Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 7, Ed. 1 Monday, November 13, 1978 Page: 4 of 12
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PIGSKIN THIEF-Cattle thieves were never welcome in
North Texas, but the Elks’ Todd Massey made a lot of Elk
fans happy Friday night with his pigskin thefts. He made
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And it’s just too bad that a
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$1,000 scholarships for de-
fensive player of the game in
high school football. If they
did, Burleson High School
would be a thousand bucks
richer today thanks to the
efforts of Todd Massey, who
probably played as good a
defensive football game for
the Elks as has been played
all year.
Since a scholarship is not
necessary to go to high
school, BHS probably would
never have spent the $1,000,
but they did cash in on
Massey’s defensive talents,
which were as good as gold.1
The Elk junior picked up a
blocked punt and raced 16
yards into the end zone for
the first score of the game
and intercepted a fourth
quarter pass that set up the
Elks’ final touchdown.
For the night, Massey
intercepted three Volunteer
passes and made his pres-
ence generally felt by mak-
ing some good tackles in
between interceptions.
As good as his perform-
ance was, the defense wasn’t
all Massey. Scott Horn re-
covered a Volunteer fumble
on the Bowie 19 yard line in
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B down and it was Kevin
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SENIOR CHEERLEADERS-These five
Burleson High School senior cheerleaders
have yelled for the Elks at their last home
football game, but the Elks at least gave
them plenty to hollar about Friday night,
winning 21-13. The cheerleaders are [1-r]
Jimmy Johnson, Dana DePrater, Teresa
Odom, spirit, Amy Wright and Russell
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Bransom get into the end zone.
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FINAL ELK SCORE-Robbie Bransom
scores his second touchdown of the night
from a yard out to put the Elks two
touchdowns ahead in the fourth quarter.
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By JAMES MOODY
If the old saying about the
best offense being a good
defense needed any proof, it
should now be an established
fact after the Burleson Elks
utilized their defense to the
fullest Friday night in de-
feating the Arlington Bowie
Volunteers 21-13 at Elk Sta-
“It was a long season,”
said Elk Freshman Coach
J.B. York after his team lost
their last game of the season,
20-0, to Weatherford. At the
season’s close the freshmen
COME ON, YOU GUYS-Junior Cheerleader Misty Bell
urges the Elks on to victory Friday night in the game
with Arlington Bowie. The team responded with a 21-13
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to victory Friday night in the game
<► win for their first district voctory this year. To her left is
another junior cheerleader, Scott Metheny.-Star Staffoto
Booster Club
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Stuart Swinford, Jerry Nei-
man and Milton Schriener.
The Elks took the opening
kickoff and got right down to
business by putting to-
gether their longest drive of
the game. It fell just short,
though, when Burleson mis-
sed getting a first down at
the eight yard line by inches.
Quarterback Tim Landing-
ham and running back Trey
Polster did most of the
damage on that opening
drive. Landingham com-
pleted two of three passes
for 49 yards and gained 13
yards on the ground.
Polster just touched the
ball twice on that drive, but
made the most of each
occasion. He took the ball on
an outside pitch and ran for
22 yards and hauled in a 28
yard pass. The other pass
completion was to Timmons
and got the Elks out of a hole
when they faced tJrird and
seven from their dwn 18
yard line. \
Bowie had fair success on
their first possession, punch-
ing out three first downs.
They had no big gainers,
though, and had to punt from
the Elk 42 when they faced a
fourth and eight. The punt
took a Bowie bounce toward
the sidelines and went out of
bounds on the Elk four yard
line.
Bowie’s quarterback, Jack
Kemp, was injured on that
drive and saw only limited
action the remainder of the
game. ,
IT WAS ON the Vols’ next (
possession that Timmons
blocked the punt. Bowie took
over on their own 25 yard
line following a 42 yard punt
by Craig Cline. Horn stopped
the ballcarrier for no gain on
first down; Massey success-
fully defended against a sec-
ond down pass attempt; and
Neiman sacked quarterback
Rob Hansen for an eight
yard loss on third down.
That set the stage for
Timmons and Massey and
when Cline booted the iextra
point^the Elks led 7^)|early
1st Down
Rush.
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in the second quarter.
Before the Elks’ next
touchdown, the two teams
played a game of hot potato
with the football. Timmons
started it off by intercepting
a pass on the Volunteer 35
yard line. On the very next
play, Landingham threw his
only interception of the
game and Bowie was back in
business on their own 30.
It was turnover'time again
on the next play but, for
variety’s sake, it was a
fumble this time and Horn
recovered for the Elks to set
up another score. He out-
raced two Volunteers to
claim the ball for Burleson in
the Bowie backfield.
From the 19 yard line, the
Elks needed but three plays
to extend their lead to. 14-0.
Landingham called his own
number on first down and
picked up eight yards down
to the 11 yard line. Then it
was Robbie Bransom on two
consecutive plays, first for
eight yards and then for the
final three into the end zone.
Bowie took the kickoff and
wasted little time getting on
the scoreboard. They drove
69 yards in only seven plays
GAME AT A GLANCE
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The Big Red Booster Club
will meet Monday, Nov. 13 at
7 p.m. in the Burleson High
School Cafeteria.
A color film of the vars-
ity’s game with Bowie will
be shown.
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yards on a third down play to give the
Elks a first down at their own 34 yard line.
Burleson won the District 4A-8 game
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said the freshmen will be 14 YARD GAINER-Elk Quarterback Tim
off-season Landingham led all Burleson runners with
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wound up with a 0-9-1 record
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few times with some larger,
schools,” York lamented. !
Weathqrford scored three
times in three consecutive,
quarters -- all on long runs -4i
and converted twice
“We moved the ball up and;
down the field,” York said,;
but three lost fumbles and an f H|
intercepted pass were too ® K
much for the freshmen to Kj
overcome. York said David I
Mulholland did “a pretty i |||
good job” at quarterback. It I H
was Mulholland’s first start- ■
ing slot on the A team after - M
injuries sidelined several
players. York moved a num-
her of playets up from the B 7
squad to starting positions :|
for Thursday’s cbntest.
“Terry Ford probably I
made the biggest improve- ‘ }
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York said Tommy Carpen- I
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improved offensive lineman
on the year.”
Starting this week, York
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involved in an <
program and “a lot of hard ■ ~ ‘ . V
work.” with Bowie. Here, he picks up 14 of those
with Hansen passes account-
ing for 43 of those yards.
Dane Clynch picked up the
final 25 yards on an excellent
run around left end. Once in
the secondary, he cut back to
his right all the way to the
other side of the field.
BURLESON WAS driving
late in the second quarter,
mainly due to a 23 yard
completion from Landing-
ham to Russell Dix, but lost
the ball before Cline had an
opportunity to try for a
three-pointer. Landingham
flipped a pass to Jim Mc-
Mahon which fell incomplete,
but offensive interference
was called on Burleson and
the ball was awarded to
Bowie.
The Elks chose the wind in
the third quarter, but lost
much of that advantage
when Bowie kept the ball for
the first six minutes. They
strung together four first
downs and got all the way
down to the Elk 13 yard line
in 10 plays. Two more plays
netted a loss of two yards,
though, on tackles by Swin-
ford and Schriener.
On fourth down Bowie
attempted a 30 yard field
goal but it was short and off
to the right and may have
been touched by the charg-
ing Elk line.
From the 20, the Elks
started off with a lot of
promise as Mike Redden
picked up 15 yards on first
down. That was all, though,
as a 15 yard penalty two
plays later stalled that drive
in the bud. Cline punted for
46 yards but the Elks im-
mediately got the ball back
as Massey picked off his first
pass of the night.
A seven yard completion
to McMahon, an eight yard
gain by Redden and a 15
yard penalty against Bowie
for a personal foul put the
Elks set up a first down on
the Bowie 26 yard line. Four
plays later, on fourth and
two, Cline attempted a 35
yard field goal that was no
good.
AFTER MASSEY’S sec
ond ’^terception, the Elks
did anvert opportunity into
points, however.
Massey returned the ball
to the Bowie 20 and from
there, Landingham made
three yards and then lost
three yards to keep the
yardage needed at 10 yards
on third down. He hit Mc-
Mahon on a 13 yard pass
then to put the ball at the
seven yard line. Bransom
picked up almost seven
yards around end on the
next play to put the ball just
outside the goal line. After
Landingham was stopped for
a yard loss, again Bransom
got the call and he went
right up the middle for six
points.
Cline’s extra point gave
the Elks a 21-7 lead with 8:03
remaining in the game.
That was the end of the
game offensively as far as
the Elks were concerned.
The only other play that
made any yardage was a 12
yard run by James Tate late
in the quarter when the Elks
needed a first down to run as
much time off the clock as
necessary.
They were nursing a 21-13
lead at the time and when
they did have to give up the
ball Massey got it right back
with his third interception of
the game.
BOWIE HAD SCORED
their second touchdown on a
11 yard run by John Simpson
with 2:52 remaining. Other
big plays in that 47 yard
drive were 18 and 15 yard
pass completions by Han-
sen, who is probably a better
passer than Kemp.
Burleson, which has relied
on the airways for much of
its offense in several games
this year, punched out most
of its yardage on the ground.
That was due primarily to
a couple of factors, said Elk
Head Coach and Athletic
Driector Robert Barham.
One was the fact that the
running game was operating
with good success most of
the time and the other was
that “once we got 14 points
ahead, there just wasn’t that
much need to put the ball
up.”
Landingham was the Elks’
leading ballcarrier with 40
yards on 17 carries. Redden
had 35 yards; Polster 27
yards on just three carries;
Tate 22 yards; Bransom 20
yards and two touchdowns;
and Bobby Giuliana, 15 yards
on two carries.
Next Friday night, the
Elks close out their season at
Arlington with a 7:30 p.m.
game against the Arlington
Colts.
Behind Standout Defensive Effort
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Burleson Defeats Volunteers 21-13
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Hutson, Wayne & Moody, James. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 7, Ed. 1 Monday, November 13, 1978, newspaper, November 13, 1978; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1281557/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.