He noted the 21 holdups were more than those attributed to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, who terrorized the South during the 1930s. Tanell Evans, a standout track performer for Lancaster, now competes for Sam Houston State. Volume 2 30 for 30: Shorts Full Schedule ESPN Films. In 1988, however, he was the sports editor for the Grand Prairie News. Ellis, the executive producer, told The Monday Morning Quarterback that he hopes viewers will take a similar message away from the film. Director Author Muhammed definitely did a good job with this film and I hope that people . Before, she was a Research & Archives Associate and wrote about the historical happenings from the The News' archives. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. The 1988 Dallas Carter High School football team is receiving some notoriety this week as ESPN's 30 for 30 about the team debuts Thursday. Twenty years ago, he was 6-3, 190 pounds and had once run a 40-yard dash in 4.34 seconds. We always thought that, Wow this would be a great movie, somebody needs to make a movie about this,' Muhammad says. March 4 (UPI) -- Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made a rare visit to frontline troops in Ukraine on Saturday as Kyiv's grip on the embattled city of Bakhmut appeared to be slipping. Evans, who was paroled Aug. 22, 1996, says his co-workers don't know about his football or prison past. Freshman Stoughton, Mass. There are too many to declare which is best, but ESPN's latest "30 for 30" documentary on the 1988 Dallas Carter high school football team is equal to any of the previous award-winning episodes. You dont even get a chance to think about the past, trying to think about the present, he said. Sixty-two varsity players thrilled and galvanized and brought pride to their community, but six of them caused embarrassment and grief. And there are plenty of tales about James. 2022 Football schedule for the Carter Hornets from Strawberry Plains, TN Gaston Middle School; W.T. Only Gov. Fox, Pooch Hall, David Banner. His bio doesn't mention a father, but Evans says he has attended several A&M games this season. The success and failures in life are a lot of times in our control, he said. Not an investigation into their leading scorers algebra grade. Some who meet Campbell remark that he would have made a good attorney. Copyright 2023 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. It was like, 'Hey, I'm down with you for whatever because I know you're down with me.' 'Most of you have had religious and moral training, the opportunity for a decent education, and some of you have even been given by God athletic talent that would enable you to receive a free college education. Williams met and married his wife, Latrina, soon after his release - and his return to the church. Russeau was invited to a Dallas showing of the movie but said he wasnt contacted about the film prior to that. It Was Money for Prom Night, Some of the youths had testified that they had committed at least one robbery each so they could have extra money for prom night. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. Thats the reason executive producer Greg Ellis signed on. Boston College High School. 'I do not know anybody who has gone off to TDC who has come back and become a productive citizen.'. The players were arrested, tried and convicted. Spring Sports. Mojo's state title run was cut one game short after a 14-9 playoff loss to Dallas Carter. There's some debate as to whether that team is better than the 1985 Yates team that steamrolled opponents on its way to a state championship. "Nothing wrong with that. A native of Tyler, he is a graduate of John Tyler High School, Tyler Junior College and The University of Texas at Austin. From changing grades and playing ineligible players to substance abuse and violence, these five scandals marred the face of the king of all sports in Texas. The team initially had to forfeit the games Edwards played in, but its playoff eligibility was reinstated for the first postseason game. According to Hootnick, it was "mostly two-parent families, mostly professionals. Hide/Show Additional Information For Clarence Carter . If SOC wins Saturday morning, it would officially be the first Dallas Independent School District team to win a state championship since 1958. "They talk about that high school team that kicked everybody's ass," he says. Editor's note: This story was published as the movie 'Carter High' was set to hit theaters. Starred for Smyrna High School on both sides of the ball and was named Class 6A Mr. Football after a phenomenal 2022 campaign Selected as the Region 6-6A Defensive MVP this past fall Posted 92 tackles, six tackles for loss, three sacks, five passes defended, three forced fumbles and one interception his senior season Editor's note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning News archives. But while this is a film about some football players making some bad decisions, its also a film about many other players who didnt go down the wrong path. I've always thought that the presence of the late, great Johnny Bailey would have turned the tide in Yates' favor. The REAL 1988 Mojo from Friday Night Lights movie. Over the course of one month in the spring of 1989, six Dallas Carter players, including Edwards and defensive back Derric Evans, were charged with committing a series of seven armed robberies in Dallas before being arrested. The official 2019 Football Roster for the . In one instance, two star players used a .22 revolver to take $256 and a movie rental that cost $3.24 from a Video Exchange. August 16, 2017 / 9:40 PM Most prominent among those sentenced were Evans, who was picked by UPI as one of the nation's top 100 college football prospects last spring and signed with the University of Tennessee, and Edwards, the center of a grading controversy that almost cost Carter its chance at the 5A playoffs last season. In 1986-87, 57 percent of Carter students failed at least one course, as compared to 44 percent at Lincoln, an inner-city all-black school. High school football, in North America, refers to the game of football as it is played in the United States and Canada. ET Thursday on ESPN and will take a detailed look at the fabled 1988 Dallas Carter High School football team. Texas GOP censures Rep. Tony Gonzales over votes on guns, marriage equity. We're not thugs.' 10:00 AM on Aug 24, 2017 CDT Updated at 12:19 PM on Dec 12, 2019 CST. A high schoolstatefootball championship in Texas is arguably about more than just temporarybragging rights. ". I was voted 11th Region Boys Co-Coach of the Year in 2001 and 16th Region Boys and Girls Coach of the year in 2012. Among those sentenced was Derric Evans, 17 years old, an all-America defensive back last year at Dallas Carter High School who lost a full scholarship to the University of Tennessee. To Hootnick, some of the story's unsung heroes are the parents who fought to keep the team in the playoffs. Courtesy of ESPN Films 3 children killed, 2 hospitalized in North Texas domestic incident, At least 5 dead following year's first severe spring weather outbreak, 'Saving Private Ryan,' 'True Romance' actor Tom Sizemore dead at 61, Dozens killed, injured as Jakarta fuel depot fire engulfs neighborhood. Carter High School is really an afterthought in Friday Night Lights -- the evil, thug-like team that stole a championship. We had the first girls team in 1992. we also had a boys team that year. "For every action there is a consequence good bad or indifferent," said Campbell. West, who represented the school in its legal battle to make the playoffs, remembers the politically charged atmosphere at the time. With the Thursday night premiere of the ESPN documentary "What Carter Lost," the time has come to revive one of the great sports bar/barbershop debate topics of Texas high school football. I move on." To this day, former Principal Clarence C. Russeau insists Carter did nothing wrong in regards to the eligibility controversy. "No, no, no, I was never bitter," he says. In another, the boys robbed a Mexican restaurant for $11,000. Houston, Texas. With Charles S. Dutton, Vivica A. I was younger, he says. : 1985 Yates vs. 1988 Dallas Carter, Dallas Carter 34, Dallas South Oak Cliff 7, (Penetrations tied 4-4, Duncanville led in first downs, 12-10), Bi-district: Dallas Carter 21, Plano East 7, Region semifinal: Dallas Carter 31, Lufkin 7, Region final: Dallas Carter 22, Marshall 18, State semifinal: Dallas Carter 14, Odessa Permian 9, State championship: Dallas Carter 31, Converse 14, DL Santana Dotson (1992-2001 - Buccaneers, Packers), RB Johnny Bailey (1990-95 - Bears, Cardinals, Rams), RB LeShai Maston (1993-98 - Oilers, Jaguars, Washington), LB Jessie Armstead (1993-2003 - Giants, Washington), DB Clifton Abraham (1995-97 - Buccaneers, Bears, Panthers), DB Derric Evans, Tennessee (pictured above signing his letter of intent in a hot tub), Went to Texas A&I and played six seasons in the NFL. I want the younger audience to know that your decision that youre making right now can affect the rest of your life, Muhammad says. Its your choice.. That was one of the great teams, former WFAA sports anchor Dale Hansen said in What Carter Lost, a 2017 ESPN documentary about the Cowboys 1988 season. Sitting at the kitchen table of his DeSoto home, he patiently retraces the grade controversy, the robberies, prison. Filmmaker Adam Hootnick says, "For a lot of people, that's the top." The book "Friday Night Lights" is about a group of high school football players in Odessa, Texas, a town where football is king and Friday evenings are gospel. 1985 Yates vs. 1988 Carter would have been a fitting showcase for two of the greatest teams in what was, for my money, the best era of the modern high school game, the years from 1982 through 1989 . My story is unedited.". The REAL 1988 Mojo from Friday Night Lights movie. 1819 W. Wheatland Road, Dallas, TX 75232 (214) 932-5700. Browse through the photos above for a comparison between the 1985 Houston Yates team and the 1988 Dallas Carter team. So thats the impact that I wanted to leave.. AT HOUSTONCHRONICLE.COM: Debate class - Yates or Carter? He worked for a chemical company in Garland for six years. It is my extreme pleasure to serve as your site Principal. In the late 19th and . Filmmaker Adam Hootnick says, "For a lot of people, that's the top.". You know, like football as long as they were doing football and in football it kept them away from making such bad decisions and choices. Houston pitmaster goes viral after hilarious TV interview, Texas A&M upset win clears path for UH to snag top overall seed, Turner: TEA is giving Houston ISD two optionsclose school or be taken over, Two ocelots were photographed crossing a road in rare South Texas sighting, Houston Rockets poised to reap benefits from Eric Gordon trade, Willie Nelson's new album is a lovely tribute to a fellow country legend, Why Johnson City in Texas Hill Country is the new, cooler Fredericksburg, Hiker captures 'once-in-a-lifetime' photo of wildlife at Brazos Bend State Park. With ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary What Carter Lost, audiences are primed to remember the glory and scandal that surrounded Dallas Carter High School's football team nearly 30 years ago. @Vol_Football. Editor's note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning News archives. During a phone interview, Evans says there is a reason he has rebuffed reporters since giving prison interviews to The Dallas Morning News in 1989 and 1991 and to author H.G. Historical Coaches: Don Shula, George Halas, Tom Landry, Curly Lambeau. The greatest high school football team that has ever been assembled. There's high school football, and then there's Texas high school football. He was surprised a film was made so long after the fact and that he and others still in the area weren't contacted about the script. Williams served three years in prison. The Cowboys captured the city with their talent as they fought their way through the regular season and the playoffs. This was one of the issues that later led Carter to being stripped of its title. Kendall, a former Dallas County prosecutor, lectured the 12 teenagers for 10 minutes before sentencing them for a string of 21 armed robberies committed last spring. Saturday, February 25, 2023 Carter High School Cross-Country Pancake Breakfast at Aubrey's Strawberry Plains! "I didn't have respect for the law at that time and now I look at life in a more humble way," said Campbell. First Last Height lbs. Staff writer Brad Townsend conrtributed to this report. Gary Salyer and Charles Baker were the coaches. When Derric Damon Evans entered prison on Sept. 22, 1989, he left behind more than a rescinded college scholarship. 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I just love it, he said. He often refers to her as Vivica now, after actress Vivica Fox who plays her in the movie. @coachjoshheupel. I never even knew that that stuff was going on until its like they were actually out and basically confessed to the crimes.. We won a championship together and there wasn't a DB, I say, who would have been better than him in the pros.". ESPN Films continues a busy summer of sports documentaries on Thursday, August 24, with a 30 for 30 documentary about the highs and lows of the 1988 Dallas Carter High School football team."What Carter Lost," directed by Adam Hootnick, will air at 9:30 p.m. Unofficially, they would be the second team to do so, after the Dallas Carter Cowboys beat Converse Judson at Texas Stadium 31-14 in 1988. Millions of Texans have rare diseases. DALLAS The drama surrounding the 1988 Carter Cowboys took over 25 years to go from the high school football field to the big screen. It was real hard then, and I hope that people pick that up, she said. It started as a nonfiction book, then it became a movie (with Billy Bob Thornton as the coach) and finally a TV series. Twenty years ago, they were Carter High's Three Amigos. ". (Ben Torres/Special Contributor). But its not the kind of football movie that Dallas-based writer and director Arthur Muhammad ever imagined hed be making. But nobody has any ill effects about it.". Educating, Motivating, and Producing Responsible Citizens of Tomorrow. 'But he (Washington) got six months,' Creuzot said. 1994 Roster # Player Position Birthday Hometown High School Height Weight; 1: DeWayne Carter: WR: 4/21/1973: Orchard Lake, MI: St. Mary's Prep: 6'1" 192: 2: Ty Howard: CB, DB: 11/30/1973: Five days after winning state, three football players robbed a Jack in the Box at 2:30 a.m., pantyhose pulled over their heads. To know that I broke some hearts really has been a bother over time. Site Map. Mojo made it to the State Semifinals, where the playoff run would come to an end with a 14-9 loss to Dallas Carter at Royal Memorial Stadium in Austin, Texas. for hosting @CarterHSFB Editor's note: Take a look back into The Dallas Morning News archives.Two months after the big championship win at Texas Stadium, and after overcoming legal challenges . He really missed being around students. Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. Muhammad was on that 1988 state championship team. 61. The official 2019 Football Roster for the Skip To Main Content . Eva James says the movie tells people how it really was back in the late 1980s. I know I have the ability to grow beyond it, but it remains there.". Ever, TCU alum and former San Diego Chargers running back LaDanian Tomlinson said in the same documentary. A few months ago, former Carter coach Freddie James came in to car shop, not realizing Williams worked there. 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So thats the story, the good and the bad. Hide/Show Additional Information For Jay Carter . Sentenced one by one, most of the defendants hung their heads as the judge ruled. Single, he attends several Carter games a year and lives down the street from Cowboys teammate Clifton Abraham. FOX 4 News Dallas-Fort Worth. Carter High is a 2015 American sports film directed and written by Arthur Muhammad. Hundreds of friends and relatives of the defendants wedged into a corridor outside the courtroom, and several began screaming and throwing their hands into the air after the sentences were announced. We do not share addresses with any third parties. So the way that those parents were undercut after everything they did to keep that team on the field and to try to put forward their version of who they were to have that all undone, you know, I think that's the story that's never been told.". Others said they had spent the money on trips to an amusement park, food and athletic shoes. The case went before Kendall, who rejected pleas for leniency and ordered most of the defendants to prison for sentences that ranged from two to 25 years. The following appeared as Part III in a three-part series on the Dallas Carter High School 1988 football team in the Nov. 11, 2008 editions of The Dallas Morning News. "I don't think you can fall much further," Hootnick says, "and I say that in part because of the level of the pedestal that, as a Texas high school football star, that's almost as big as it gets. A state championship convincingly earned on the field was lost 25 months later by unanimous vote in an Austin boardroom. For the last year, he has worked on a soon-to-be-released book, Carter Boyz. Dennis Parker, who attended the 1985 Yates-Permian game, coached the Marshall team that lost to Carter in 1988 and lost twice to Permian in 1989, said Carter was the best because it had such speed on defense. Thats definitely still part of the film, but its not the main focus. I think at some level they were chasing a rush.". ''In six months' time,'' the judge said Friday, the teen-agers ''committed more armed robberies than Bonnie and Clyde did in a lifetime. DALLAS As South Oak Cliff heads to the 5A state championships this weekend, many in Dallas are celebrating, but its also reminding a lot of people of David W. Carter High School, commonly referred to as Dallas Carter. HISTORIC TEAM: 1985 Yates team was one for the ages. Initially, Evans seemed glad to see him. Iranians stage protests as dozens more schoolgirls fall ill in suspected poisonings. Often described as the high school football game of the century.Although the final score was 24-24, Texas UIL tiebreaker rules determined that Duncanville wa. I guess it was just for paper.". Dallas Carter, 1988? Eva-Marie Ayala/Staff Writer, Mesquite Horn offensive coordinator Robert Hall during football practice at John Horn High School in Mesquite. Permian did end up winning a state title the following year, going 16-0 in 1989. Previous Seasons All-Time Roster. "I tell people all the time, I was like Michael Jordan and he was like Scottie Pippen," Armstead says. "I'm glad I did go to prison," he says. It ranks among the most popular interscholastic sports in both of these nations. It was not until football was removed and the hedge, so to speak, was removed that they ventured out and did what they did.. It would have been a great game, featuring accomplished, underrated quarterbacks and defenses that were downright scary. The official 1986 Football Roster for the University of North Carolina Heels . God has a plan for my life, and this is it.". DALLAS -- Ten current and former high school students, including five members of Dallas Carter's Class 5A championship football team, were sentenced to prison terms Friday by a judge who told them, 'If stupidity were a crime, you would all deserve life without parole.'. A 12th still faces sentencing. Carter High in Dallas took the statechampionship in 1988, but thisnew film about the team is not all about victory. "Everywhere we go, somebody knows me," he says. March 4 (UPI) -- Texas Republicans on Saturday voted overwhelmingly to censure U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales over votes supporting same-sex marriage and gun control bills that broke party lines. I don't want to tell my story that way. Not the ensuing legal battle that nearly kept them out of the playoffs. Three-year starter (Offensive Line) at Byron High Schoolplayed under head coach Ben Halder2022 Bear football captaina three-time All-Conference performer, 1st Team (senior season) & Honorable Mention (junior and sophomore seasons). The Mesquite Horn offensive coach and quarterback who once led Carters team to victory remembers his high school days fondly it was the time, he says, he really felt like he was playing for the community. Find Texas High School Alumni, Reunions, Yearbooks and Class Photos! References External links. represented Evans, said they were shocked by the stiff sentences. The sentences were handed down before a courtroom packed with relatives of the 12 defendants, one of whom received a deferred sentence and one of whom was sent to a Texas Department of Corrections 'boot camp' for 75 days. Study suggests bempedoic acid reduces cholesterol, risk of heart attack. Former Dallas Cowboy Greg Ellis worked as executive producer, and former Carter High football player Arthur Muhammad wrote the script. "I had to get away from the 'hood - I was wa-a-ay over there. The ensuing media cycle put Texas high school football in the national spotlight. Carter, a field artillery officer by training, also happens to be a defensive disrupter. (Vernon Bryant/Staff Photographer). The others got anywhere between 13 to 25 years. The 1988 Carter High School football team won that year's Texas state championship. Reporters noted that another Dallas high school star in the early 1980s, Charles Washington, had his college career interrupted by a prison sentence but went on to graduate from college and be drafted by the Indianapolis Colts last spring. David Wendel Carter High School (commonly referred to as Dallas Carter) is a public high school located in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas, . Submit a Comment. Campbell said he hopes the film, which was shown to a crowded audience of young athletes, sends a strong message to them about the importance of making the right decisions. We do not share addresses with any third parties. Football Home; Teams; States; Scores; .