Carbon, TX Sports News

‘Texas 6’ shines riveting light on small-town high school football

For the people of Strawn, Texas, high school football is a religion deserving of feverish devotion. But —, their congregation is much smaller than many others in the Lone Star State — so they practice their faith a little differently.

In Strawn, they play six-man football: a variation of the sport embraced by a group of rural Texas schools that don’t have enough kids to field a regulation 11-man squad. The game originated in Nebraska in 1934 and is played in a handful of other states including Colorado, New Mexico and the Dak ... Read more