Abilene High School - Flashlight Yearbook (Abilene, TX)

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SEASON .REVIEW f' 2 ,I Q 'MAS tlllltltl I it if A And men of courage be Beautiful blocking by the Eagles ABILENE 20-BIG SPRING 27 ln an effort to make up for the performance of the week before, the boys from the Eagle Nest showed their best offense of the year when they tangled with the Big Spring Steers. 'Trailing by 27 to 7 at the end of the third quarter, they tallied twice in the fourth period of the game. Bill lpnej, guard. cau.QlZJ.LC1 blockejhpgss ancimged fag! yards untouched for a counter. Abilene's last score came when Dalton threw a pass to Sellers in the flat, Sellers running eighty-sixfydrds for the touchdown. This was one of the most spectacular runs of the afternoon, and it put the Eagles back into the old ball game. The Steers tightened down, nevertheless, and once again the Abilene boys had to be good losers. ABILENE 9fSAN ANGELO l3 The Turkey Day tilt proved to be an exciting fray for the fans. At the half the score board read: Abilene 7, San Angelo G, but trouble started for the Eagles in the first play of the second half. Fumbling the kickoff, the Warbirds found themselves defending their goal when they should have been on the offense. San Angelo tallied almost immediately, but the game was far from over. Gain- ing a safety after they had pushed the Bobcats back to the l-yard stripe, the Eagles tried desperately, even until the end, for one more counter. When the final whistle sounded, however, the Abilene team was still thirty yards from the double stripes and victory. The bearers of the Black and Gold had lost, but they had learned to lose like sportsmen. A Turkey Day pass ct MT ti That you may bring T AHS victory. Pagel7

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SEASON REVIEW Exlgu MS ltltllll all The Black and Gold Forever will hold sway. Sellers tucks it away ABILENE l3ieLAMESA 14 ln the sixth game of the year, the Eagles went to Larnesa, expecting a much harder game than they were given. lt proved to be the closest game of the year, with Abilene losing by only one point. When first downs are considered, one wonders how Lamesa ever reached pay dirt twice, for the War- birds made thirteen first downs to their opponents' eight. Narrell scored in the first quarter, climaxing a long drive. The point after touchdown was missed, this proving to be the downfall of the team. lt was the fourth quarter before the Black and Gold machine began to roll again. Sellers went over and kicked goal, but was one point short of a tie. Although Dalton did not figure in either of the tallies, his running stood out. ABILENE U-ARLINGTON HEIGHTS 6 Abilene lost their seventh game of the year to Arlington Heights of Fort Worth. Being scored on in the initial period seemed little handicap, for the Eagles frequently penetrated the Yellow lackets' 20-yard stripe, only to lose the ball on downs or by a fumble. Seemingly outplaying their opponents, as in the week before, the Warbirds rolled up twice as many first downs and more than two hundred yards from scrimmage to the Arlington Heights' scant fifty-two yards. All Eagle-backers' hopes were lost when Sellers went to the lacket 3-yard line and then fumbled, the ball being covered by Arlington Heights in the end zone for a touchback. An Eagle eludes a Yellow Iacket sg 7 , alll So charge and block Page 16 14 f

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PEP SQUAD A George Bichardson Dickie Dane Emmons Buth Evelyn Foote Choc Spangler Sam Conner Fir.e:tBow: Myrl Biggerstait, Buth Cunningham, lane Buzloee, Margaret Fagan, Molba Laiikiord, lo Nichols, Gwendolyn Grisham, Doris Bohannon, Marilyn Maxwell, Donna Dean McCehee, Patsy Burrage. A Second Bow: Billie Gayle Logsdon, Francine Powell, Frances Vfallace, Maxine Daugherty, Mary- bel Graves, Doris Massey, Wanda Wallick, Helen Anne Reynolds, Billie lean Glass, Lou Brock, Kay McCarty, Mary Alice Nelson. Third Bow: Celena Mae Lawrie, luanita Helton, lnetia Tucker, Frances Pollock, Genevieve Thomp- son, lo Nell Page, Wynogene Ballard, Frances Choate, Mary Alice Fowler, Mary Katherine Baxter, Clara Mae McCoy, Nina Belle Fleming. Yea, team, tight! echoes and reechoes throughout the auditorium, and an- other pep rally is on its Way. The Pep Squad, besides lending its vivacious person- ality and color to all the football and basketball games, took the lead in selling tuber- culosis bangles. OFFlCEBS Dickie Dane Emmons . . r President Mary Frances Spangler . . , ,Vice President Buth Evelyn Foote Secretary Myrl Biggerstatt Treasurer Patsy Burrage Chairman of Checkers Loyal leaders Page 18