Buckeyes to play Waco Connally Cadets at E.H. Hanby Stadium in Mesquite on Nov. 21

Buckeyes face Waco Connally Friday night in Mesquite

When the Gilmer Buckeyes take the field Friday night at E.H. Hanby Stadium in Mesquite to face the Waco Connally Cadets, it should be a case of déjà' vu for Gilmer head coach Jeff Traylor, who was a member of the 1985 Buckeyes' team that defeated the Cadets in the second round of the playoffs at Hanby Stadium.

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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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