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Greatest Six-Man Team of All-Time? Gordon Makes Its Case
Stryker Reed ran for 160 yards and four touchdowns while Ry Reed ran for two more scores to lead the Gordon Longhorns to their third straight UIL Football State Championship.
ARLINGTON, Texas —Gordon head coach Mike Reed considers himself a student of six-man football.
His first class was in session when he moved to Gordon, Texas, as a high school sophomore and found a lifelong teacher in Nelson Campbell. Campbell was Gordon High School’s head coach for 23 years. When he retired in 2004, he was the winningest six-man coach of all time with a record of 247-61-2. And while they didn’t go on Reed’s record, he’d earned many of them driving around the state scouting for Campbell, drawing plays on a yellow tablet.
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