CHAPMANVILLE - There were many familiar faces out on the Tiger Stadium football field on Saturday.

There was Mike Manuel, a former Logan High School and WVU quarterback, throwing the football once again.

There was former Chapmaville Tigers Rocky and Mickey Mendez and Jon Adams.

Brandon Browning.

Joe Ellis.

Seth Amburgey.

Current Logan basketball player Brantz O’Briant and just graduated CHS basketball/baseball standout Jordan Bryant.

And many, many more.

Present.

And past.

What were they doing at Tiger Stadium you ask?

They were participating in the inaugural Larry “Daffer” Coffindaffer/Shag Barker Scholarship Flag Football Tournament.

There was a lot of sweat and a lot of huffing and puffing from some of the older, huh-hum, less in shape players, but it was all in good fun and for a good cause.

James Barker, the son of Chapmanville football coach George Barker, and former Chapmanville athlete B.J. Picklesimer, were the founders and brandchild of the event.

They hope to make it an annual event that will only grow in the future.

“B.J. and I started it off,” said James Barker, who played football under his dad earlier in the decade when George Barker was head coach of the Logan Wildcats. “We thought about it back in June and nothing really came about but two weeks before the season we talked about it and decided to put it together for these two scholarship funds. B.J. is real close to the Coffindaffer family and my grandfather was Fletcher (Shag Barker). You get a little buzz before the high school football season starts and we thought it was a good idea.”

The late Shag Barker is a legendary Chapmanville football coach, who was inducted to the CHS Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000.

Shag Barker was a teacher at Chapmanville from 1960 to 1986 with the exception of one year. Retiring from coaching in 1973, Shag Barker served as dean of students at Chapmanville High School until his retirement as an active educator in 1986.

During his tenure as head football coach at CHS, Coach Shag Barker’s 1963 team posted the best record in the school’s history (7-2) and was in contention for a berth in the state playoffs. His second best record of 6-3-1, came in 1964. That winning season’s performance held for nearly a generation.

Shag Barker coached a number of outstanding athletes n some of which have been named to the Chapmanville High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

Coffindaffer was best known for playing baseball at Chapmanville High School.

He went on to play collegiately at Marshall University but was killed in a tragic car accident in 2001.

Daffer has his No. 21 Tiger baseball jersey retired and also has a high school baseball tournament at Chapmanville named in his memory.

“The Daffer family handles the Coffindaffer scholarship and gives it to a Chapmanville athlete,” James Barker said. “The Fletcher