The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1959 Page: 2 of 12
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THE COMANCHE CHIEF. APRIL 10. I960
off stay In Kingsville and be run-1 only lor Its football team
' ner-up. ■ \ j for Its high scholarship 6
For one of the reasons the j ards.’
Breckenridg^ bays play great I
football is because of the simple
and obvious fact that they have
nothing el* to do. The isolated.
■forlohi, and desolate oowtown-'j is the i
oil town sits-alone and overlook- Stephens
ed by the rest af rivillaatiwn. Un-1 senior ar_, ,
til somebody mentions the game'there are three white element-' Lm
runner is into the second-!of high school football! ary schools in Breckenrldge and Hlv.ir ;
• * | one colored school, the Booker T.' C<j’ 1.,.
Actually Breckenrldge is a very| Washington School. j ouit
] fine town and has an excellentt • • III
school system, and is known not J Our nephetf; Jim Witkerson,' contii
squat down, and then take
like a covey of quail."
Actually, the Bucksroos moved
lioker erecting their offensive
ays than any team I have ever
Hi. high school, college, or pro.
icy waste no time at the scrim-
._____ line. They work tire plays
ess is {through the middle so fast that
' ’1- neither the farts nor the opposl-
to^mj tiop. know what's happening un-
and team speed as on eleve?P>KLJh
man unit that Is absolutely amaz-I ary."
ing. j On the fiekl of play, the Buck-
On their home field, the Buck-1 aroos are good sports. They
aroos play as If they knew .that, j didn't try "to ,««!“ Kingsville’s
if they lose, they wOl each and colored athletes, as had been
every one be run out of town.; rumored In advance. They simply
Those Bucks aren't Just playing | knock you into the middle of
football. They're fighting for a next week, then run back to the
happy home and the right to'huddle to call the next play,
walk down the streets of their J They’re too great a football team
own city. L r* jto waste time on dirty football.
Breath-Taking ' Prefers Kingsville
* Their speed as a team is. Afther it was all over Satur-
___tui. _ / v_ vrn.----m - * ___ _»_____— - - _si-----f ~il_____
put tliat city on the football map* example
I felt
AU thU wu done In a perfect- : ^^^ ^
ly 'logoi maJiner, as good hU&i, *
school players in .the early days 1 ro^ u
game there you’ll have to fight
your way out wf town.
Quick, Quirk, Quirk!
On the field of play itself, the
BuckAroos present the quickest,
fastest, hardest- hitting hlgn
school team you will ever see!, mag'
The secret of their su
mainly two-fold. A great tradt- j neither
tion of being a football
VerT xut,
^nior-Senior Ba
*he High Schc
^ the big soc
’school year’ hl
w*s called c
;■ recent years
ople including 1
iculty and gs*
oiirious dinner
John W. Cuiwell is superin-1
tendent of the Breckenrldge in-,
dependent School District, which1
only schopl district in1
i County. Besides the
JDd Junior High schools,
idge. But as I saw
as the bus ap-
ic town and then
ih It. I became vag-
By t..e time I had
of live bus, entered
oos’ stadium and
he press box, I had
aching feeling that
as going to jet the
The Comanche Chief
Established in ft7S.
j. t \v»-KKK!*ON
H Editor and Publisher.
Published Every Friday.
irBaiunias pfeicas is M pm rmt.
Breckenri
prooched
drove thi
uely une
an now get
at ttw end
ting him to
many
action
injurn
ruy^ fytVTj ** Wtm, Ot«dt
C*mon V*f mxJ l^fcrr
• mr li T* tor i moo tl*# *)■»>
I tmm per fmr, IIW
evrtiut* IfUoatans a.tuM *pt>oa
*0 KhUfo} ht Um Peat Offlet
amn. Teeuki. iwend riM
Uminary to Qndtiflf here vetrbati-
man an arucle that appeawd in
the ibid Christmas Eve edition
■
ciay after the Kingsville High
School boys loot a bid -for the
State grid championship of the
Clam AAA schools of Texas to
Breckenrldge High School.
M-an and Tough
urdav wa?i the
rawest, ugliest
looking town I have ever seen
and it had a football team to
match. The comparatively small
town was sitting on barren, wind-
swept, frostbitten. Northwest
_ Texas hills. There wasn’t a speck
tojof green In sight anywhere. Bep-j
’ a rale portions of the town act-
1 like sets out of:
■aunsmoke."
As our bu wheeled tiupugh
the streets of this Ood forsaken- •
looking community, we noticed j
that there were no automobiles.;
pedestrians, or stragglers on the
streets. Everything appeared to |
be closed down. Breckenrldge act- I
uftllv looked like a ghost town, j
si2bs?d£ %*>
the v
““JL- which was reepa
ZfSZ*?**
*5f HawaU” was t
the banquet, and
LS, carried out in d«
itewsring volcano, wl
LAJ«Sd ert^sted the
•yrSon* with Un-
and coconuts. U
t^Toorered with H
*n2w **»» hats
| n,,rt1lsn Items decor
JTrfrQ hundred baby
•kenr
The dog poisoner is still loose
in Comanclve and there is no
telling where he is going to strike
next, says Oscar Cartwright, 305
W Wolcott, although mast of
his dirty work has been In the
vicinity north of Comanche High
School or thereabouts.
Although the article, which
was reproduced a week later in
The Bracken ridge American, was
j not aithogether coimilimenlary t_
I Breckenrldge. yet the Bracken-
I ridge Chamber of Commerce j ublly looked
l thought so much of the article. "«.»«««*- "
j that it put in an order for 10,000
; copies of the reprint of the ar-
The next time he may get a
child Instead of a dog as indica-
tions are that he is scattering
poisoned weiners, declares Cart-
wright, who says that if actlv-
oome up to the scrimmage line, to be state champions, I’d Just
Ity of the dog-hater Is not stop-
ped he Is going to offer a >50
reward for his arrect and con-
viction.
u&lly lQfiked 1 ike a ghost town.
"Where is Everybody?" some-
one asked.
A few minutes later we discov-
ered the answer to that question.
They were all at the football
stadium, preparing to watch an-
other slaughter.
SUITED For Into Sum
Just arrived — the most hand-
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we have seen Jn many a spring:
Buy now while selections are big.
prices are low!
.FROM OUR
HARDWARE DEPARTMENT
traditional
iipp
WK
Once ntrain. I IW a word ad
21-INCH R6TARY
vlsediy "Slaughter" is the right
verb-adjective to describe the Way
Breckenrldge dismembers a vis-
iting football tefcm. And the
Staging is absolutely pe-fect.
What A Stadium
The ..Breckenrldge football
stadium looks like a combination
rooeo Ichute-slkuKliter pen-con-
centration canrfp. CHd, rough,
wooden bleachers surround the
playing field on three sides The
football field itself doesn’t have
a sihglp blade of grass on It The
sofest thing on that gridiron Sat-
urday v was the line marklns. It
was os barren, and almost as
hard, Ks if the two teams had
be*'rr plgying on a tennis court.
The football field is surround-
ed by [a concentration camp-type
fence, right of the edge of the
field and immediately behind the
fence the thousands of scream-
ing Breckenrldge fans roar their
approval of the Bnckaroos and
their disapproval of the visiting
club. No wonder the Buckarooa
are almost Invincible at home.
The opposition is intimidated be-
fore a single play is ever run.
If I was a coach and took a
team Into Breckenrldge serious-
ly expecting to win. I wouldn’t
step Into that stadium without
submachine guns and hand gren-
ades The implication automatic-
ally Is that If you ever win a
family
Attachment of a dog and-his
mastef. especially a ‘little" mas-;
ter. can only be surpassed by the
love of a man for his wife and,
children, the affinity of a youth I
for his sweetheart, or the rever-
ence of man for Ids Creator.
• 4
A dog. especially if he Is just
a cur. is Just another dog to
lots of people, but if you ever
were really fond of a dog and
lost him prematurely, you know ;
what grief for a dog Is like.
is known as "The;
Millionaires”; Fort;
hown as “Where Thej
nCMg eClydth
a", and Comanche IS
"The Peanut Capital
•Id", dividing tire title
___eon . . . which leads
to saying that Breckenrldge
All-Sleel Frame
* l-Cycle Briggs &
Stratton Engine
* Recoil Wind
Starting
WHILE THEY LAST
lleve all of our subscribers will
enjoy reading it whether they
like or care anything about foot-
ball or not:
lie Should Read Our
Clean-Up Award* t
Visiting Writer Brand*
Brrrkrnridgr Mran. Ugly
By Jake Trussel)
The Kingsville Record
December 24. 1958
For years I'd heard of Brrtck-
enrldge and its high school ’foot-
ball. team, but not until Satur-
day did I learn the facts of life.
I finally made the pHgrimage to
Breckenrldge, and as a long-time
writer on the subject of high
_____ school I think “pilgrimage" is
£T known the world over for Its the right word to use No foot-
high school football team* for, hall fan will ever know how great
•which it should ever be deepty | high school football can be play-
indebted to Comanche. For. It was, cd until he’a seen the Bracken-
t> .. M.umk-ss lx>v. Nd I!" Wood- H.i MM • n Wife
ward brothers from Comanche,) couldn’t imagine Breckenrldge
g, mu furnished by
Orchestra through com
. L Pwill. father o<
I 001 of Comanche
n mast attractive J
According to UjOSS km
mole by the TCU g
b* CHS Band Director
•bo in hi* college
raident of the Homed
: m most excellent a:
tted those present tha
| Mated until midnight.
t the baa* fiddle
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Wilkerson, J. C. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, April 10, 1959, newspaper, April 10, 1959; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth904333/m1/2/: accessed July 5, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.