Gilmer 47, Atlanta 26

The Gilmer Buckeyes successfully opened the 2019 high school football season at Jeff Traylor Stadium in Gilmer last Friday night with a 47-26 trouncing of the speedy Atlanta Rabbits.

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GILMER — The Gilmer offense was all about spreading the love Friday night as the Buckeyes rolled to a 47-26 victory in their season opener against Atlanta at Jeff Traylor Stadium.

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GILMER–The rabbit’s foot may be an iconic symbol of good luck, but the Atlanta Rabbits’ fleet feet were insufficient to invalidate the injury inflicted on them by Gilmer Buckeyes quarterback Mason Hurt, who flung three touchdowns as Gilmer axed Atlanta, 47-26, in the pair of state-ranked squads’ season inauguration Friday night.

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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...

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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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