Carpe Diem

Can’t Win for Losing

Nov 1, 1989 — By Skip Hollandsworth

When San Antonio’s Memorial Minutemen took on a crosstown rival, all they had to lose was their chance to go down in history as Texas’ worst high school football team.

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