Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Mustangs Bury Spring Branch 14-0. ZH' T .M ,JW Memorial ToughT To an unprecedenTed T4-O win over Their sisTer school, Spring Branch. The Bears held The lvlusTangs To a scoreless TirsT halT Tie, buT as The second halT opened There was no denying The Tired-up Ponies as They Took The lciclcoTT and drove 8I yards in Ten plays To score. Ted Carey drove over whaT proved To be The winning Touch- down and Roland CarTer added anoTher Touch- down and Two exTra poinTs. The whole deTensive uniT, led loy Larry Davis, Ken Pearson, and Tom BenneTT was ouTsTanding, lirniTing The Bears To 72 yards ToTal oTTense. Memorial Tinished The regular season sTaTe ranked, wiTh a 9-I record To represenT disTricT IOAAAA as co-champs. A happy Coach Churchill congraTulaTes Glenn Shahan aTTer The Spring Branch shuT'ouT. Memorials TirsT win over Big Blue . The reTeree signals The second Touchdown which iced The game away Tor The MusTangs and broughT Them Their T'irsT disTricT championship.

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Memorial Over Aldine 33-O Mike Bouche 1301 .Reid Farrell l22l Joe Kelly l53l and John Carlhy l67l go for loose ball which Gregg Jones ll5l and Larry Davis l82l violenlly cause. The Muslangs lilerally swam +0 a 33-O win oyer lhe Aldine Musiangs al rain-swepl' Reggie Grob Sladium lo increase lheir season record To 8-I. The win was a musl, selling up Jrhe annual show- down wilh Spring Branch 'for lhe Dislricl Champion- ship. Big guns for Memorial were Ted Carey and Mike Shuck who shared lhe ball carrying chores in, lhe powerful Pony advances. Sophomore full- back Phil Kendall scored Two ol lhe 'rouchdowns while Schuck scored ihe oiher +wo. Roland Carler kicked lwo lirsl guarfer field goals, making good 8 oul of 9 lries for lhe year, and kicked The exlra poinls. The defense was again oulrslanding, scor- ing Jrheir lourlh shuloul of lhe year. Mike Schuck drives for yardage on end sweep. Tim Horan l25l follows blocking of Charlie Simmons in muddy Aldine ballle. l56

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Ponies Lose in Bi-District. Roland CarTer qeTs seT To Toss a bomb in The Tension-packed bi-disTricT qame wiTh Jones. For The TirsT Time in hisTory Memorial meT a Toe in bi-disTricT. only To be upseT 7-6 by Jones oT l-lousTon's 9-AAAA. Only inches separaTed The MusTangs Trom The glory oT vicTory and The agony oT deTeaT. Jones goT OTT To a blaz- ing sTarT, scoring on Their TirsT possession and ThreaTening Three more Times. The Ponies however, came back aTTer The halT deTer- mined To pull The game ouT as They had so oTTen done during The sea- son. Mike Schuck succeeded in scoring The needed Touchdown, buT The 2 poinT conversion run Tell inches shorT and Memorial ended Their l965 season. Their mosT suc- cessTul, wiTh a 9-2 record. Tailback Mike Schuck eludies a would-be Falcon Tackler