High School
One Family's Fight to Uphold the Most Unbelievable Record in Sports
Seventy years ago, a skinny Brenham Cubs freshman named Jimmy Linnstaedter intercepted 35 passes in one season. Now approaching his 85th birthday, he's still trying to prove it happened.
THORNTON, Texas – Like most young men in Texas, James “JD” Linnstaedter’s love of football was inherited from his family just as much as his name.
Some of JD’s earliest memories are throwing the football in the front yard of his grandfather’s lake house in Thornton, Texas. The boy admired his “Pa” for many reasons. James “Jimmy” Linnstaedter, now closing in on his 85th birthday, is the type of man they just don’t make anymore: a decades-long football coach who built a houseboat on Lake Limestone and helped construct his own two-story home. But while those details were cool, the thing JD has always most revered about Pa was his athletic career.
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