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

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FOOTBALL RESUME The Purple Tigers found a new coach waiting for them on the gridiron August 29, 1949 when school opened and football practice began. From the first Coach Oscar Few was respected and loved by every member of the squad as a true, loyal friend and leader. It was a long hard battle of daily practice before our first game with Portland which was our first home game. Portland scored in each quarter of the first half. We played a very good game considering that Portland was rated as a far better team than we. They won 13 to 0. September 23, found the Tigers traveling to Lafayette to meet Macon Countains. We only scored six points in the first half but came back with the will to win and scored fourteen points in the third quarter and thirteen in the fourth quarter. Scoring honors were shared by Johnson and Harris. The next game on the schedule took us to Woodbury to play a highly favored team. This was a hard fought game with neither team scoring in the first half nor the third quarter. Woodbury scored first in the fourth quarter. We came back to score with almost a eighty-yard drive, the touchdown being set up by a pass from Ownby to Wright. Harvey drove over and Ownby kicked the extra point thus ending the game 7 to 6 in favor of the Tigers. OA, ff CAs ( Née A ‘oo

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FOOTBALL SQUAD COACH esis Ee ame ee Mr. Oscar Few GAPTAIN oz e.t cs coe pas eeeare as STEG rgo o Billy Denny CO-CAPTAIN | ces oe tone eee ee es pee Edgar Lee Eaton MANAGER © os cecaedetaes ea ua en 2 os oe eee eee Jack Reeves MEMBERS Eugene Huddleston, George Roberts Baines, Melvin Lea, Ollie Johnson, Charles Harris, Gilbert Baines, Edward Bullard, Forrest Harvey, Charles Ownby, Don Wright, Sidney Bain, Kenneth Dedmon, John Wood Goodner, Billy Denny, Sammie Forbes, Edgar Lee Eaton, Jack Malone, Jimmy Thurman, Billy Butler, Bob Huddleston, Manson Lee Lester, Jimmy Kidwell, Tommy Bruce, Joe Mack Reeves, Bobby McEachern, Harold Patton, Don Simpson, Glen Williams, Ray Donnell, Mallory Guile, Brown Milstead, Jackie Curtis, Leonard Tyree, Billy Curtis.

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FOOTBALL RESUME The following week we went to Gordonsville to help dedicate their field. They were leading in the Cumberland Valley Conference at this time. We scored once in the first half and since our backfield was weak in the second half we took to the air with Ownby passing to Wright for all three scores We won 20 to 0. The Yellow Jackets and the Purple Tigers were tied in the Cumberland Valley Conference rating when we played them in Hartsville the following week. It was a hard fought game but it ended with a score of 27 to 14 in our favor. Our next contest was at home with the Mt. Juliet Bears who proved to be too strong for us. They won 19 to 7. White House coming to town the following week was our first victory at home. We got off to an early start scoring in the first few minutes of the game. We were able to score at will with Harvey and Huddleston leading the way with two touchdowns each. The second and third teams played however they didn’t score and neither were they scored on. We won this game 43 to 0 which was the highest score made by the Tigers in several years. Next we were host to the Carthage Owls. This was an upset for us since the Owls got off to an early start to score and kept striking. The game ended in favor of the Owls 33 to 12. Our last game of the season was at home with the Lebanon Blue Devils. We were again the underdogs. Both teams fought hard from the beginning. Harris did all the scoring for the Tigers. The game ended with Lebanon being victorious 26 to 12. saues