Flora High School - Harstan (Flora, IL)

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Homecoming ONCE THERE WAS A WILD BUNCH AND INDIANS THEY WERE NAMED SPREADING TERROR NEAR AND FAR FOR THIS THEY WERE ACCLAIMED BUT THEN THAT FATEFUL NIGHT THAT WE REMEMBER WELL THEY JOURNEYED INTO WOLF LAND AND THERE THE MIGHTY FELL THERE THE INDIANS WOULD MEET THEIR MATCH BUT THIS THEY COULD NOT SEE THEY DIDN'T KNOW THE FLORA WOLVES HAD SMELLED A VICTORY THE INDIANS THOUGHT THE WOLVES WOULD BE AN EASY WIN NO DOUBT BUT THEY HAD THOUGHT SO RECKLESSLY FOR THE WOLVES WOULD WIPE THEM OUT THEY FORGOT TOO MANY DETAILS AND WOULD HAVE TO BOW AT FLORA S FEET THEY FORGOT COACH KANE WOULD NEVER LET THE WOLVES THINK OF DEFEAT THEY DIDN'T REMEMBER WALTER WHO RUNS WITH GRACE AND SKILL THEY FORGOT ABOUT DAN GOLDEN WHO CAN INTERCEPT AT WILL THEY FORGOT WE HAD A KICKER OR COULD RUN A TWO POINT PLAY THAT LEE LEWIS OR TIM STANLEY COULD CATCH A PASS MOST ANY DAY THEY DIDN'T REMEMBER WILLIAMS OR JOHN KANE'S DETERMINED DRIVE THEY FORGOT WHEN THINGS LOOKED BAD ROSS COULD KEEP OUR TEAM ALIVE AND THEY FORGOT MIKE WINKA WHOSE PASSING SURE IS FINE AND THAT RUSSELL OR McALLISTER CAN REALLY HOLD THAT LINE THEY FORGOT THE SPEED OF GOLDSTEIN OVERLOOKED MARK DAWKINS. TOO WITH KESTERSON IN THERE ALSO THE INDIANS GOT THEIR DUE THE INDIANS THOUGHT IT WOULD BE QUICK THE LAST STAND MADE BY CUSTER BUT THEY FORGOT THE WATER BOY BY NAME WAS KNOWN AS MUSTARD THEY FORGOT ABOUT DULANEY AND STANLEY ON THE PASS THEY ALWAYS DO THEIR BEST AND JEFF EASTIN TAKES NO SASS THEY OVERLOOKED OUR PUNTER WHO COULD PUT THEM ON THEIR ONE THE FOOT THAT DOES THE PUNTING BELONGS TO W1LKERSON ANO WHEN PEELER SNAPS THE BALL FOR THAT EXTRA SCORE JENNINGS HOLDS THE RUSHERS WOLVES GIVE THEIR ALL AND MORE THE INDIANS SURE MESSED UP CAUSE THEY FORGOT JAY BROOKS AND LAND AND WHEN THE GOING ROUGHENS JOHN CORRY MAKES HIS STAND THE WOLVES BOW DOWN TO NO ONE AND ALL KNEW THEY CALLED THE TUNE THE INDIANS WERE BEING MASSACRED THEIRS WAS COMING SOON WOLVES BROKE THEIR FLAMING ARROWS AND WIPED THE WAR PAINT FROM THEIR FACE THE ONES THAT BEGGED FOR MERCY WE LET CRAWL HOME IN DISGRACE FLORA KNOWS THAT THEY ARE WINNERS OF THIS THERE IS NO DOUBT FOR WHEN THEY MET THE INDIANS THE WOLVES HAD WIPED THEM OUT THE WOLVES WENT ON TO RULE THE LAND A TOUGH AND HONEST TEAM FOR AFTER ALL THE WORK AND SWEAT THE WOLVES WOULD REIGN SUPREME 19