Today, we’ll start a new feature called Flashback Friday that takes readers back-in-time for stories about some of the game’s greatest players during their high school days. Flashback Friday has direct ties to my book High School Football in Texas: Amazing Football Stories from the Greatest Players of Texas that I created to allow players the ability to reminisce about their high school football memories.
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We start with Herschel Walker, who played played at Johnson County High School in Wrightsville, Georgia. Below, you can see the man who looked like a man among boys.
Walker had a record-setting senior season that led to a state championship in 1979. He rushed for a state record 3,167 yards. He finished his career with 86 touchdowns and 6,137 yards.
