Sweeny High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Sweeny, TX)

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Sweeny Coasts ytoAA Title, If -1 ' . By BILL KLUZIK Post Snort: Writer AUSTIN - Fullback Larry Chandler got the hard yard- age and let his smaller team- mates cash in on the points as the top-rated. Sweeny Bull- dogs proved they were Num- ber- 1 with- a 29-7 triumph over Granbury in the state Class QA finals here Satur- day night. 1 The senior workhorse ground out 89 yards on I3 carries as leading rusher of the night and overshadowed Granbury's star tailback. James Hodges, who got 67 on 21. V . It was the ltlth vitztory in a row this year for the un- beaten, untied Bulldogs, who also employed the talents of Lexie Bell and Louis Helm in the victory. The Bulldogs took the open- ing kickoff and immediately threatened when 156 - pound junior Lexie Bell returned 48 yards to the Granbury 43. A seven-yard run by fullback Larry Chandler gave Sweeny aofirst down at the Gran- bury 27, but the Pirates tight- ened and held the Bulldogs on downs. GRANBURY C A M E on strong the first time it got the ball, but two penalties to- taling 20 yards stymied any threat. -The first real threat came when Granbury's Duane Wil- son pounced on a Sweeny fum- ble tby Jim Lindseyl at the 37. The Pirates cashed in on the break. wv GRANBURY SWEENY First downs lfi i3 Net vards rushloo T55 W3 Net yards passing 43 0 Pmses 6-20 0-A Passes lnterceoted bv I 7 Punts-overuse 5-27.8 7-38,5 Perwlllei-vafds 6-49 fr-24 Fumbles lost l 'l w-nmsfavunx While tailback James Hodges and wingback George Rains qarried the load over- land, quarterback Jimmy Tid- wellpopped a 13-yard pass into the arms of Rains for a gain to the 14. Rains carried the next two times, picking up a first down and moving the ball to the three. l-IODGES GOT the receiving call next and caught a three- yard touchdown shot from Tidwell right over the mid- dle. Jerrel Bolton's ldck was good with 11:18 left in the half, and it was that point that gave the Pirates a 7-6 edge at the break. The Bulldogs' air attack was fruitless from scrimmage, but they got their first-half score when speedy halfhack Louis Helm took Tidwell's 48-yard punt and sprinted .57 yards to paydirt. Helm picked up a wall of blockers along the way and followed tackle Robert Monroe over ,the goal line. Samuel Thomas toed the ball for the PAT, hut onmsh- ing tackle Tommy Durant bat- ted it away with his left arm. Sweeny came on in the sec- ond half likea pack of wild canines and scored the first time it got possession. Chande' ler, a hard-charging 203-poun- der, blasted 20 and 25 yards to give the Bulldogs a quick start on an eight-play, 65-yard scoring drive that was climax- .-ed-when Lindsey rolled to his left and scooted tive yards in- to the end zone. 'rms TIME, The Bulldogs?- went for the two bonus points and got them on a pass from Helm to end Elmo Wright. On the ensuing drive, the Pirates moved from their own? , 16 to the Sweeny 49, but ges fumbled and Bob Snead' snared the loose pigskin for Sweeny. Eight plays and 49 yards later, the Bulldogs struck again but with a new weapon' -188-pound senior fullback Kenneth Grovey toted the mail four times and went the last three yards. With nine minutes left in the game, Thomas' first PAT kick was erased by a five-yard penalty, but he promptly booted the leather through the V upright again from the 16- - yard line for a 21-7 cushions As the game progressed, the Brazoria County Bulldogs gradually turned the game in- to a runaway. Granhury could do no right and Sweenyswas just the opposite. The Bulldogs took over at the Granbury 28 when Tid- well, who decided to punt on a fourth down instead of gam- bling a pass, let a minus- three-yarder slip off his foot. Lister, the Bulldogs had them- Three Chandlers and two Bells Solves another. Bell skirt- ed lelit end for the last 10 yards. 7 ' JUNIOR HALFBACK Dick- ey Williams also slipped Qarotmd left end for the bonus points tm. .errdg scoring with 4:12 left. ,--i ' 't ,Vi Sweeney out the with a perfect 14-0, while Pirates absorbed their first licking in 15 games. ' . 3 1 t .izgt Gran-Hodges! 3 pass from .Tidwelt tBoIton kicks ' -. Swe-Helms 57 punt return lkick aromas. - t ' SwwLlndsev, 5 run twrioht, mis fro Het l. SWE-Grrgvev, 3 run tThomoS kidtl. Swb-Bell, 10' run fwillicms ruhl. Attendance: 5,030 tesfl. BULLDOG ALMA MATER Fight, fight for Sweeny High Fight for the old blue and white Hail, Hail to Sweeny High Her friendship may it never die Ever faithful, ever true As we sing our song of you Blue and white we're all for you All hail to Sweeny High Nothing gets past our tough and mighty BIG BLUE!!! BULLDOG FIGHT SONG Fight, fight you bulldogs Fight on through We're all in back of you. So fight and fight with your might For Sweeny blue and white-fight, fight! This is the bulldog fighting song We sing our praise of you The greatest team, the bravest team Is you our own big blue! 63

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THEY KEPT GCDING!!! ulldogs sith Speed, :i..BykJOE WI-IITFINGTON ,. of quarterback Jim Lindsey, THEY fooibsn game by wi. s mr sw-vs writer 4 AUSTIN -- Svyeeny may not be the most publicized 'city in the state of Texas. mln tact, if you donlt pick up a sports page, there woiildi be many around the state who may not have heard of itl A-ff - ' ' f The Texas Almanad . de- scribes it this way -5 Old Ocean, oil rdining center adyfik' joining Sweeny. Even 'this is a backward explanation. . BUT H E R E SATURDAY night the Bulldogs of Sweeny moved the 2A football capital of Texas to the Brazoxia Coun- ty town and did it in grand' style widi a 29-7 win over West Texas' Granbury Pi- rates. Perfect faking on the part outstanding defensive end play by John Burnett and Bob Snead, superb defensive back- field 'manuevering by Elmo Wright and Louis Helm and downfield blocking that had the fans inthe stands duck- for pmtection' was all it. took. ' .NQuiekness, defensively and offensively, 'and a blilzing ,Oni i Pirate quarterback Jimmy Tidwell is the boiled fdowniikvexsion ot victory as ' assweeny-,was concerned. GwardfRobe1'c' Burt. half- back 'Dickey-Williams, tackle Ronnie Harris and guard Mike Orr had Wotrldfbe Granblmy secondary tadrlers on the deck many times, resulting in a. long gainer or a score. played about likelvle scoured' them, said Bulldog coach Ed Waggener before he was cart- cd off to the shower. We knew we had to stop their tailback James Hodges and we did. The big rush we put on Tidwell wasn't only for his passing. Waggener said of the Pirate signal caller who would have found it easier to spot a lost Contact lense on the turf than a pass receiver. You see, the rush was more to stop his running than his passing. He's a fine running quarterback. Linebacker Larry Chandler, tackle Jimmy Earnliart and tackle Jack Kemp saw to it that 'Pldwell saw more black Randolf's pass intercepted by Lindsey. the dressing noom. 'llecgting Y' 21 tackles amongst Siem. Our kids have been ganged up a lot lately and LIK think that's why we got a. slow start in the first halff' .WB.g3'03'ie1' said Ir took is Q. helfitei get the sorenes outot -omvmusf cles. I think a11oti1er'thingiQtl'iat helped us the second' the gap defense we, to ln the ha1.ft1me,dress1ngf room. ' ' AND THEN WHEN1ii.i1iejil started 00VE!il1g.0U!li1QPiiCi'ffiQ. twlighfl. we wou11ifhit'2.i!ieni' hard Wim mir- fulibgeni-qqiggq dlefrb- ' -'l,'i 7.5 'Tye been trying folffithis for 10 years now' and Pm thrilled we can bring. the diamplomhip back to the Gulf Coast. Waggoner loses 20 boys from this team and another long wait could be in store for-time-Bulldogs, while Gran- 'hury-mxde it to the finals with lf? ?:s'21 0'S t ge,1ff1tfWsiS'aH right. an un- grinning Lexie the first kickoff the Bulldogs got 37 the Granbury 43. -1i5 'Ii-1iNEVER DOUBTED we ic, Ben said, 1 wasrft even' worried about- its. 1 7f'We've worked tor-this for four' months and nobody can take it away now. said Lind- sey from the middle ofa group, of well-wishezs. I wasnft.wogj4 rled when we were ffdoivilg? We've been down From the first we would win it, G1'H11'bw'y had 2 mauac may say Sweeny, Class. champion, adjoining someijoii' refining centerf' K Bob Snead downs a Bastrop Bear at Victoria.

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Teomwork p A ls The gy Summers, Chandler, and Kees were really happy after the Needville victory! !! Robert Richard and Neal Bess make a successful tackle together. Kees, Earnheart, Klahn and Fox look at the close 6-0 game with Edna. To Victory They are really watching the game very closely. Snead intercepts a Kenedy pass.