Gilmer 36, Gladewater 35

From The Gilmer Mirror:

THERE’S AN old adage in football that says “don’t EVER take points off the scoreboard.” The expert who wrote those famous words would have to rethink that conventional advice had he have witnessed the Gilmer Buckeyes-Gladewater Bears district opener at Buckeye Stadium Friday night.

Read more: The Gilmer Mirror - Skunks Bears fail to ruin Gilmer s Homecoming

From the Longview News-Journal:
Buckeyes survive Bears in overtime, 36-35

From the Tyler Morning Telegraph:
Buckeyes Top Bears In Overtime

From KYTX CBS 19 Tyler:

Highlights: Gladewater at Gilmer

Gilmer vs. Gladewater: Post-game Reaction

From KLTV Tyler:

The Red Zone Part 2 (4:15 in)

From KETKnbc Tyler:

Friday Football Fever! (5:20 in)

Video: Highlights of Gladewater Bears vs. Gilmer Buckeyes on Oct. 8, 2010

Videos of the game come up in reverse chronological order at this link:
http://www.youtube.com/gilmergreene#g/u

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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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