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Article: FRIDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL SMALL-TOWN FOXES BATTLE THE ODDS AND THE NUMBERS
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- Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current)
- Article date:
- October 12, 2003
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It's almost three hours until kickoff, and Hamilton County head
coach Kevin Blem-ker sweeps the floor of the antique fieldhouse that
smells like 30-year-old shoulder pads.
The surface is as clean as geriatric concrete gets. Blemker sweeps
not as a maintenance man but to give his arms purpose.
"I've got to have something to do or I'll go crazy," says the 41-
year-old native of Washington, Ind., who's coaching at his fifth high
school.
The football Foxes have only 19 varsity players. This night's
Illinois foe -- Christopher-Ziegler-Royalton -- will dress almost
three times that many.
"We'll put a few freshmen in uniform just so we look a little
better running onto the field," Blemker says.
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