Hermleigh High School football coach Heath Gibson said it hit him hard — the headache, the fever, the extremely sore throat. He just felt drained.
For Arp High School coach Dale Irwin, it was five days of full-body aches, a soreness and fatigue in every muscle and joint in his body.
The two coaches live in rural Texas towns hundreds of miles apart, leading teams of different sizes, in different divisions, on opposite sides of the state.
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