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A Big Step Boys take the spotlight. Saturday afternoon national spotlight? That could require a gifted female athlete. Someone like Sarah Fuller. The college soccer player from Sachse, outside Dallas, calmly stepped onto a football field November 28 in Columbia, Missouri, and kicked off for Vanderbilt University— becoming the first woman to play in a major college football game. Two weeks later she became the first to score in a game when she kicked two extra points against Tennessee. “I just want to tell all the girls out there that you can do anything you set your mind to. You really can,” said Fuller, who was the goalkeeper November 22 when Vanderbilt won the Southeastern Conference women’s soccer championship. All of the Commodores’ kickers were sidelined by COVID-19, so the football team recruited Fuller, who wore No. 32, her soccer number, and a sticker on her helmet that said “Play Like a Girl” when she made history. F R I DAY N I G H T L I G H T S ?
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The Texas High School Rodeo Association, the largest such high school group in the U.S., began in Hallettsville in 1946.
E.H. Green of Terrell bought what is believed to be the first gasoline-powered automobile in Texas, in 1899— a phaeton runabout. Green was also in the first car wreck in Texas. George Dorris, co-owner of St. Louis Motor Carriage Company, which made the car, was driving Green to Dallas to show it off, and they got crowded off the road by a farm wagon and drove into a ditch.
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