Who was your biggest rival when YOU were in high school?

[Sweetwater Red]

There is alot of talk about the Sweetwater/Snyder rivalry. But
when I was in high school Monahans was out biggest rival. I've
spoken to a former Snyder coach and he said when he coached
Snyder the Lubbock schools were Snyder's biggest rival.

I was just curious to see how the rivalries have changed over the
years.

[TarponFanInNorthTexas]

Our big rival at the time was Los Fresnos (they were 4A at the time) and the game was called "The Battle of Highway 100."

Sadly, Los Fresnos is now 5A and the last "Battle of Highway 100" was played in 2005.

[44INAROW]

Cuero vs Gonzales - no doubt.........(that was 1973 to 1975)

[Lion_Addict]

Bangs vs. Early........still is, and was back when my mom went to Early High.

[Ex-Tiger2005]

When I was at Snyder there was always Swater but that is every year since Ive even known football. But I tell ya Monahans was another of ours becuz we always played them first or second round. And of course Abilene Wylie!

[trg]

I graduated from Columbus High School in the late '80s and our biggest rival in football was Rice and in volleyball it was Bellville. Both my children now attend Bellville High School!!

[CheerMom]

Originally posted by trg
I graduated from Columbus High School in the late '80s and our biggest rival in football was Rice and in volleyball it was Bellville. Both my children now attend Bellville High School!!

I graduated from Rice in the early 80's and it was definitely Columbus in Basketball and Football......some of those basketball games got pretty heated. My hubby still refuses to wear red....LOL.

[solocam]

I graduated from Leander in 1976
Our biggest rivals were LLano and pflugerville

[BreckTxLonghorn]

In early high school, Wylie was a pretty big rival in anything. But from kinder til graduation, Graham was probably the biggest.

[crzyjournalist03]

Forney-Crandall, although we clobbered Crandall in pretty much everything.

[Looking4number8]

For Brownwood it always has been and always will be Stephenville.

[jimmyceatworld]

When I got into HS our rival, Teague, dropped to 2A so I guess we tried move on to Mexia. And then they moved out of our district so Fairfield is currently searching for a rival.

[venomous tat2]

I graudated from Hou Wheatley in 1975 and our biggest rival was Yates & they still are.

[Buckeye1980]

Gilmer -Gladewater Battle of G-Town! All orange and black !

[Pmoney]

The biggest rival was Snyder/Sweetwater but my junior and senior yrs we didnt play them and we played Monahans 4 times in 2 yrs going 2-2 with both wins in the playoffs so Monahans was our biggest rival

[Ranger Mom]

I went to school in Coahoma, I think our biggest rival back then was Colorado City.

[Lion_Addict]

Originally posted by Looking4number8
For Brownwood it always has been and always will be Stephenville.

What about Cleburne back in the day? Thinkin that got a little nasty huh?? Just askin.....know you were there.

[GreenMonster]

The Vernon Lions

:thmbdwn:

[BwdLions]

Originally posted by Lion_Addict
What about Cleburne back in the day? Thinkin that got a little nasty huh?? Just askin.....know you were there.

It was Cleburne back in the 80s when I played. (Stephenville was not our rivalry until the 90s because we beat them something like 38 straight games). In 1982 when we played Cleburne in a district game, it was moved to Amon Carter Stadium and there was a reported 25,000 people there.

Before my time (in the 50s, 60s and 70s), it was Breckenridge.

[BaseballUmp]

Of course for me, Battle of the Bell Cameron vs. Rockdale.

[sahen]

I went to Baytown Sterling and our rival was and will probably always be Baytown Lee (almost always pack Stallworth Stadium for that game, around 15K people)....growing up in Liberty the big rival for them was Barber's Hill, that lasted until Barber's Hill went up to 4a several years back....in that district the Liberty/Barber's Hill game was for the district championship almost every year it seemed and no matter where it was the stadiums would be overflowing....

[Bearkat]

Originally posted by BaseballUmp
Of course for me, Battle of the Bell Cameron vs. Rockdale.


Same here, Rockdale. However, the Yoemen and Waco Robinson had a couple of battles in 1992 and 1993. Really could have turned into something if they would have stayed in the same district.

[westtxfballfan]

Red hit it on the head. In the mid-80s at Monahans, Sweetwater was our big rival.

[venomous tat2]

I graudated from Hou Wheatley in 1975 and our biggest rival was Yates & they still are.

[Red&White_9x5]

Originally posted by Ranger Mom
I went to school in Coahoma, I think our biggest rival back then was Colorado City.

That is still a huge rivalry today. No love lost between the Bulldogs and the Wolves

[lakers]

When I was in high school, my high school's (Clyde) rival would definitely be A Wylie. Now it might as well be Cisco or Sweetwater since we dont play Wylie anymore.

[Matthew328]

For Everman it was Waxahachie at least when I was in school

[pirate4state]

Taft

[kepdawg]

Sherman
WOS
Lewisville

[goosealaniz]

when i was in high school vernons rivals always tended to be grahm and iowa park

[Sweetwater Red]

Originally posted by goosealaniz
when i was in high school vernons rivals always tended to be grahm and iowa park


Sweetwater and Vernon aren't considered rivals. But since the
Lions have knocked the Mustangs out of the playoffs three times this
decade....well....we're really starting to not like ya'll.:D

[DaHop72]

Originally posted by Sweetwater Red
There is alot of talk about the Sweetwater/Snyder rivalry. But
when I was in high school Monahans was out biggest rival. I've
spoken to a former Snyder coach and he said when he coached
Snyder the Lubbock schools were Snyder's biggest rival.

I was just curious to see how the rivalries have changed over the
years. But ask him who his biggest rival was when he was in high school. ;) ;)

[Bull Butter]

Ben Bolt
Banquete
Orange Grove

[navscanmaster]

We were 4A when I was in high school, and Navasota and Brenham were bitter rivals. Got the bus rocked over there once after a basketball game (we always whipped their tails in roundball:D )

[roughneck_2008]

when i was at west columbia, our biggest was sweeny, and always has and will be.

[Rabid Cougar]

1982 Graduate of C.H. Yoe High School

Was, is and always ...... Rockdale!

[Diocletian]

I graduated from Lampasas.

Our biggest rival was always Burnet, until most of us got wheels, then it became Marble Falls.

I also think all the old rivalry hatred got fused out when most of us went 4A. It just wasn't the same. I'm not sure how it is now though.

[coach]

Originally posted by BwdLions
It was Cleburne back in the 80s when I played. (Stephenville was not our rivalry until the 90s because we beat them something like 38 straight games). In 1982 when we played Cleburne in a district game, it was moved to Amon Carter Stadium and there was a reported 25,000 people there.

Before my time (in the 50s, 60s and 70s), it was Breckenridge.

i lived in cleburne most of my life and they always were terrible at football...basketball is a different story but man were they bad in fb

[PHS Wildcats]

Palestine/Jacksonville

[WOS87]

Well, WO-S was 5A for 3 of the 4 years I actually attended and I would say our biggest rivals at the time were Beaumont West Brook, the now defunct Port Arthur Thomas Jefferson and Port Neches-Groves.

When we dropped to 4A my senior year, Jasper was the only 4A team we lost to so they would have to be included.

[justlikesports]

I grew up in Uvalde, and for as long as I can remember our biggest rival was Kerrville. It could get pretty nasty way back then.

[goosealaniz]

Originally posted by Sweetwater Red
Sweetwater and Vernon aren't considered rivals. But since the
Lions have knocked the Mustangs out of the playoffs three times this
decade....well....we're really starting to not like ya'll.:D

yea i remember watching those... :D :D

[bwdlionfan]

I graduated from Brownwood in 02, so of course it was Stephenville. My sisters graduated in 89 and 95, the one who graduated in 89 has told me stories of Cleburne being the big rival. They really didn't care anything about Stephenville. My sister who graduated in 95 of course it was Stephenville then. My grandmother graduated back in the 40s from Brownwood, and even back then it was Breckenridge. I think it was pretty much Breckenridge from the 30s on up til the 60s/70s until it started transforming in to a rivalry with Cleburne, and ultimately Stephenville. If Wylie and Brownwood both stay 3A, I can see that being our next big rival... then again if Stephenville drops to 3A in another few alignments who knows.

[LH Panther Mom]

Ralls (aka Sewer City :D )

[sinfan75]

Sinton-Refugio and Sinton-Gregory-Portland in the 70's some of the hardest hittin games I've ever seen.

[gobbler grad]

always been Cuero/Gonzales

[KingRob]

I graduated from Victoria Stroman, so it was Victoria High for us. Big rivals back in the day. Both schools long gone!

[44INAROW]

Originally posted by sinfan75
Sinton-Refugio and Sinton-Gregory-Portland in the 70's some of the hardest hittin games I've ever seen.

those were 100% pure smash mouth games.......

[Old Green]

Originally posted by gobbler grad
always been Cuero/Gonzales Agreed:thumbsup:

[Txbroadcaster]

for me..Longview will always be the rival..no matter the records I hate longview

[Bull's-eye]

Originally posted by venomous tat2
I graudated from Hou Wheatley in 1975 and our biggest rival was Yates & they still are.

Do you remember when Wheatley defeated my school Dulles in basketball? Game was played at Hofheinz Pavillon, winner got Kashmere, who ended up winning 78 straight games. The Rams were led by Karl Godine & Jarvis Williams. Our team was led by future UH player George Walker. Did you play on that Wheatley team?

[HEMOTOXIC]

Definitely the Brenham Cubs with Waller coming in second.

[Fal44]

premont..

only 9 miles away..

never let us play them in football... only in basketball and baseball tournaments

in the district.. umm zapata?

[pancho villa]

Douglas Bulldogs vs Bisbee Pumas The prides of Cochise County

[BwdLions]

Originally posted by coach
i lived in cleburne most of my life and they always were terrible at football...basketball is a different story but man were they bad in fb

I agree that Cleburne has not had too many good football seasons. However, for about five years in the 80s the Yellowjackets had some very good teams. They were coached by a man that wore black clothes. I think his first name was Chuck. They won district in 1982 and the went pretty far in the playoffs. (That district included Brownwood, Stephenville, Joshua, Mansfield, Granbury, Everman and Crowley).

[Maroon87]

Calallen and Gregory-Portland have been rivals from day one because for years they were in the same district and they are both the Wildcats.

[Sweetwater Red]

Originally posted by Maroon87
Calallen and Gregory-Portland have been rivals from day one because for years they were in the same district and they are both the Wildcats.

NM. I got it bass ackwards.:doh:

[DaHop72]

When I was in high school, it was those egg sucking Snyder Tigers. :D :D

[Sweetwater Red]

Originally posted by DaHop72
When I was in high school, it was those egg sucking Snyder Tigers. :D :D

I thought I kept smelling eggs when I was in your mini-van. All
this time I thought it was a certain Brownwood poster.:doh: :D

[waterboy]

We were indiscriminate when I was in high school. We hated everybody! Of course, we weren't any good at football, so that might explain it.:D Take your pick: Mt. Pleasant, Sulphur Springs, Gladewater, Daingerfield. My junior year, Mt. Pleasant was ranked #9 in the state, we were 0-8 on the year, and we went to their house and beat them 20-8, our only win that year. As our buses were leaving, they pelted the buses with bottles and rocks. One girl in our band got hit in the head, and required an overnight stay at the hospital along with a bunch of stitches. That's one story that really sticks out in my mind.

[Ranger Mom]

Originally posted by Sweetwater Red
I thought I kept smelling eggs when I was in your mini-van. All
this time I thought it was a certain Brownwood poster.:doh: :D

That made my afternoon!! :D

I don't know why I love a joke at Brownwood's expense, but they crack me up!!

[DaHop72]

Originally posted by Sweetwater Red
I thought I kept smelling eggs when I was in your mini-van. All
this time I thought it was a certain Brownwood poster.:doh: :D Hey, don't discount the fact that it was him you were smelling. :devil: :devil:

[IrishTex]

Originally posted by Sweetwater Red
There is alot of talk about the Sweetwater/Snyder rivalry. But
when I was in high school Monahans was out biggest rival. I've
spoken to a former Snyder coach and he said when he coached
Snyder the Lubbock schools were Snyder's biggest rival.

I was just curious to see how the rivalries have changed over the
years.

Back in 1969, Sweetwater and Lubbock Estacado were in the same district. Lubbock Estacado was ranked #1 in the AP Poll and Sweetwater was ranked #2.

They played their district game in Sweetwater on a pleasant friday night in November. It was a war. A battle for the ages. After the game, many players and coaches said Sweetwater was the toughest game they played in en route to thier state championship season.

The final score of that famous game between Lubbock Estacado and Sweetwater?

Estacado 7
Sweetwater 0

That team will forever hold the title of the very best Sweetwater team to have NOT won district.

[trojan37]

Hillsboro. I remember the summer of my junior year some football players from Hillsboro came to West to a festival on Labor Day weekend, talking smack to us about how they couldn't wait to kick our a%$. It comes down to the night of the game and they are still talking smack during pregame. We were up 14-7 at the half and scored a quick TD early in the 3rd to go up 21-7, only to end up losing 28-21. It still makes me sick to this day when I think of that game.

[87 TIGER]

I graduatedin '87 from Rockdale and Cameron has always been our rival, but we had a pretty good thing with Taylor going on for years until they started going back and forth to 4a.Ducks and Tigers do not mix well.