Buckeyes 'eager' for battle as 2010 campaign begins

FOR THE seventh year in a row, the Gilmer Buckeyes are one of the teams playing in TITUS Sports Marketing’s Trinity Mother Frances Football Classic at Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium in Tyler.

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GILMER BUCKEYES VARSITY football players for 2010 include: front row, from left, Ty Barr, Gavin Holt, Xavier Easley, Traylon Webb, Wesley Johnson, Luke Turner, Darrion Pollard, Adan Olivares, Austin Hollingsworth, Jeremy McMillan, Jorday Traylor; second row, Trey Washington, Eddie Fluellen, Chris Miller, Darius Parker, Jarrett Finney, Hurashio Morgan, Gus Johnson, Marqualon Tate, Jordan Goodrich, Jordan McCraven; third row, Exavian Johnson, Dakota Cannon, Adam Witcher, Lelon Montgomery, Ben Martin, Matt Fluellen, Carlos Sanchez, Chase Spencer, Eric Miller, Colton Hill; and fourth row, Devonte Brooks, Jasper Cox, Brady English, Markus Reid, Hayden Stansbury, Nathan Shelton, Zack Davidson, Brian Boyd, Kole Lawhorn, Nick Richardson, Michael Boddie. Not shown, Carlos Tennison, No. 26.

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How Gilmer came to be known as the Buckeyes

By JOE BLOUNT Long before the birth of Christ the buckeye was known to have medicinal value. The nutlike seed, found abundantly on shrubs here in East Texas, first got its notoriety as a curative agent from the Greco-Roman culture. Their god of medicine was Aesculapian. Even today botanical scientists place the buckeye within the genus Aesculus, recognize it as a member of the horse-chestnut family and are still highly puzzled by its many and varied phytochemicals. “Phyto,” as you may recall from biology, simply means “from plants.” There are a great number of antioxidants and maintenance chemicals found in the buckeye’s pulp. There are also many toxic compounds and several of the substances are downright poisonous. Early Greek docs would skin the buckeye and boil the endosperm, producing a brew that was taken internally. Most often, just as the case may still be today, the cure inevitably turned out to be worse than the disease. So now, we see that the buckeye is poisonous. We also b...

Ticket information

Tickets are now available to purchase online for our home game against Pine Tree this Friday. Go to gilmerisd.org and scroll down to “Box Office”. General Admission tickets are $8. Student tickets are available until noon on Friday for $5. Tickets will be sold at the gate (cash only) for $8. No student tickets will be sold at gate. Orange cards will be honored! Come out and support our Gilmer BUCKEYES!!!

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