Tee Cotton Bowl XIII is more than a High School Football Game

by Jeff Fisher
High School Football America

Photo courtesy of the Tee Cotton Bowl

Remember the old line from Dallas Cowboys fans that the hole in the roof of old Cowboys Stadium was so God can watch his favorite team?

How about the Pope blessing a Louisiana high school football game?

That's what Pope John Paul II did after watching an NFL Films 10-minute video on the Tee Cotton Bowl that turns thirteen years old on Friday when Ville Platte squares-off with Sacred Heart.

The Tee Cotton Bowl was founded in 1999 by Tim Fontenot, a physical therapist in Villa Platte.  Fontenot will join me on High School Football America Thursday night to talk about how the game has galvanized his racially divided Louisiana town of 8,000.

Ville Platte is a small town with strong Cajun and Creole roots where the news is still broadcast in French twice a day.  The schools are actually divided by a train track.

Ville Platte is the town's public school where the students are predominantly African-American and Protestant.  Sacred Heart is a private school with students that are predominantly Caucasian and Catholic.

The reason the game is called the Tee Cotton Bowl is "tee" in Cajun/Creole means small and the game is  named after college football's Cotton Bowl.  Ville Platte also has an annual cotton festival.

Fontenot's interview on High School Football America can be heard live on the ArtistFirst Worldwide Radio Network on the internet at 7 P.M. Eastern Time.

Click here to listen LIVE.

Curtis plants Plant

by Jeff Fisher
High School Football America

Courtesy MGhelmets.com

John Curtis carried the Louisiana high school football banner proudly as the Patriots pounded nationally-ranked Florida power Plant 33-3 in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Prep Classic in the Superdome.

JC took advantage of some sloppy play from the defending Florida 8A champs to get out to a 21-0 lead after just three offensive possessions by Plant.  Sherman Badie scored all three of the Patriots first touchdowns.

The John Curtis defense was very good, limiting Plant to 194 yards in total offense.

Public/Private Debate Tabled

by Jeff Fisher
High School Football America

The splitting of the Louisiana High School Athletic Association into public and private division will have to wait a while longer.

On Friday, the LHSAA tabled by a vote of 146-132 a proposal by Marlin Ramsey, principal of South Beauregard High School, that would have split the LHSAA's 387 member schools into four classes and then sub-divide them into divisions for non-select (traditional public schools) and select (private, magnet, charter, dual curriculum and lab schools) schools for playoffs for the 2013-14 school year.

However, the members did pass a proposal that will allow schools to compete for championships in one classification higher than their enrollment-based classification.  Similar proposals were voted down over the last four years.

Louisiana High School Football Scores - Playoffs/Championships

Louisiana High School Football Scores
Friday, December 9, 2011

Playoffs
Championships

Class 1A
Ouachita Christian 23 West St. John 7

Louisiana High School Football Scores - Week 10

Louisiana High School Football Scores
Friday, November 4, 2011

Alexandria 49, Bolton 15
Amite 57, Albany 18
Ascension Episcopal 36, Haynes Academy 35
Assumption 42, Morgan City 13
Baker 36, Glen Oaks 12
Barbe 34, Lafayette 7
Bastrop 30, Franklin Parish 24
Baton Rouge Episcopal 47, Dunham 14
Bossier 14, North DeSoto 13
Breaux Bridge 49, Northside 14
Broadmoor 28, St. Michael 14
Brusly 28, Port Allen 27
Buckeye 42, Vidalia 20
C.E. Byrd 52, Airline 17
Calvary Baptist Academy 41, North Caddo 7
Carencro 55, Sulphur 14
Cedar Creek 35, Arcadia 6
Central 41, Live Oak 15
Chalmette 35, Miller-McCoy 33
Christian Life Academy 54, Archbishop Hannan 29
Church Point 42, Eunice 7
Comeaux 35, Sam Houston 34, OT
Covington 17, Mandeville 14
Crescent City Christian 10, Ecole Classique 0
Delhi Charter 22, Delhi 6
Denham Springs 28, Zachary 14
DeQuincy 32, Vinton 21
DeRidder 48, Opelousas 7
Dutchtown 42, Baton Rouge Catholic 6
East Ascension 10, St. Amant 7, OT
East Feliciana 14, West Feliciana 7
East Jefferson 31, Holy Cross 13
East St. John 45, Bonnabel 32
Elton 28, Basile 27, OT
Evangel Christian Academy 41, Mansfield 0
Fair Park 38, Benton 36
False River Academy 27, Pointe Coupee Central 20
Farmerville 21, Madison 20
Ferriday 41, Lakeside 0
Franklin 36, Berwick 0
G.W. Carver 26, W.L. Cohen 12
Hahnville 34, Destrehan 3
Hanson Memorial 46, Gueydan 14
Homer 42, Sterlington 24
Houma Christian 46, Ridgewood 24
Independence 50, Bogalusa 26
Jena 22, Caldwell 0
Jennings 38, Iowa 22
John Ehret 27, Higgins 20
Karr 21, O.P. Walker 12
Kentwood 40, Southern Lab 14
Kinder 46, Lake Arthur 24
Lake Providence 28, Jonesboro-Hodge 6
Lakeshore 28, Franklinton 27
Leesville 63, Tioga 42
Livonia 36, Port Barre 19
Loranger 32, Sumner 14
Loreauville 41, Jeanerette 6
Loyola College Prep 54, Green Oaks 40
Lutcher 34, Plaquemine 8
Mamou 31, Iota 20
Mangham 24, Holy Savior Menard 21
Marksville 63, Avoyelles 6
McMain 68, Lusher 14
New Iberia 45, Central Lafourche 7
New Iberia Catholic 35, West St. Mary 20
Newman 56, Sojourner Truth Academy 6
Northeast 38, Capitol Academy 12
Northlake Christian 37, St. Helena Central 0
Northshore 14, Slidell 13
Northwest 27, Rayne 12
Notre Dame 34, South Beauregard 0
Oak Grove 55, Tensas 20
Parkway 49, Captain Shreve 42
Patterson 53, Erath 6
Peabody 32, Grant 8
Plain Dealing New Tech 42, Ringgold 12
Ponchatoula 56, Hammond 20
Pope John Paul II 44, Pine 8
Rayville 35, Carroll 23
Rosepine 42, East Beauregard 19
Ruston 34, Pineville 6
Saint Paul's 49, Fontainebleau 20
Salmen 62, Pearl River 14
Scotlandville 48, Walker 6
Shreveport Northwood 36, Minden 35
South Lafourche 49, Thibodaux 20
South Terrebonne 48, Abbeville 12
St. Charles Catholic 58, E.D. White 0
St. Louis 17, Beau Chene 13
St. Martin's 7, Country Day 3
St. Thomas Aquinas 21, Springfield 10
St. Thomas More 57, Cecilia 6
Tara 21, Belaire 18
Teurlings Catholic 56, St. Martinville 36
University 55, Redemptorist 28
Vandebilt Catholic 61, Ellender 35
Varnado 54, Mount Hermon 6
Vermilion Catholic 62, Central Catholic 29
Washington-Marion 34, LaGrange 6
Welsh 37, Pickering 0
West Monroe 42, Natchitoches 21
West St. John 65, East Iberville 8
Westgate 30, H.L. Bourgeois 0
Westlake 53, Crowley 22
Westminster Christian 61, Opelousas Catholic 0
White Castle 50, Ascension Catholic 0
Winnfield 42, Many 14
Woodlawn (BR) 23, McKinley 20
Wossman 28, West Ouachita 7