Dorchester Times: DHS Football Schedule Announced

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

DHS Football Schedule Announced

Dusting off from a rebuilding year in 2008, Dorchester football hopes to turn some heads this season in Nebraska eight-man football.

The Longhorns ended their 2008 gridiron campaign at 1-7. Although last season was marred by injuries to three standout players, there were plenty of positives, including the experience gained by underclassmen who will need to be ready for this season.

The loss of all-stater Brandon Bruha will be felt this year by the Orange and Black, but inside sources tell us that depth will be much better for this year's Longhorn squad. The 2009 schedule is comprised of all D1 opponents, except for Sterling, which is in Class D2.

The only notable rule change in high school football this season is the ban of the horse-collar tackle (via the shoulder pads). The penalty resulting from such a tackle will be 15 yards from the succeeding spot.

For the record, eight-man high school football is played in only 16 states. DHS converted from 11-man in the autumn 1991, according to our records, the same year Dorchester joined the CRC Conference.

-- 2009 DHS Football --

Sept. 4: @ Shelby

Sept. 11: @ Sterling

Sept. 18: McCool Junction @ Home
Sept. 25: @ Pawnee City

Oct. 2: Meridian @ Home
Oct. 9: Freeman @ Home
Oct. 16: @ Exeter-Milligan
Oct. 23: Deshler @ Home

11 comments:

cynical richardJuly 22, 2009 at 5:19 PM
maybe i'll start up my own foot ball league .............. only horsecollar tacking will be allowed .......................................... knees to groins would also be welcomed .................
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AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Cynical Richard:
I suppose that's the only way your poor wife will agree to any conjugal visits with you.
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AnonymousJuly 23, 2009 at 11:41 PM
gonna go do some tacking there, dick?
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AnonymousJuly 24, 2009 at 9:36 AM
Richard rocks!!
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AnonymousJuly 24, 2009 at 9:37 AM
Oh, and I'm predicting the longhorns go 5-2 in the regular season.
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AnonymousJuly 24, 2009 at 9:45 PM
when Bruha was injured last year Schwisow was playing qb and looked very good so the team won't feel that loss much. People need to remember without the other 7 players on the field 1,2 or 3 players would look terrible. It takes the whole TEAM
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AnonymousJuly 25, 2009 at 12:06 AM
5-2..... with 8 games...
that would be pretty tough
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cjJuly 27, 2009 at 9:20 AM
Zoubek and Volker will have the boys trained up well this year.

I am optimstic and predict an 6-2 season. Shelby and Freeman scare me a bit.
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AnonymousJuly 30, 2009 at 10:19 AM
Just a question. Which game will be the Homecoming game?
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AnonymousJuly 30, 2009 at 10:29 AM
October 2 game is homecoming. Go HORNS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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AnonymousOctober 21, 2009 at 9:46 AM
we would be 8-0 if your line
was not (we todd it)hahaha
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Dorchester: A Good Little Family Town

Dorchester, Nebraska (est. population 630) is located in northern Saline county. Close in proximity to Interstate 80, Dorchester is only 25 minutes from the state capital of Lincoln (est. population 250,000) and about 55 minutes from Omaha (metro population 725,000).

Dorchester's median resident age is 37 years. In 2005, Dorchester had a median family income of approximately $35,600. The median house value was about $63,000. About 95 percent of Dorchester residents commute to work via Interstate and highways.

The village has a quality public school, which received a $4.1 million expansion and modernization in 2008; it offers a small classrooms and individualized attention. Total enrollment of grades K-12 is around 230-250 students.

Ancestries of the Dorchester area are primarily German (42.4%), Czech (24.9%), Irish (12.5%), English (5.4%), and Dutch (4.9%).

Dorchester Historical Facts

* On July 4, 1871, the railroad reached Dorchester.
* Incorporated in 1881, Dorchester's population grew from 200 to 500 by 1882.
* In 1882, Dorchester had 90 buildings, 35 of which were businesses or public facilities. Brick buildings lined both sides of Washington Avenue for two blocks.
* Dorchester's longest-running newspaper was The Dorchester Star, which was published until the late 1940s.
* By 1889, Dorchester's population is said to have reached 800, while the town housed an opera house, a two-story brick schoolhouse with a bell tower, and four churches.
* By the 1910s, Dorchester had electricity, a water tower and a fire department.
* Dorchester's main arteries, Highways 6 and 33, were graveled in the 1940s.
* Dorchester's first irrigation well was drilled on Chris Weber's farm and rural electrification was finished following WWII.

A Village with History

Dorchester is one of the "alphabet towns" on the Burlington & Missouri River Railroad line built west from Lincoln. The town site was selected for its pleasant location in the northern part of Saline County, about eight miles west of Crete. This situation is an attractive one, being on the level prairie land, midway between the West Blue River and Turkey Creek. The first named stream is three miles north, and the latter about the same distance south from the town. Dorchester was platted in 1870 and incorporated in 1881. The name "Dorchester" came from either for a suburb of Boston by that name or a town in England. No one is sure. Two of the very first settlers were James Seely and Edward McIntyre, who both made Dorchester their permanent home.

Dorchester: In The Beginning

Here is a look at Dorchester around 1890, less than a decade after its official incorporation, as documented by Andreas' History of the State of Nebraska:
* POPULATION: "About 300, and is made up of a substantial and progressive class of citizens, who are moral and industrious. ... The town grew but very little until the year 1879, for the reason that Pleasant Hill, on Turkey Creek, a short distance south, was the county seat and naturally drew a trade for quite a large scope of country."
* BUSINESS: "The business and professional interests of the town are represented by three general merchandise stores, two drug, one grocery, one furniture, two hardware, and two millinery stores, one bank, two restaurants, two hotels, three livery stables, a post office, one newspaper office, two elevators, two lumber yards, two coal yards, two blacksmith shops, two lawyers and four physicians."
* SCHOOL: "The schoolhouse is a good one. The schoolhouse was built in 1872, since which time the public schools have been continually kept up. The present schoolhouse is 24' x 40' in size, two stories high. The school is graded and consists of three departments. The house is found too small, and arrangements will soon be made to increase its size."
* CHURCHES: "There are three substantial churches."
* HOMES: "The residence portion of the village is made up of neat houses of different styles of architecture, but none of them very large."
* NEWSPAPER: "The Dorchester Star, which was established August 21, 1881, by H. C. Bittenbender, who edited it until January 19, 1882, when he sold it to Ryerson & Bullock, the present proprietors. The Star is a bright weekly paper, five-column quarto, in size, and is Republican in politics."