Dave Campbell’s Texas Football announced that the Blanket Tigers football team has been named the Army Strong Team of the Week for Division Six-man.

The Blanket Tigers were chosen for this honor because of their teamwork, dedication, discipline, personal courage and integrity, values shared by U.S. Army Soldiers.

“Blanket was only 5-5 in 2009, but the Tigers showed that they’re a playoff threat in 2010 when they opened the season with a dominating 74-40 win over Panther Creek. The Panthers were 9-3 last year.” said Adam Hochfelder, general manager of Dave Campbell’s Texas Football. “Blanket’s Austin Hughes accounted for 403 total yards.”

The award will be presented to the team at a time to be determined later this week by a representative of the U.S. Army.

“The U.S. Army is recognizing the student-athletes at Blanket High School for demonstrating qualities similar to those exhibited by its Soldiers. Student-athletes and Soldiers share similar values, but more importantly they must be mentally, emotionally and physically strong,” said CPT Gary Ward.  “We expect to see some of these young men competing at the U.S. Army All-American Bowl, the college level, or maybe even professionally in the future.”

Other teams recognized at Army Teams of the Week were Katy in Class 5A, Friendswood in 4A, Wimberley in 3A, Ingram Tom Moore in 2A, Canadian in 1A and Argyle Liberty Christian from private schools.