Waco High School - Daisy Chain Yearbook (Waco, TX)

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Al Robert Bill Ernest Lloyd jimmy Richard Schiemenz McCollum Pritchett Sprawl Myers Dozier Lindsey Tackle Bark End Guard Tackle Taclelf' Guard great deal of trouble with passes, scoring two more touchdowns via that route, but the Tiger running attack was entirely too much for the plucky Bronc outfit. At the end of the first half the score was Waco 33-Bryan 18, and in the last half the Tigers scored 34 more points While Bryan scored none. During the game Waco gained over 600 yards from scrimmage to 332 for Bryan. , - -- The end play of both arg? Post was great as the Tigers nti made huge gains over their po ? of the backs ran wild, but F, Q15 performance of the evening, in by Bowen, who gained over ssh conditions with rain falling a good part of the time. The Tigers started off with a rush, literally carrying the stunned Jackets off their feet. Early in the first quarter, after Waco had driven to the Cleburne 21 yard line, Bowen shot through a gaping hole in the center of the Jackets' nine man line fa device which they employed all even- ' L ' , effort to stop VVaco's devastating El runnn gamel for 1 score. The try for t s N ide The Tigers threatened y El before the period ended, but Q e econcl quarter started, the tables n l ind Cleburne had definitely n n r hind Once when the Yellow ! 1: kets dr ive tw the W1't7 9, Waco fans 3 . an T ' ' 3, 1 ' r 1 u Y 'T 9 . I qi 'I' 1 1 'lf wi- ' e 1 ., . I. b x .1 lf, , A 2 fir 1 f .4 C 2 . T from scrimmage. The whole line -xy f ' s c J I c U w a plane far above that of the Bronco li The game accentuated the belief held by many that Waco had a weak defense, especially against passes, but none could deny that .to points was a pretty sub- stantial margin of victory. lVaco 26-Cleburne 0 When Waco met the Yellowjackets of Cleburne, it was playing for its hrst dis- trict title in ten years. The game was played under the most adverse weather -2- t chilled with dircst apprehension, lest the 7 to 6 jinx once more shatter the surging Tiger hopes. But the courageous VVaco line held like a wall of steel, and with the end of the second quarter came the demise of Cleburne's victory hopes. During the whole third quarter, Waco pounded and hammered at the Jacket goal, but they were hurled back each time by the desperate fighting of a team trying to ward off the inevitable. No longer, however, was this fight availing after the

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J. D. jimmy Ethan Bill Francis Britt George Price Vogel Allen Olson Pulattie Villines Heussner Tadelw Tarklr End End Bark Guard Guard in magnificent fashion. For most of the second quarter VVaco played defensively, due to the fact that the strong wind gave Corsi a punting advantage that the power- ful Tiger offense found hard to offset. Early in the third quarter, Corsicana blocked a VVaco punt and took over on the Waco 29. From here it had little trouble scoring. After the conversion was magnihcent performance was shown by the figures on ground gained -by rushing, goo yards for Waco to .to for Corsicana. The Tigers used an excellent piece of strategy in kicking all kickoffs out of bounds in order to keep the ball away from Spencer. The game once again demonstrated the fact that a one man team is in a bad way when playing against a kicked, Waco led by the narro ma t r ug co r ed by Patil Tyson, who is al- of 6 points. The few minutes th ' a l - ' fr 6' lo devise methods for stopping ed were filled with anxiety for W co iwv- S, iI1ffhiS game the Ti54Cf5 fmt But a little after the last quarte ed i Grill? great offensive ball, but also Blanton got off a beautiful kick '.Z:j,fg:'i - ' their great defensive killed on the Corsi 2 yard dhyyfn year. In many particulars took the return kick on the Corsif!,,-Shaq-wx. l ' was a parallel performance to pushed over a score after runs by Pula ,Q aj ' orpus game because of the excellence and Bowen had advanced the ball dow .tdtqtt Q locking and perfection of timing. to the 5. A few plays after the kickoff, Waco again got the ball, this time on its own 48. A beautiful run by Bowen and a pass from Burke to Howard put the ball on the Corsi 7 from which point the Tigers easily scored their final touchdown Bowen, Pulattie, and Burke all had Held nights behind great blocking, but the finest performance of the evening was turned in by the fighting Tiger line in bottling up Corsicana's great back, Spen- cer. Conclusive evidence of the line's IIIIICO O7-Bryan IS Waco next defeated Bryan in one of the highest scoring games ever seen at lXIuny Stadium. Leo Daniels, great Bryan back, made a spectacular oo yard return of the open- ing kickoff for the first Bronc score, giving Tiger fans quite a scare. But little time passed before the Tigers began pul- verizing the weak Bryan line and scoring again and again. Bryan gave VVaco a .,-il

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V 1 T xwk, , , 4 an-fr 25 ' ,-1 ., ,. ,,., to V, -1 WS? 1 ,JW r' fw X 4 . fav, lk,- gpwrxf' 4 ik Mg, Qhuu A .,.: , ., ig:-ig , ' W 4 WW . 7 Q If wx. Z' I 1 ' Fil 'N' an Q 'ff Y we 2 .al r. -2 , W-5149: Y H bLi4i'lL..M:4'fH,.3S.'2LuQvL.xKl....l',x:s1..f Ralph Leo Bland Arthur Leverett Charles Bill Post Blanton Sehwarting Clark Bowen Dickens Howard Bark Baile Bark Cfllfff Bark Crntrr End whistle sounded opening the final period. At this juncture the Tigers found them- selves in possession of the ball on the Cle- burne 21. A six yard run by lNIcCollum plus a pass from Burke to Pulattie was all it took to give the Tigers their second score. A little later, Burke punted out of bounds on the Yellowjackets' 5 yard line. On the next play Cleburne fumbled, and Villines rccovercd for VVaco in end run by Burke ind a conv down late in the ic uin This iun ffimc on a 54 X which yyouldl considered remaikiblc on 1 dry heh K ositively miraculous on that night's w 'Q Myers and Gardner performed well in the line. Une of the peculiarities of the game was the difference in the VVaco machine of the first half and the one of the last half. In the first half the Tigers played a listless, lazy game, actually allowing Cleburne to outplay them. In the last half they were a smashing, fighting ushinff the lackets off their feet an ounding the last ounce of re r na y expects from 1 V5 ico o e unfortunate incident in the I. ' HS fdl' HC Vi HCO XVHS COIICCYHCL NYRIS 1 s Y - 1 '--,,,- .,. V.. TV .. I ' 5 1 E s v : i y ' 11 N 'iopaav Ai. ' M 3 ' - Bowen made the score Wacrn 20, Y 'blmgsme L i, o ftshem. In the last half the o. Bowen made the final VVac with that fiashing fire that - 11' 'll Y x c i A X hi x 4 1 17 -'VK -5, c J J: 1 VY .v N I I 1 i ' 'r 1 V 1 ' , M- 7 4 . . ' ' ' 1 11' P 5 ,K J N ' 1 one. The Tiger blocking on that play was so ferocious that when Bowen stepped over the goal line, not a single Cleburne player remained on his feet. The fine play of Britt Villines at guard despite his lack of experience at that position, was a source of extreme gratification to Tiger fans. Bowen spark- plugged the VVaco backfield with his broken field running and Blanton played a magnificent game, passing and punting with great finesse and power. Bill Howard played a fine game at end, and e injury of the stellar tackle, Price. His loss was a great one, and it left a gap in the Tiger line which Coach Tyson found very hard to fill. But when the Tigers left the field they had won VVaco's first district title in ten years, and they had the satisfaction of knowing they had proved themselves clearly superior to every single one of their district rivals. Uyaco 2jfTyler 7 Fresh from its district triumph, VVaco