Instead of playing in the first TSSAA football playoffs in 1969, Pearl High opted to play Maplewood in the Clinic Bowl at Vanderbilt. Here's why.

Bobby Wuensch, who earned All-American honors on the Texas football team's 1969 and 1970 national championship squads, died over the weekend. He was 77. Wuensch lettered at Texas from 1968-70.