Daingerfield High School is 3A

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located in

Daingerfield, Texas Daingerfield is a city and the county seat of Morris County, Texas, Morris County, Texas, United States. The population was 2,560 at the 2010 census. The bluegrass instrumental tune Old Dangerfield by Bill Monroe was named after the town of Dainge ...

, United States. It is part of the Daingerfield-Lone Star Independent School District located in central Morris County. In 2011, the school was rated "

Academically Acceptable The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States.

" by the

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. The boundaries of the school district, which are the high school's attendance boundary, include Daingerfield and most of Lone Star.

Athletics

The Daingerfield Tigers compete in the following sports: *

Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each, taking turns batting and fielding. The game occurs over the course of several plays, with each play generally beginning when a player on the fielding tea ...

Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

* Cross country *

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

Golf Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping wi ...

Powerlifting Powerlifting is a strength sport that consists of three attempts at maximal weight on three lifts: squat, bench press, and deadlift. As in the sport of Olympic weightlifting, it involves the athlete attempting a maximal weight single-lift effor ...

Softball Softball is a game similar to baseball played with a larger ball on a smaller field. Softball is played competitively at club levels, the college level, and the professional level. The game was first created in 1887 in Chicago by George Hanc ...

Tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

Track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

Football

The 1983 team holds the NFHS national record for most shutouts in a single season and considered the most dominant in Texas history. The team scored 631 points while allowing only 8 the entire season, zero on defense (the only points scored by an opposing team were a touchdown on an interception return to Carthage and a safety to Kilgore, both substantially larger schools than Daingerfield). Of the 16 games won (the first Texas high school to win 16 games in a season), 14 were shutouts (which ranks as the #1 national 11 man football single season record, as recorded on NFHS.org) including the final 13 (the final seven of the regular season and all six playoff games, the only team in Texas high school football history to accomplish the latter feat). The 50th Anniversary Edition of

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nominated the 1983 team as the #2 most memorable team (pro, college, or high school) in Texas football history; only the 1969 Texas Longhorn national championship team was rated higher.

State titles

Daingerfield (UIL) *Boys basketballUIL Centennial Webpage
**1977(3A) *Football **1968(2A), 1983(3A), 1985(3A), 2008(2A/D1), 2009(2A/D1), 2010(2A/D1) *Boys golf **1969(2A) *Boys track **1963(2A), 1984(3A), 1995(3A), 2010(2A) *Girls trackUIL Centennial Webpage
**1990(3A) Daingerfield Rhoads (PVIL) *Boys basketball **1964(PVIL-2A)

State finalists

Daingerfield (UIL) *Football – **1984(3A), 1998(3A/D2), 2012 (2A/D1) Daingerfield Rhoads (PVIL) *Boys basketball - **1955(PVIL-1A), 1956(PVIL-1A), 1961(PVIL-2A)

Notable alumni

Darryl Lewis Darryl Gerard Lewis (born April 16, 1961 in Mount Pleasant, Texas) is a former American football tight end who played one season with the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League (NFL). He was drafted by the New England Patriots in the f ...

– American football player * Greg Evans - American football player *

Thomas Everett Thomas Gregory Everett (born November 21, 1964) is a former American football safety in the National Football League for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He played college football at Baylor University, where he ...

Pittsburgh Steelers, Dallas Cowboys (Super Bowl Champions) *

Eric Everett Eric Eugene Everett (born July 13, 1966) is a former professional American football cornerback in the National Football League. He played for five seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Mi ...

Philadelphia Eagles *

David Whitmore David Lawrence Whitmore (born July 6, 1967 in Daingerfield, Texas) is a former American football safety in the National Football League for the New York Giants, the San Francisco 49ers, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Philadelphia Eagles. He pla ...

NY Giants, Washington Redskins *

Denzel Mims Denzel Jeremiah Mims (born October 10, 1997) is an American football wide receiver for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Baylor. Early years Mims attended Daingerfield High School in Dainge ...

- American football player for the

Detroit Lions The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit. The Lions compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North Division. The team play their home games at Ford ...

References

http://www.nfhs.org/recordbook/Records.aspx?CategoryId=1 National Federation of State High Schools Association Recordbook See Most Shutouts in a Single Season

External links

Daingerfield ISD

See Most Shutouts in a single season
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