Henderson County Community College - Cardinal Yearbook (Athens, TX)

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With wide eyes and big hopes, the Cardinals entered the 1969 sea- son with hopes of winning the conference for the 5th year. HCJC's Cardinals faced fire and brimstone eyeball to eyeball and decided you have to fight fire with fire. Only the Cardinals used light- ning. TJC's Apaches for more talented and evidently much stronger overall than they have been in several seasons, came out with blood in their eyes and slugged it out toe-to-toe with the mighty Big Red before the Cardinals applied the kayo punch in the fourth quarter. HCJC struck on a pair of TD aerials and an electrifying 80 yard run to finally subdue the Apaches 21-14 as 14,000 fans looked on in ideal weather in Tyler's Rose Stadium. The entire Texas Junior College Foot- ball Federation looks much improved this season, and the Cards' next two foes, Navarro and Kilgore proved it in their opener. Kilgore one of the teams considered the class ofthe league, barely edged out Na- varro 14-3 and the two were about even in everything except the score. Cardinals won 'the game. The brawl was a draw. Officials never lost control, they never established it. Blowing slow whistles and permitting late hitting, among other things onthe part of both teams from the very start, lackadaisical officiating set the stage for a rash of fights later in the game and number of players on both ball clubs were benched as a result. The Cardinals managed to score a 20-0 win in their nonconference game with the Bulldogs, but they didn't show much until late in the third quarter. Credit has been given to a fired-up effort on the part of the Bulldogs, but then they were getting a lot of help from the Cardi- nals.' Giving' the Cardinals a perfect record to put on the line at Kilgore Saturday night. The Rangerstook it on the chin in their game with arch - rival Tyler, 24-7, but they will tear the Cards to shreads if the Big Red plays the kind of game turned in against NJC. Coach Bob Baccarini's Cardinals hurried to a 7-0 lead, saw it shrink to a 7-6 in the first period of play, and then put 13 more points on the board in the final quarter here to whip the Wharton County Junior College Pioneers 20-6.

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Henderson County Junior College observed its homecoming. Ob- served, not celebrated. Those blasted Blinn Buccaneers did the cele- brating. Yep, they did it again. They weren't supposed to be good enough to be on the same field as the Cardinals, according to the majority of the experts: . The Buccaneers, who whipped the T968 Cardinals 28-l4, really slapped it tothe Big Red in this one, using the tremendous running of halfback Larry Krushall to key a stunning 20-7 upset of the nation's no. 2 ranked iunior college football team. The loss dropped the Cards' in rankings, and it puts them in a bad position in the TexasJunior College Football federation. Tyler's Apached continued to roll while HCJC was being wrecked. Tyler bombed Cisco 50-O and could carry a 30 or 40 point favorites role against the Cards if they were playing today. There were two surprises in this little West Texas Town, and both were named Johnny. The Cardinals won the game with the fired-up Rangers of Ranger Junior College 28-14 and kept their title hopes alive. HCJC is now 7-l onthe season and 4-l in conference and the Car- dinals face the highly - touted Tyler Apaches. They won't be every- body's choice as they have been in recent years. ln fact Tyler is apt to be established as a four to five touchdown favorite over the Redbirds, who have to win if they hope to get a piece ofthe TJCFF title pie. The Apaches can win the crown outright by beating the Cardinals. The Rangers were out of the chase before their rematch with HCJC but they hoped to play spoiler. page .ar M 'L --, ,jr g -,gif , S.. 44,7 NM l .M is 1 P- , ,f im- --' .Fifi W' i Y '-rf, il 1' K LW 4 i V R' 459518-P' um ' - ., W 1 -Lt.,-E. 3-' im -. -.- in l', 9' F 4.-W -.9 .. . tw ' -r x- , ' .V ' 1753'-