the 40-yard line

 

Jones Stadium in Spur, not to be confused with Texas Tech's The Jones, is home to the Bulldogs six-man football team.  Thus, the center stripe is the 40-yard line with a reduced playing field of 80 yards by 40 yards.  Every game Spur plays at home is a bowl game -- the field is at the bottom of a natural depression with concrete stands tiered down to the field.  Quite a hike for the spectators!

 

 

Jones Stadium

Spur, Texas

11.25.2015



go mustangs!

 

Almost every school in Texas, regardless of size, fields a football team and builds a stadium.  Sands CISD is no exception.  Located in Ackerly which sits on the Dawson-Martin county line, Sands is a consolidated district drawing students, all 224 of them, from the corners of four counties --Dawson, Martin, Borden and Howard.  This year the Sands Mustangs six-man football team lost the play-off game to Lorraine 82-70.  Back in the day, New Deal played Sands, which then had an 11-man team.  It was our furthest away game -- which doesn't seem so far today. As a majorette, I twirled on that field - probably sans improvements.  I remember the comments about the sandburs on the field!

 

Sands Mustang Stadium

Ackerly, Texas

12.29.2014