Shrine Bowl has McCook connections

LINCOLN -- There will be three McCook Bison connections to the 50th anniversary Nebraska Shrine Bowl Football Game Saturday night.

Kickoff at Memorial Stadium is 6:30 p.m.

McCook's Sam Frazier and J.D. Stone will play for the South Team, which will be guided by former Bison head coach Bob Fuller, who led McCook to a state runnerup finish in the fall of 1994.

Fuller, who has been the head coach at Plattsmouth since 2005, led Farnam in 1972 and Cambridge in 1987 to state titles and also guided Plattsmouth (1979) and Wellington, Kan. (1992) to state game title appearances.

Fuller was an assistant for the Nebraska Shrine Bowl in 1978 and a head coach for the Kansas Shrine Bowl in the summers of 1993-94.

Frazier, a 6-foot-2, 225-pound fullback/linebacker who will play football at the Colorado School of Mines; and Stone, a 6-2, 210-pound offesive lineman/defensive end, helped lead McCook to a state runnerup showing in 2007.

Frazier is a two-time Class B all-state performer and a three-time all-conference, all-district and all-area performer.

H rushed for 593 yards and caught five passes for 32 more. He had 28 solo tackles, 34 assists, two interceptions and had 10 tackles for loss.

In his career, he rushed for 1,621 yards and 210 total tackles with seven intercdeptions and 19 tackles for loss.

He was second at state track in the discus and placed third and fourth at state wrestlinjg.

He was a member of the National Honor Society, placed in the top 10 percent of his class and won leadership awards for three years.

His brother Stuart played in the 2003 Shrine Bowl Game.

Stone, who plans to play football at Chadron State, was an all-state offensive lineman by the Lincoln Journal-Star and honorable mention by the Omaha World-Herald.

He was also an All-State performer by the Associated Press and Huskerland Prep Report and was all-conference, all-area and all-district.

As a senior, he had 40 solo tackles, 60 assists and 16 tackles for loss.

Stone was on the honor or merit roll for eight semesters, was Kiwanis Freshman Student of the Year and was the entertainment editor of the school newspaper.