Lawrence D Bell High School - Raider Yearbook (Hurst, TX)

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GGEQ 1, .. .frrfsail As Pat Torres C881 makes his first tackle season, Mike Taunton C221 arrives to help. Victor marks first game at new stadium The Blue Raiders opened the season with a new team and a new stadium. Both were in excellent shape as they defeated their first opponents, Newman- Smith, 24-0. About 6,500 fans showed up to cheer the Raiders on. Todd Roblee scored the first points with a twenty-three yard field goal in the first quarter. The defense also worked well, recovering two first half fumbles. In the second quarter both Mike Taunton and Jason Shawver ran one- yard touchdowns. The highlight of the 7 '71 C ytnxg As Shane Lindsey C871 tackles a Trojan player, Rodney Ring C441 and Rick Lockett C421 come with assistance. Shane Lindsey C871 makes a flying tackle as Troy Massey C811 closes in. x55 i Y1.,'?'4e'T-i'i T-7' Cf' f--' 'T '.--Z R273 iii x:f - . - -r , .. - , -,J ,W L, game came when quarterback Robbie Queen threw a forty-nine yard touch- down pass to C. J. David with seventeen seconds remaining. Roblee hit all the extra points. The second half saw the end of Bell's scoring drive. We just lacked execution in the second half, said Coach Edwards. We got to play a lot of kids, but that was about it. However, the defense con- tinued to play well, not allowing the Newman Smith Trojans to score oncelgi

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' Ai '7 3 2' - ,t IN. ,. , A54-ff'rz-41,-af W. 11 2-4 fag-. Q 3 fa., .1 4 ' g.:':f?:4wj -3 the Raider-Colts game, Robbie Queen, 14, readied himself for another offensive against Arlington. In an offensive struggle against Lamar, the Raider line went face to face with the Vikings, only to lose 31-14. As the game drew to a close against Lamar, Keith Gunn, number 10, defended the line. ' Li+'t f f'--. .. iii- , Tf?'-'iffl 'iv -'-'P' Spirits fluctuate after victory, defeat A pitched battle between both teams' defensive lines was the result of the Bell- Arlington Colts game. All the points were scored by the Raider's field goal kicker Todd Toblee as he clinched 9 points to Arlington's 6, Sept. 11. It was a major game of breaks and mistakes as the offensive teams on both sides were halted and were forced to depend on their field goal kickers. Ar- lington was beset by a string of penalties, 75 yards in all, stifling its drives in deep Bell territory. The pivotal play that de- cided the game was a roughing-the- kicker penalty against Arlington on an unsucessful Raider field goal. It gave Roblee a second chance to score 3 plays later, and fourteen yards closer. The soaring spirits of Raider fans af- ter the Arlington game plummeted when Bell suffered a ground-shaking defeat by the Lamar Vikings, 31-14. The Vikings were driving the ball down the field al- most at will as the Bell defense floun- dered. The Raiders made a distinct comeback in the third quarter, reducing the Lamar lead to 21-14. It was then that Lamar started its own comeback, push- ing the ball 63 yards for a crucial touch- down that decided the game. Varsity Football