Central High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Muskogee, OK)

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len led an attack that was most successful. Little Joe Singleterry got away for a number of nice gains. In the line Dub Hurlspeth and Harry Crank showed up well. After spending a week ironing out the errors found in the Stillwell game on Friday, September 20, the Rougher dreadnaught was to be successfully launched again, this time against the ,Fayetteville Bulldogs. The Roughers rang up their 20th straight victory 13-7 over the Bulldogs. The Rougher line played in the limelight all during this game. Following this successful opening of the season the Roughers received their first setback by being tied 13-13 by the Sapulpa Chieftains. This game was played at Sapulpa, and was the first tie to which Mus- kogee had been held in four years. The Roughers practically squared themselves by taking the Bristow Purple Pirates over the rocks to the tune of 27-0. There were no heroes in this game, each man doing his prescribed part and bringing home a nice victory. The Roughers were again held to a tie, this time by the Bartlesville Wildcats. Neither team scored, but the Roughers outgained the Wildcats in ya1'ds from scrimmage. ig: I Q? A 1. ,, T Renewing a competition started in 1934, the Mus- kogee squad journeyed to Oklahoma City to meet the Classen Comets only to be trampled beneath the su- perior Comet attack. Harry Crank playetl the best game of his high school career. He broke through the line, incessantly breaking up plays. The Roughers were behind at the last whistle 14-6. The Okmulgee Bulldogs then victimized the Rough- ers 6-2 Friday, November 1. The Roughers were in the worst shape possible. The outstanding injured were Keith Rigney, who was hurt in an auto accident, and Hal Smith, who had played two games already with a broken hand. The Okmulgeeans crossed the pay stripe in the third quarter and the Roughers safety came in the fourth period. A week of rest before making the longest trip ever made by a Rougher squad aided the Rougher team in tying Maplewood Leafs of St. Louis, Missouri. The Leafs were the champions of Missouri and Iowa. The Leafs outgained Muskogee, but the Roughers put out fight that couldn't be stopped. The Maplewood boys will come to Muskogee next fall. The most important, most colorful, and the game that means more to every Muskogeean and decides the

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'gski n Heroes by Jack Boulineau Many forces hammered at the Rougher squad dur- cobs, and rugged Willis LaRue. Among those return- ing the past season and all these forces united to des- ing from the season of 1934 were Hal Smith, fullback, troy the Rougher championship of the state of Oklahoma. Some of the forces are the ones apt to be found anywhere, but this fall they had the habit of turning up in the most untimely spots. Weather, sickness, injuries, and just plain jinx all of- fered a bit toward the Rougher downfall. Spirits were high when a squad of forty men turned out to begin training last spring. As a prelude to one of the most strenuous seas- ons yet to be experienced by Mus- kogee squadmen Coach Bob Cort- right, ably assisted by Paul Mar- ston and Captain Recil Allen put the boys through a hard two weeks of practice. During this period likely mater- ial was found in the bulkiness of Keith Rigney, tall rangy Jack Ja- Joe Singleterry, Recil Allen, halfbackg Jack Larrimore, quarterback, Dayne Mayes, W- R. Hudspeth, Bill Boyd, Tommy Sharp, Albert Ballou, Harry Crank, and Virgil Mott, line- men. Another likely find was Charles Bub Hall who devel- oped into a good tackle. With this array of material, Coach Cortright made ready the Rougher battleship that for two years previously had sunk every team coming across her bows. Beginning at the first of four weeks of practice the squad went through drill and signals and was ready to be launched against the Stillwell Indians. The Ind- ians were a fairly easy foe but a good team against which to open the season. Captain Al-

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l 1 A success of every Rougher season, is the annual Turkey Day game with the Tulsa Braves. This last fall the Roughers fell before the piston-like charges of Dave Egbert. The Rougher defense never seemed to get or- ganized because the line was ripped to pieces the first half, and only in the last half did the Roughers make a threat. However, this threat was never realized and the Braves had added another scalp to their collection. So ended a season of ups and downs, downs, and ups. It was like the cross currents of a sea. Sometimes the Roughers started out on the right track, but in- variably something upset all hope. A championship squad is the promise for next season with Jacobs, Sharp, LaRue, Taylor, and Osburne returning to make it hot for all Rougher foes during the fall of '36. The squad this year would have been a championship team if the jinx had not worked overtime. Twenty-three of Central High's football squad were rewarded as lettermen for the 1935 season. The remain- ing eleven were unable to get the required number of quarters, for it was the first season for most of them as they were freshmen. More first year men have received letters this year than ever before. The reason for this is the apparently green team that Hnished what can be called a fairly successful season. It seems as though, for a few years, at least, West High products will control and push the Roughers to a state championship next year. Fourteen of the twenty- three lettermen lettered at West High before coming to Central. Five men on the starting eleven came across town with their talent. The Roughers will not be as hard hit by graduation as will other teams. Only four men on the first string will be lost. They are as follows: Harry Crank, guardg Blackie Hudspeth, the piston of the line, Bill Boyd, center, and Captain Recil Allen, halfbackg also three who are lettermen, will be lost. They are Virgil Mott, end, Charles i'Bu'b Hall, tackle, Robert Kersey, center. To replace the Hrst string graduates are Sharpe, Wilson, Taylor, and La Rue. The remaining lettermeng Jack Jacobs, endg Dayne Mayes, tackleg Leonard Wil- liams, guard, Raymond Acree, end, Jack Larrimore, quarterback, Hal Smith, fullbackg Joe Singleterry, halfbackg Clifford Rogers, quarterbackg Keith Rigney, fullback, Guy Osburn, halfbackg Albert Ballou, end. The following squadmen received reserve letters: J. D. Fulkerson, N. Fulkerson, Jack Ramsey, Gene David-