The Team No One Wanted to Play: The Story of Coach Frank McClellan and the Legendary Barton Bears

The incredible true story of a school in rural Arkansas led by Coach Frank McClellan. During his time at Barton, the Bears won eight state titles, set a state record sixty-three straight wins, and one hundred eleven straight regular season wins. Coach McClellan is the winningest football coach in Arkansas high school football and is in the top forty all-time in the United States. Coach McClellan and the Bears were at one time so dominant, they had to find out of state opponents in order to try and fill their schedule. In 1989, the Bears were only able to play seven regular season games. His teams accomplished many of these feats with sometimes no more than sixteen players on the roster. The Bears were at many times undersized, yet they had over-sized hearts that pushed them to victory.Coach McClellan retired after the 2005 season. Since then, no coach or team in Arkansas has come close to what Coach McClellan and his mighty Bears were able to do.