Buckeyes, Lions scrimmage here in final tuneup before regular season begins

The Gilmer Buckeyes hosted the Henderson Lions Thursday night at Jeff Traylor Stadium. The Lions scored once and shut Gilmer out during the controlled portion of the scrimmage. In the live two quarters of action which simulated an actual game, the score was Gilmer 14, Henderson 0.

High school football season is only a week away

HEAD COACH MATT TURNER speaks to the team after the Gilmer Buckeyes' scrimmage here against the Henderson Lions last night. The regular season begins a week from tonight on Friday, September 1, against the Liberty-Eylau Leopards in Texarkana. Kickoff will be at 7:30 p.m.

The Gilmer Mirror's Upshur County Football Guide will be published on Thursday, August 31.

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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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