Booneville High School - Memories Yearbook (Booneville, MS)

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john Keeton Guard S, -uf' if X zsifgxg if 5 CDNQ ABERDEE The Blue Devils racked up their fourth victory of the year, 13-7 in the hardest fought battle of the season by winning over the Cup to thenj undeafeated Aberdeen eleven. In practice the week before the game the team lost the service of Fulghum, regular guard, because of a broken arm. The first score was set up by Jarvis who took a pass from Lindsey on a play which covered 65 yards to Bulldogs 15. Two plays later Milton Ward crossed the double strip on a layout pass. Stutts made it 7 with a line plunge. Both teams drove up and down the field, neither being able to score until late in the fourth period when Aberdeen, on a long drive scored and booted the extra point to make the score 7-7. With only four minutes remaining Lindsey threw a long layout pass to Jarvis who went 50 yards to paydirt. The pass for the extra point failed and the game ended with the mighty Blue Devils out in front 13-7. Wales, regular guard was playing a brilliant game until he received injury that put him out for the rest of the season. Captain Billy Ward and Barron played exceptionally well. 1 , -liyaaz-.wafr M gg ' - eee t ..'. . - ' i w ,f . J Jr' ' - ,.g. X ' if e I if-.54 Q. .,t.e M AK if :L 4 AV MR Q at-at 'K is Q S f f , a,s - N. , , ..'1ifnfil.' ,..i at A ii at x .gk a eggfffiitiffxv. at 5 -. 1 , m Nnfeee my, waz. na- 'V fx wi A-rag V521 is 'fi is 'MW 'W 'K iii BODNEVILLE Freddie Fulghum Horace Long Guard Guard

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Billy Ward , Center Ralph Stutts Back Following an open date the Blue Devils played Houston, a member of the Little Ten, and racked up their third victory to their expense by a 26-13 score. Climaxing an 80-yard drive, Stutts plunged 2 yards for the first tally. Late in the second period, Lind- sey, from the 15, hit Barron with a pass for the second score. Lindsey took the second half kick-of 95 yards to paydirt. Trailing 19-0 the hilltoppers scored on a 30 yard run but Muse came right back to score on an end sweep from the 15 yard line. In the closing minutes Houston completed a short touchdown pass which made the final score 26-13. Coach Box was well pleased with defense work of Captain Billy Ward, Jarvis and Bonds. R. I. Bonds tackle Kenneth Lindsey back

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'NO Williarii Robinson Robert Jarvis end end end Waldo Barron The following week the Blue Devils made it five in a row with a 20-7 victory over New Albany. The Bulldogs took the opening kickoff and drove 60 yards to a touch- down. They booted the extra point to lead 7-0. The Blue Devils Cas usualj didn't give up and in the second quarter after an exchange of punts found Stutts going over to make the halftime score 7-7. The third quarter was hard fought and scoreless. In the final period Booneville proved too much for the Bulldogs as they went on to score two more touchdowns to make the final score 20-7. Y B00 EVILLE WINS Z0 - 7 A look at statistics finds the Blue Devils gaining a total of 268 yards-224 rushing mainly due to 91 yards on 20 tries- .45 average for Wunning Walf, 116 on 9 tries-12.9 average for Lindsey and 44 yards on passes -3 out of 5 being complete. The Bulldogs gained 179 yards rushing, 19 passing C3 for 53 for a total of 198 yards, and led Blue Devils 11 to 10 in first