As Sunday’s Super Bowl demonstrated, winning three straight championships is no easy feat. Cuero knows this and so does Victor Mathis.
As a senior on the 1970 Cuero football state playoff team, Mathis’ life was changed by a coach. To hear him describe it, that coach changed Cuero.
“Coach Gilbreath got us all in a room and told us it didn’t matter who we were, the best players would take the field,” Mathis recalled from his easy chair, surrounded by a wall of photos and medals from his own 39year career as a coach. “That was during civil rights and not many teams were doing that.”
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