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Shelby Football Team History

Shelby Tigers

Shelby High School

Shelby, MS
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Colors: Green & White
Coach: Tom Cotten

1924 <-- 1955 <- 1956 -> 1957 --> 1970

1956 Season Highlights

Tom Cotten enters his 1st season as Head Coach at Shelby.

The Tigers won the Cotton Boll Conference Championship.

TheTigers set a team record by scoring 280 points.

1956 Season

Date	Opponent	Score
Fri., Aug. 31	Cleveland	13	0	W
Fri., Sep. 7	Crowder *	44	0	W
Fri., Sep. 14	Marks *	32	0	W
Fri., Sep. 21	Merigold	45	12	W
Fri., Sep. 28
Fri., Oct. 5	North Carrollton *	27	0	W
Fri., Oct. 12	Shaw Hawks *	33	0	W
Fri., Oct. 19	Rosedale *	20	18	W
Fri., Oct. 26	Tunica *	33	0	W
Fri., Nov. 2	Ruleville *	33	6	W

1956 Season Totals
Record	9-0
Points Scored	280
Scoring Average	31.1
Points Allowed	36
Defense Average	4.0
Opponents Record	36-49 -6
Home Record	0-0
Away Record	0-0

1956 Cotton Boll Conference Standings
	Regular Season			Conference Record
Team	W/L/T	PF	PA	W/L/T	PF	PA	Coach
Shelby	9-0	280	36	7-0-0	222	24	Tom Cotten
Rosedale	8-2	312	113	4-1-0	159	63	Billy B. Shirley
Tunica	6-4	170	184	3-3-0	90	120	Hoyt Bush
Shaw Hawks	4-2-1	92	90	3-2-0	66	77
Anguilla	6-3	178	122	2-1-0	49	42	Carl Salyer
North Carrollton	5-1-3	157	79	2-1-2	92	54
Lambert	5-4-1	205	111	2-3-1	106	84
Ruleville	5-4-1	246	130	2-4-1	141	112	Tommy Gunn.
Marks	1-8	72	258	1-5-0	52	162
Crowder	1-8	58	330	0-6-0	19	258

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Morris Higginbotham coached three different teams to divisional state championships in the 1950s. He won titles at Walnut Grove in 1952, West Blocton in 1955 and Enterprise in 1960.