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By Clarence E. Hill Jr.
chill@star-telegram.com
DALLAS
Carter High starts out a little preachy, but ends up hitting all the right chords even to the point of making your eyeballs sweat during the final raw scenes from the courtroom.
It proved to be a gripping, unflinching true story about the championship football team from Dallas that wasn’t.
There was no sugarcoating the truth regarding their controversial, yet inspiring, run to the state championship in 1988 that galvanized the Oak Cliff community before the title was taken away in 1991 by the University Interscholastic League for using an ineligible player.
It vividly depicted the shameful downfall of five members of the Carter Cowboys who were arrested for a string of armed robberies and sent to prison.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports...rence-hill/article41693370.html#storylink=cpy
chill@star-telegram.com
DALLAS
Carter High starts out a little preachy, but ends up hitting all the right chords even to the point of making your eyeballs sweat during the final raw scenes from the courtroom.
It proved to be a gripping, unflinching true story about the championship football team from Dallas that wasn’t.
There was no sugarcoating the truth regarding their controversial, yet inspiring, run to the state championship in 1988 that galvanized the Oak Cliff community before the title was taken away in 1991 by the University Interscholastic League for using an ineligible player.
It vividly depicted the shameful downfall of five members of the Carter Cowboys who were arrested for a string of armed robberies and sent to prison.
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/sports...rence-hill/article41693370.html#storylink=cpy