Night of Champions to honor Lufkin, Dunbar state champion football teams

Friday night’s pregame ceremonies for the District 9-5A contest between Lufkin and Beaumont United will feature four state championship teams being honored. Three state champion teams from Dunbar, the 1964, 1966 and 1967 Prairie View Interscholastic League state champions, and the 2001 Class 5A Division II Lufkin state champs will be honored before Friday’s game. With this being the 25th year of the 2001 team, Lufkin head coach Carl Abseck, along with Oscar Kennedy, whose dad Oscar Kennedy Sr. coached on Dunbar’s three state championship teams with head coach Elmer Redd, worked to put together the Night of Champions. The…