Breckenridge High School

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Breckenridge High School is a public, co-educational secondary school in Breckenridge, Texas (USA). It is part of the Breckenridge Independent School District and hosts 9th to 12th grade. Breckenridge High School's mascot is a Buckaroo (a cowboy riding a bucking horse).

1 Athletics
2 Notable alumni
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Athletics

“	No team and community manifested the state's football culture more spectacularly than Breckenridge […]. Until Gordon Wood's Brownwood Lions eclipsed them in 1960, the Buckaroos were the scourge of West Texas.	”
—Ty Cashion^[1]

Breckenridge's winning tradition reached back to oil boom era in the late 1920s. P. E. Shotwell, who coached the Buckaroos from 1927-34, guided the team to the state finals in 1929, where they tied Port Arthur Jefferson 0-0 in the snowy weather of Waco.^[1] Despite Breckenridge's declining population as the oil boom faded, the Buckaroos still played some of the largest schools in West Central Texas. With an enrollment of less than 400 students during the 1950s, Breckenridge's football varsity barely comprised 30 players.^[1] Yet, during the '50s the Buckaroos formed a true dynasty under head coaches Cooper Robbins (1945-51), Joe Kerbel (1952-54) and Emory Bellard (1955-59). Breckenridge appeared in five Class 3A State Championship games, winning four times in 1951, 1952, 1954, and 1958 and tying Cleburne for the title in 1959. Under coach Eck Curtis (1935-44) they made the semifinals in 1942.

While at Breckenridge, Emory Bellard developed his famous wishbone formation.^[1] His 1958 Buckaroo squad was voted the Fort Worth Star Telegram team of the century.

[edit] Notable alumni

Bill Collins, football player
Jerry Tubbs, football player

[edit] References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Cashion, Ty (1998). Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 166-169. ISBN 0876111681.