Starkville High School - Yellow Jacket Yearbook (Starkville, MS)

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a . + DAVID BOYD ELLIS SELF DON IOHNSON Tackle Blocking Back Center STARKVILLE 27-CORINTH 2 Our boys fighting spirit was aroused when Reed was tackled behind his goal on the opening kickoff giving Corinth, a Big Eight team, a 2 point lead. After Storkvilles kickoff, Corinth failed to gain, and punted out of bounds on the lackets' lU yard line From here the lackets really went to work starting the longest drive of the game. Mosley Scored on ari ll yard run capitalizing the QU yard drive. johnson converted for our first extra point of the season. Starkville rnade sev- eral more drives before the half but were unable to score. Early in the second half, a lacket line- man covered a furrible on the Vffarrior 40 yard line which was the beginning of another touch- down march. Mosley again scored from the one yard line with lohnson aaain converting. Later another fumble by Corinth set up a 20 yard run by Mosley which ended the scoring. For the first tirne of the season the second string played nearly a guarter holding the heavier Warriors to a virtual standstill. STARKVILLE 33-NEW ALBANY 14 After our one sided victory over Corinth, our boys were all set to take on the league leading, undefeated New Albany Bulldogs. Captained by Ward and lohnson, they journeyed to the upstate city to furnish the hornecornina opposition for-the favored Bulldogs. Starkville received the open- ing kickoff and before the game was a ininufe old, Wofford scored on a 35 yard reverse play. Minutes later the Bulldogs intercepted a pass deep in Yellowjacket territory and turned it into a touchdown tyina the score. N. A. scored again when the lackets fumbled the kickoff on the 33 yard line giving them a seven point lead. Al- though the lackets threatened twice and New Al- bany once in the second guarter, neither tearn could score. The second half was a different story. The lackets scored on the fifth play after Mosley intercepted a pass on the N. A. 36 and returned it to the 4. Six plays later Mosley gal- loped from his own l9 for 81 yards and another score. Seconds later Red Dot , Starkville's ter- rific tackle, recovered a Bulldog furnble on their own ll with Parker taking the ball over for the score. Minutes later l'l3ed Dot recovered an- other furnble which was turned into another TD with Reed hitting pay dirt, making the final score 33-l4. Here Are the Girls Practicing for Friday Night!

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ik Q i 1 , W 'Q r ,, .y LY TWV a in X 3 HUNTER ANDREWS End STARKVILLE 6-AMQRY O After a holida y celebratinfg the Qktibbeha Count 'A.' Dairy Festival, the fackets rourneyed to firiiory to their third successive conference vietory 5 to U Reed received the openina kickoff returnina it ten yards to the QU. After failing to in i R 'Wil'-.W 4 wg, 'f 'hr 'azggigiw gggiw Y ,tt t A ,, ,,x, fra V 7' ,r x, L , 4 , -we W W, M , A ' 0 'i'Ml1,if Q ea if f 372., ' if I. L. ANTHONY FORREST PACE Tackle End STARKVILLE U-ABERDEEN 13 Both teams put perfect conference records on the line in a very hard fouaht battle at Aberdeen. This aarne between the two top teams in the Little Ten Conference, won by Aberdeen l3 to O, proved to be the battle for the championship. 59 if rrzake a first down, Anthony punted to Lowe who fumbled with Mf:He','riolds recoverina on the Pan- thers 40 A pass from Parker to Reed was inter- cepted on the QU Cn the next play Amory furn- bled a fain '.'.':ti1 fir: Frank rriakiri: the recov- er ',.' , After the first auarter wliicli was marred by rriany fumbles and intercepted passes, both teams settled down to play better ball but neither could score in the first lzalf NVilliford's kickoff went over the aoal 'xaith the return bririfririrr it out to the one Finltr '..' tlwn f'VlI'.lCCl to fgzz o'.'.'n forty' 'sxitli Heed returninr it five 'A.' ards Parker and l. ff,sff-'.' :nt tzie line aitf,-rnatvlr' trotti tziis point with lffoslf-1' rridkirt r the snare. This ended the scorinfr althoxr ::i the fa ff k e t tlireaterzud :several more ftItlr'f3 before the final whistle. Mosley Scores Against West Point Since Aberdeen finished the season undefeated, our boys finished in second place by winnina their remainina Conference aames, Aberdeen's hiah scorinir attack was held in cheek by our fine defensive line play, combined with Anthony's lonfr punts, until shortly before the half when Bourland, the R u l l d o a ' s sensational fullback, crashed over from the two yard fine. After trail'- infr 7 to U at halftime, the fackets came back with a determined effort to even the score in the third aixarter, but never manaaed to aet the piaskin across the double stripe. Aberdeen's second score came early in the fourth auarter with Bourland rr rain doincr the scorina on a nine yard aain, late in the ball 'maine the fackets resorted to pass- irirr with Rfarikerisliip handlina the tossing for the first time of the season. He completed one long rafts to Melts-'.'rifffcl:s, wiiicl: was our first complee ticri of the 'ye-tri, but failed to produce a scoring Ciw- i Y . BRIAN GROGAN End ,asf- Mt

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FRANK SHROPSHIRE Tackle W' z v. V M x EDWARD MONTGOMERY Center P+ 9' it 51 Hszrfwtfkfts i ' ,egg fig, Wu, ,E Q im I M fg.gfj'Lgg,4f,,f1gtE.L ,jgmfi 0- 2 v x f vgxylyggxifyyihkxggm LAMAR WILLIFORD ERWIN WARD End Blocking Back STARKVILLE 12-EUPORA 13 The extra point proved to be the difference as the Eupora Eagles handed the Yellowjackets their third defeat of the sea- son by a i3 to l2 score. Starkville grabbed an early lead in the first few minutes of play when Donald Mosley, high score ing fullback, plowed over from the one foot line. fohnson's extra point try failed to meet the specifications. Minutes later Eupora scored on a pass play to tie up the game. Then our boys pulled a slick play. Qur very versatile center, Don Iohn- son, swapped places with the tailback for the first time of the year. On the play, Iohnson completed a pass, covering EU yards to Parker for a TD, giving the Iackets a l2 to 6 halftime lead. lt looked as if our boys would add another TD to the score in the opening moments of the second half, but downs ran out inside the lU yard line. The fackets suffered bad breaks in the fourth quarter by having two punts blocked. The second blocked punt was recovered for a Eupora TD. A run- ning play scored the game winning extra point. Our boys almost pulled the game out of the fire by completing a long pass to Pace on the eight yard line, but the time keeper stepped in to end the game before a score could be made. The Boys Ready to Go! Coach Thompson Must Be Interested