#HSFT16: Stop No. 21 – Calhoun Academy Cougars
| CLASS A | REGION 2 | ||
| HEAD COACH: Gerry Winters | ||
| Aug 19 | Humphreys Academy | Home |
| Aug 26 | Delta Academy | Away |
| Sept 2 | Marvell Academy | Home |
| Sept 9 | OPEN | |
| Sept 16 | Kemper Academy* | Home |
| Sept 23 | NSA | Away |
| Sept 30 | Central Academy* (HC) | Home |
| Oct 7 | Delta Streets | Home |
| Oct 14 | Hebron Christian* | Home |
| Oct 21 | Strider | Home |
| Oct 28 | Calvary Christian | Away |
| Nov 4 | PLAYOFFS | |
| *District games | ||
CALHOUN CITY, Miss. (WCBI Sports) – There are some positive signs around Calhoun Academy heading into the 2016 high school football season. The Cougars are mostly sophomores this season. Those guys join a small group of seniors that were a part of the 2012 state title team for head coach Gerry Winters.
“As small as they are, the challenge will be size,” Winters said. “We’re small but we have a good backbone. We have good grit.”
Winters is back for his second season after taking three years away from the eight-man football program. Calhoun Academy won four games a year ago, and with no starters returning from that team, will look to this sophomore class to step up. It’s a class that didn’t lose a game as freshmen a year ago.
“They were happy as you could be,” he said. “It doesn’t matter who you are, eight-man, 11-man, if you go undefeated you’re pretty good.”
Winters said the team’s biggest weakness right now is that it lacks linemen. The Cougars will run the spread offense for the first time ever under Winters.
Every player on this team works on a potato farm. Winters said that kind of hard work instills values and a work ethic that carries over to the football field.
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