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Weekly Tiger Tale: Airshow

Air Show In 2002, Commerce traveled to beautiful Bill Corry Stadium in Madison, Ga. to play a very strong Morgan County Bulldog team. Commerce won by a (10-3) score in a great defensive struggle. Commerce pulled out all the stops in its bag of tricks in an effort to move the ball against this tough [...]

Weekly Tiger Tale: Shutouts

Shutouts The 1965 Tiger team holds the Commerce record for the most shutouts in a season with seven during a thirteen game season. The awesome Commerce defense shutout the following teams: South Habersham and North Habersham by the midway point of the season. Then they blanked North Hall, Rabun County, White County and Franklin County [...]

Weekly Tiger Tale

Tiger Helmets Tiger helmets worn during the 1910’s and 1920’s were of the brown leather variety in the early history of Commerce football. However, since football was rejuvenated in 1940, the Tiger helmet has changed on a few occasions. From 1940-1951, the Commerce helmet was basically a black one with a few yellowish-brown sections in [...]

Weekly Tiger Tale

I’m going to try to post a single Tiger Tale (story) each week on the front page. These stories are grouped together under the main page menu under Tiger Tales. This week’s is one of my favorites. Dennis Wilder ran as hard as a back could be expected to for an entire game in which [...]