Burkeville @ Chester

[Chester86]

Burkeville (2-4) travels to Chester (3-4) this coming Friday night for a big district match-up.  Leverett’s Chapel (4-2) is leading the district, with High Island (1-6) rounding out the district.  If you have never been to a 6-man game I invite you to make the trip to beautiful Aubrey Bradley Stadium in downtown Chester.  Burkeville has a very storied and successful history in football and this should be a great game.  1-A doesn’t get much love or coverage, but football is still a big thing in small towns too.  The weather should be great, concessions are always good and the atmosphere will be exciting.  If you make it let me know and I’ll keep an eye out for you.  These two are old long-standing district mates and hopefully this will be a great game.

[Chester86]

Looks like Burkeville has a significant lead in the overall history, however Chester has won 4 of the last 6.

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is it home coming this week?

dont they normally of that on Saturday

[Chester86]

Homecoming was this past weekend against Tyler Heat.  We have the big parade / Saturday game every 4 years or so.

[Chester86]

Burkeville, Texas population is 1641, and the population of Chester, Texas is 277.  I’ll continue to post factoids and try to keep this thread from being buried.  I can see a true David vs. Goliath game developing here.

[Chester86]

Burkeville has had a young man make it to the NFL, Chester has not.

Player	Pos	Teams	From	To
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[Chester86]

I missed one for Burkeville:

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  - Former NFL defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers (1971-1977) and New England Patriots (1978) and 2x Super Bowl champion. He was part of the legendary 
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  Pittsburgh Steelers' defense along with fellow linemen 
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[Chester86]

The most notable person from the Chester area pre-dates the actual town:

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Battle of US 287 vs Tx Hwy 87.  

[Chester86]

Aubrey Bradley Stadium seats more than 100.

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Where to eat in Chester before the game?  Chester Super Stop has Hunt Brother’s Pizza.  Word is we are about to get a mall (aka DGS).

[ChesterYellowjacket12]

Chester's Jaxon Gay holds the Six Man State Record for the longest INT return. Chester's Jaxon Gay returned a deflected Calvert pass 89 yards for a touchdown in Chester's 58-22 win in 2022. 

 

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[Chester86]

3 hours ago, ChesterYellowjacket12 said:

Chester's Jaxon Gay holds the Six Man State Record for the longest INT return. Chester's Jaxon Gay returned a deflected Calvert pass 89 yards for a touchdown in Chester's 58-22 win in 2022. 

 

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That’s what I’m talking about!!!!  Let’s get some interest generated for this game.  I think it’s going to be a great game.  Go ‘Jackets!!!!

[Chester86]

Burkeville was established in 1844, and several times was the county seat of Newton County.

Chester was established in 1883, and became a town in 1968.

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Go Jackets......

[Chester86]

Interesting Burkeville fact, the city was once home to a college.  Blum Male and Female College was chartered in 1880.  A fire destroyed most of it in 1906, meaning Burkeville had a college for 26 years.  Now you know.

[Chester86]

Chester has a historical marker for a fort that pre-dates the Republic of Texas.  Legends and lore of buried gold in the area.

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[buccaneers4lyfe]

It is crazy to see how Burkeville has fallen, didnt an NFL player get drafted out of there not to long ago?

[Chester86]

Playing with Miami now.  Small-towns are tough.  When I graduated from Chester I went into the military, and then on to big city PD.  I was able to retire (still working though), switch to a different agency and we moved back.  The disparity between the pay from this county and Beaumont  (for law enforcement) is roughly $23K starting, and at Beaumont your pay progresses but the county pay stays the same.  With all that said though, a small school education is what you make of it.  In my class of 19, there was a chemical engineer, a financial-aid director at a university, several successful business owners, a bank VP in Houston, several teachers and civil servants.  You are more involved (sports, UIL events, Ag, etc) and have all the opportunities you want.  I loved it.

[Chester86]

State Championships:

Burkeville -  Football 1986 & 2001

Chester - Basketball 1970

Now, I’m sure there are individual championships, such as track golds that I am unaware of.  I know we had a female in our class win state back to back seasons in track.

[Chester86]

D-1 and college players….I was trying to think, and asked some friends if Chester has ever had a major D-1 athlete.  Sean Terry was a punter for TAMU.  His dad was coach at Chester for awhile, and not sure if he claims Chester has a “home town”.  Cord Neal ran track at Lamar I believe.  Mark Young played baseball at several colleges and later into semi-pro.  He is a member of the LeTourneau athletics Hall of Fame.  He later coached at Chester and currently coaches softball at Dallardsville Big Sandy.  David Handley played football for Austin College in Sherman, Tx before becoming a physician.  I know Burkeville has had some D-1 athletes, probably several major college athletes.  I worked with Al and Tim Spikes and we used to talk sports all the time.

[AggiesAreWe]

Best bass fisherman ever out of Chester has to be Bo Stanley.

He was a pretty good athlete too. lol

[CardinalBacker]

On 10/15/2023 at 5:17 PM, Chester86 said:

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I was about to say. 

[CardinalBacker]

I don’t understand why this isn’t KFDM’s game of the week. 

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1 minute ago, CardinalBacker said:

I don’t understand why this isn’t KFDM’s game of the week. 

it was going to be but I heard there were issues with the live transmission in that area.