Dave Campbell's Texas Football
The 2008 summer edition of Dave Campbell's Texas Football
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| Editor | Greg Tepper |
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| Categories | Sports |
| Frequency | Biannual |
| Founder | Dave Campbell |
| Year founded | 1960 |
| First issue | 1960 |
| Company | High Field Marketing (Sports in Action) |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | Dallas |
| Language | English |
| Website | texasfootball |
| ISSN | 0147-1287 |
Dave Campbell's Texas Football is an biannual magazine previewing American football teams in the state of Texas.
It previews football teams in Texas at all levels, from the NFL's Dallas Cowboys and Houston Texans, college football, to the roughly 1,400 high schools (public and private) in the state.
The summer magazine is issued in June, about 1–2 months before the start of preseason football. It sells for $10.95 and is available in most Texas stores which sell magazines. A winter edition, which began in 2008, is published each January.
The magazine was started in 1960 by Dave Campbell, a longtime writer and sports editor for the Waco Tribune-Herald, along with fellow Waco sportswriters Hollis Biddle, Jim Montgomery, and Al Ward. He published the magazine out of his kitchen. On the cover of the inaugural edition was Texas Longhorns running back Jackie Collins. The cover price for the 96-page magazine was fifty cents.
It was bought in 1985 by Host Communications, which was bought by IMG in 2007. In 2014, Sports in Action, a company operated by the family of Texas businessman Drayton McLane bought the rights to operate the magazine from IMG.
It is one of the best-selling football magazines in the state and has been dubbed "The Bible of Texas Football". Each year, the identity of its cover subject(s) is a tightly-guarded secret. At the age of 90, Campbell still holds the position of editor-in-chief.
Currently, Dave Campbell's Texas Football is a twice-yearly statewide magazine with over 400,000 readers.
To accompany the print version, a website, TexasFootball.com, was created in 1999. In summer 2009, Texas Football launched a statewide weekly radio program — the Dave Campbell's Texas Football Radio Hour — which airs across Texas State Network affiliates. In 2010, the magazine started its own television program, Texas Football Game Day, a half-hour variety show. Game Day was filmed weekly at the stadium of a key game and broadcast (sometimes live, sometime tape delayed) on Fox Sports Southwest. Since 2011, DCTF has teamed with Fox Sports Southwest to present Fox Football Friday Powered by Dave Campbell's Texas Football, a four-hour live show on Friday nights featuring whip-around coverage of the biggest games in Texas high school football.
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