Game field painted in memory of # 56 Brad Williams
Game 7 -- Homecoming -- 2005 Xavier Football -- Fri., Oct. 7
Over 300 man-hours, all by
volunteers, made the field awesome
for the Homecoming game, which was attended by
many family
members of Brad Williams. A large booth in
the press box was
set aside for Joel and Deanna Williams and their
relatives.
Brad Williams is
the student-athlete who died Sept. 28, 2005.
Joel was one of the
regular members of the paint crew, which numbers
usually about 18-20
guys. They paint the field at Xavier each week
throughout the
football season. He was one of the many who helped
paint the field 3
times in 4 days to get it ready for the 10-7-05 game.
It took that much
work to get the field looking great, in memory of
Bradley, for the
Homecoming game.
Regarding the game field, there were 8 shades of paint
-- bright white,
artic white, navy, Hawk blue, gray, silver, black, and
red. And,
about 320 gallons of paint made the field look, well,
like no other
high school field in the state. Normally we use
160-180 gallons,
but with heavy rain predicted (rain washes away
water-base
field marking paint), we wanted it to look sharp
for the
Homecoming game and to
honor Brad.
The 10-yard by
10-yard "X" at mid-field was 2 colors: Hawk blue
and bright white.
And, a helmet -- covering almost 8-yards by 8-yards
in 5-color artwork
specially designed for this week -- was added for
this game in memory
of Brad.
Check out how
you can help out by joining the paint crew!!
