Watertown High School - Purple Tiger Yearbook (Watertown, TN)

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Hesume U Seas On August 24 1948 practice began for a squad of about thlrty three inexperienced boys wlth only Eve returning lettermen Coach Albert Jewell was the new coach this being h1s first year Our sched ule consisted of n1ne games of which we won three tled one and lost five Portland was our first game and al o the first game for some of the squad The team was nervous but showed a lot of Splflt and held th stronger Portland team to SIX polnts the first half Portland managed to push over another touchdown 1n the third quarter Although losing 14 to O the squad played a hard game and galned much needed ex perlence for coming games We couldn t seem to get gomg in our next game and the Lafayette team pushed over a touchdown 1n each of the first and second quar ters The Tlgers came to life in the fourth quarter and showed real offensive power for the first tlme of the season Russell carried the son We lost 18 to 6 Being heavy favorites and confident of vlctory the Cannon Coun tlans were in for a surprise The Tlgers lost no t1me and got off to a fast start carrying the ball deep 1nto enemy territory and threatened contlnually durlng the first quarter After a long drive 1n the second quarter Watertown scored the first touchdown to glve them a six polnt lead Woodbury came back strong and scored 1n the third quar ter Neither team was able to score again until the last quarter With one mlnute and twenty seconds to go a desperate pass from Russell to Ownby placed the ball on the seven yard line Russell scored on the next play to end the game wlnnlng 12 to 6 Thls was our first vlctory of the season Agaln we were the underdogs but the Hartsvllle offense was stopped cold during the first half Watertown scored ln the second quarter to glve them a halftlme lead of six polnts Comlng back strong ln the third quarter Hartsvllle tied the score The game was on lce till the last of the final perlod when Huddleston received a twenty five yard pass and raced thlrty yards for the last touchdown of the game Thls was probably our best game of the season I fthe Un ball over from the five-yard line for the first touchdown of the sea-

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Lelleronen HW, :WW Howard Thompson Don Wllght Forest Harvey L C Russell Thomas Lynn Neal Kenneth Dedmon Charles Ownby Charles Haxrls Edgar Lee Eaton Jewell Huddles ton Sldney Baln B1lly Denny Coach Turney Robe1tBa1n Sammye Forbes Joe Tho1 ne Vestal Harden Douglas Pennuel Ollie John son Gilbert Bain Coach Jewell.

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Resume' Coach Jewell and the Tigers proved too much for the ,if Gordonsville Tigers who never threatened very seriously S f if 53 4' 'S throughout the game. We scored in the second quarter and again quickly after the half g Harris going over for his first touchdowng Huddleston scored again in the Hnal quarter to end the scoring and win the game 18 to 0. Mt. Juliet proved to be the roughest game of the year with the Bears showing unexpected strength, our offense could never get going and we scored our only touchdown in the second quarter after a sixty-yard run. Three of our backs were injured early in the game which broke our of- fensive power. The Bears scored in every quarter and won 31 to 6. ,, ff 2 fg The Whitehouse game was evenly matched, Watertown struck swiftly in the first quarter when Thompson took a thirty-yard pass and carried it twenty-five yards to the C0-Cqpfq'in4L. C, RUSSELL eight-yard line. Russell carried it over on the next play to score on the second play of the game. We scored again in the second quarter, after a long drive. The half ended with the Tigers leading twelve to nothing. We failed to stop the Blue Devils the last half and they pushed over a score in each of the third and fourth quarters, tying the game 12 to 12. The Carthage Owls were a highly rated team and we were definitely the underdogs. Our squad was handicapped by injuries and being much lighter than the Owls we were Captain-Jaw:-:LL Hifnnm-:sToN no maigl for them. The game ended with a score of 49 to 0 in their favor. docs'-'U Q A . ami' 04 4 mu- at., AWJA ' , . . .,,,- 4,1415 0 I ' ...se ffffl cc ,Q . 0