Paxon High School - Delphian Yearbook (Jacksonville, FL)

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PAXON 6 - LANDON 20 Landon invaded The Eagles nesT and crushed The home Team 20-6 in Paxon's TiTTh game oT The season. The Landon Lions brolce loose in The TirsT quarTer wiTh a 72- yard run To seT up a scoring play. Our Tlu-wealcened Eagles had Tour regu- lars missing acTion. We really missed These boys, because we only reached The goal line once. This came in The Third quarTer when David Gideons plunged over as- sisTed by righT Taclcle, Bob Banlcs, who cleared The paTh. Our iinx was l.andon's hard charging Tull- baclc wiTh The long black sToclcings, When he had The ball, our haggard Eagles hardly seemed To Touch him. TACKLES-Kneeling: Jimmy Bishop Gary Thompson Jim Brace ell STand ing: Jerome Jones, Mickey Walker Bobby Banks Wayne Breese A Landon Lion picks up yardage before The Paxon Eagles bring hum do n PAXON I3 - KENNY 6 Saved by Two Tumbles in The lasf eighT minuTes OT The Third quarTer, we came ouT vicTorious againsT an overly conTidenT Kenny Team. The Crusaders scored in The TirsT quarTer oT The game buT missed The conversion. The score remained 6-O unTil The lasT quarTer when Mfclcey Walker and Wayne Rob- erTs parTially blocked a punT on Kenny's own 22 yard line. RoberT KoTsis ran The ball To The Three yard line and was pushed ouT oT bounds. Moved baclc To The eighT yard line by a penalTy, ClayTon Spradley Tool: The ball in Two plays and carried iT Through Tor six poinTs. Spradley converTed and Tor The TirsT Time we led by a score OT 7-6. fNfTer one play Kerny Tumbled and we had ooe- sessior oT The pigslcin on The Kenny 22. CurTis Mos- ley ran To paydirT Trom The nine-yard line Tor our second Touchdown oT The game. The clock ran ouT and The Crusaders had no Time To seelc vengeance. Our vicTory over Kenny leTT us wfTh a 2-O conTerence record. Fi Min hard for needed yardage Curhs Mosley biTes The gridiron af The 9 9 Kenny game. jf

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4-A -rv .1 , .. 2' ' I iv. , Move, Mr. Referee! IT's Three down and nineTeen To go. Richard Henderson, Paxon guard, wanTs pa PAXON' nz Talcing advanTage oT duPonT's nine Tumbles, we de- TeaTed The Dragons on a muddy Tield by a score oT I2-6 in our eigh+h game oT The season. To The amazemenT oT The Tans and The opposing Team, CurTis Mosley ran 69 yards Tor our iniTial Touchdown in The TirsT quarTer. CurTis scored our second Tally Trom The duPonT six- yard line. This Touchdown resulTed Trom a Tumble re- covered by Ronald Nicks on duPonT's 42-yard line. TienTly To go in The duPonT game Doc Cleveland and George TuTen sTand by duPONT 6 Our line, which proved To be in Top condiTion, held The Dragons scoreless unTil laTe in The Third quarTer when They scored Their lone Touchdown. Though They weren'T happy wiTh The Tinal score, The duPonT Tans held Their heads high during The halT Time show. Their marching band, Tamous all over The counTry, perTormed beauTiTully. Tired, weT, muddy, buT TrimumphanT is The sTory of These Eagles aT The duPonT game. 3- go',' ..