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Burlingame Bearcats & Central Railers

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After a 74-54 shootout with 21 touchdowns and nearly 1,000 yards of total offense, the Burlingame Bearcats and Central Railers came together for a prayer circle, where players from two playoff schools intermixed and joined hands.
Jeremy Gaston
The Osage County Herald-Chronicle
My favorite picture of any high school football game. Thank you Jeremy for sharing.
Tim McGonagle

Wallace County FB loses a player

I am deeply saddened by the news of the passing of Luke Schemm after collapsing on the sideline of the Wallace County vs Otis-Bison game last night.

Support the Luke Schemm Legacy, any money not used for funeral or medical expenses will be used to set up a scholarship in Luke’s name. The website is below.

http://www.lukeschemmlegacy.com/

Here is a link to the story.

Here is a link to a story of him during track last spring.

New Football Coaches for 2016

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Mike Lee, football coach of Andover, turned in his resignation yesterday. This means the coaches merry-go-round has begun again.  We have kept track of head football coach openings for years here at KansasPrepFootball.com and it has been one of our most visited pages during the off-season. So if you know of a coach opening, please let us know. We do try to confirm the opening and not list rumors. So please send us no gossip. Thank you.

New Coaches Page

The Truth Hurts

My sophomore and junior year of Scott Community High School football there were so many guys on the football team (just under 90 counting freshman) that coach had a travel squad list. Every Thursday night, as the players went to the practice field, an assistant coach would put up a list on the field house wall of who was going to travel that Friday night to the game on the bus.

So after practice there was always a mad rush of sophomores and juniors to that list to see who was going to get to go to the game and suit up? The freshman never traveled with the varsity in those days.

When your name was not on the travel list, you were disappointed because that meant you were staying home.

The truth hurt.

Early in the football season of my junior year the head coach offered to give me a ride home from practice one night. So I jumped in his pickup and as soon as he started driving he said to me, “You are good enough to start on the varsity team this year, but I have seven seniors at your position and they have been with me for four years, so I need to figure out how to get them in the game. So you will never be a starter on varsity. Next year will be your year.”

The truth hurt.

Jesus as he stood before Pontius Pilate about to be condemned to death on the cross says to Pilate, “I have come to tell the truth.” Jesus was a radical. He was swimming upstream against the current while most of humanity was going against him and it got him killed.

Today, as Christians, we also are called to be different in our generation. What have you done today that separates you from the non-Christians?

Here is something that will make you a radical in your generation.

1 Corinthians 6:9-10 Do you not know that the wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.

And the truth hurts.