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The Series
HP & Longview first played in 1924
By the time Highland Park began varsity football, Longview's Lobos were almost teenagers. The Scots first season was 1923. Longview has been playing football since 1912. Both schools are among the winningest in Texas. Longview's posted 722 all-time wins while the Scots are THE winningest team in Texas high school football history with 845 victories. Despite all that, these two have only met seven times: once in the '20s, twice in the '30s, three times in the '60s and in 1986. The Scots lead the series 4-3 but have lost the last two games in the series (including that 1986 loss in the playoffs at Texas Stadium). This will be the fourth time they've met at Longview with the Lobos winning 2 of the previous 3 meetings at their home stadium.
Thru the Years
1924 W 20-0 (at SMU)
1938 W 26-6 (at HP)
1939 L 0-6 (at Longview
)1962 W 25-0 (at Longview)
1966 W 33-14 (at HP)
1967 L 22-37 (at Longview)
1986 L* 14-41 (Texas Stadium)
(Scott Farrell, Scots Historian)
Site Content
HP QBs make list
Former Scot earns scholarship at arkansas
HP #2 in new poll
Highland Park's one of just 2 schools to have more than one quarterback on MaxPreps list of all time best Texas HS signal callers. Parade All American Matthew Stafford, and the great Bobby Lane! (click below to read the story)
HP #2 in new poll
Former Scot earns scholarship at arkansas
HP #2 in new poll
HP is now 2-0, with a bye coming this week. After wins over Coppell (42-36) & Rockwall (46-18), the Scots have moved up to number 2 in the state in class 5A-1 according to Dave Campbell's Tx HS Football Magazine. Old foe Denton Ryan is #1 @ 3-0, Lancaster is #3 in the poll. Click the button below to see the standings.
Former Scot earns scholarship at arkansas
Former Scot earns scholarship at arkansas
Former Scot earns scholarship at arkansas
Hudson Clark, (HP '19), SEC freshman of the wk, went Hog-crazy Saturday with three interceptions against Ole Miss to help the Razorbacks win 33-21. After the game, Coach Sam Pittman announced he's putting Hudson on scholarship beginning in January!
District 7-5A
Covid 19 in district 7-5a
Sherman had to cancel their game with Longview this week due to Covid 19. Two people in the athletic department at Sherman have tested positive and so school officials decided to shutdown the Bearcats until Monday at the earliest. Both Sherman and Longview are expected to vie for playoff spots this season.
The district does have a covid plan for the standings
So what happens if some teams play a full schedule of district games and others don't. What happens if teams are battling for the district title, or even for a playoff berth. HP Coach Randy Allen told me this week, there is a district wide plan to handle the standings. In the case of teams not playing the same number of games, they'll go by winning percentage, then head-to-head competition, then positive points. But like Coach Allen said, "Gosh, let's not even think about that just yet."
Scots have league lead in sight
McKinney North currently sits 3-0 atop the district standings, but Highland Park's right behind and the two play this week. Should HP win the game, the Scots will be alone in first place having weathered the toughest part of their league schedule. .
The only other game this weekend
With West Mesquite open, and Sherman/Longview cancelled, there's only one other game this weekend. Tyler and Wylie East will meet in Wylie. East is trying to extract themselves from among the winless in district (0-3), while Tyler is even in district (1-1). Should the Raiders win, they'll leave West Mesquite as the only team in the league without a district win.
Close coaching fraternity
The Scots meeting with McKinney North this week also brings together a pair of head coaches that go back to their days in West Texas. Randy Allen was head coach at Abilene Cooper while Mike Fecci was quarterback at Hardin Simmons University in Abilene. His coach there was David Visentine, a friend and meotor to Coach Allen. Fecci then stayed on as a grad assistant and got to know Coach Allen on a another level. Coach Visentine eventually took at job at Irving MacArthur where Fecci served on his staff .