Sports
On December 18, 2010, its football team defeated the Euless Trinity Trojans 28–24 (ranked first in the nation by ESPN) at Cowboys Stadium, in Arlington, Texas, to win the 5A Division I State Championship. This was its first state championship in the school's history. The school capped its first championship by going 16–0 through the 2010 season. The Oilers had also defeated the storied Katy Tigers in route to their accomplishment.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behaviour, attire, grace, learning and all their words aimeth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)