From the Sideline: Celebrating 100 years, and we need readers help to do it

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July 21, 2012

From the Sideline: Celebrating 100 years, and we need readers help to do it

By JUSTIN RAINS CNHI The Palestine Herald-Press Sat Jul 21, 2012, 04:41 PM CDT

Centennials are a big deal, and they should be. After all, 100 years is a long time, making 100 years of anything something special.

With that in mind, this is a call for help from every Palestine Wildcat fan out there.

The 2012 season will mark the Palestine High School football program’s 100th on the field. The Wildcats began play in 1911 but didn’t play in 1918 due to the flu.

On top of that, the team’s season-opener against Waco La Vega at Wildcat Stadium will be the program’s 1,000th. Not bad, eh?

With such an important and impressive milestone coming up, the Herald-Press is hoping to give this event the attention it deserves both in the daily paper and in the pages of our annual football preview magazine, Dogwood Circle.

Story ideas are being circulated, record books scourged and old newspapers looked through. One things for sure, this needs to be big.

That’s where Wildcat Nation comes in. We need your help in two different areas.

First, if you or any of your family and friends have any old pictures or memorabilia from the past 100 years of Palestine football, we want to see them. We’re trying to get as much history into this as is possible.

Second, we want to hear from you.

As part of the package we’ll be featuring Wildcat Nation in Palestine 100: 100 years, 100 fans and 100 memories of Palestine football.

So, have a special memory that sticks out in your mind from watching or playing football at Palestine High School? Email it to us at sports@palestineherald.com, or write it down and bring it on in to our offices at 519 N. Elm in Palestine.

Our goal is to get more than 100 submissions so we have plenty to choose from. Because of that, please try and keep submissions as brief as possible. We want all the details, but in as short a form as possible.

Memories and memorabilia can be from an era. You can look back on a team from two years ago or 25, from last year’s squad to the first in 1911. It doesn’t matter. We’re celebrating it all.

So, hit the scrapbooks and attics and see what you can find, because the only way this endeavor can live up to its potential is with your help.

Happy hunting.

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