Paris High School, after two weeks of pre-season football practice, will scrimmage Henderson High School at 6:45 p.m. Friday at Wildcat Stadium.
It was Henderson that ended the Wildcats’ season last season in the first round of the playoffs. Paris finished its year with a 9-2 record, and Henderson went 11-3 before losing in the Class 3A-Division I state semifinals.
The two schools’ freshmen and junior varsity squads will precede the varsity at 5 p.m., simultaneously going opposite ways from the 40-yard line.
Admission will be $2 for adults and $1 for children, with all proceeds going to the THSCEF Benevolence Fund, which assists athletes and coaches with special needs or hardships.
To date the fund, established by the Texas High School Coaches Association board of directors, has paid $139,000 to athletes and coaches with special needs, plus sizeable donations to the Red Cross Hurricane Relief Fund.
To date, more than 740 schools have participated in the THSCEF benefit scrimmages, which have come to be known as Our Day to Shine.
Charles Richards Charles Richards moved to Paris in 2004 after retiring from a 40-year career in journalism – the last 26 years as a news writer and sports writer with The Associated Press in Dallas and Washington, D.C. In mid-2004, The Paris News coaxed him out of retirement, and he began covering the police, court and regional beat for The Paris News. Then in early 2005, he was switched to coverage of a sharply divided Paris City Council. He was appointed by the City Council in 2006 to the 12-member City Charter Review Commission, which extensively rewrote the outmoded document. His writing awards include two first-place awards in statewide competition for feature writing. The most recent was his 2005 story on a Paris doctor’s startling use of leeches in a successful attempt to re-attach a man’s severed ear. Over his career, Richards’ interview subjects include Alabama Gov. George Wallace, President Bill Clinton, President George W. Bush, David Koresh, Arnold Palmer, Muhammad Ali and numerous other political and sports figures. He is an alumnus of Texas Tech, where he was editor of the school newspaper. He lives in Paris with his wife, Barbara, who is retired after 30 years as a teacher and high school counselor.
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