Plainview High School - Plain View Yearbook (Plainview, TX)

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ROBERT FERGUSON Tackle 205 lbs. LARRY CRlSLER Guard 165 lbs. Sandies put The pressure on Bulldogs. 'Dogs Thrash Cclprock, 23-8 The Plainview Bulldogs used a devasTaTing offense and sTouT defense To down The Caprock Longhorns, 23-8, for The firsT Plainview vicTory in Amarillo in 37 years. Defense sTood ouT for boTh Teams in The firsT half. The 'Dogs puT The firsT poinTs on The scoreboard midway in The second quarTer on a safeTy for a 2-O lead. The drive ThaT followed affer The Longhorns kicked was ended wiTh no Time on The scoreboard in The half as Tom Sawyer Threw To Jerry WrighT, who found a clear field ahead of him and rambled 35 yards for The Touch- down. TrenT Jordan converTed for a 9-O lead aT halfTime. The Bulldogs sandwiched Two fourTh period Touchdowns around The lone Caprock score of The game and Jordan con- verTed Twice for The 23-8 score. The 'Dogs scored on a 19-yard aerial from Sawyer To WrighT and a 43-yard broken-field scam- per To paydirT by quarTerback Sawyer. The win gave The 'Dogs a 2-5 record for The year. 29

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Highlanders close in on Tom Sawyer. The Pampa Harvesters spoiled the Bulldogs' 1963 homecom- ing by coming from behind to take a 47-15 victory from the local eleven. The Bulldogs and Harvesters traded touchdowns with a Bull- dog two-point conversion giving them a 15-14 lead in the sec- LONNIE WHITFIELD Halfback 185 lbs. Pampo Rolls Over Bulldogs, 47-15 ond quarter. Joe Don Ford scored on a one-yard dive and Jordan point, then Tom Sawyer ran around end for kicked the extra six yards and a touchdown, with Ford running the points. From then on the Bulldog offense failed and Pampa scored almost at will. To a 27-15 halftime lead they added three more touchdowns to gain the victory. ROBERT BARNETT Fullback 170 lbs. Ford and Scroggins check the way for Wright.

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JERRY JAMES MIKE BUCHANAN End 165 lbs. Halfback 150 lbs. Lubbock 39, Plainview 'I2 The Bulldogs fell To a Tough and determined Lubbock Westerner team in the last home game of the 1963 season. The Westerners iumped to a 19-O second period lead before Tom Sawyer climaxed a 7O-yard Touchdown drive with Two seconds remaining in The half with a five-yard sprint for a 19-6 halftime defi- cit. Three second-half Lubbock' TD's ran the score to 39-6. The 'Dogs tallied again late in The final period on a one-yard plunge by Eddie Piercy To make The final score 39-12. Ford gets corraled during Monterey game. Sawyer blasts