Football: Eagles welcome chance to get back on field
Football: Eagles welcome chance to get back on field
Fifth in a series of DODEA-Pacific high school football previews.
With no football to play last fall due to the coronavirus pandemic, Douglass Tackney picked up a tennis racket and played in-school intramurals, rather than sit idle and not play anything at all.
But football is back in DODEA-Japan for the 2021 season, and Tackney, who played for Robert D. Edgren as a freshman and sophomore, has returned to the sport he prefers.
“It was a good experience, doing a new sport,” Tackney said of tennis. “I’m glad I did it. But I missed football. Tennis is a one-on-one type sport. With football, you have more of a team feeling.”
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