Panola County Post (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 22, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 11, 1983 Page: 1 of 28
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recoveries, but Big D worked lor euch ol those
possessions, forcing mistakes with hard tickles,
great persuit and adequate pass coverage in most
instances.
On the other hand, Gladewater's dandy defense
had only to accept the gratuities offered by Bulldog
backs Roscoe Tatum, Kemmy Henderson and Ricky
Rougely. who fumbled the boil away on four occa
sions without even being contested.
Don't take anything away from the Bears,
however. They are very active highly aggressive hit-
ters on defense the mark of a Jack Murphy-codched
team. Also, the offense is directed by a magician as
slick a ball handling quarterback as Corti dge should
lace all season, which made for an exciting game
no doubt.
Still, the Dogs obviously had the Bears outmanned
and did not put them away.
The game's opening series was a good example
Carthage got the kickoff and Paul Johnson return-
ed it 20 to the 30 yard line, where the Bulldogs Im
mediately began a long, grinding march. They over-
came fourth and one, third and-three. fourth and
one, fourth and two and third-and-three situations
along the route to move to a first down at the
Gladewater seven
At that point Henderson juggled the ball away and
the Bears' Tony Johnson accepted it at the Bears’ 10
The Carthage defense immedio ely applied the
pressure as Mike Jones, Wylie Gates and Michael
Grafton stacked up two plays for only three yards
gain. Then on third down Chris Williams fired a puss
under a tremendous rush and before it got to his in
tended target, Roy Bell stepped in picked if oil and
roarerd Io the end zone for a 6 0 Carthage lead
Gladewater put together a solid drive after the en
suing kickoff, moving the ball from its 13 to its 47 in
five running plays before the strong armed Williams
tested ahe air lane* again Wo fired a perfect sfrildo
Leslie Hunt at about the Certhae 15, but whewFGul
Brewster racked him up from behind the ball came
loose and Brian Bogenschufz chased if down in the
It has been said of Bullet Bob Hayes, once touted
as the world’s fastest human, that he had 10 Hat
speed and 12-flat hands while playing with the
Dallas Cowboys.
That paints an absolute picture of the swift
talented Carthage backfield which is so very capable
of breaking a touchdown with every snap of the ball,
or grinding itself to a screeching half by playing with
hands of stone trying to tote the pighide.
But like the announcer said Friday, the Bulldogs
are lucky, which is often better than being good as
Gladewater learned in a painful 18 14 loss.
It was a bottle of undefeated, state-ranked clubs,
and No. 19 Carthage of class AAAA was only regard
ed a six-point favorite against the No. 11 ranked
Bears of dots AAA. The Harris Rating Service pretty
well had the contest pegged.
But it could have been so much more had the Car
thage backs sunk their lunch hooks into the ball and
not coughed up four unforced turnovers which really
stymied the offense and severely pressured the
defense. Fortunately the Mad Dog wrecking crew
arose to the occasion, but it took some abuse along
the way that wasn't of its own making, yielding 326
yards eventually
Cat thage came out slightly ahead in turnovers
with three pass interceptins vand two fumble
Gladewater came back 85 yards in 1) plays as the
weary Carthage defense began to yield a bit.
Williams went in from the five early in the fourth
quarter and dosed the gap to 12 6 but had the post
for points intercepted
By now, Carthage was getting a better grip on
things (literally) offensively and surged 61 yards to
score. Tatum going infrom the one with 5 35 remain-
ing.
But Gladewater was cranking up too and
Williams was the man with the plan, running 23 and
five yards and passing seven to Tony Johnson before
dialing Ates number for the ohe yard touchdown.
Ates ran for points and with 1:40 remaining.
Gladewater was back in the game
Carthage ran out the dock at that point, happy to
be on top and content to put its high octane attack
under wraps than goodness.
On defense for the Bulldogs Vernon Hicks had 13
tackles Grafton seven, John Almedia Gates and
Bogenshutz six each
For the Bears, Ates mode 13 stops six solo and
caused a fumble Mate Stanley Choice was in on 11
tackles
Whileside had a game high 122 yards rushing on
14 carries for the Bears while Ates and Williams odd
ed 82 and 42 respectively to steal CarthageS
thunder
On a positive note, Carthage will have something
to work on now as it prepares to meet powerful Da
ingerfield this Friday it should know too that o
repeat of the play of Friday will probably result in a
resounding defeat lucky or not
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end tone for a touchhack staving off disaster.
Inspired by that turn of events, the Carthage of-
fense went right out and gave up the football again
Tatum bobbling at his 45 and Anthony Gordon
recovering for the Bears tank you Nobody caused
it, if just happened
Four plays later the Bulldogs got a lucky break
from their nine as the snap from center bounded up
and over the line of scrimmage where Darin
McAlister claimed it in mid-air returning the boll 27
yards faking Carthage out of harm’s way McAlister
was credited with a pass interception pending fur
•her study of the matter it was a weird play that
benefitted the lucky Bulldogs
Rougely tried to get Carthage? rolling in the air at
this point, and had a bomb to John Booty and a
screen to Hehdetsoh go incomplete Booy
misplayed the long pass and ran too far under it
while Henderson just dropped the other aerial
because it hit him in a bad place his hands.
The Carthage defense came tight back however,
to force Gladewater into a kicking situation, and
again got lucky when the low snap from center was
bobbled and Mike Hutchinson was forced to run
Jon Almedia stopped him at the Bears 19
Carfhaqe tolled to the three in three plays then it
was Rougely s turn to lose the handle The ball pop
ped into the end zone and Mack Whiteside recovered
for Gladewater
With 40 seconds left before intermission treat
Page strode through a Gladewater screen and pick
ed off a Williams pass in a superb defensive effort
returning the ball 12 to the Beats 12 before he was
arrested
Rougely hit Wyche Walton in the wrong place with
a line pass that should have been for six points. On
the next play Rougely fumbled again an unforced
wefrot, andCedriek Ates recovered.
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score, Henderson bteking a tackle by Fred Hawley:
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