Kathleen High School - Trident Yearbook (Lakeland, FL)

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Varsity football Kathleen Takes Opener The Red Devils had a terrific first half with 137 yards rushing and 118 yards passing. All of the scoring was done in the first half. The first score came on the second play of the game as Neil Laxdal connected with Greg Anderson for a 63-yard touch- down. The extra point by Mike Jacoby was good giving the Devil's a 7-0 lead. Bartow's only score was set up by a Kathleen fumble. Bartow recovered the fumble on its own 26 yard line. Bartow had penetrated as far as the three-yard line of Kathleen, but penalties pushed them back to the 13 yard line and forced them to settle for a field goal. Bartow's field goal attempt was good making the score 7-3. Kathleen came back with an 88- yard drive for their second touchdown. The score came on a pass from Neil Laxdal to john Patterson. Rodney Roberts car- ried it in for the conversion, making the score 15-3 in favor of the Devils. Steve Britt recovered a Bartow fumble which set up Kathleen for another scoring drive. The drive began with a 22-yard pass to james Lyons. Four plays later Laxdal carried it in from the one-yard line. Kathleen won their opening game. Final score Kathleen 23 and Bartow 3. Kathleen Bartow 13 First downs 5 125 Yds. rushing 85 118 Yds. passing 11 5-19-l Passing 2-14-2 5-34.2 Punts 6-36.5 2-1 Fumbles 5-4 73 Yds. Penalized 57 Kathleen 7 16 0 0-23 Bartow 3 O 0 0 3 Devils Tame Lions The Kathleen Red Devils shut out the Tampa King Lions in the first district game of both teams. The Devils first score came in the opening quarter, when james Lyons rambled over from the one-yard line with 3:56 remaining in the quarter. Neil Laxdal's conversion attempt failed. Laxdal had a good night passing. He completed two of two passes, good for 30 and 10 yards. The last completion set up the touchdown series. Kath- leen came back on the second quarter and scored on its second possession. james Lyons dived over from the one-yard line for the touchdown with 7:07 left on the second quarter. In the mid- dle of the third quarter, james Lyons carried two yards on the first play, then he went in for the touchdown moments later. 166 The two-point conversion failed. The Devils dominated the fourth quarter, scoring two more touchdowns. -I. D. Patterson, went over from the one-yard line with 3:47 left. The conver- sion attempt by Mike Bowden failed. Kathleen scored again when Rodney Roberts went over from the one-yard line with 1:52 left in the game. The two point conversion failed. Kathleen blanked King 24-O. Kathleen King 20 First downs 15 308 Yds. rushing 34 68 Yds. passing 106 5-16-1 Passing 9-25-2 3-23.7 Punts 6-32.3 2 Fumbles 2 75 Yards penalized 40 Kathleen 6 6 0 12 24 King O00 0 0

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Red-Tide Drowns Clearwater The Devils captured their third straight victory as they mortified the Clearwater Torna- does 59-0. The Devils had com- plete control over the game, scoring two touchdowns in the first quarter and a 26-0 lead at the half. Kathleen put together a 58 yard scoring drive for their first touchdown. Quarterback Neil Laxdal connected with run- ning back james Lyons, from 13 yards out, for the score. The two point conversion failed with 9:54 left in the quarter. The Devils put together another scoring drive after Mike Brant- ley intercepted a Clearwater pass at the Kathleen 43. The Devils went the distance in nine plays with james Lyons running into the end zone from two yards out. The conversion pass failed and Kathleen had a 12-0 lead. Clearwater penetrated as far as the Devils 41 but could not con- vert on fourth down. The Devils took over from there. A pass interference penalty against Clearwater aided the Devils in a third scoring drive. john Patter- son pulled on an 11-yard pass, from Laxdal, for the socre. Pat- terson also caught the conver- sion pass making it 20-0. Kath- leen with 8:40 left in the first half. After both teams had attempted drives, Tornadoes got possession on their five. A cou- ple of plays later Kathleen's defensive back Cleve Murray alertly jumped on a loose fum- ble. The Red Devils took over from there. Rodney Roberts car- ried it first to the three and on the following play powered onto the end zone for a Kathleen touchdown with 1:26 to go in the half. The extra point kick failed which made the score 26-O in favor of Kathleen. A fumble by Clearwater and a recovery by 3 Cleve Murray set up another Kathleen drive. Six plays later Neil Laxdal connected with tight end john Spares for a 14- yard touchdown pass. Mike Jacoby made the extra point making it 33-O Kathleen, The final touchdown of the game was sent up by an interception by defensive back Ronnie Speed. Speed returned it deep into Tor- nado territory but penalties brought the ball back to Clear- water's 27. Mike Bowden imme- diately took control. The Devils went the distance, with Bowden Varsity football carrying it over on a one-yard quarterback keeper play. The extra point kick failed. The Kathleen Red Devils were over the Clearwater Tornadoes 39-0. Kathleen Clearwater 21 First downs 6 110 Yds. mshing 97 181 Yds. passing 30 13-260 Passing 4-18-2 4-28.5 Punts 4-35 1 Fumbles 2 107 Yds. penalized 149 Kathleen 12 14 13 0 39 Clearwater 0 O 00 0 Kathleen Exorcises Blue Devils The Kathleen Red Devils came very close to defeat in a very tough defensive game against the Winter Haven Blue Devils. Winter Haven knew its defense would have to do a super job and they did but unfortunately Kathleen's defense also had a phenomenal night and the Devils won it 7-O. There was no scoring in the first half of the game as both teams were plagued by penalties and mistakes. Kathleen would have scored more points but two key fumbles destroyed their hopes. In the second half of the game the Red Devils finally got a sus- tained drive going. Starting at its 46, Kathleen put together a 54 yard drive in six plays. Three running plays put the Red Dev- ils down to the Blue Devils 40. On a third and seven play, quar- terback Neil Laxdal connected with QI. D. Patterson who took the ball 20 yards on a fine indi- vidual effort for a score. Mike ,Iacoby's extra point kick made it 7-O with nine minutes and 37 seconds left in the third quarter. Early in the fourth quarter Win- ter Haven threatened with a near touchdown. The Blue Devils began their drive with a nine yard run by Eric Frazier, fol- lowed by another nine yard run by Cuyler to the Blue Devils 38. A personal foul penalty on Kathleen gave the Blue Devils good field position at their 47. Then Moses George rushed for 15 yards to the Red Devils 52. George and Frazier combined for ten yards and Dryden ran for 7 putting the Blue Devils on the Red Devils 15. A five yard delay of game penalty pushed Winter Haven back to the twenty. From that point Cuyler went inside for a four yard gain to the six- teen. The Big Red defense toughened up and stopped Win- ter Haven's run. Mark Dryden's pass was knocked down in the end zone by Ronnie Speed on a third down and seven. On fourth and seven, Dryden drop- ped back to pass, but defensive tackle David Masterangelo nailed him which ended any hopes of a Blue Devils touch- down. Kathleen blanked the Blue Devils, 7-O. Kathleen Winter Haven 12 First downs 11 150 Yds. rushing 84 116 Yds. passing 38 S-16-0 Passing 3-7-1 4-52 Punts, average 5-46.8 2 Fumbles lost 1 80 Yds. penalized 40 Kathleen 0 O 7 0 7 Winter Haven 0 O O 0 0 1. Kathleen's specialty teams played a big part in getting defensive field posi- tion. 2. john Patterson cuts back up field with the help of a block by john Spares. 3. Kathleen's defensive unit gang tackles a Brandon running back. 167