Sports Literary Agent

R.K. "Bob" Speights, Literary Agent

Lone Star Legends: Ten of the Winningest Texas High School Football Coaches

"Football is King" in Texas. If there is a state where the high school, college and professional football fans are fanatics, it’s Texas. It would be far easier to categorize who would not read this book than who will. Lone Star Legends contains stories from the coaches about their coaching careers, comments on how the legendary Gordon Wood affected their lives and coaching, up to date bios and humor from ten of the winningest high school football coaches -active and retired - in Texas high school football history. Photos that span four decades of high school football.

Series: Lonestar Legends: The High School Coaches; The High School Gunslingers; The High SchollGround Pounders; The Unforgetable High School Teams, The High School Legends Turned Pro

* denotes coaches personally known by the author.

** denotes coaches the author has conversed with in the past year.

Underlined denote first choice coaches

Retired, recently deceased - Gordon Wood Brownwood, career record -396 92 - four time state champions 1965, 67, 69 and 70; Active G.A. Moore**, Pilot Point, career record - 394,70 9; 4, five time state champion 1995, 90, 99, 2000 and 2001; Retired, Monte Driskell*, Crockett, career record - 273 98 9 9-state champion 1984, 89; Active, Eddie Peach, Arlington Lamar, career record - 263 94-6; Retired, H.E. (Pete) Shotwell, Abilene, career record - 255 92 18; 12. Active, Dennis Alexander**, career record - 251 93 11-state champion 1983; Active, Curtis Barbay, Newton, career record - 242 78 6.; Retired, John Reddell Euless Trinity, career record - 242 124 10 T15. Retired, Joe Hedrick Franklin 240 122 15 19; Active, Lucky Gamble**, Chilton, career record - 230 64 5 22; Retired, Joe Clements, Huntsville, career record - 221 77 6; Retired, Bill Hunter, Centerville, career record - 221 207 3 31; Retired, J.E. (Red) Willis*, Marshall, career record - 206 88 19 4; Retired, deseased, Jack V. Murphy* Gladewater, career record - 205 110 7 42 - state champion. Active, Dan Hooks, West Orange Stark, career record - 203 54 2 T43; Retired, Mal Fowler*, Van, career record - 200 142 8, Retired, Andy Griffin**, White Oak, career record -199 117 6; Active, Ronald Bickman**, New Boston, career record - 194 105 2. Retired, Winlon Knowles*, White Oak, career record - 193 84 6 T56; Retired, Everett (Sleepy) Reynolds**, Carthage, career record - 193 107 9; Retired; .Philip Holt*, Winnsboro, career record - 185 128 6; Retired, deseased, Theo (Cotton) Miles, White Oak, career record - 184 81 7; Active, Roy Harper, Burkeville, career record -184 89 5; . Active, David Hushman**, Gladewater, career record -176 52 1 T91.Retired, Robert (Red) Lowrance, Hawkins, career record - 176 100 9 T91. Retired, Lee Mitchell*, Gladewater, career record - 176 114 16 94, Retired, Donnie Laurence*, Mount Pleasant, career record -175 78 7; Retired, Doug Busch Gilmer Union Hill, career record -174 88 5; Active, Allen Wilson**, Dallas Carter, career record - 171 67 3; Active, Ben Scharnberg**, Atlanta, career record - 162 70 2 -2003 state champion.

Not all of these coaches have won a state title but all of them have reached the semi-finals in their careers at least once. Please note: these career numbers do not include wins and losses for this past season for active coaches. Also, G.A. Moore passed Gordon Wood in career wins during the 2003 season. His record now stands at 402 72 9.and is the winnigest coach in the history of Texas high school football.

A group of 1500 East Texas coaches, players and fans were poled giving them a brief synopsis of the book and an opportunity to name coaches. Well over three quarters of the names in the above list came from that poll.

Why will this book will be a number one seller. Two reasons: 1) Content - Texas high school football, and 2) the simple fact of numbers - potential buyers.

Determining a readers market is not an easy task because of the enormous fan base for football much less all sports

Since we know high school football is "King in Texas", I will use that as a basis for marketing purposes. There are 1146 public high schools in Texas. 213 private schools. Over 65,000 athletes participate in high school football each year in Texas. There are over 13,000 high school football coaches alone. The average attendance (class 1A to class 5A) per regular season game is 2000 adult fans. That’s almost 3 million high school football enthusiasts in the state of Texas that attend games and that are potential buyers.

Coaches from across the nation will enjoy this book. Football coaches alone (in the US - all levels) number over a half a million. Many, many high school and college fans from across will enjoy reading this book.