Bridge City High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Bridge City, TX)

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First Two Games WESLEY FAIRCLOTI-11751 clears out one PN-G defender as he attempts to spring MIKE JAYNES loose on a fullback trap. On the first play of the PN-G game, STEVE WORSTERQSOJ skirts right end for 15 yards and a first down, leav- ing a wake of would- be tacklers behind him. With JOHNNY MILLER Q14j holding, CHARLES JOHANSSON f2lj attempts to make the score 7-0 in an extra point effort after the Cards first touchdown against Jacksonville in the opening game of the season.

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Scoring early in the first quarter, the Cards were never headed as they breezed to an easy 32-0 opening game victory over the Jacksonville Indians. The Cards took on Class AAAA Port Neches-Groves as their second opponent. In a hard-fought defensive struggle the big- ger Indians came out on top, 14-6, but only after a Cardinal drive to the 8-yard line in the closing seconds of play was thwarted by a key PN C pass interception. Defensive end DOUG SCHELL C705 corrals a speedy PN-G' ' b d h 1 d f back on an end sweep as JOE LANGSTON Ql0j comes up not su S1 e even In t e C Osmg sewn S O to assist. the go 86

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Big R cl Clip Orange 14413 JERRY JAYNES electrifies a ca- pacity crowd at Cardinal Stadium by returning an Orange kickoff 90 yards for the Card's first touchdown. 88 Q11 Bridge City's staunch goal-line de- fense holds Orange for no gain at the one- foot line on the first of four unsuccessful Tiger attempts for a last-minute winning touchdown. Q2 81 3j All of the nervousness and anguish that had built up during the game explodes into uncontrollable joy as the scoreboard shows the end of the game and a Cardinal victory over Orange. . HIM 7JK,41' Www STEVE WORSTER is halted by a Tiger de fender after ripping off a first down in first quarter play against Orange .