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Heard about the Freshmen team?

See what the NEW found RIVALRY is all about

Purple and Black,

LOUD and PROUD

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Meet the CREW and Letter from the Editor

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Balancing SCHOOL with SPORTS

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Rivalry Ready?

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LBJ STUDENT section

Greatest moments of LBJ history

Heard about the Freshman team?

LETTER FROM THE

Editors WHOSE HOUSE?? JAGS HOUSE!!

GO BIG OR GO HOME, right? Well for you to go big and become a big fan you need to know where to sit, how to act and how die-hard fans make the LBJ football games exciting and alive.

Our mission is to inform you of the LBJ fan section, the overlooked freshman team and the legendary McCallum rivalry. We will also give you pointers on balancing school and sports, tips on which cleats rising football stars should wear and insight about LBJ’s most amazing moments. The ON THE LINE team would love to inspire you to become a die-hard fan, so you can enjoy the Friday night lights.

-The ON THE LINE Team-

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Biographies Player Card Erik Benitez Favorite team: San Francisco 49ers From: Mexico City Age: 14 Favorite number: 12 College of choice: Ohio state, Texas A&M, LSU, Alabama, Florida, Florida State Favorite Sport: Soccer, Basketball, Football

Player Card Chris Santos

Favorite team: Seattle Seahawks From: Austin,TX Age: 15 Favorite number: 13 College of choice: LSU, Ohio state, Alabama Favorite Sports: Soccer, Basketball, Football

Player Card Maddie Ebest Favorite team: Arizona Cardinals From: Albuquerque, New Mexico Age: 14 Favorite number: 4 College of choice : Alabama, Texas Tech, Texas A&M ON THE LINE | Winter 2013

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Don’t fall behind on school work, get Ahead

By Chris Santos

Many student athletes have the predicament of how to balance school work with the sports they play.

This problem causes a great deal of stress and frustration but, there is a way overcome it. Today on the line will give tips such as, organizing your time, to keep from getting behind on school work and conditioning.

What are the consequences?

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Tips for success Organize your time:

Organizing your time remains as a critical part to success. The healthline Editorial team, writers for healthline.com wrote in their 2013 article, “strong organizational and time management skills can put you in the best position to meet all of your commitments,” which outlines the large role organization plays. One way to effectively plan your homework is to estimate about how much time each assignment Art by sweetclipart.com will take to complete. This alone will help you prioritize assignments by doing the more time consuming work first, then the shorter, easier homework last. Planning a quiet space to complete your work can help tremendously with homework, so try to designate such a place if you can.

Communicate with teachers and coaches:

Communicating with your teachers and coaches will improve both how you maintain the balance and your relationship with the teacher and coaches. They also may offer some aid to keep you from becoming overwhelmed .

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Start Homework on the day it’s assigned:

Starting homework on the day it’s assigned is a great way to get ahead. This may also help with questions you may have with the homework. Kidshealth.org had a great example of this when the stated, “ Although you may hope that things will get easier or that the explanation to the geometry theorems will magically appear in your dreams, most of the time this doesn’t happen.” The quote discusses that if you need help, ask for it because if you don’t understand something it may cause you to get behind, which makes future homework and test much more difficult.

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Take a break:

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Taking a breaking may sound simple and unnecessary but, stopping to relax helps tremendously. Relaxing helps to relieve stress, that may come from your very busy schedule. According to Kidshealth.org , “Sitting for too long without stretching or relaxing will make you less productive than if you stop every so often. Taking a 15-minute break every hour is a good idea for most people.” This source states that not taking a break can actually cause your work to take longer than if you did take a 15 minute break.

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Be loud purple and black By: Chris Santos

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he roar of the purple sea echoes throughout the stadium, as time continues to slowly tick down. The crowd remains standing with their purple LBJ shirts chanting and screaming to support the team that they love.

The students wait in anticipation as gradually, inch by inch, the LBJ football team grows closer to the end zone. Then on 3rd and goal, the quarterback lines up behind the center awaiting his teammate to give him the ball.

Hike! The quarterback receives

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This image is brought to you by: LBJsport.org , which shows the LBJ student section at the McCallum game the ball, looks for the pass as the linebacker rushes him and sees a man open. Time slows as the pass spirals through the air as the crowds watches sweat rolls down their faces. The receiver catches the spiraling football and lands.

Touchdown! The student section jumps in the stands and erupts into a loud cheer.

The student section for the LBJ football team has no clear equal. All the students that

participate cheer, scream and laugh for their team, they do not stop, even if the football team has lost their confidence. The spirit that this Jaguar crowd gives off presents how much the LBJ students care about their team.

The story of the LBJ student section has never been told from people inside. Most of the story was told by how people view the section from an outside, that is why their story should be told.

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“The student section is a great place, full of laughs,smiles, and cheers. It’s a place where there is no judgement, a place where you can cheer on your team and have fun. You can be yourself in the student section, you don’t have to worry about fitting in just enjoy yourself and you will be a part of the section.”

This group of students doesn’t only just scream and cheer for their team but they also support their through their attire. Students that are involved in the section wear a purple LBJ shirt with black pants, but they can also wear a purple bandana, or some even paint their face purple. When you put into account the 20 to about 80 or more participants wearing similar colors and cheering until they lose their voice, contributes to overall confidence for the football team. These Jaguars (the LBJ students) all come together to as one in this section, not just individuals, which in turn makes them a strong, loud crowd.

“I’ve had a great time cheering on my team while having fun with the other students. Doing chants like black on black, or just jamming out to the beat of the band. It’s all just an awesome

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and fun experience that I think everyone should try at least once,” said David, a freshman at LASA/LBJ high school.

David has gone to every football game this year and enjoys every second of it. This is but one example of what kind of experience you can expect from partaking in the section. An experience like David’s can come about from many activity’s of the student section. One activity that provides this effect would be when the band plays a certain song that causes the section to

get one person to start dancing while they chant go, go,go.

Then when that song is over, if the student section wants to continue with the song and have another person dance, they all say “we want some more”. If the band agrees then, they start the song over again and the student section continues with the activity.

“Yes I would recommend to try to participate in the student section because of its environment and the vibe that’s really great. The student section offers a fun and exciting environment and only asks that you be your self,” said Jose Luis a Freshman when asked if he would recommend taking parting the student section.

Overall the LBJ student section has no clear equal, its another part of LBJ and its football team, not only by the students in LBJ, but by others outside of LBJ like students, teachers, parents, and even the Austin American Statesman.

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The best moments in LBJ football By: Erik Benitez

Are you a big LBJ football fan?. Do you want to know the greatest football moments in LBJ history? Well you have found the right magazine for you. On the line has researched and found some of the greatest football moments in LBJ history. We have also found the best coach the jaguars have ever had, but before we get to that lets talk about the 2005 championship.

This picture shows the 2008 team celebrating there season

This photo shows senior Godwin holding the 2005 trophy In 2005 the LBJ team became the district champions. They were coached by Claude Mathis. Coach Mathis had a mere career as a head football coach for the jaguars.

Although he had a brief career he did lead them to a district championship in 2005. Senior Godwin said “ it felt good holding that trophy and knowing that it will always say 2005 on it”. The team celebrated that exciting moment.

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In 2009 the jaguars team choose captains for every position. They choose to have captains for every position because the coach believed that they needed to have leadership from the seniors on the team

“ It felt good holding that trophy and knowing that it will always say 2005 on it”.

This picture show the coach showing school spirit From 1997-2004 the jaguars only won 1 district championship. Coach David Seaborn led the 2004 team the championship with in a time frame of seven years.

Although coach Seaborn had an up and down career he never had a winning except for his 2004 season where he won the championship.

According to texasfootball coach David Seaborn only had a winning season

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In 1980-1996 the jaguars were at the top of their prime, allowing them to win eight district champions. This is where LBJ football became a big sport for LBJ and it became known around Austin that LBJ would stand as the top dog for a very long time. Coach Jim Davis led the team to an all time high with eight championships won. Coach Davis also led them with an overall record of 119 wins 53 losses and 4 draws.

According to the picture on the left, coach Jim Davis became the Greatest head football coach to train the jaguars and led them to eight championships in 16 years. All of the ex football players said� we all love the way coach Davis coaches us we think he was the best and they just simply loved him�

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rivalry ready?

By: Maddie Ebest

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he week starts with pranks, pranks and more pranks. In blue shoe polish, McCallum High has painted “MAC” around the LBJ theatre windows, and in retaliation some LBJ/LASA students wrote “beat,” in purple shoe polish, before the word “MAC” right above it.

The next morning band students awoke to a knight surrounded by barbed wire and dog poop. They promptly responded by painting the knight purple and dressing it up in lingerie. Yep, rivalry week has begun.

The McCallum/LBJ rivalry doesn’t start at the stadium, it starts at the beginning of the week. A week filled with pregame activities, pranks, pep rallies

This picture show Aniket Patel, senior, next to McCallum’s knight that LASA students painted and dressed.

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This photo features McCallum’s knight from last year that LASA students dressed up.

and a game that’s sure to be filled with excitement, but it has not always been like this.

“McCallum has not been our rival until recently, the last decade. It was always Reagan before that, and so even the pranks with McCallum are a relatively new tradition,” Stacia Crescenzi, LASA principal explains.

Crescenzi and Mike Garrison, McCallum principal, both run successful schools, but they see the rivalry in a different way.

Crescenzi knows that pranks will occur no matter what, so she has the potential prankers come and talk to her first, so she can make adjustments to the prank.

“We don’t approve anything

necessarily, but sometimes we can help them figure out that fine line between, like use this kind of paint because it will wash off, don’t use this because it won’t,” Crescenzi said.

Adult guidance can only improve pranks that were taken to the adult’s for guidance, so when a prank is not planned, the prank can end up offensive and not taken the right way. A few years back, LASA kids wrote LBJ rocks on top of the McCallum building, when one student noticed that the “M” in McCallum was hanging loose. They took advantage of the opportunity and swiped the “M.” Garrison wonders why you can’t just have a fun, friendly rivalry.

“I think you can have a rivalry without going over to somebody’s campus, and doing anything to their campus.”

Crescenzi on the other hand, thinks that pranking can be funny and school appropriate.

“You want it to be a fun rivalry, you want it to be a funny prank not a harmful prank, and I think that adult guidance can help a lot.”

With pranks occurring rather the teachers and principals like it or not, they each have different ways of responding to the pranks. Many LBJ/LASA teachers and principals find it humorous when they find pranks. Crescenzi explains how LASA students responded to MAC students leaving a knight (there school mascot), surrounded in barbed

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This photo shows LBJ and MAC on the line of scrimage.

wire and dog poop on top of the band building.

“Painting the knight that [McCallum] so graciously left for us this year on top of the band tower, like we did it with washable paint, like okay scrub the thing down like it might be a pain for a student for a little bit of time as a consequence for doing some other misbehavior.”

Even though Crescenzi finds pranks humorous, Garrison does not. Usually when LBJ/LASA kids prank McCallum he covers it up.

“When some of the LBJ/LASA kids came and painted all the windows, I want the custodians to get on that as quickly as possible and get rid of that, so it won’t be seen by a lot of students, so everybody just shows up to school thinking everything’s fine and just the way it should be.”

Garrison hopes that this will discourage his students from pranking LBJ/LASA and also explains why so many McCallum students had no idea that LBJ/ LASA pranked them.

“At McCallum we didn’t see anything that may or may not have happened that LBJ/LASA did to us,” a MacCallum student explains.

With such different opinions on pranking rivals, their campuses much look much different on game day, right? Indeed they do, while McCallum has a pep rally to prepare for the big game, LASA

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seniors have a different way of preparing for the game. They have a “gallon challenge,” where the seniors try to chug a gallon of milk in under an hour, with only one rule: you can’t go to the bathroom in the hour and they have to finish the milk and hold it down.

In addition to the “gallon challenge,” LASA/LBJ has started holding a tail gate that has carnival games, school spirit

“You want it to be a fun rivalry, you want it to be a funny prank not a harmful prank, and I think that adult guidance can help a lot.” and a bunch of people enjoying themselves. On top of all the pregame activities, LBJ/LASA has an active student section, Crescenzi explains why.

“I just think that its a tradition that’s built up in LASA, I think that the fact that we sit as a pack helps that it helps people feel a part, I think it’s easier for

underclassmen to come and feel like ooh, this is what you do, I cheer and they look forward to doing that sophomore, junior and senior year.”

McCallum also has an active student section, but Garrison says that not a lot of people go to the game.

“Really with the way McCallum has been going, a lot of kids go to the Anderson game, a lot of kids go to the LBJ game, and then we had quite a few at homecoming this year against Reagan, but a lot of the other games are not well attended.”

With the MAC/LBJ game being one of the most attended games of the season, it makes students on either side excited to see the game and friends who go to the other school.

LASA freshman Madeline Jones sums up this years football game versus McCallum, “Even though MAC beat us in football, we beat them in heart and in spirit.”

Photo featuring LBJ and MAC football players, in action!

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Top molded models on the market Article By: Madison Ebest

When you start playing football, you’ll likely want cleats that will help boost your performance on the field, but you may not know which ones to pick. Molded or detachable; low-, mid- or high-cut cleats; Adidas, Nike, or Puma— the possibilities never end. Do you want high ankle support or more movability? Not only have we researched the advantages and disadvantages, but also which positions benefit most from each cleat.

Nike Super Speed TD 3/4: If you are a linemen looking for a cleat that can provide amazing ankle support and lateral movement, then you have come to the right place. The Nike Super Speed TD ¾ provides extra ankle support and good lateral movement while also being super comfortable and having great breath ability. This shoe has molded rubber cleats on the bottom of it, so they get better traction and spring on harder turf surfaces. According to Livestrong.com, a website that provides fitness and sports help, “The shoe features a molded vent system and ankle windows with mesh to allow your feet to breath, a sock liner that is light and fits the foot and a new seven stud outsole.”

Nike Alpha Pro TD: Do you play quarterback, wide receiver, running back or defensive back? If so, then you may want to look at the Nike Alpha Pro Low TD. These cleats provide all the necessities that players in these positions require— quick cuts, breath ability and good traction.

This shoe also happens to be super light. But since these cleats are low-cut they do not provide that much ankle support, so your likelihood of getting an ankle injury increases. Multiple reviews from Dick’s Sporting Goods, a store that sells sporting equipment, “My feet are wide, and these cleats do are not made in wide. They do not have the additional ankle support I need, and they are molded bottoms.”

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The Nike Alpha Pro TD depicted above, shows how little ankle support it provides.

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Nike Super Speed TD: The Nike Speed TD is a top performing low-cut cleat. Lightweight players like quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers who benefit from movability and comfort, typically prefer these cleats.

But these cleats do not provide that much support so you have a higher risk of getting an ankle injury, but they do provide amazing traction. According to Guide 2 Football Equipment, a website that reviews football equipment, these cleats might stretch so you may want to buy them a little tight.

Above the Nike Super Speed shows off its sleek style, and many studs on the bottom of it, which will provide excellent traction. Photo from ebay.

Reebok NFL Thorpe Mid: Do you need a cleat that is lightweight, durable, breathable and comfortable? The Reebok NFL Thorpe Mid has all of that plus a moisture guard that guarantees that your feet will stay dry. These mid-cut cleats have a non-stretch lining so you don’t have to waste your time breaking them in.

The Reebok NFL Thorpe Mid depicted above shows off its simple yet genius design, which features a moisture guard. Photo from wordpress.com.

Adidas Quickslant Football: Do you need an all-around cleat? The Adidas Quickslant Football cleats are mid-cut cleats that provide some support, excellent traction, good balance and durability. According to Guide 2 Football Equipment, a website that provides consumer information on football equipment, “The midsoles offer you quite a bit of cushioning and the adjustable midfoot straps make sure that your feet stay where they’re supposed to during a game.”

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Did you hear about the freshman team? by: Erik Benitez

This picture shows the Freshman team running the read option play

“ We want to be a top dog team that every one in Austin is talking about” Valentino said .

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and inches, time running out, LBJ freshman quarterback Charles Shed, takes his place under center. He hikes it and hands it off to running back Marcus Collins. He gets tackled before he passes the first down marker. The referees rule the play as a turnover. Hutto, the opponent gets the ball and runs time off the clock. After the game, the freshman team heads to the buses where they talk about how they could of done that one little detail coach wanted them to do. That could have made a difference in the outcome of the score. Although they are disappointed in the loss, they can

agree that they have given it their all.

The 2013 LBJ Freshman Football team have practiced hard this season. The success on the practice field has lead to big wins, like the Lanier game, where the Jaguars beat the Vikings in a score of 62-7. Another win demonstrating success on the field was the biggest win of them all, the game versus McCallum, one of the team’s rivals Last year Andrew Jackson was hired and became the head football coach, thus marking his first year of head football coach.

Andrew Jackson decide to come and coach the LBJ Jaguar football team because he felt it was the best option for him. Coach Jackson had a great moments with the freshman team this season. He also believes that the freshman he has this year are the most dedicated to working. ” I think they are the hardest working group of freshmen I have seen go through LBJ in a while,” coach Jackson said “ We want to be a top dog team that every one in Austin is talking about” Valentino said . The whole team wants to become a big name to look out for next year during the regular season and possibly the playoffs. “ It may be possible for us to win the district championship

This picture shows the Freshman team in the huddle

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This picture shows coach Andrew Jackson on the sideline during the LBJ versus Reagan

year but he does see and believe there is talent and if the football coaches work with them then those players can end up playing college football.

Not every player will make varsity next year most of the players will play for JV, but the goals still apply to varsity and junior varsity. The goals for next year are going undefeated. Winning the district championship, and be a big name team that everyone talks about.

“The goals for next year are

winning more varsity games but best part of it all having great moments with the football players I have build great lasting bonds” coach Jackson said.

next year”Jeremiah said, the wide receiver and cornerback for the LBJ freshman football team. The whole team can agree on that they want to go undefeated next year and possibly win the district championship.

“It did not matter what the drills were the whole team did what was asked” said Valentino.

Valentino loved the way the team practiced during the season, and he said they would always work as a group. This is one part of what the whole freshman team liked this season.

Something else that the team did great this season was working together and following the plays.

A great Example of the freshman team working together and executing the plays to perfection is the Lanier game where the Jags beat the Vikings 62-7 or where the LBJ football team beat

McCallum.

Valentino does not know who will be advancing to varsity next

This picture show the Freshman team breaking out of the huddle.

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