Freedom football coach Tchecoy Blount warned his team about Wharton’s Darius Page.

“I told the kids all week, ‘He’s a big, bruising back and he has speed. He’s not going to go down on the first hit or second hit,’” Blount said.

The Patriots (1-6) couldn’t heed their coaches warning, and the Wildcats (2-4) rode Page to a 28-7 win at home on Oct. 14.

The senior set a school record with five interceptions, giving Gaither short fields as the Cowboys thumped Steinbrenner 37-7 in a key Class 7A, District 7 game.

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A wet, torn-up field led to a sloppy game that included seven fumbles and an interception as Steinbrenner beat Freedom 13-6. "When you're playing like that, in the mud, it just makes it extremely tough," Steinbrenner coach Floyd Graham said.

As stunned as his loved ones, friends and colleagues were about the suddenness of his death, it was the graceful, dignified and exemplary life of Lee Roy Selmon that they remembered most on Sunday. The first player drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and their only member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame died at St. Joseph's Hospital on Sunday afternoon (Sept. 4, 2011) surrounded by family and friends, only two days after suffering a stroke at his Tampa home. Mr. Selmon was 56.