that long because it's only going to
take us 33,'' OHS coach Randy Quisenberry said.
Quisenberry brought in more than one motivational speaker. On the first day of fall
drills, his team heard from star country singer Larry Gatlin, the Bronchos quarterback in
the 1964 win.
