Top High School Entrances. Bulldogs #2

[Agent Orange]

A friend pointed this site out to me. The top High School Football Entrances. Artesia is #2 and features a couple videos from me and big dog.

Here is the site.
www.hsfootballweb.com/blog/2011/10/03/game-entrances-the-numero-uno-1-for-all-you-conservatives-high-school-football-entrance/

Artesia #2
www.hsfootballweb.com/blog/2011/10/03/high-school-game-entrances-the-number-2-game-entrances/

#1 is the Yuma Criminals, check this one out

[BigDaddyCool]

That's number one? Criminals being escorted in by cops? I can hear it now,

"Dad I want to be a Criminal and be lead in by the police."

[Agent Orange]

We can't all be Cowboys BDC, somebody's got to be the Outlaws lol

Sounds like a cool place, from their website
www.yumahs.yumaunion.org/index.cfm?pID=518

Yuma High School began three years before Arizona became a state. In 1909, the Arizona Territory taxpayers voted to organize a union district from several elementary districts. In September of that year, Yuma High School began with four teachers in three rooms near the corner of Main and Third Streets. At the end of the first year, twelve seniors graduated.

The next year, 1910, saw the school move to the newly abandoned Yuma Territorial Prison. For the next three years, the prison was to be the home of Yuma High School. Teachers conducted classes in the cellblock area and the school held assemblies in what had been the prison hospital.

City officials notified the school in 1912 that they needed the Prison as a city jail. The school board proposed and successfully carried through a bond election to build a new school. Thus, in 1913, school began in the newly constructed Main. That same year, the Yuma football team traveled to Phoenix to play the "Coyotes". Yuma High won. The angry "Coyotes" dubbed the Yuma High players the "Criminals". At first "Criminals" was a fighting word. Before long, students and teachers wore the name with pride, and in 1917, the school board officially adopted the nickname. Yuma High School has been proudly called the home of the "Criminals" ever since.

[BGP]

Well, how did Bulldogs change from Rattlers then? LOL I couldn't get the site to work, showing Bulldogs???

[BGP]

Never mind, got it now!

[bdogfan]

This is not a biased statement but I think the dog pile is much more picturesque. I think it needs to be in first place.

[crispysdad]

As somebody who has been watching Artesia Bulldog football since the early 60s I can tell you this. The dog pile has changed a lot over the years. And not for the better. I remember the dog pile from the 60s and 70s. It was EXTREMELY well organized. A hand full of players, maybe 5 or 6, would form the base by getting down on their knees and elbows with helmets pointing to the center and almost touching. Kind of a star pattern. The next wave would come in and very gently lean in, or lay across the base forming a very solid foundation. This would continue as the pile got higher and higher. The only ones who jumped on the pile were the very last ones to arrive, because at that point the pile was so high that the only way to get to the top was by jumping. I thought that it was very classy, and I much prefer the old dog pile to the one we have today.

Somewhere along the way, probably sometime in the 80s or 90s (not really sure when) it turned into what many have referred to as a "flying monkey drill" with guys launching into the pile from 5 yards out, doing back flips into the pile, some rolling off the pile and ending up many yards away, and others missing the pile entirely. To tell you the truth I cringe every time they do the dog pile today. I am truly surprised that nobody has gotten hurt. Today's dog pile bears absolutely no resemblance to the dog pile from years ago. It is totally different today.

I much prefer the dog pile the way that they did it many years ago! It just looked cleaner and neater. Maybe somebody should look through some film from the 60s and 70s for the "old" dog pile, if any film of it even exists, and go back to the old way. I think the old way was much more impressive!

[BGP]

There were some hurt this year! I know Dustin Dolan was hurt but not too bad, still showed when he ran.

[bdogfan]

So why hasn't someone with influence spoken to coach Henderson about the concern and recommended the dog pile from the 60's and 70's or will it take a player to be really hurt and then the powers that are become reactionary. Remember what happened to Texas A & M?

[Erik]

I remember seeing the dog pile performed "neater", but I prefer the newer dog pile...looks like a lot more fun.

[Charliedog]

Harold Kutz always said he knew how the dogs were going to play by how well they did the Dog Pile and Yes under Mike Phipps we practiced the Dog Pile and it is an art

[bdogfan]

Again, they need to return to the dog pile and practice it. The dogs don't need someone hurt.

[buffhomer]

The boys don't need old people bitching about the dog pile either. Let them have fun.

[Charliedog]

HEY BUFFHOMER I resemble that remark