Interview with Coach Jeff Traylor as he leaves Gilmer to coach for the Texas Longhorns

Courtesy Photos / Joe Dodd<br>
COACH JEFF TRAYLOR packs up Thursday at the Gilmer Field House to move to Bellmont Hall on the UT campus, where he will be Tight Ends/Special Teams coach for Coach Charlie Strong's Texas Longhorns.

Courtesy Photos / Joe Dodd
COACH JEFF TRAYLOR packs up Thursday at the Gilmer Field House to move to Bellmont Hall on the UT campus, where he will be Tight Ends/Special Teams coach for Coach Charlie Strong's Texas Longhorns.

On Friday the University of Texas announced that Gilmer head football coach and athletic director Jeff Traylor has accepted a coaching position with the Longhorns. Traylor will start his new job on Monday, February 16.

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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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