The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 1, 1942 Page: 4 of 4
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PAGE FOUR
THE RED-BIRD
DECEMBER, 1942
Death of Gridiron Season
Brings Cheers and Tears
Schreiner Victory
Promotes Holiday
Mountaineers Suffer First
Defeat of Season
The widely heralded Schrei-
ner Mountaineers came to
the end of their gridiron rope
on October 15. The under-
rated Lamar Redbird squad
neatly cut the rope and sent
the Mountaineers tumbling
from the undefeated ranks..
This was the Cards first
win in the new season and the
first loss for the Schreiner
boys. This was one' of the
games in gridiron history that
sent the scribes and prognos-
ticators home scratching their
heads. What we can’t , figure
out is why it was so surpris-
ing. to them. If they had ask-
ed -any Lamar student the
answer would have been—
“Mountaineers haven’t a
chance in the world.” Presi-
dent John Gray’s words had
quite a bit to do with spirit
carried into the game by our
boys. He said, “A score won’t
do it, a tie won’t do it, a first
down won’t do it, but a win
will mean a holiday Friday.”
In direct reverse of the
Schreiner team’s ideas of the
way things would go, the en-
tire game was played in their
end of the gridiron. We aren’t
going to single any particular
player out for his perform-
ance because all of them were
splendid. The Cards uncork-
ed a whizzing overhead game
interspersed with head break-
ing line bucks by Audie Creel
and Herb Finger. The Cardi-
nals first tally came in the
second quarter. Finger tossed
a pass to Dick Sheffield in the
end zone. This final play cul-
minated a long up field drive
by the Cards using every
trick in the game. The Red
and Blue rooters went wild
with enthusiasm and delight
over that first tally.
The third quarter gave the
Mountaineers their first, anly
and very brief trip over on
Lamar’s end of the field. Able
kicking by Lucas Petkvosek
put the scramble back in
Schreiner’s territory. Cotton
Miles’ job at wingback was a
splenid turn in. Bill Hart, the
game captain, also turned in
a splendid performance. This
third quarter was still being
played in Schreine’s danger
territory when Leroy Molbert,
biggest little man on the field
tossed a few complete passes
and then carried the leather
Cards Defeated by
Kilgere Rangers
Aerial from Petkvosek to
Allen Brings Only Score
- The Cardinals met the un-
defeated, unscored on Kilgore
Rangers on Thursday, Octo-
I bef 22. and lost to them 28-6.
The Rangers met opposition
in ecf&al strength both in
ground play and aerial at-
tempts. The final score gives
the impression- of a much more
lopsided game than was ac-
tually the case. The statistics
were al lin favor of the Red-
birds in-yards gained, rushing
and passing; on fumbles and
punting averages.
The Rangers scored consis-
tently one touchdown per
quarter. These were due in
the most part to the pass of-
fense of the Rangers. Three
of the tallys were due to
passes and one was the result
of groundwork.
The Cards kept the Ran-
gers in their danger zone a
large part of the game, but
that final necessary yard or
two never seemed to material-
ize. The Cards single mark on
the scoreboard came in the
fourth quarter- after a series
of pasess by Petkvosek car-
rie the pigskin upjo the Card-
inal forty. The score came
when Petkvosek threw a short
pass to Jack Allen who scam-
pered 52 yars for the first six
points to be scored against
the Rangers.
Some fine playing was
turned in by every Cardinal
in the game, but dame luck
just' didn’t seem to be smiling
our way. The final score1—
Kilgore 28—Lamar 6.
Due to the fact that Beau-
mont High School is not
equipped with a shop large
enough to accomodate all stu-
dents interested in engineer-
ing and technician courses, a
H I I . ,. „ . ! number of the boys are now
First, by way of satisfying i taking this type of study at
your curnosit^, this is the be- Lamar’s vocational building.
These courses include radio,
B.H.S. Students in
Vocational School
AA ID-COUNTY
/V»UTTERIN’S
To satisfy al concerned, we
will have to make a few
changes, thus, our new and
unofficial title will be, “Mid-
County Mutters and South-
County Slanders.”
But it.makes no real differ-
ence, for everyone who rides
. . , . ----IRJMHUIJ —jBI Lamar’s “School Bus” is part
gming of a series of articles These courses include radio, of “one big happy family,”
electricity, machine shop, and and they all “push together.”
" """ " " | airplane mechanics. They are I There is more truth than
open to boys above the age of I fiction in that statement,
sixteen who are interested which all leads to a long
and show ability in this field story. To begin with, several
of training. They will receive weeks ago when the football
high school credit. boys took the larger bus to
The purpose of this program the Rice-Texas game, the
is to teach the boys a trade Ismail bus made the regular
raisin’ an. awful howl just
because they can’t go to the
latest movie every time they
get ready; they can’t go over
to Suzy’s to play bridge five
nights out of the week; they
can’t go out to the night-spots
whenever they wish.
“Gosh, that sure does get un-
der my skin; in fact, it makes
me madder than hell. Well,
it makes me mad! But the
more I think of it, it just
seems downright sad. I won-
der what they would think if
we would knock off every
time we wanted to go to a
show. ’Course there aren’t
any movies to go to, but we
could do somethin’. These 24
hour shifts get just a shade
tiresome after awhile. This
over fm the Cardinals- ^second I |°b of hatin’-Mliin’-dyin’-goin’
tapy hungry sometimes—livm in
The Mountaineers were
licked and resorted to a weak , ,
pass offensive that netted Idon t
zero. From this point
mud, dirt water and sweat—
no it’s not much fun. But we
mind—not as long as
on
issue was not in doubt.. The
final score, Lamar 14—Schrei-
ner 0.
the I ^be folks back home know it
If I Had My Way
(Continued from Page One)
way out here can see why.
They’re just trying to save
rubber so there’ll be enough
to go around when they start
outfittin’ all these peeps,
jeeps, tanks, mobile artillery,
trucks and all those ships
from Higgin’s barges and
Kaiser’s cargo ships to Secre-
tary Knox’s newly christened
pet, the battle-wagon, Iowa.
Sure does take a lot of rubber
they say.
“An yet I hear some folks
Lamar College sixty acres
The opinions expressed here-
in are absolutely personal and
any similarity to sane and
conscious thought is purely
coincidential.
We don’t like to be morbid
but still the truth will out. We
have just put the wraps on
another football season crown-
ed by only fair to middling
success so far as numbers of
games won and lost are con-
cerned. But a season bearing
one real gem in that crown
of games, that was the 14 to
0 defeat of Schreiner Institute.
This year’s squad of grid-
sters earned our undying
gratitude by sacking up the
game of this season or of any
season. We als,o won’t be for-
getting that holiday for some-
time either.
Swish! Swish! Sounds like
double talk doesn’t it? What
it really means is that for the
first time in Lamar’s history
a full fleged basketball team
for league competition is on
the horizon. In the past, due
to lack of facilities and time,
Lamar has had no competing
cage team representing the
whole school. Now due to the
blessings of a new campus set
up we have the gym to prac-
tice and groom a hardwood
team of suficient strength to
enter against some real com-
petition. Here’s hoping we
hear a lot of those “swishes”
bearing the Cardinal label.
We did a bit of scouting
around the place to see just
what sort of prospects were
present to make up a suitable
basketball outfit. Here are
some of the familiar names
in local competition—see if
you don’t think of basketball
when you hear this group of
names mentioned in conjunc-
tion. From Beaumont High
cage teams we have • Jack
Richardson and Jim Clark,
from South Park are Sammy
Gallier and Bubba Ray and
from French High hail Frank-
lin Smith and Wallace Brown.
Former Saint Anthony cagers
are Lucas Petkvosek and Paul
Tarantolo, Pee Wee Duff
from Nederland also has
earned himself a bit of a rep-
utation in basketball circles.
Out of towners include “Big
Jim” Plyler who is very fast
on those feel of his, Gleen
“Country” Morris from Rich
ards, Texas, Dick Sheffield
from Kirbyville and Cotton
Miles of Woodville. We un-
derstand that there are poss-
ibilities that Lucas Petkvosek
that will be a mean of earning
a living. The graduates of this
school will be more valuable
in our national defense ef-
forts both as workers in in-
dustries and members of the
armed forces.
Billet-a-Buddy
(Continued from Page One)
want to see your gal or vice-
versa and also engender a lit-
tle genuine school spirit join
NOW our BILLET A BUDDY
CAMPAIGN. There are quite
a few school and other extra-
curricula function in the next
few monts which P. A. stu-
dents and others will be un-
able to attend unless they
have some means of staying
in Beaumont to attend these
things. Texas and the South
is noted for its hospitality so
let’s show a little all .you stu-
dents who live in Beaumont | the Service,
and have an extra billet for Jim Flanagan rode on the
a buddy in order that he bus for a while, but he now
might have fun now, without I has a car. However, we won-
we’ll be seeing Jim
soon as gas-ra-
trip to Port Arthur and all
points North. The little bus
tried to “make a go of it”, but'
it finally coughe da wee cough
and “gave up the ghost”—
right beside a cemetery, too!
No amount of pushing could
convince the bus that it was
its “patriotic duty to keep on
rolling,” so finally city buses
and family cars came to the
rescue. Everyone expected
sabotage but, here’s the secret
if you promise not to tell Mr.
Gerbens who told you—the
bus was out of gas!
The “happy family” wel-
comes a newcomer and wishes
“Happy Landings” to a nep-
hew who has gone to live with
Uncle Sam for a while. Our
newcomer is Miss Jewel Dill-
enger, instructor in the Busi-
ness School, and our nephew
is your own school president,
Gerald Kempe. Thus, mid-
givings, another soldier for
being unpatriotic and using
his four gallons of gas to come
to a dance o basketball game.
There must be many stu-
dents in Lamar of Beaumont
who h$ye “that extra room”
or “extra bed” for some fel-
low student for just one night.
A registering bureau will
be set up by the Staff of the
Rebird in some convenient
place on the campus before
each school or extra-curricula
function. If you have an “ex-
tra room” and want to join
der if
again soon
tioning starts !|
Riding on the bus is a very
enjoyable trip now that the
radio is fixed and can drown
out some of that “horrible
harmonizing” by Hugh Sim-
monds and Pat Scully.
Of course when Anne Lou
Blanchett sings “White Christ-
mas” or when Jean Pickett
sings “Mr. Five by Five” then
off goes the radio.
Miss Jewel Dillinger of Pt.
know what we’re fightin’, dy-
in’ and givin’ our blood for I
the pleasures and the way of
life they still enjoy. and Jim Clark may not think
“But to win, we’ve gotta’ it advisable to try for a post
have a little help. In fact, we | but the remainder of the
need every ounce of help they I aforementioned men are good
can give us. It isn’t much to____.__, ,,
, , . , possibilites. to make up a well
ask them to give up a few joy ?
rides, a new coat, or hat, to
be careful of what they say
and how they say it, to write
the boys over here, to be good
to soldiers back home, or to
buy a bond or stamp now an’
then. If they would just do
that, we would do the rest
and bring that bacon back
home.
“You know, if I had a chance
an if I had my way ,that’s
what I’d tell the folks back
home.”
rounded Cardinal cage outfit.
the Billet-a-Buddy Campaign | Athur, has recently been add-
fill in the application printed
below and turn it in to Miss
Kitchen or to some member
of the Redbird Staff.
They will see that your ap-
plication is duly registered in
our list of “Billets Available”.
Incidentally this Billet-a-
Buddy Campaign ,has the full
stamp of approval of the Ad-
ministation an they all think
it is a wonderfu lidea just as
we do. If you want to see La-
mar become an institution of
learning absolutely devoid of
any human or extra-curicula
activities that make life plea-
sant for the average student
well don’t turn in your appli-
cation, Beaumont students of
Lamar.
PROVERB?
The secret of happiness is
not in doing what you like
to do, but in liking what you
have to do. Is anybody happy?
Name
Address
Billets Available
I, ....................................................:.....:........................ Wish to invite
as my guest in the Billet-a-Buddy Campaign.
ed to the faculty of Lamar as
an instructpr in the School
of Business, due to the ever-
increasing enrollment in Bus-
iness Administration.
Miss Dillinger graduated
from Texas Christian Uni-
versity, and has been teach-
ing in Port Arthur Business
College. She is a ninstructor
here in typing, shorthand, and
office machines.
Here are the answers:........
1. Lorene Dearing.
2. Ann McNeill.
3. Mary Jane Thompson.
4. Audie Creel.
5. Ruth Whitlock.
6. Cecil Winter.
7. Arleigh Duff.
8. Raymond Matulick.
9. Dale Broussard.
10. I. D. Polk.
11. Nevaire Gambrell.
12. “Aggie” Bell.
13. Lee Jean Cheshire.
14. Shirley Smith.
Here is your rating:
All 14—You’re one of the
intelligentsia in campusology.
10-13—You’re improving:
keep up the good work.
6-9—You should go to the
Union more often.
3-5—Gosh, do you ever get
out of your books.
0-3—You’re a drip or else
you have no aesthetic value.
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Withers, Kenneth. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 1, 1942, newspaper, December 1, 1942; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499500/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.