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Article: Trauma in Texas: First the Oil Bust, Now Unisex High School Football
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- The Washington Post
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- November 7, 1992
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When the oil boom went bust a decade ago, many Texans thought
that life could not get much worse. Then eligibility rules for high
school football were changed.
"People have told us it's the worst thing to happen since the
devil came to being," said Bailey Marshall of the recent decision
allowing girls to try out. He is director of the University
Interscholastic League (UIL), which regulates school athletics in
the state that takes high school football very seriously.
"I'm sure nearly everyone out there is uncomfortable with this,"
Marshall said, noting that the decision was a legal one because UIL
officials were aware that at least one discrimination lawsuit was in
the works. "We just ...