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Cuero gathers to honor championship coach

As Sunday’s Super Bowl demonstrated, winning three straight championships is no easy feat. Cuero knows this and so does Victor Mathis.
Victor Mathis coached hundreds of Cuero athletes in his 39-year career.  On Saturday, Feb. 15, Coach Mathis will be celebrated at a gathering from 4-8 p.m. at Cuero's Ag Friar Event Center. All are welcome, free of charge.

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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