Sports
The school's main rival is Bisbee High School. "The Copper Pick", as the football series between the schools is known, has been played 140 times, with Douglas leading the series 75-57-8.
The Bulldogs won the class 4A football championship in 1946, 1957 (both "mythical" or non-playoff titles), and 1961. The Bulldogs won the class 4A basketball championship in 1932.
The Douglas Bulldogs had two state champions in Track & Field in 2011. Melissa Castillo won the girls triple jump, while Alfonso Mejia won the boys 300-intermediate hurdles.
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)
“It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belong to his Neighbour.”
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)
“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)