De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 2008 Page: 6 of 14
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Ranger took the first lead with
a quick first quarter score. DeLeon
returned fire and moved ahead as
Jackie Morgan capped a DeLeon
drive with a touchdown run.
Stanley Kirk added the two point
conversion. Ranger came back to
take the lead with another scqre.
The Bearcats reestablished
the lead with a Kirk touchdown
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After two good runs by Grady
West, Stanley Kirk scored
DeLeon’s second touchdown.
David Coan added (he two point
conversion.
Terry Barnes capped the scor-
ing with a reception from West.
J.W. Sadberry set up one of the
touchdow ns with a long reception
from West.
Third and fourth quarter
scores by Comanche’s John
Glfaton and Jimmie Walker
proved to be too little, too late as
DeLeon held on to win.
The 20-14 victory resulted in
several players being injured, but a
bye week allowed enough healing
to permit the team to continue their
quest for an elusive District crown.
Hamilton
The DeLeon-Hamilton con-
test was played in Hamilton
According to the Free Press, the
game was played "despite the rain,
fog, black riiud and poor lights..."
Hamilton appeared to be
unbeatable. Prior to meeting the
Bearcats, the Bulldog team was
averaging 32 points per game.
James Limmer and Bob
Kester were the big guns for
Hamilton. Keeter had scored four
touchdowns in ten minutes against
Clifton only two weeks earlier.
Prior to the game a Fort Worth
paper predicted, "Hamilton will
have little trouble with a weaker
opponent.”
James Bruton remembered
Coach Little reading this predic-
tion to the team before allowing
them off of the bus. He comment-
ed, "No one believes you can win
this game. Let’s go out and show
them what kind of team we are.”
And the team did just that.
Ham Locke described the
linemen as "the first gang all sea-
son to stop the high scoring
Limmer-Keeton combination.”
He went on to add. “Lenward
Caraway, C.A Brinson and James
Bruton manned the middle with
District Championship determina-
tion. Mike Thomas and Wayne
Terry played extra tough tackle
and turned in the dirtiest shirts for
the night. Bobby Phillips, Terry
Barnes, J.W. Sadberry and Steve
McGinnis, who had responsibility
for stopping the Bulldog wide
game, did just that. Jackie Morgan
was used as a roving linebacker.
Wherever the play went Morgan
was there.”
Locke went on to describe
Grady West as “double tough on
defense, applying two of the best
tackle* that 1 have evfef seen, to a
ball carrier that outweighed him 40
lbs.”
When the night was over the
high-scoring Bulldog offense had
tallied only six points.
On offense, the top honors
went to West, who ran 52 yards to
set up the first touchdown by
Jackie Morgan, ran 34 yards for
another touchdown and threw to
Morgan for another score.
James Bruton remembers very* effectively. Steve McGinnis
Coach Little offering his team the (145 pound .linebacker) con-
opportunity to escape the harsh tributed one score-saving tackle
elements but to the man they were and many good defensive plays.”
unwilling to stop as long as they The Bearcats defense stopped
were behind: Bruton allowed, the Indians inside their own five
“We couldn’t get any wetter than yard line twice to preserve the vic-
we were and we flat out did not tory.
want to lose that game.” On the offensive side. Jackie
With the hail and rain break- Morgan scored on a three yard run
ing many of the stadium lights, the for the Bearcats first touchdow n.
Bearcats continued to battle. This score followed a short punt by
With practically no time left Comanche's John Gleaton which
in the game, halfback Jackie came as a result of a torrid DeLeon
Morgan squirted though a hole and rush.
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were given little hope of winning.
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the same automobile.
The constant pelting of the
terback calling the play.
Neither team could accom-
Comanche
One of the toughest district
games, and a game which illustrat-
ed the pluck of the undersized
Special to the Free Press
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DeLeon had come from
behjnd threetimes in the game.
The 24"to 20 victory signaled
a change of fate for the Bearcats
versus the Bulldogs as they did not
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COACHES EYE THE PRIZE. Coaches John Baskins, Charles Clary and Head Coach Bill
Little hold the coveted golden football signifying DeLeon's first District Championship in many
years.
Part 2
In the previous week we were
introduced to the coaches and the
team and how they hoped to over-
come a lack of size and numbers became the dominant theme of the
with quickness and good football second half.
technique. Grady West recalls the hail lose to Ranger again until 1967.
The Games falling so hard that the fans sought
While all of the games were relief under the stands and peered
exciting, the games against out between the seats to watch the
Ranger. Comanche and Hamilton action.
best illustrated the character of this James Bruton recalls that fans Bearcats, came against none other
team. sought refuge from the storm in than the cross county rival.
Comanche.
The amazing aspect of this
game was the size differential of
sought refuge from the storm in
Ranger their cars and the rain and hail was
Early in the season DeLeon falling so hard that some Deleon
traveled to Ranger to play the and Ranger fans, in their haste to
Bulldogs. DeLeon’s last win over escape the storm, ended up sharing the players.
Ranger was in 1919 and the the same automobile. Ham Locke wrote in the Free
Bearcats had a 10 game losing The constant pelting of the Press, "James Bruton. Lenward
streak against the Bulldogs, hail on the players'helmets made it Caraway and C.A. Brinson carried
(DeLeon and Ranger did not play difficult for them to hear the quar- a large burden for the Bearcats,
against each other every year). terback calling the play. bucking a 25 pound weight advan-
As such, there was a definite Neither team could accom- tage down the middle while
feeling of superiority on the part of plish much offensively during the Wayne Terry, Mike Thomas, and
Ranger team and the Bearcats deluge. At a point the referees Tony Sharp also did a great job
asked the coaches about stopping against heavier Indians. J.W.
The game was exciting both the game with .Ranger still leading Sadberry. Terry Barnes and Bobby
athletically and meteorologically.
sion. Ranger ended the first halt dashed 12 yards into the end zone
scoring with ajsNlichdown and to score the winning touchdown,
added a two point conversion to David Coan added insult to injury
make the score. Ranger 20 by making a two point conversion.
DeLeon 16.
Torrential rains mixed with
hail started at the intermission and
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Kestner, Laura. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 24, 2008, newspaper, January 24, 2008; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1244636/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.