The Paducah Post (Paducah, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, November 22, 1940 Page: 5 of 8
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33, Lockney 19.
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THE PADUCAH POST
SPORTS
Page Five
Thursday, November 21
Offensive Stars
MATADOR TOPS
LOCKNEY ‘11’
KERRY MAX AND ALLSUP
LEAD BULLFIGHTKRS
TO VICTORY
LOCKNEY, Nov. 21—The Mat-
ador Matadors kept their 4-A rec-
ord perfect for 1940 last Friday
afternoin when they smashed the
Lockney Longhorns, 33 to 19.
The Matadors scored early and
led all of the game, but they
didn’t win until Big Boh Davis
and Curtis Kelley, Lockney backs,
had scared them in the final quar-
ter with a two-touchdown rally.
Berryman, Matador’s fullback,
accounted for most of the Bull-
fighters powerful offense. He
drove through the line 10 yards
for a score in the first three min-
utes of the game. A short time
later Davis climaxed a 75-yard
drive with a score for Lockney.
Allsup, halfback, then scored
again for Matador.
In the second period, Matador
again made it two-for-one. All-
sup and Berryman each scored.
Nelson passed to Allsup for his
score and Berryman went around
left end 15 yards for a counter.
Davis passed to Kelley, 20 yards,
for the Longhorn score of the
period.
In the last half Lockney , rod j
twice, Devi ... oring on a 9" . r j
run and Kelley on a 5-yard
plunge. Allsup intercepted a pass ]
and mivi <50 yards to m nfor
Matador.
Starting Lineups
Matador (33) Pos Lockney (19)
Green.....LE .......... Hartley
Pitts ........... LT ........ Williams
Faulkner ........ LG ........ Newman
Martin ............ C............... Sams
Allen .............. RG .......... Hanvley
Barkley . ______ RT ......... Byars
Tunnell ....... P.E .......... Carthel
Nelson ...... QB Davis
Kennedy ........ LH ........ Crager
Allsup .......RH .... Brotherton
Berryman ...... FB ......... Kelly
Triple-Threat Man
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7 DEACONS TO
END CAREERS
ONLY FOUR REGULARS TO
BE BACK FOR 1941
CAMPAIGN
Seven members of the Dragon
football team will be playing their
last game for the orange and
white against Matador Thanks-
giving day unless the Dragons win
the district championship and play
a bi-district game.
Five senior linemen will hang
up their mole skins after this
eason. The;, are James Lee, end;
Charlie Phillips, tackle; Glee Parr,
guard; Dude Hatley, center;
Harold Maxey, guard.
Rudolph Mobley, elusive right
halfback, and Buddy Sublett, pul-
verizing fullback, are the two
backs who are winding up their
high school football, careers.
Harold (S hug) Bigham, the
Dragon’s great right tackle who
went down with a broken leg at
mid-season, also will graduate this
year.
Only four Dragon regulars will
be back next fall, two linemen
and two back.-. S. E. Thomson,
sophomore tackle, and E 1 m e r
v. i be back
Hi bs, fresh-
.lumor
line. .At
Hi
■rt Sand-
will be
Hubert Sandlin, Dragon quar- I ;s a junjor ancj wj]] be back
terbai:k, who runs, punts and f . ,
, line li- ror next year s team,
passes with equal skill, bandiin
The Dragons’ scoring aces
from left to right are Rudolph
Mobley, right halfback; Buddy
Sublett, fullback, and Hubert
Sandlin, quarterback. Arthur
Hchbs, blocker deluxe and de-
fensive star who plays left
half, was out of view when
this picture was taken.
PUNTS_,,
£r passes!
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Coaches Given Credit for
Paducah Dragons’ Success
SUPERSTITIOUS?
WELL, PRUITT’S THAT WAY
BY ED FYKE
If the Paducah Dragons defeat
Matador here Thanksgiving day,
they will win their first district
ichampionship in local football
history.
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ducah fans, is tne coaching staff
which includes Ab Pruitt, former
Austin college fullback, as head
coach and Burn McKinney, ex
Hardin-Simmions university tail-
back, as assistant.
And if you take the trouble to
look over the squad, you will
probably agree that Paducah does
not have an imposing array of
•‘I haven’t lost a football game
since I started carrying this luck
piece,” Ab Pruitt, roly poly
coach of the undefeated Paducah
Dragons said after Monday aft-
ernoon’s workout as he fumbled
through his pockets for a small,
wooden horseshoe.
Superstitious? Why Pruitt has
The rain mav come and the rain : almost as many superstitions as
mav ■'<>. but the Dragons will roll I his Dragons have points this sea-
on‘to the Cotton Bowl. Ison—and they’ve scored 189
Representatives of the Paducah I points in eight games.
Athletic association called on the j Now take for example that
Dragons in their dressing room | cowboy hat Pruitt wears to every
before practice Monday afternoon j football game. When the Dragons
and toid the boys that they would i get in a tough spot, the coach
be given a trip to the bowl throws his hat on the ground
game in Dallas New Year’s day if [and stomps it and his boys come
material. There are only 16 grid-
ders—11 regular and four light
reserve linemen—on the bench.
Coaches have not been able to
make a backfield substitution this
year and have used the reserve
linemen in a very few games.
With only five lettermen re-
turning from last year’s mediocre
team and a handfull of recruits,
the coaches have built one of the
greatest offensive and defensive
football machines in Texas Class
A football. In eight- games, the
Dragons have amassed 189 points
compared to their opponents 12.
Crowell and Floydada, the only
teams to cross the Dragons’ goal
line, scored 6 points each.
Pruitt has been coaching three
years and has lost only one game
during the past two seasons. He
tutored the Chillicothe Eagles in
1938 and 1939, and is seiving his
first year here. A native of Dal-
las, he was a regular halfback on
the Forest high school (Dallas)
football team four years—1929-
1932. He was a regular fullback
on the Austin college club four
yea rs—1934-1937. At Austin
college he played under three
head coaches, J. H. Head, Bill
Pierce and E. Y. Freeland. Pierce
was a former back at Notre Dame
and played under the late Knute
Rockne. Pruitt uses a combina-
tion of the Notre Dame and
short punt formation here.
The Austin College Kangaroos
won the Texas conference cham-
pionship in 1935 and lost only
four games during the last three
years Prttitt was playing.
Assistant Coach McKinney has
been coaching at Paducah since he
finished Hardin-Simmons three
years ago. He played high school
football at Wichita Falls, letter-
ing three years in 1931, 193,. and
1933. The Coyotes won the dis-
trict 2-A championship during
McKinney’s senior year. He let-
tered four years at Hardin-oim-
mons under Frank Kimbrough.
The Cowboys were undefeated in
1937 and McKinney was given a
tailback berth on at least one
little all-America mythical eleven.
He was one of the greatest brok-
enfield runner in college foot-
ball, and electrified fans with
countless long runs.
Paducah wins the district cham-
pionship.
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The trip hinges on the Drag-
ons winning the championship,
because the association will
not have enough money to send
the boys to Dallas unless Pa-
ducah plays a bi-district game.
The hoys are confident, how-
ever, and are making plans to
spend the first day of 1941 at
Dallas.
* * *
Here are the latest figures on
Paducah and Matador;
DRAGONS
Paducah 32, Tulia 0.
Paducah 6, Crowell 6.
Paducah 40. Memphis 0.
Paducah 33, Lockney 0.
Paducah 25, Crosbyton 0.
Paducah 6, Floydada 6.
Paducah 27, Ralls 0.
Paducah 20, Spur 0.
Paducah 189 Opponents 12
BULLFIGHTERS
Matador 0, Crowell 0.
Matador 12, Olton 6.
Matador 20. Crosbyton 7.
Matador 26. Turkey 0.
Matador 34, Ralls 0.
Matador 7, Floydada 0.
Matador 33, Lockney 19.
Matador 152 Opponents 45
* * *
The column figured the Padu-
cah-Matador score would be 13
to 0 in the Dragons’ favor, but
the rain may alter the score. I’m
sticking by the prediction, how-
ever, and am pickng Floydada to
beat Spur and Ralls to beat Lock-
ney.
OFFICIALS FOR
GAME CHOSEN
through in a big way. But he
won’t have the hat cleaned . . .
that would break the charm.
Then there’s the one about the
uniforms. Pruitt has his boys
wear their playing suits during
practice the day before ■ • a c h
game, and he won’t allow them
.0 be cleaned during a winning
streak. The Dragons haven't Lost
a game this year—so the uniforms
haven’t been cleaned.
“They’re getting kinda -molly,"
Pruitt admits, “but we can’t ai-
ford to anger lady luck. We’ll
have the suits cleaned when we
lose our first game.
But Pruitt won’t attempt to
tell you when the Dragons will
lose. No sir, he said they would
defeat Crowell early in the season
and the Dragons were held to a
available for
field an-
THREE
ARE F
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fined SI
and costs t o
2 $14. for
drunkenness, 1
: e of the
Peace W. F.
iVimber
•iy Monday
morning. They
were a)
rested Sat-
urday night.
Good Size Scratch Pads at the
Paducah Post, 4 for 5c.
6-all tie. Pruitt knows they would
have won if he had kept his
mouth shut.
The Dragons mentor has one
crowning superstition, however,
on which he is almost willing to
stake the outcome of any game.
He almost refuses to send his
boys on the field unless “Preach-
er" Swanner is at his ride on the
bench. Rev. Swanner, pastor of
the Paducah First Baptist church,
is about the most effective good
luck charm Pruitt has found. The
minister was out of town during
the Dragons’ last two games and
Pruitt was moaning about like you
would expect him to if his ace
scorer. Rudolph Mobley, were out
with injuries. But Pruitt has the
preacher’s assurance that he’ll
be on hand for the championship
game with Matador here Thanks-
giving day. That’s why the coach
has a merry twinkle in his eyes
today.
LET US WHITE YOU
LUBBOCK AND QUANAII
MEN TO WORK 4-A
CONTEST
Harold Crites and Yancy Price
of Lubbock and Joe Forrester oi
Quanah were selected to officiate
t h o Paducuh-Matador football
game at a meeting of officials and
coaches of the two schools here
Tuesday morning.
Superintendent B. F. Tunnell
and Coach Don T. Martin of
Matador met with Supt. J. D.
Wilson and Coaches Ab Pruitt
and Burns McKinney at the Pa-
ducah high school and agreed on
officials.
As the Post went to press to-
day, it had not been decided how
the officials would be used in the
game but it was believed that
Crites would be referee.
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