LONGVIEW VS TEXAS HIGH
TEAMS
1ST
2ND
3RD
4TH
FINAL
LONGVIEW
6
12
7
7
32
TEXAS HIGH
0
0
0
0
0
INFORMATION
Grim Park
Texarkana, Texas
Thursday, October 16th, 1941
District 11-2A
SCORING SUMMARY
TEAM
QUARTER
PLAYER
YARDS
TYPE
Longview
1st
Lonnie Clark
3
Run (Miss PAT)
Longview
2nd
J.T. Jeffress
55
Punt Return (Miss PAT)
Longview
2nd
J.T. Jeffress
39
Run (Miss PAT)
Longview
3rd
Charles Johnson
13
Run
Longview
4th
Jim Carter
37
Pass
GAME STATISTICS
STATISTIC
LONGVIEW
TEXAS HIGH
First Downs
11
0
Rushing Yards
153
7
Passing Yards
60
0
Passes
4-9-0
0-2-0
Punts
9-36.5
17-30.1
Fumbles/Lost
Penalties
/-75
/-40
LOBOS CRUSH TEXARKANA, 32 TO 0
TEXARKANA - His name wasn't even on the program when the ball game started but by the time it was over everybody in the grandstand knew it was Jeffress. That 135-pounder showed the way as the Longview Lobos rolled over Texarkana'a luckless Tigers, 32 to 0, in a conference game here tonight.

Subbing for the injured Joe Adams, the little squirt wriggled out of more holes and showed fancy hips to more tacklers than most of the fans assembled. He returned a punt 55 yards for the second touchdown, broke through a hole and feinted the safety a mile out of position to run 39 yards untouched for the third marker, then lofted a 20-yard pass to Carter who ran 17 more for the final marker. Outside of that he didn't do much, except run the Tigers ragged with punt returns and end sweeps.

But Jeffress was not the whole story. It was in the Port Arthur game that the boys began to show signs of coming to life and driving a little. Tonight they showed more fight and drive and more hard blocking than they have demonstrated all season. Several times Little Jeff was hammed in as he fielded punts, only to have a couple of thunderous blocks put on his foes at the right time to let him through a hole and slip away. The Lobos blocked beautifully tonight.

The first and second times the Lobos got the nugget they kicked. The third time they scored. Clark kicked 41 yards out on the Tiger 10 and Hubbard's return kicks as only to the Tiger 43. Clark, rrunning from a long punt formation, spotted 35 yards inside right end to the 13. The ball went over on the one but after the ensuing kick Clark turned in an 18-yarder, then banged center for three and a touchdown.

Clark kicked out on the Tiger 18 a few minutes later and Hubbard kicked back on first down to Jeffress on the Lobo 45. Behind a perfect screen of blockers he went 55 yards for the touchdown, untouched.

The third score was a beauty. Jeffress signaled for a fair catch on the 50 and then Clark passed to Freudiger for 13 to the 37. Jeffress lost two and then sliced through a small hole on the 39 and waded into the secondary. The linebackers were carried out by perfect blocking, leaving only the safety. Jeffress feinted to the left and when the safety, who was Stone, moved to intercept him, Jeffress shifted to his right and went unhindered. John Hilliard in his heyday never pulled that trick more perfectly.

The half ended 18-0 and the Lobos went to work in the third. Hubbard kicked to Gilstrap on the Lobo 40 and he ran it back to the Texas 47. Clark passed to Albany for seven and then picked up a first with a 5-yard thrust. Two offside penalties gave the Wolves another first down on the 25 and five players later Johnston hit center for 13 yards and the score.

Then something happened that's a story in itself. After 15 unsuccessful tries by several Lobos for the extra point from placement, Clark booted one. That made it 25-0.

The final score was a neat little job also. Jeffress had passed 25 to Carter to place the ball on the Texarkana 20 when a bad pass from center cost the Lobos a 17 yard loss. But that was no hill for a stepper. So Little Jeffress faded back a bit, lofted a shaky but accurate pass to Carter again on the 17, and that young gent battled his way to score. Just by the way of proving the first placement was no fluke, Clark booted the extra point to end the scoring.

The Lobo defense was like the back end of a shooting gallery. Nothing got past it. The Wolves made 11 first downs and held Texarkana to none. Only twice did the Tigers cross the 50-yard stripe and that was on one series of downs. They covered a Lobo fumble on the Wolves' 17, were penalized for too much time out back to their own 48. Then in two plays move ed back to the 49. But they never got there again.

The Lobos netted 153 yards from scrimmage to Texarkana's seven. The Lobo kicking was better with Clark, Eberhardt and Johnson averaging 36 yards on them, and the pass receiving was up to where it should have been all years, which is something considering that the field was wet all night and the nugget slippery. In short, the Lobos have arrived.

The whole club left nothing to be asked. Clark was at his best, Eberhardt ran and kicked perfectly, Hearne and Johnson didn't make any bobbles and the line was rocklike. Abney, Freudiger, Shaw, Goode, Nelson, Warren, Boswell, Grigg - the whole outfit went to town.

The starting lineups were:
Longview - Freudiger and Anbei, ends; Warren and Boswell, tackles; Goode and Nelson, guards; Shaw, center; Eberhardt, quarterback; Jeffress and Hearne, halves; Clark, full.

Texarkana - Shipp and Bragg, ends; Scott and Fountain, tackles; Moore and McDonald, guards; Johnson, center; Black, quarterback; Harmon and Lumpkin, halves; Hubbard, full.

Substitutions - Texarkana: Kidd, Kressenburg, Click, Morris, Moore, Norwood, Dooley, Goodwin, Long, Johnson, Stone, Didly and Desantis. Longview: Dowden, Johnson, Griggs, Raney, Gilstrap, Carter, Pearson, Okelley, Dunaway, Freudiger, Bramlette, Sanford, Lewis and Hopkins.

Officials - Matthews (Hardin-Simmons), Referee; Shelton (Southwestern of Texas), Umpire; Thomas (Centenary), Field Judge; Woodland (Texas A&M), Headlinesman.