Tucson High School - Tucsonian Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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'r 1'-V? ri 'Q iv 0 V i 1 .. y ss-- Football TUCSON 7, NOGALES 0 On October 31, the Badgers, still suf- fering from the ef- fects of their terrific battle with Phoenix. met a scrappy band of Apaches on the local gridiron. Tucson touched off the fireworks in the first minute of play when L. D. Scott scampered around end for the only touchdown of the game. After that the heavy Apaches, dis- playing a tricky attack and a world of power, were very much in the game. Jim Concannon's clever toe kept the Nogales team in their territory a good part of the game, while Van Smelker and L. D. Scott threatened the Apache goal line many times. Cook, Gray and Hol- liday were outstanding in the Tucson line. TUCSON 7, MESA 13 Although playing one of their best games of the season, the Badgers found the going a bit tough in the first and fourth quarters of their tussle in Mesa with the Jackrabbits on November 6. Early in the game the bunnies, taking the Badgers by surprise, shook Ells- worth loose for a sixty-five-yard run to a touchdown. The Badgers went to work after that and with the line clicking like an eight-day clock. and Smelker, Black and Concannon lugging the spheroid, chalked up a one-point lead by the end of the half. The Badgers continued to solve the Mesan's razzle dazzle attack until the final minutes of play when the Jacks. capitalizing on a break. passed to another touchdown and the game.

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Football TUCSON 20, DOUGLAS 0 Completely out- classing the boys of the Smelter City, Tuc- son's Badgers rolled up a score of twenty points in the first half of the game then turned it over to substitutes, who kept it on ice during the remainder of the tussle. Scarcely had the fans set- tled into their seats when Mc- Bride, husky guard, scooped up a blocked punt and raced fifty yards to a touchdown. A second touchdown quickly fol- lowed. In the second quarter the Wei pfel Concannon-to-Black passing com- c ue, bination clicked for another touch- M 6 down, ending the day's scoring. Mc- Mgff 11 Bride, Gray and Black were out- standing, while Handley and Snoddy turned in fine defensive games for Douglas. TUCSON 6, PHOENIX 7 Playing desperately a g a i n s t their greatest jinx foe. the Badgers lost again by the smallest possible margin to the Phoenix Coyotes. The game was played at night in the University stadium before a ca- pacity crowd. and every inch of ground was fought for with a tenacity that thrilled the huge crowd. A lucky pass, barely beyond the fingertips of a fighting Badger back, was the margin of Phoenix' victory, for it was this pass that paved the way for the Phoenix touchdown. Tucson's touchdown came as the result of a pass from Concannon to Lohse, but the plunging of Egbert and Seedborg and. in fact, the work of the whole team was a highlight of the entire season.

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Young, Wahl Concannon. Allin Gridley Wilson Football TUCSON 0, EL PASO 0 Scoffing at super- stition, the Badgers, on Friday, November 13, tackled the El Paso Tigers on the Univer- sity gridiron and discov- ered they had a Tartar in the person of Charlie Webb, the cleverest high school ball toter the fans of this neighborhood have seen in many a moon. Starting the game with a rush, Smelker, Seedborg and Black doing most of the ballcarrying and first class interference, the Badgers looked to be two good touch- downs better than their oppo- nents. Then Charlie Webb took command and from then on the fans stuck on the edges of their seats. Only the splendid defensive play of the Badgers kept the slippery little fire-eater from pay dirt. The defensive work of Gray. Holliday and Seedborg was superb. TUCSON 0, ALBUQUERQUE ? Against the undefeated Albuquerque eleven. New Mexico state champions. the Badgers looked like champions. Taking com- mand early in the game they treated the Thanksgiving Day crowd to some of the sweetest blocking the local fans have seen in high school circles since 1929. The New Mexicans opened up with a dazzling aerial attack in the last half that looked, for a time, like a real threat, but the Badgers were in no mood to be trifled with and soon broke it up. This victory was a fitting climax to football careers of Black, Cook, Culley, Durazo. Egbert. Frey. Gray, Holliday. Houle. Lohse, Lujan, Post. Seedborg and Wilson.