The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1952 Page: 2 of 18
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I ville’s loss to Ranger was due to lo come, and you can Just imagine which the Longhorns won 14 to 7 TlfejMiave^he
over confidence hoc .If wcuid make the coaches offer treili™ up to ip minute. ^ "SEfTu! ~ .2»S£
o o o feel. fore the game ended, that when ____„ *
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We havc^cardThe^tory aho^it the cheliave played—Hamilton. Cisco, Ochoa replied, "when I fumbled Indiana seema to be on the defenae
Comanche Chief
gnterrd at the PoatoflU* at Comanche.
Texas, , as second-class mall matter^
Published Every Friday
Established in 1873. «
J. C. WILKERSON
Editor and Publisher.
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them well.
o
greatest
o o
weakness
of the
thought was the turning polnt.’l The
ic“.h^pt i”L‘Tth!S o„“ and “the fact that the, mahe too
I cin” as it started up the steep scored more i^inU than Ranger yard hne wUh^lO minubes to j<o.” I ^yar^varlety. espeCla y
for the full season to that of hav-'i
ing one or more for every game
o o o
, incline
hind..
started
pulling a super load
•‘As a man^ thinketh in his
heart, so is he”,- somebody has
said, or could have said.
o o o
. That is generally true.but not
quite always A man can do mast
any thing he wants to do, if he is
willing to pay the price or rrfdke
the sacrifice.
o o o
AIJ this leads Up to-the fact that
Comanche High School can win
over Ranger here Friday night,
if they think they can and want to
bad enough to pay the price,
o o o
Many think that the voss of* the
Indians to the great Stephenville
team was -partly due to the lack
of confidence. Perhaps Stephen-
be- and have held their opponents implying that he put forth almost
to a lower score. Then why should super-human efforts to redeem
not Comanche win? Hlmielf. ' •
Comanche ^ndiar^coutd*’ defeat If » large number or the most Few football players can put
Ranuei-C Fridav night and thus go ardent Indian fans will first con- everything they have into a game
into a three wav tie with Ranger vince themselves that the Indians every second for 60 minutes, but
and Stephenville for the champ- can win and then go out some the team that comes nearest to
fonsht provided o? e^se ISp- time before the game and pat .the doing that regardless of how far
Indians on their backs and tell ahead they get, is the team that
DeWitt. °t^ k**
We recall the 1931 season of the anHUiI\ COul^i
when they won the dist- iondov,1>
rlct, bi-dlstrlct, and the region- that
al championship. They had Jjoveo ,k®fcnche \
great captain that year in Med-
ford Wetzel who was popular with
qvery^ member of the team, and
The Indians except on. ope or all the boys had great confidence
two drives that Ciscb' made In the In him. He seem to Inspire them
leaderdoin(;LKno*|
sometimes a football game,
o o o
liimille biaus^Cisco^ them they can. you will likely be generally wins.
1 It has been 11 years since the repaid P’riday night.
'Comanche Indians won the Dist-1 0 ° °
rict championship in 1941 and Of course somebody has got to
l went on to defeat Bowie for the lose a game unless it ends in an
I bi-district championship and just unsatisfactory tie. so nobody is
missed by one point gaining going to quit the Indians, or even
(the regional title against Siam- feel downhearted, if the Indians
ford when trailing 6 to 7, the* go out and play their best apd
Indians dropped (^touchdown pass then lose^
in the end zone just before the, o o o
name ended • Most coaches now believe that
| o—o ' “The desire to win” is the greatest
It would greatly encourage the determining factor in any game.
o o o
The,Star Telegram stated that
after the Texas-TCU . football
at Fort Worth Saturday
third quarter, showed great im-
provement on the defense and
held the big Loboes when it looked
they might get back into the game
after scoring two touchdowns,
o o o
The Indians too. showed better
SchM
seem to Plav
thought of *** 4
* u of Individ
to great hights and always seem
to get the best out of every man.
That was of course, was in the I that^e' £2“ln* ,
days when a player could not talk Friday n ?h» ** H
until after the first play when he sports dH
was sent in from the side lines
before free substitution!
knowledge of the rules, and did 1 and
o o o not make 90 many costly 15 yard 1 therefore the coach then had but
A let up even for a second will penalties, that cancelled touch- little to do with the game after it
generally lose a 1T)0 yard dash and downs or even long runs. x
000
We sometimes wonder, if it was
The Comanche High School has a good thing, when colleges and
an excellent coaching staff and high schools, changed from the
the training they have been re- old systerh by electing a captain
started except at the half inter
mission.
Every team needs a good leader
one that can spark a team as did
Doak Walker when SMU was at
its hights.
“re (or *5^
Comancfce
blended over a
system
announeer'fo^^111
delegation
•Continued
Last Page
Indians, if they could close the
regular season with a victory this |
week end, and it would make all
their backers feel happy fpr weeks game
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1952, newspaper, November 21, 1952; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth888933/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.