The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 47TH YEAR, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 20, 1947 Page: 11 of 18
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£rsx The Hereford Brand
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Published Every Thursday
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47th Year—Number 47
The Hereford Brand. Hereford, Texas, Thursday, November 20, 1947
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Bench
Warmer
No Wonder Luckman's Good!
As this department has been pre-
leUnc. doubtfully, we'll admit, and
without the courage of our con-
victions, the District 2-A football
! scramble has wound up In a three-
way deadlock. The Irony of the
thing is that the team that pulled
It of ... the Dimmltt Bobcats . . .
were out on the toss of a coin with-
in 48 hours after their victory on the
gridiron.
The Benchwarmer will go on the
line right now, however, with the
prediction that the T\ilia Hornets
will wind up In the bl-distrtct play-
off, where they probably belong
anyhow. With all due respect to
Bobcats and Eagles, we're still con-
vinced that Tulia has the best team
in District 2-A In 1947 . . . and Just
as certain that any of the top
teams In the other three districts of
Region 1-A can take them. District
3 has been, without much argument,
the weak-sister In the Region tills
year. If the Hornets or the Eagles
come through with a victory over
the winner of the Phllllps-Perry-
ton fracas, well cheerfully eat those
words.
The right to represent District
2-A In the bl-dlstrlot play-offs this
year Is a doubtful honor . . . sort of
like being tossed to the lions . . .
with tly painful prospect of meet-
ing eltn * the Phillips Blackhawks
or the Perryton Rangers Just around
the corner.
Canyon Eagles and Tulia Hornets to Meet in Play-Off Game
Hornets Clip Herd 14-6 in Final Grid Game
Here Friday Night to Tie for Championship
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Bobcats Tumble Canyon; Toss
District Race in 3-Way Tie
The Hornets, who were mauled
36-8 early this season by the Black-
hawks, would probably prefer a
meeting with the Rangers from
Perryton to sort of vary the diet.
>After running headlong Into the
Ploydada Whirlwind, the Phillips
(Continued on page 8)
Dlmmltt's fighting Bobcats tum-
bled the Canyon Eagles from the
District 2-A undefeated ranks last
Friday night at Buffalo Stadium In
Canyon with a 12-0 shutout which
cost the Eagles their undisputed title
to the district championship and
boosted the Bobcats onto the top
deck In a three-way tie with Canyon
and Tulia.
The Tulia Hornets cinched their
own place In the sun simultaneously
at Hereford by downing the Here-
ford Whltefaoes 14-8.
The Bobcats scored both their
touchdowns In the first half, but
had the game under control all the
way.
The Bobcat captain and quarter-
back, Lonnie Rice, and fullback
Wade Thompson, spearheaded the
first Bobcat scoring drive near the
end of the opening quarter, after
the Bobbles recovered one of the
numerous Eagle fumbles on the Can-
yon 23 yard line, Rice dived over for
the touchdown from the one-yard
line on a quarterback sneak. The
try for extra point failed.
Another Canyon fumble, recovered
by the Dimmltt end, Carl Jowell
set up the second Dimmltt touch-
down In the second period. Jowell
recovered the Eagle fumble'on the
Canyon 27 yard line. Co-captain
Jack Ziegler smashed over for the
score from the 7-yard stripe.
A 18-yard roughing penalty
against the Bobcats set them back
on the try for extra point, and
Zelgler failed to make the grade on
a smash at the line.
(Continued on page 8)
Hard-Charging Hereford Line
In one of the hardest-fought games of the season, the off-
snd-on Hereford Whitefaees, crippled by the loss of three regu-
ars, battled the heavily-favored Tulia Hornets on even terms
?riduy night and dropped a 14-6 decision by an even narrower
nargin than the scores indicate.
The under-dog Herd roundly out-played the Hornets thru
the first half of the game, and gave ground grudgingly in the
lust two periods. The patched-up Whitefaee forward wall turn-
ed in its best performance of the season in holding the Hornets
to a net gain of only 68 yards, and a single first down, in the
first half of the game.
Dimmiil Out
On Toss Of
Coin Sunday
GAME AT A GLANCE
Hereford Tulia
8 First Downs 8
138 Net Yards Osined 203
1 Passes Attempted 8
0 Passes Comp. 1 for 8 yds.
0 Passes Intercepted 0
8 for 29 Punts (Av. Yds.) 8 for 38
2 for 10 Penalties 8 for 38 I
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STARTING LINE-UPS
Hereford
Poe.
Tulia
McOee
RE
Behrentls
Kimbrough
RT
Butler
Corbett
Owens
RO
J. Stallings
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RH
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Davison
LH
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Hennlngton FB
SUBSTITUTIONS:
R. Simpson
For Hereford: O. Wilson, Rainey,
Reynolds.
For Tulia: Love, Webb.
Friona Clinches
Cellar in Loss
To Mustangs
The Hornets were never behind,
and never held a comfortable lead.
Their two touchdowns, one In the
first quarter, one In the third, both
come on sharp breaks—the first on
a 80-yard off-tackle sprint by Ray
Simpson midway In the opening
quarter; and the second as a result
of a recovered fumble on the Here-
ford 10 yard line early In the third
period.
Simpson scored both touchdowns
for the Hornets, and little Jackie
Ramsey, the Hornet's place-kick ex-
pert. managed both conversions.
Hereford's lone touchdown came
midway In the second period, and
was scored by Quarterback Reuben
Knox, his first for the season, cli-
maxing a 86-yard touchdown drive.
Knox pulled out on a sucker play,
cut off tackle and sped 17 yards for
the score. Hennington's attempted
conversion was blocked by 81ms of
Tulls.
Although the Whitefaees held a
big edge in offensive play during the
first half, they were unable to mus-
ter the necessary scoring punch to
take the lead. During the first
two periods, the Herd racked up a
tatal of seven first downs to one
for the Hornets, and chalked a net
gain of 110 yards' to 83 for the
Tullans. The margin Is even more
Impressive when It Is considered that
50 of the 83 yards gained by Tulia
In the first half were rung up on
a single run.
Tiring rapidly In the second half,
Friona High School’s Chiefs!
clinched the cellar position In Dls- [
trlct 2-A last Friday night at Olton, j ______ __
when they went down before Olton . the Whitefaee line gave way to con-
Mustangs 20-0. j ststent gains by the hard-driving
The game wound up a disastrous Tulia backs, but after a costly
season for the Chiefs, who have suf- fumble had given the Hornets pos-
tered eight straight losses since j session on the 10-yard line shortly
winning the season's opener from
the Melrose, N. M., Buffs by a 27-7
score.
The Mustangs wound up In fifth
place, behind the Hereford White-
faces, with
Tulia,
Dimmltt,
and
Canyon all tied for first.
The District Conference stand-
ings for the season;
Team
W
L
Pet.
Canyon
4
1 .
.800
Dimmltt
4
1
.800
Tulia
.......4
I
.800
Hereford
------2
3
.400
Olton . ...
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4
.200
Friona_____
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8
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Three District Titles Still
At Slake As Season End Nears
Three Region 1-A district cham-
pionships are still undecided as the
Class A football race goes Into its
final week of conference play. Only
In District 3-A, where the Shamrock
Irish have clinched the pennant, la
the standard-bearer definitely de-
cided.
The Irish put their name at the
top of the list In District 3 last Fri-
day night with a 12-0 ahutout vic-
tory over the powerful Wellington
Skyrockets.
The loss tumbled the Hockets Into
third place in a district in which,
two weeks ago, they were the con-
trolling power. The Wellington
grldders went down the week before
in the Region's most stunning up-
set before the Lefors Pirates 19-13.
With Shamrock’s undefeated Irish
definitely In for the championship,
the Pirates nailed down second
place In the district standings with
a 28-8 win over McLean Friday,
leaving Wellington in third place.
The ’Rockets still have to meet the
Wheeler Mustangs.
In District 4-A, the Lockney
Longhorns are still on top and going
strong after handing the Matador
eleven a 20-7 Ucking on Armlstic Day
The Canyon Eagles and Toils
Hornets will meet tomorrow af-
ternoon (Friday) at TaUa’s
Younger Stadium In a play-off
game to determine which team
will represent District I-A la the
bl-dlstrlct play-off.
The winner will have the
doubtful privilege of mooting
the winner of the Phillips-Ferry-
ton battle for the bl-dletrlct
championship. Phillips and Per-
ryton will play Friday night at
Phillip* to settle the Cham-
pionship of District 1-A.
The play-off game was decided
upon at a meeting of school official!
from Canyon. Tulia. and Dimmltt,
the three schools which have tied
j for the District 2-A championships
at Tulia 8unday afternoon.
Under district rules, a toss of the
coin cut the number of competing
schools to two. and the Dimmltt
Bobcats were eliminated. A play-
off game between Canyon and Tulia
was agreed on to decide which of the
two schools will represent the dis-
trict In bl-dlstrlct play.
The Eagles were victors over the
Hornets 13-7 In the opening con-
ference game for both teams at
Tulia on October 10.
Dimmltt tossed the league into a
three-way tie last Friday night by
defeating Canyon 12-0 at Buffalo
Stadium In Canyon, while the Hor-
| nets were cutting themselves In for
a share of the title by defeating the
Hereford Whitefaees In Hereford
14-0.
The Dimmltt Bobcats had lotft only
| to Tulia In conference play; the
j Tulls Hornets only conference loss
, was to Canyon; and the Canyon
Eagles dropped their only league
game to Dimmltt.
The three-way snarl which result-
ed was settled at the 8unday after-
noon meeting between officials of
the three schools. All three will be
declared Co-Champions of District
2-A. but the play-off game is neeee-
last week. The Longhorns still have ___
to meet the Paducah Dragons. Both ^ to Vetermine’whTch team shall
the Dragons and the Spur Bulldogs, represent the district in the play-
have on outside chance at a tie'
Tuba's Younger Field, where a
with the Longhorns. Paducah musti
defeat Lockney and Matador; and | new ^Id stadium similiar to Her#
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Spur, depending on Paducah to
handlp the Longhorns, must de-
feat Floydad’s still-powerful Whirl-
winds and the Ralls Jackrabblts. It’s
a long-shot, but upsets have been
the order of the day In Region 1-A
this year.
The battle of Titans still looms In
(Continued on page 8)
ford's has been completed this fall,
was agreed on as the site for the
: game with the Canyon Eagles,
j Coach John Blaine of the Bobcats
' expressed regret that his team,
which has the best season’s record
| of any District 3-A school, had lost
out In the toss after their hard-
I (Continued on page 8)
after the third period opened, held !
off all scoring thrusts.
The weather was clear and cold,
but the field was still soft from
rains of the night before, and costly
fumbles marred an otherwise well-
played game. The standi were less
than half filled and most spectators
huddled In cars ringing the end-
zones to Btay out of the near-freez-
ing weather.
The Hornets scored their initial
touchdown within three minutes
after the game opened. The White-
faces kicked off to Tulia, held the
(Continued on page 8)
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