IT'S GAME DAY

Tonight’s Booneville at Mansfield game is one that has plenty of backstory with Whit Overton graduating from Mansfield, working at Booneville, then leaving this year to be the head coach at Mansfield.

An noted below Mansfield last won this game in 1980. At that time in history Jimmy Carter had not yet lost the presidential election to Ronald Reagan, who shot JR was still up for debate, Apple had not had yet issued an IPO, and John Lennon had not been murdered, all of which would occur by the end of that year.

• Mascots: Booneville Bearcats; Mansfield Tigers
• When: 7 pm, October 13, at Tiger Stadium in Mansfield
• Series: Booneville leads 61-16-3 (0.781)
• Streak: Booneville has won last 23
• First Meeting: Bearcats 19 Mansfield 0 in 1921
• Conference Affiliations: Both are 3A-1

TODAY IN BEARCAT FOOTBALL HISTORY: The Bearcats are 7-6-1 all time in games documented to have been played on October 13. On October 13, 1961 Larry Waganer had a foot and an arm in a 14-7 win over Greenwood. Waganer had a 73-yard run for a touchdown and finished with 135 yards. He also threw a 65-yard touchdown pass to Eddie Ward.

Joel McDonald ran for 130 yards in a 42-7 win over Mena on October 13, 1989; and Britton English returned a fumble 71 yards for a touchdown against Dover as part of a 42-12 win on October 13, 2006.

NOTES: The 61 wins over Mansfield represents the most against any single opponent, with the 35-0 win lost year moving Mansfield above Waldron, who hasn’t been on a Bearcat schedule since 2017.

Dax Goff moved past 4,000 career rushing yards last week and now sits in third place, 260 yards away from the top spot. He moves into second place with 161 yards. Goff carried the football 57 times the first two and a half games. In the last three and a half games he had 23 carries.

Bearcat records for the longest interception return (104 yards by Dean Swint), most interceptions in a game (7 in 2000), most receiving touchdowns (4 by Dennis Jones), most receptions and receiving yards (14, 201 by Johnny Chambers), most two-point conversions (5, 1970), and longest drive (99, in 2022) were all set and or tied in games against Mansfield, but the most lopsided game in the series was a 60-0 win by Mansfield in 1943.