| I often hear the statement, "You must spend a lot
of |
| time on Winnfield football." Actually, this
has been a |
| "hobby" I have pursued over my lifetime, so I don't |
| actually spend a lot of time at the present focusing |
| on Winnfield Tiger football,
but I have spent a |
| considerable amount of time over the past 30 years |
| researching Tiger football. Since I am so
familiar |
| with the information I have, it is fairly easy to know |
| when a Tiger team or Tiger individual
has "done |
| something special". |
|
| When I graduated from Winnfield Senior High School |
| it was my plan and intention to become a sports |
| journalist. Things change. I pursued another career, but |
| when I was in graduate school at LSU I spent some |
| of the time in the library researching information |
| related to the degree I was pursing, but it was at that |
| I discovered microfilm. My first foray into researching |
| Winnfield Tiger football came
at that time when |
| I researched the 1971 season of Winnfield Tiger |
| football. Then, I began collecting information
over the |
| years on select teams, but the research that has |
| led to my current
collection of information didn't begin until |
| the 1990s when I was provided with a copy of virtually every |
| article that has ever appeared
in a Winn Parish |
| newspaper on Winnfield Tiger
football (more about |
| that later). I took all of that information
and created |
| dozens of files on the football program. Some
of the files |
| are contained in links on this website. Since the middle |
| 1990s I have continued to collect the articles that |
| appear in the Winn Parish Enterprise myself and have also |
| collected the box scores of every game that appears in |
| the Alexandria Town Talk. |
|
| This has not been an individual effort. These
are the |
| people I am most indebted to in researching |
| Winnfield Tiger football: |
|
| Greggory Ellis Davies - He is the
person who provided |
| me with several box
loads of virtually every article that |
| in a Winn Parish newspaper
from 1919 to 1995. That meant |
| that he sat at a micro-film
machine, day after day; copied |
| those articles and then funneled them to me. It is his love |
| of Winn parish history and Winnfield Tiger football |
| that motivated him to do that. He deserves
the |
| largest credit, for it is he who is the chief researcher. |
| He currently provides me with the box scores from the |
| Alexandria Towntalk. |
|
| Matthew Jenkins - he is my oldest
son. He gets credit |
| for actually setting up
the web site. He located the |
| service provider, did the research on how to set up the web |
| site and set up the initial format. My task
then became |
| easy. All I had to do was add information the links and |
| it is now my task to correct or update that information. |
|
| Steve Adams - Assistant Principal
at Winnfield Senior |
| High School, former Tiger quarterback (1970-1972), |
| Tiger assistant coach and life-long friend. He has provided |
| me with untold lists and bits of information, from yearly |
| rosters to season stats. |
|
| Bill Stewart - Life-long friend,
strong safety on the |
| vaunted 1971Tiger defense, lover of Winnfield
football. |
| He supplied me with box scores
from the Alexandria |
| Towntalk for most of the 1990s. |
|
| Winn Parish and surrounding newspaper sportswriters: |
| A newspaper records history. It is because
of the effort |
| of a number of sports writers at the Winn Parish |
| Enterprise, the Winn Parish News
American, the |
| Alexandria Towntalk and the Shreveport Times that I have |
| had a chance to
record the history that I have because it is |
| through their narratives that I have taken information from |
| and compiled the files that I have. |
