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| CORSICANA - The Longview Lobos, stung by a ball-stealing trick that scored a touchdown for Corsicana on the first play from scrimmage, fought back gamely to make a touchdown of their own in the second quarter and hung on with a magnificent defense throughout the last half to defeat the Tigers 7 to 6 here Friday night.
It was the Lobos' first win and was a sweet one indeed, for they had to fight with their backs tot he wall most of the game to accomplish it. David Brown, Tiger tackle, made Houdini look like a butter-fingered clown with ten thumbs when he showed the fans one of his little tricks on the game's first play from scrimmage. Longview took the opening kickoff and returned it to their 15. As the ball was snapped, Brown knifed into the Lobo secondary, stole the ball and slick as a new dime right out of Jack Parker's hands and before anybody knew what had happened had charged across the goal line. Bruce Howard's conversion try was wide, and as it developed, that cost the Bengals the ball game. There was much see-sawing through the rest of the first quarter and most of the second. But midway through the second quarter Bobby Crawford boomed a 71-yard kick to the Corsicana 2 and put the Tigers in a tight bind. The Lobos took the Bengals' return punt on the Corsicana 43 and moved all the way to score. Crawford passed to Jerry Barnes for 10 and a first down on the Tigers' 31, and then Crawford himself took a 16-yard heave from Parker for another first on the 15. Parker ran to the 9 and then flipped a pass on a dead run to Barnes on the 3, and he went the rest of the way to score. Barnes then converted for the 7-to-6 lead which ended the scoring. A flurry of desperation passes almost paid off for the Tigers in the fading seconds of the first half and the last play of the first half was a 40-yard heave that slithered off the fingers of a receiver in the end zone. The Lobos showed some magnificent defense in the first third and fourth periods, particularly in the fourth. Four times they stopped Tiger drives inside their own 15-yard line, once holding the Bengals for four downs inside the 5. The game ended with the Tigers in possession of the ball on the Lobos' 12. The Wolves showed the Tigers a hard-charging line that was the difference - the right side particularly, with Barnes, Dean, Hesse, John Head, Danny Fried, Hink Cabbiness and two or three other pretty fair green hands looked like a million dollars at 15 per cent interest on defense. The Tigers racked up 13 first downs to only four for Longview but when the chips were down and the pay-off was only a few short yards away the Lobos were equal to the occasion. Crawford unreeled several beautiful punts, his 71-yarder being his best effort, and his fine kicking go the Wolves out of a number of tight spots. The Tigers worked one pass play twice for more than 100 yards and each time it fell just short of a score. Oddly, the passer was a boy whose name did not appear on the score card, Harold Coffey. It was a lateral to Coffey who was in the man-under position and he in turn heaved it far downfield. Twice Paul Slaughter was under it for gains of better than fifty yards each. The Tigers gained 69 yards rushing to 49 for Longview but through the air they really rolled up the distance. They completed 9 for 198 yards while the Wolves connected with only five for 52. Corsicana had ten incomplete passes to Longview's 3. |