Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 157, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 10, 1958 Page: 4 of 8
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* HgCKEN IDOg AMERICAN —SUNDAY. AUGUST 10, 195S
Football Play To Open In Month
With Nederland Showing 14 In Row
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
A. P. SPORTS EDITOR
Ju*t one month away is another
Texas schoolboy football race a
period of orderly hysteria It has
grown fabulous and fantastic with
the years, nothing can equal it in
sue and Interest, it s Texas great-
est sports attraction
The Texas Interscholastic Lea-
gue football plan is entering its
thirty-ninth campaign There have
been many changes, plenty of
strife and many glittering mo-
ments.
Still to come Is a greater plaver
than the boy who strode the grid-
iron In the first years of the league I
Hjs name was Boodv Johnson and
he led Waco on the way to glory
unmatched until Blair Cherry's
Golden Sandstorm of Amarillo tied
«aco s record of three state cham-
pionships in a row in the mid-
thlrties
Then. In 1954 Chuck Moser laun-
ched Abilene on a record-tving
drive. Not only did Abilene win
three titles in succession but it
also became the winningest school
in history Abilene has takrn six
championships, one more than Wa-
co and two more than Amarillo
Abilene also ran its streak >o 49
straight victories, which was a na-
tional record The string end^f on
a Deeember day last fall tthen
Highland Park tied the fcagles and
went on to the state championship
Johnson was the mvthiral half
bark of 1921 22 ?3 who drop kicked
field goals from 50 yards out. ran
all over the field and a- and still
is the talk of the football world
that Is Texas
I There came Raleigh Dangelei3 n
on Temple. proDabiy the greatest
punter oi them ail. Burl Bui Kin. the
great hack of Amarillo in the early
thirties, Gene Hill, the passing
man of Wichita Falls, Bobby Wil-
son, wild running back of Corsi-
cana's great days. Treacher Thur-
man oi Wichita Falls. Virgil Gil-
land of Itasca, who probaDiy was
the greatest running back. Doyle
Trayior. Temple's gifted passer,
Doak Walker of Highland Hark.
Leo Baldwin of Wichita Falls, Scott
McCall of Masonic Home, Bob Cle.,-
son of Amarillo, Kyle Rote of
Thomas Jefferson, the greats of
Texas schoolboy football form a
mighty legion
'lois year finds schoolboy foot-
ball at its /enitn uitn schools,
lw ol them in the top division—
Class AAAA. This is the largest
field that ever faced the barrier,
football back in 19a> when the lea-
gue started its annual race. They
were all in one class and some
of the smallest towns. o*ten got
into the state playoffs against such
powers as Waco. Clebuin. Abilene,
Dallas Oak Cliff and other peren-
nially mighty teams of the era
There'll be some starting ove-
all along the line Abilene failed la
win four rhatnpionships in a rou- to
set a record and will be projecting
a new h,d It al\o will he trying
to get another winning streak on
the road to matrh thf1 one Highland
Park -napped Indications are that
to
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Mustangs Look
To Meredith As
Star '58 Passer
By ASSOCIATED PRtSS
If you don't think that the foot-
ball season is just around the cor-
ner, think of this One week from
today, the 1958 college all star foot
ball game will have alreadv been
played.
Next Friday night the Detroit
Lions and the all-stars will tangle
at Soldier Field in Chicago More
on ttiat game in next week We
merely mentioned it to the point
out how just how close at hand
the pigskin season is.
At Southern Methodist, the fan^,
can hardly watt for their team's
opening kickoff One b g reason i .
that they expect quarterback Don
Meredith to put on one of the great
•■st pass throwing shows the south
western conference has ever seen
And that should be something Re
cause when you talk about passing
in the Southwest Conference you
talk about such experts in the field
as Sammy Baugh. Doak Walker,
and Bobby Layne
As a sophomore last year. Mere
dith gave indications that he will
rank up with that trio before lone
In fact, his passing re.-ord as a
soph was better than any of those
three compiled in their sophomoi e
year.
In a half a dozen game-;, Mere-
dith set a national cpllegtate reiorrt
for pass completions with an av
erage of better than 69 and a haii
percent He connected on 71 pa . ■
in 102 attempt-,. And his vardage
gain was better than 900 vardr,
When Baugh was tossing the foot-
ball for Texas Christian his yardage
gams as a sophomore w a ■-
es and completed 64 of them fm
a mark of just under 40 per cen'
The last great passer at SMU,
Doak alker. had a completion
average of about 57 per cent Well
short of the prencenage recorded
by Meredith.
So. the reason for all the enthus
Ust! at Southern Methodist ap-
pears well founded An expert ml
the' -nbjei t of Texas football. As-
socnt. I Press Writer Harold Rat-
liff. iid that chances are good
that M<iedith will be passing even
more tin fall than he did last sea-
son
Ratliff sees two reasons for this.
On>' .v\li might nut have enough
good, experienced runners to han-
dle a strong game on the ground
Anil two the Southern Methodist
line should he bigger and stronger
tin , vear, and more capable of giv-
ing I ion hettei protection.
If tin-; proves true, Meredith will
gi\ e frtolhall talis in the Southwest
an aeiial show they won't soon for-
get.
Abilene will be strong enough to
do it. too.
The longest winning streak in
the state right now is held by
Nederland— 14 straight
Schoolboy football in Texas is a
fantasy—almost a thousand teams,
8.000.000 watching them play, 400
games on a weekend Everything's
difference from those earlv years
except the spirit.
There was that day in 1921 when
Waco was whaling Beaumont
with a minute to go. Out of the
Beaumont line arose a gangling
youngster with tear:, in his eves
'Tellers." he wailed. "If we don't
fight they're gonna beat us."
Schoolboy football todav is jus*
as intense, just as spirited
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Big Fight Time
Drawing Nearer
Bv ASSOCIATED PR 55
Monday, August 18th the night
of the he ivyweieht title ficht be-
tween Floyd Patterson and Roy
Harris draws closer. And the drum
bc.it.. tiom the armv of publicity
men working on the fight glow
louder.
Hi" latest report from Harris'
training c a m i> in Arrowhead
Springs California quotes the fipht-
er from cut and shoot. Texas a,
aj nig that he wishes his battle
with Patterson were a tight to
'he lirn li
In other words, force! about tf-.r-
15 round limit, and keep the fight
going until someone drops.
1 I ike they used to do in the davs
of John L. Sullivan.
But not many of the fight experts
feel that Harris would get the best
of that kind of a fight. He is not
j considered a knockout puncher, ami
his best chance, if he has any chan
ice at all. is to hope for a decision
fin 15 rounds.
On the other hand, Patterson has
knocked out ?I of his 3-1 victims
1 On the subject of knockdowns,
Irving Kahn. who is president of
the organization running the clos-l
ed circuit telecast of the ficht. was|
talking to newsmen recently about
Harris chances. He said from what 1
he saw of the Texas fighter the!
boy looked strong enough to knock
anyone down. An analysis made 110 !
doubt with one eye on the box of-
fice.
Bill Gore who is Harris' trainer!
w as listening to the conversation!
o\ er a special telephone hookup 1
He broke in to suggest that Harris
. w as not what he would call a knock
er-outer.
At this point th* startled Mr
Kahn diopped the telephone That 1
is exactly what Patterson may de-
ode to do with Harris, much be-
fore the 15th round.
Leading Batters
In Major Leaques '
AMERICAN IE A'.llL
Battiiii! 1 based on 2M) or more
''me- at hati —Runnels. Boston
k uii. Detroit .(^8, Goodman. 1
Armstrong Wins
His 15th In Row
Nt W YORK <ffi— Middleweight
Ac. Aimsfronc had a reputation as
a tuner before Friday night. But
at Madison Square Garden in New
York the ace won his 15th straight
liuht 111 his brief but unheaten ca-
reer. lie clobbered Rory Calhoun,
high-ranking middleweight conten-
a unanimous decision.
The Ace put Calhoun down four
times and staggered him in sever-
I hicago 326; Cerv. Kansas City
.322; Power, Cleveland 321.
Runs baited in-Jensen. Boston
Cerv. Kansas City 80; Sievers
Washington 77; Colavito. Cleveland
and Lemon. Washington 68.
Home Runs— Jensen, Boston and
Sievers, Washington 31; Mantle
New York 30; Cerv. Kansas Citv
„ : * oiavito. Cleveland and Lemon
Washington 23
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Batting 1250 or more times at
bat 1—Ashburn Philadelphia and
Mu.ial, St. Louis 316; Mays, San
franciscn .339. Skinner, Pittsburgh
323; Dark. Chicago 320.
Runs batted in- Bnnks. Chicago
90; Thomas, Pittsburgh 82 Ander-
son. Philadelphia 72, Cepeda. San
rrancisco 68; Aaaron. Milwaukee
and Boyer. St Lnuis 6ii
Home Runs—Banks, Chicago 31
rhomas. Pittsburgh 28. Aaron. Mill
wauk >e 25; Mathews. Milwaukee
-I. Walls. Chicago. Covington. Mil-
waukee and Cepeda. San Francis-
• O t'|
«1 other rounds. The fight closed
at even money after Calhoun had
favored all week.
Wallet Dropped at
Niagara Returned
NIAGARA FALLS, i/fi -Imagine
dropping your wallet over Niagara
Falls and getting it back . . . the
same day!
Strange as it may seem, a Texan
from Odessa, Ralph Gibson, had
thate experience Friday.
He w •as looking over the falls
when he found his wallet gone
It held $1,150 in cash and it had
no identificaiton cards in it.
A few minutes later, however,
another tourist, Ronald Doberer
from Sidney, Australia, walked in-
to the police sttaion with the wal-
let He said he found it near the
falls.
National Record
On Town Council
DILLW'YN. Va itfi— Folks here-
abouts say mavbe Radford Benn ft
Ranson may hold a national re-
cord He has been on the town coun-
cil for 46 years.
The American Municipal A?sn.
says it knows of no longer ser-
vice.
If so, it is in spite of Ranson.
"nee he decided against running
because of the press of private
business. Voters elected him any-
way.
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Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 157, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 10, 1958, newspaper, August 10, 1958; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth135882/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.