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| LONGVIEW - In one the biggest Indian victories since Custer's Last Stand, the Port Neches Redskins massacred Longview's Lobos 25-0 before 5,700 disappointed fans who turned out to see the Green and White open their 1948 home season. The Tribe from the Gulf Coast outplayed the locals in every department to rack up their one-sided triumph.
Longview started off well enough, but fizzled badly when the chips war down. The Green and White had two glorious scoring opportunities in the second quarter, but were unable to capitalize either time. After a comparatively even first quarter, the Lobos began to roll. Gene Hardin took Haywood Begneaud's lazy spiral on the Neches 42 and returned it to the enemy 37. Johnny Linney picked up 7 on a bootleg trip around left end, then Hardin brought the crowd to its feet with a squirming 14 yard dash to the Indian 15. Nelson and Fox Cashell got three yardsin two tries and Kent added five through center. It was fourth down and just slightly more than a yard to go for a first down. Kent sent Hardin into the line, but the shifty little back just hit into 227-pound Jerry Allen and bounced back, still a yard short of his mark as Neches took over. The locals had their second opportunity a moment later when fullback Jack Humble fumbled on his own 20 and Dick Hurst recovered for the Lobos. Kent failed to gain around end, then Hardin almost got loose, picking up seven yards in the bargain. Sonny Jones, who turned in a fine game on the defense, moved forward a yard, but Cashell was stopped cold on the 11 yard stripe was Neches took over on downs. Two minutes later, Port Neches had a touchdown, which was set up after they had recovered Tom Kent's fumble on their 48. Humble and Grayham carried for a first down in two tries. A Begneaud pass to Jerry Pickett was incomplete, then Humble carried for two yards to the Lobo 44. Begneaud, who was easily the outstanding back on the field, went sailing around left end and cut for the sidelines. He outwitted two Longview defenders enroute to the goal line and scored standing up. The try for the extra point was no good. The half ended a few minutes later. Begneaud, a triple throatier who picked up more yardage individually than the entire Lobo backfield did collectively, set the home town eleven back on its heels with a 31-yard kick which rolled dead on the Lobo 9-yard line midway through the third stanza. Tom Kent ran for two yards, then Hardin went back into the end zone to kick. Sonny Staterwhite's snap from center eluded Hardin and rolled crazily into the end zone where Hardin tried unsuccessfully to recover it. Meanwhile, the Neches team came roaring in to recover the loose ball, with Johnny Trimble finally pouncing on it for the six points. From that point on, the game was turned into a complete rout, with the Indians adding two more tallies and an extra point before the final whistle. Begneaud paced a touchdown drive after three minutes had elapsed in the final quarter, with Trimble going over from the 19, then substitute quarterback Joe Davis added the coup de grace on the last play of the game with a five-yard rush. Bobby Broussard added the extra point with a bare-foot place kick which sailed between the uprights. |