High School
Tepper: On TXHSFB, Grandfathers, and the Ties that Bind
Dave Campbell's Texas Football Editor-in-Chief Greg Tepper reflects on the start of the 2025 Texas high school football season, and the touchstone it creates for families and communities.
It’s on page 136 of a 58-year-old edition of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football, with the menacing Aggies offensive lineman Mo Moorman scowling at the camera on the cover. There, in all its majesty, is the preview of the 1967 Gatesville Hornets.
Tackle Stanley Kopec (a towering 6-1 and 200 pounds) and tailback Bobby Cole are the headliners — Cole even has his headshot featured in the page opposite. Gatesville’s picked third in District 13-3A, and it turns out it was a pretty good prediction: the Hornets went 5-5. Good going, Dave.
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