Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal
Volume 8, Number 3
September 1998
Editor: Bill Stein. Associate Editor: Terry Ford. Production Assistants: Dorothy Albrecht,
Susan Archuletta, Betty Cook, Jayne Easterling, Alma Hilburn, Elizabeth Schoellmann,
Tracey Wegenhoft.
Contents
Columbus High School Cardinals
by Bill Stein ..................... ........... ...... ........... 119
Colorado County Black High School Football
by Bill Stein .............................. ........... 161
Beyond the Dream: A Celebration of Black History;
Discovering the Past, Understanding the Future
by Olive Jewell Glass,
with Media Lynn Dawson and John Gladys Mosby ...................... 181
Index to Volume 8 .................................................... 183
On the Cover
Columbus Cardinal running back Charles Roberts races around the corner in a 1954 game.
Acknowledgements and Notes
The library is indebted to Coach Tommy Bludau and his staff for loaning photographs of
several recent Columbus Cardinal teams; to Charles and Joanne Moeller for loaning the photograph
of the 1950 Cardinals; and to Millycent Cranek for loaning the photograph used on the cover. Our
thanks also to Bill and Barbara Hartley, Angie Giddens, Thelma Axel, Olive Jewell Glass, Tye
Whitehead, and William Wright for other photographs and information.
We are particularly grateful to Joe Fling, who did the initial research on the Eagle Lake
E. H. Henry Blue Eagles' football program. Thanks also to Donaly Brice, James "Toppy" Haun,
and Louis Mohle, all of Lockhart, who helped clear up the confusion surrounding the 1935 Colum-
bus-Lockhart game, and to Mohle for donating a copy of his history of Lockhart football, Kings of
Lion Football, to the library.
Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal. ISSN 1053-4733. Published by the Archives of the Nesbitt
Memorial Library, 529 Washington Street, Columbus, Texas 78934. Printed by Shoen Type &
Print, Route 2, Box 193B, Alleyton, Texas 78935. 250