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===Dupree's record breaker=== [[Marcus Dupree]] played high school football for the Philadelphia High School Tornadoes from 1978 to 1981. He was an outstanding athlete who was widely recognized for his achievements.<ref name="LO">{{cite news|url=http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=13227283|title=Could Marcus Dupree make another run at pro football?|publisher=[[WLOX]]|date=September 27, 2010|access-date=January 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052934/http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=13227283|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://oudaily.com/news/2010/nov/09/story-marcus-dupree/|title=The story of Marcus Dupree|work=[[The Oklahoma Daily]]|date=November 9, 2010|first=R.J.|last=Young|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418195859/http://oudaily.com/news/2010/nov/09/story-marcus-dupree/|archive-date=April 18, 2012}}</ref> Dupree scored 87 touchdowns total during his playing time in high school, breaking the record set by [[Herschel Walker]] by one.<ref name=deitsch>{{cite news|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/richard_deitsch/11/07/media.circus.marcus.dupree/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111031132/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/richard_deitsch/11/07/media.circus.marcus.dupree/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 11, 2010|title=Marcus Dupree's doc; Howard Stern's most wanted sports guests|work=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=November 9, 2010|first=Richard|last=Deitch}}</ref> In 1981, Marcus's final High School football game was played at Warriors Stadium of the [[Choctaw Tribal School System|tribal high school]] at the Choctaw Indian Reservation.<ref name=W_Morris> {{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=W6nE9QK51vkC&q=marcus+dupree+1981+choctaw&pg=PA291 | title = The Courting of Marcus Dupree | year = 1999 | pages = 291β302 | access-date = 2010-11-04 | last = Morris | first = Willie | isbn = 9780878055852 }} </ref> The author [[Willie Morris]] described the audience at Dupree's final high school game as "the most distinctive crowd I had ever seen ... four thousand or so people seemed almost an equal of mix of whites, blacks, and Indians ... "<ref name=Morris> {{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=W6nE9QK51vkC&q=marcus+dupree+1981+choctaw&pg=PA291 | title = The Courting of Marcus Dupree | date = October 1, 1992 | access-date = 2010-11-04 | author-link = Willie Morris | last = Morris | first = Willie| publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]]| isbn = 0-87805-585-1 }}</ref>
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