Mighty, Mighty Matadors: Estacado High School, Integration, and a Championship Season

by Al Pickett

Strongly inviting comparisons with the movie Remember the Titans, this book by veteran sports journalist and author Al Pickett is an inspiring, insider account of the Lubbock Estacado Matadors, who came together for love of a sport to become Texas State AAA High School football champions in their first year of eligibility.

In the late 1960s, the Lubbock Independent School District was pressured by the courts to address its still-segregated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1623495512
• ISBN13: 9781623495510
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.7"