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When the Superintendent took over Spur's football team

Nov 06, 2024, 3:44 PM

Superintendent Craig Hamilton became the Spur Bulldogs' head coach in fall camp and has the team one win away from its first undefeated season since 1994.

When the Superintendent took over Spur's football team

Spur High School’s football season was almost over before it started - two days into preseason two-a-days.

Head coach Tate Clark had been battling illness since July. He’d gotten his gallbladder removed, then fought pancreatitis, and by early fall, had developed an infection in the pancreas that hospitalized him in Dallas, over four hours from the tiny west Texas town.

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