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Becoming Ducks: More than a century of quacking

Becoming Ducks: More than a century of quacking
Taylor High School’s newspaper, The Cotton Boll, proudly announces the football team’s first win ever against Georgetown in 1924.

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Taylor Ducks have been proudly quacking for more than 100 years. It all started with a rainy football season in 1924, a coach named Drake, a huge wave of school pride, and unprecedented success over Taylor’s most bitter rival at the time, Georgetown.

In the fall of 1924, Coach C.R. Drake was beginning his second year at Taylor High School on Seventh Street. He coached all the boys’ sports and taught the manual training classes.

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