Orrville High School - Orrbit Yearbook (Orrville, AL)

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ORRVILLE -- PINE HILL The Torrents continuedllthiir victory march Oct. 22 with a 20-6 triumph M D i l ' Pine Hi e even. ovegegogatigrioi set up the first touchdown for Orrville when he returned Pine Hill's punt, after they had bogged down on the first series of play, for 62 yards to the 18 yard stripe where it took Billy Child-TGS 2 P3-HYS to score. Pat Knight made the oint good. The second score came on a EO-yard pass from Bridges to Oliver. This time Knight's point was blocked. Orrville led at halftime 13-O. Orrville scored again as Bridges connected with Oliver on the 5-yard and one play later hit Kellyin the EDGZODS- KI1iSl'1t'S 'UTY for the P05-nt w good. aSGeddy scored for Pine Hill in the last quarter, but Pine Hill failed to ke the point. , ma Outstanding for Orrville were Pete Pegues, Pat Knight, Morgan Edwards, and Glova Bridges. Bridges completed 12 out of 17 passes. ORRVILLE -- HAYNEVILLE Orrville won its sixth game of the season in Orrville Oct. 29 in a con- test played on a field of water. Playing their hardest-driving and most spirited contest of the season, Orrville lost little time racking up their first score in the opening period when Glova Bridges laid a 12-yard pass in the arms of Joe Knight on the goal line. Bridges also passed to Knight for the point. Morgan Edwards recovered a Hayneville fumble on the one-yard line for the Torrents in the second quarter. Patterson ran it over for the score. The try for the point failed. Orrville led at the end of the third quarter with a 13-O score. Another recovery of an opponent's fumble set up the final score of the half. Bridges scored from the 2-yard line after a series of line plays worked down to that spot. Instead of kicking the point, Pat Knight passed to his brother Joe in the endzone. A thrilling return of an interception by Bridges set up Orrville's fi- nal score. Bridges passed from the 15 to Bo Davis who was standing in the endzone for a touchdown. Joe Knight, Pete Pegues E. P. Massey, and Morgan Edwards were outstand- ing igithe line while Cecil Moore and Pat Kelly turned in good jobs in the ack eld. MARION INSTITUTE -- ORRVILLE The Marion Institute B's blasted the Blue Torrents on November 12 with a 33-O score to halt Winton Wise's 8-game streak without a loss. Wise, in the game that saw several of his regulars sidelined with injuries, nearly lost the remainder of his varsity as injuries ran rampant through the squad. Led by the running and passing of Holiday, the running of Boyd and Scott and the line play of their two guards, Plier and Nichols, the Marion team poured on the heat from the opening whistle to the final. They scored a touchdown in the first quarter, added two in the second, scored another in the third, and a final score in the fourth quarter. Before being removed from the game,Bridges kept the Orrville club in the game with his passes to Joe Knight, but soon both were sidelined and the Blue Torrents' attack faded. N., vo .. A355

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ORRVILLE -- LINDEN Orrvil1e's Blue Torrents blocked punts, recovered fumbles, passed, and ran to an overwhelming 35-O victory over Linden on the Torrents' ,home field October 1st.' Orrville totaled 17 first downs to Linden's 8 to rack up their five touchdowns, and Pat Knight converted the five extra points without a bob- ble to round off the 35 points scored. In the punting department, Orrvi1le's Pat Kelly booted the ball three times, his kicks going for 55 yards, M7 yards, and the last was kicked out of bounds on the Linden 9 yard line. The Blue Torrents scored in the first quarter on a 27 yard run by Brid- ges, twice in the second quarter once after a Linden punt was blocked on the Linden 30-yard line, and again after a 35 Yard pass from Bridges to Oliver placed the ball on the Linden 20. Oliver ran it over for the score. Orrvi11e's fourth touchdown was set up when a Linden punt was blocked on their 22 yard line. The fifth came when Pat Knight covered a Linden fumble on their M3 yard line. Childres, Oliver, and Patterson carried the ball to the 5 and Bridges bucked it over for the final score. ORRVILLE -- MCKENZIE The Torrents captured their third game of the '48 season when they ham- mered out a 28-O win over McKenzie. Halfback Billy Childres shot through left-tackle on the second play of the game and raced M8 yards for a touchdown. Orrville scored four touch- downs and Pat Knight kicked all four points after touchdowns to run his string up to nine in a row. Billy Childres, Feg Patterson, and Sollie Oliver divided the running honors after McKenzie had failed to gain after receiving the kickoff with Childres racking up the second score on an 8-yard slant off guard, Fumbles kept Orrville from threatening further in the first half. ORRVILLE-- PERRY COUNTY Orrville and Perry County played to a terrific 6-6 tie in Marion on October 15 as two evenly matched teams played an extremely hard but cl.ean game trying to overcome the deadlock. Orrville kicked off to Perry County and they were forced to punt. The punt bounced off Ke11y's shoulder pads, and Perry County recovered. Two plays later Perry County scored. It was the third period when hard running by Billy Childres and Sollie Oliver worked the ball to the Perry County 25 where the drive slowed down. Perry County took over but fumbled a few plays later when Oliver tackled the runner. Glova Bridges recovered and Billy Childres, aided by good blocking by Pete Pegues and Joe Knight out through right tackle for the score. The try for the point was no good. Orrville racked up 13 first downs to Perry County's 6 but always found the goal line defense too strong to score. A desperate bid for victory gasimage by Orrville on the final play when Pat Knight missed a field goal y ,nc es. Glova Bridges did some fine passing, one going no yards to Joe Knight, 69

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r ISABELLA -- ORRVILLE The Torrents gave up a touchdown in the first minute of play November 17 before turning on the heat to swamp Isabella, 36-7. Orrville received to open the game and after Kelly and Patterson found the ball too elusive,lost possession of it, and Isabella recovered the fumble on the Orrville 20. A try at the Torrent line was discouraging and Isabella staged its offensive thrust of the night when Jones found Giles in the endzone and passed for the first score of the game Rasberry bucked over the extra point, and Isa- bella led after 5 seconds of play 7-O. Isabella kicked off to Orrville, and Sollie Gliver returned the kickoff ten yards to his own M3, then drove through the middle into Isabella terri- tory on a ten-yard off-tackle trip. Patterson and Kelly carried the ball down to the 2-yard line. Here Bridges took over and shot a bullet pass into the waiting arms of Bo Davis for Orrville's first score. Pat Knight, who has kicked extra points sensationally, failed on his first attempt. Orrville trailed, 7-6. Knight's kickoff was taken on the visitors' 28 where they bogged down on two attempts at the stubborn Orrville forward wall. They tried their pass play again, but Patterson took the ball and wheeled 55 yards for the second Orrville touchdown with Oliver furnishing the block needed. Orrville was ahead for the first time in the game, 12-7, and added two more touchdowns in the second quarter. The score at halftime was 24-7, and Orrville was going after its seventh victory. Kelly racked up the fifth counter in the third period and scored another in the fourth period. Out- standing for Orrville were J.C. Bridges, Bo Davis, Ralph Walker, E. P. Mas- sey,and Pat Knight. 71 I ll!-as