Gregory Gymnasium. And now, as ESPN viewers are either reminded or learn for the first time about the 1988 Carter saga, a new generation of Dallas ISD and Houston ISD teams prepares for a new season in a considerably different era for both school districts. 1992 Houston Oilers Rosters, Stats, Schedule, Team Draftees. Subscribe to Stathead Football: Get your first month FREEYour All-Access Ticket to the Pro Football Reference Database. In a time of declining enrollment, HISD teams are now scattered from 6A through 4A. Houston ISD Football. As a matter of policy, Sports Reference only reports the results of games as played on the field. Yates vs Temple: Photo: Houston Chronicle Sports 1992- Texas 5A Semi-Finals #12: Photo: Houston Chronicle Sports 2007-Yates vs Willoridge #1 Darveon Trahan Photo: Houston Chronicle Sports #5 2006 Booker T. Washington . Houston, Texas ( Other Texas schools) 23 total players, 0 active players. Join our linker program. Houston Oilers players listed alphabetically or numerically. Yates set standard with state football title in '85, 12/21/1985 - High school championship game: Yates v Odessa Permian at Texas Stadium. Booker, who. Field1940-2003, Jeffry Fields, 1980-82 He joined the Houston Chronicle in 1990 after stints at the Dallas bureau of United Press International (1984-90), the Waco Tribune-Herald (1978-84) and the Tyler Morning Telegraph (1975-78). PVIL- Bi District Chanmpionship Team Game Results 1942-1965. He has been a contributor to Dave Campbell's Texas Football since 1980, serving as high school editor from 1984 through 2000 and as Managing Editor from 1990 through 2004. Dennis Parker, who attended the 1985 Yates-Permian game, coached the Marshall team that lost to Carter in 1988 and lost twice to Permian in 1989, said Carter was the best because it had such speed on defense. Countdown toChristmas(Dec 25, 2010 @ 12:00am). This college football 1990s season article is a stub. Longtime Houston coach Ray Seals, whose Milby team lost 51-0 to Yates and who scouted the Cowboys in 1988, gives the nod to the Lions. Find out more. McCombs Field. Otherwise, Yates posted five regular-season shutouts and allowed just two teams to score in double figures. In fact, contemplating a Carter-Yates game prompts the very real question of whether we ever again will see a team from the Dallas or Houston independent school districts win a big-school championship. Luther Booker's Lions were also the first program ever to go 16-0 in 5A and . Jack Yates High School. Amid the uncertainty of whether they would be allowed to play in the playoffs because of an eligibility dispute involving running back-defensive back Gary Edwards, Carter needed a last-second touchdown catch by Armstead in a 22-18 win over Marshall, which advanced to the 1989 semifinals and won a 1990 division title, and won 14-9 against the Odessa Permian team whose season was chronicled in H.G. The program got its start in 1927 when William Sylvester Babe Holland, was hired by Principal James D. Ryan to coach football as well as basketball and track. Then I know you. "Our game plan is to just pound on the players until they give up," Foster said before the state title game. 12/21/1985 - Coach Luther Booker and his Yates Lions celebrate their state title as the final seconds tick off the clock at the Class 5A state high school football championship between Yates and Odessa Permian in Texas Stadium. He went to the state semifinals in 1982 and 1990 and won the state title in 1988. Conferences. He joined the Houston Chronicle in 1990 after stints at the Dallas bureau of United Press International (1984-90), the Waco Tribune-Herald (1978-84) and the Tyler Morning Telegraph (1975-78). Mithoff Field House. The power centers of Texas metro football are now the suburbs - Katy, North Shore, Manvel and Pearland, among others, in the Houston area, and DeSoto, Aledo, Cedar Hill, Duncanville and others in Dallas. Carter was third on my list for the 1980s. Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Wednesday, March 1, 11:34AM. Carter likely would have been ranked first rather than second in 1988 but for the Cowboys' previous playoff shortcomings. Rushing leaders: Harvey Harper 108-530, 4 TDs; Gary Edwards 82-335, 13 TDs. Freed from the bonds of time and space, who would win a game between the star-crossed 1988 Dallas Carter Cowboys, defrocked Class 5A champions of 1988, and the Houston Yates Lions, undefeated 5A champions of 1985? Hungry to prove they could win what some believed they couldn't. RB Johnny Bailey, Texas A&I/A&M-Kingsville. Black Panther probably played a more significant a role in the man he would become than the time he spent in college. I was #11 in 79 & 80 at Bonham. A junior and future 10-year NFL starter came off the bench. Houston Oilers roster for the 1992 NFL season. Both championship games were walkovers. Or write about sports? In 14 seasons as the head coach at Carter, he went 122-22-3. The team was led by third-year head coach John Jenkins and played their home games at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. 66 nightmares. The 85 team was coached by Luther Booker and broke several records culminating with a 37-0 victory in the championship game over perennial powerhouse Odessa Permian. Many members of that championship team such as Quinton Smith, Charles Price, Zeno Alexander and James Good, all had professional NFL careers. Carter vs. Yates unquestionably would be quite a game, matching two of the greatest coaching personalities in the business, Freddie James at Carter and Lions mentor Luther Booker, and some of its finest players, including quarterback Robert Hall and linebacker Jessie Armstead at Carter and running back Johnny Bailey and linebacker Melvin Foster at Yates. Yates Football History. 1 in the state. Freed from the bonds of time and space, who would win a game between the star-crossed 1988 Dallas Carter Cowboys, defrocked Class 5A champions of 1988, and the Houston Yates Lions, undefeated 5A champions of 1985? The final score, 37-0. Yates alumni are rallying around their school, recently in the news for poor academic performance. Yates' legendary 1985 team was the first predominantly Black inner-city school to win the UIL 5A state championship and did it in one of the most dominating fashions in state history with five future NFL players on the roster. In Houston in 1985, the local sports scene was in shambles. Passing leader: Robert Hall 145-244-7, 2,060 yards, 17 TDs. D.W. Rutledge, whose Judson team lost to Carter in the 1988 final, gives Carter the nod, and so does Dan Hooks, whose West Orange-Stark team lost to Yates in 1985. Coordinator Ronald Miller's defense, nicknamed the Crush Groove - the iconic rap movie Krush Groove hit theaters on Oct. 25, the day before Yates rolled Davis 72-0 - absolutely mauled teams. 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Thanks again Coach McQueen and State Champs. (4 of 4), 12/21/1985 - Class 5A state high school football championship between Yates and Odessa Permian. Please check back as new information will be added soon. David Barron reported on sports media, college football and Olympic sports for the Houston Chronicle until his retirement in January 2021. So who would have won the game, you ask? Full Bio. Houston pitmaster goes viral after hilarious TV interview, 'Call me a Nazi': Former Houston pastor calls for state book ban, Houston facing severe thunderstorms, possible tornadoes Thursday, Former KHOU anchor turns layoff into lucrative real estate career, Houston is in for dust and gray skies as Texas haboob arrives, The only Houston rodeo food guide you'll need, Report: Houston ranked No. The official 1990 Football Roster for the University of Colorado Buffs. Clyde Bishop, 1979-81. In the final tale of the tape, Yates outscored opponents 659-77, setting a 5A season scoring record, and averaged just under 400 yards a game and allowed 124 per game. . Interview subjects in the film include Yates players Melvin Foster and Zeno Alexander, coaches Maurice McGowan and Ronald Miller, Permian assistant coach Mike Belew, Permian players Scott Russell. (3 of 4), 12/21/1985 - Yates running back Johnny Bailey (20) motions to his teammates after scoring run in the 3rd quarter of the Class 5A state high school football championship between Yates and Odessa Permian at Texas Stadium. Both teams had stiff playoff challenges. The team was led by third-year head coach John Jenkins and played their home games at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas. The team compiled a postseason mark of 0-1. Dallas Carter 34, Dallas South Oak Cliff 7, (Penetrations tied 4-4, Duncanville led in first downs, 12-10). I've always thought that the presence of the late, great Johnny Bailey would have turned the tide in Yates' favor. With the Thursday night premiere of the ESPN documentary "What Carter Lost," the time has come to revive one of the great sports bar/barbershop debate topics of Texas high school football. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? More than 30 years later, that team is still considered by many to be the best high school team in this football-crazed state's history. Yates Football History. 12/21/1985 - Yates Charles Price (12) celebrates completing another point after in the second half of the Class 5A state high school football championship between Yates and Odessa Permian at Texas Stadium in Irving. Houston Yates: 38-20: Playoff Bracket: Golf - Girls. State Champions. Only eight of 21 schools have a 10-win season this century, and five have never won 10 in a season. District: 4A-1 Region III District 11; . 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