It was below freezing on an early December night as a group of young men clad in red and white stepped onto the field at City Park 52 years ago.That night, those boys, who have now moved on to become businessmen, real estate agents, parents and eventually grandparents, were looking to make history for Gainesville High School: the first state championship in the modern era of Georgia high school football. But they, like a number of Red Elephant teams in the past, came up one game short. In 1960, Gainesville’s football team was coming off a 1959 season that ended with a 21-14 loss to Rossville in the semifinals of the state playoffs.