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When asked earlier this week about his team's opponent today in the Class 7A championship game, Bryant Coach Buck James was quick to talk about North Little Rock, which the Hornets defeated 28-13 last week to advance to their fourth consecutive title appearance. ....
January 1, 2021 In 1981, when the Jefferson Prep Patriots won the Class A State football championship with a 14-7 win over Lewisville, one of the biggest, strongest, toughest players on the team was a lineman named Buck James. “I thought I was strong,” he recalled recently. “I thought I was tough. But I found out I wasn’t.” James explained, “When I went to high school, the weight room was not a priority. When I went to college to play (at the University of Arkansas at Monticello), I thought the world was blue or green when I was on the football field because I was either looking at the sky or the ground. Because I got whipped. Because I wasn’t physically strong as those guys that came from Texas, Louisiana and Mississippi and came from good programs. ....