Volunteer football officiating
Tue, 2014-11-04 05:00
News Staff
By Willis Webb
Once — JUST once — I was “volunteered” to officiate a junior high school football game. Thank the good Lord I was spared that indignity ever again, but I couldn’t refuse that time. The head coach of those Teague Junior High Lions was one Jack Meredith, my family’s nextdoor neighbor and absolutely one of the best guys I’ve ever known. Jack went to Stanford University where he was a three-year starter at end. He married a Teague girl (Norita Keils) and wound up coaching there in both the high school and the junior high. There are much larger staffs these days and most schools, even those Teague’s size, have somewhat separate coaching staffs.
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