Electra's last 25 years of football

Looking at the past quarter century of gridiron success

Electra is one of the area’s last remaining schools that plays on natural grass. photo by Zach Duncan

Electra’s crowning athletic accomplishment was winning the 1985 Class 2A football championship.

Until Dee Paul’s Moguls came along in 2012, longtime TRN sports editor Nick Gholson regarded the 1985 Tigers as the area’s best high school football team he’d ever seen.

They had Charlie Lott running over helpless tacklers, but they also had a dominant defense led by Edward Willis, Jeff Standard and Rodney Bell. Willis, a defensive end, was the epitome of a small-school football player. He was only 5-foot-6 and 132 pounds, but he led the area with 18 sacks that year.