Mathis High School - Galleon Yearbook (Mathis, TX)

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PIRATES WIN FIVE, LIISE UNE AT LEFT, LAMAR GREENWOOD C101 ran around right with a hard head-on tackle. AT RIGHT, Ben Franco C211 end, gaining valuable yardage against San Diego. AT returned an intercepted San Diego pass. CENTER, Powell Brown C825 stopped Sinton ballcarrier MATHIS DOWNS GREGORY-PORTLAND 37-3 THE PIRATES BEAT Gregory Portland in a one- sided game. The Pirates scored on the second play of the game on a 55 yard run by Jim Rackley. Lamar Greenwood scored the last touchdown and kicked extra points to lead the Pirate scoring. Tony Valdez scored the last touchdown of the game by running 60 yards with one second left in the game. PIRATES EASE BY ODEM 18-O THE PIRATES PLAYED a strong defensive game to beat Odem 18-0. Johnny Snody, Don Tennill, and Howard Stridde were the Pirates' defensive stalwarts in the game. Lam ar Greenwood intercepted a pass early in the game for the Pirates' first touchdown. Greenwood scored later for the second touchdown. Ben Franco scored the Pirates' final touchdown late in the ball game. MATHIS BLANKS SAN DIEGO 32-O THE PIRATES OVERPOWERED San Diego 32-O in an explosive game. The Pirates' defensive unit--led by Bill Cabaniss, Joe Brown, and Johnny Snody--for the third time this year held its opponents scoreless. The Pirates' scoring was shared by Tony Valdez, La- mar Greenwood, and Jim Rackley. AT LEFT, DON TENNILL C735 and Howard Stridde 1833 after gaining 5 yards. AT RIGHT, Johnny Snody 1645, hauled down Odem ballcarrier. AT CENTER, Lamar Lupe Garcia 4305, and Jim Rackley C3lJ, surrounded 64 Greenwood 4103 was driven out of bounds by Goliad safety Sinton ballcarrier.

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EXPEIITS FINE SEASUN AHEAD Tony Valdez 1225 went around Pirates executed their painful gang tackling against the Premont Cowboys right end for valuable yardage Tacklers were Jim Rackley 1315, Lupe Garcia 1305, Bill Cabaniss 1745, Roy against Premont. Roy Boerm Boerm 1505, and Ben Franco 1215. 1505, Ben Franco 1ground5 laid key block. PIRATES LOSE THRILLER AGA INST WOODSBORO, 16-8 LUPE GARCIA TOOK Greenwood's handoff up the middle for a touchdown. Ronnie Freitag picked up the extra points, making the score 8-8. Woodsboro scored another touchdown and 2 extra points, making it 16-8, Mathis mounted a scoring attempt that had all the Mat- his fans on their feetp with 40 seconds of playing time left Valdez took a long pass from Greenwood and went all the way, but the play was called back. Woodsboro intercepted a Pirate pass and ran the clock out. MATHIS BEATS ROCKPORT IN FINAL GOAL-LINE STAND, 8-6 IIM RACKLEY TOOK A PITCHOUT from Freitag and went all the way for the first Pirate tally with 1 minute and 53 seconds left to play in the first half, and with the same play Rackley scored two extra points. The score stood 8-0, Mathis. In the third quarter Rock- port scored but failed to make the extra point. The score was 8-6, Mathis. The game ended with Rockport on the Pirates' one yard line. Polo Delgado1115, senior defensive end, Lamar Greenwood1l05, Pirate quarterback, went all the way for hauled down Woodsboro ball-carrier James the first touchdown against Premont. Ben Franco1215, senior wing- Lamprecht. back, laid a key block.

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IN NUN-DISTRICT CUMPETITIUN PIRATE BACKFIELIJ LEFT CTOP-BOTTOM, Powell Brown, Howard Stridde, John Sutherland, Polo Delgado, Jim Rackley Lupe Garcia. RIGHT QTOP-BOTTOMQ Allan Gregorcyk, Keith Bauch, Ronnie Freitag, Lamar Greenwood, Bobby Gonzales, Ben Franco, Tony Valdez, Coach Wayne Atzenhoffer.