FAIRFIELD EAGLES GRIDDERS, l-r, Andre Gilley and Keith Daniels inked applications to attend East Texas Baptist University where they plan to play football. Pictured with the players are Tina Gilley and Eagles head football coach Darrell Piske. Two All-District members of the 2008 Fairfield Eagles football team signed letters of application Friday to attend East Texas Baptist University at Marshall where they intend to play football.

Signing the letters were senior students Andre Gilley and Keith Daniels.

Gilley, 18, is headed to the college gridiron ranks as an "H" back, a position he describes as being a mix of fullback, tight end and wide receiver.

The athlete, who is six feet, two inches tall and weighs 218 pounds, earned second team All-District honors this past season at tight end.

He also played basketball for the Eagles, making first team All-District this year, and has been voted "Most Athletic" at Fairfield high school.

At ETBU he plans to major in physical therapy.

"It sounds like something I'd want to wake up and do everyday," he says.

In addition to athletics, Gilley is a member of Round Prairie Baptist Church and works after school at Brookshire Brothers supermarket.

He is the son of Tina Gilley of Fairfield.

Daniels, 18, joins the ETBU Tigers as a defensive end, the position at which he earned first team All- District for the Eagles last fall. As a junior student he was first team All-District linebacker.

The athlete missed three games of the 2008 season when he dislocated an elbow in the opening game, and returned in time for the district campaign sporting an elbow brace.

Daniels started school in Fairfield, moved to Tyler in the eighth grade and returned to Fairfield his sophomore year of high school.

At FHS, he also ran track his sophomore and junior years. Daniels measures 6-1 and weighs 220 pounds.

He plans to study criminal justice at ETBU.

"I really don't know what field I want to go into," he says.

Daniels is the son of Linda Daniels, attends Round Prairie Baptist and works after school at KFC/Taco Bell restaurant.