Courtesy www.timesdaily.com
"The Football Tradition of Colbert County High School"
Tradition is defined as the handing down of beliefs, legends and customs from generation to generation.
Colbert County played its first football game in 1923. Since that time, the Indians have built the tradition that is the standard in Alabama High School Football. Through the years thousands of young men have participated in preseason camps, after school practices and Friday night battles to become a part of that tradition. Colbert County football players represent those legends of the past and while representing all those who will become legends in the future.
They have found a home at C.T. Manley Stadium, the place where champions have walked, run, practiced, played and fought. It is the home stadium to those great championship teams of 1972, 1979, 1985, 1993, 1994 and 1996. Those young men follow the greats of the past like Phil Gargis, Ozzie Newsome, Ed West, Thomas Coffee, Reginald Goodloe, Willie Goodloe, Wendell Phillips, Kenyatta Jones, Steve Stanley, Dante Ellington, Courtney Hardin and JeMarcus Ricks. The CCHS team of today will help insure the great tradition of Colbert County football and will help carry it into the future and add new legends to the list of past greats.
The Colbert County Indian tradition is the Indian Mascot, the Black helments, the stands that sit right on the field, the tailgaters, those loyal fans who come out week after week and, of course, competing for that "Blue Map" every year.
Colbert County's hertiage and tradition as a great athletic institution are second to none. But the greatest part of the Colbert County tradition is the young men and coaches who keep it going. The boys who change into men on the field. It's the ones who believe they measure up and who are willing to accept the challenge to inherit and build upon the Indian Tradition.
This was written in the 1986 Chief Colbert page 125. All I did was updated it to fit the current CCHS football tradition.
