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| TEMPLE - Memo to Longview patrons:
The kids who play football for Catfish Smith are all business. They prove here Friday night that they would play with the big boys when they came off the floor to score three times for touchdowns in the second quarter and one in the fourth for the lead. They then staved off the powerful period thrusts by the Temple Wildcats to ease to a 27-21 win in the roughest game most of them have ever played in. Most will recognize the boys by the scars and or the bandages on their bodies for the next week, for they played from start to finish. The Wildcats, sparked by a powerful running key quarterback named Tom Jenkins, scored first in the opening period. They blocked a Lobo punt that went out on the Longview 42. A penalty set them back to their own 46, from where Jenkins passed to Don Davis for 54 yards and a touchdown. Harold Cartwright converted and the quarter ended a few minutes later with the score 7-0. The Wolves went wild in the second heat when they took a Temple punt on their own 26 and moved the ball 74 yards in four plays to tie the count. Bobby Randel, Lobo quarterback, hit Tony Rothrock with a pass on the Temple 48 and two plays later he pitched out to Rothrock, threw the key block himself which sprang Little Tony into the secondary. Rothrock went the rest of the way from the 48 by himself. Randel missed the point after touchdown, but he was roughed on the play. He recovered, got up and tried it again, this time succeeding in tying the count. The teams exchanged fumbles in the Lobo end of the field a few moments later and the Wolves got the second one on their own 37. Roy Taylor took it to the 45 and then on the next play lugged it inside the Wildcat right end for 55 yards and a touchdown. Randel missed the try for point. Longview took a Temple punt a short time later on the Lobo 40 and Boots Cashell returned it to the 44 for a starter. Randel hit Roy Taylor with a 13-yard pass on the Temple 43 and then pitched out to Rothrock, who scampered to the 34. He tossed a screen pass to Taylor who carried to the Temple 16 and after losing 15 yards on a holding penalty and another 5 for offside they pounded it in short bursts across for a touchdown with only 15 seconds remaining in the half. Rothrock on a cutback carried it the last six yards. Jim Reed's try for point was no good and the half ended 19-7. Temple came back with a rush and cashed in on a Lobo fumble to score less than a minute and half deep in the third period. Buddy Honeycutt covered a loose ball on the Lobo 29 and on a keeper Jenkins picked up 11 to the 18. He then lateraled to Curtis Morries who took it to the four and Morries who took it to the four and Morries then went over for the score. Carthwright converted and it was a 19-14 ball game. The Lobos started out to get some points back and moved the ball way to the Temple 13 and this is where the game got brutal and in the drive the Wildcats were penalized once for roughing and once for piling on to save the Wolves 30 steps apiece in the march. Then Allen Boat called a conference of all players on the field and warned them against further roughness but it wasn't long before he stepped off another 15 against the Wolves back to their 12. At this point the roof seemed to fall in on the Lobos. A punt sailed off the side of Randel's foot and traveled only eight yards and out of bounds not he Lobo 25. Jenkins hit bob McQueen who made one of his half dozen great catches not he Lobo 13 and then he passed to Boatright on the five. On the second play of the fourth quarter the fine quarterback pushed it over from the one. Fritz Pasff, an Austraian refugee who kicks the ball with a soccer technique, converted to tie up at 21-21. It took the Lobos 80 second and four plays to get back on top. They returned the kickoff to their 30 and Randel hit Chuck Brown with an 11 yard pass to the 41. Rothrock got another two yards and then Randel passed 10 to Rothrock on the 45. That combination seemed to be working pretty good, so on the next play Randel passed to Rothrock on the 20 and Tony went the rest of the way by himself again. Randel missed the try and the scoring was over. But the real drama and the rugged bone-jarring, teeth-rattling play was just getting started. Twice the Lobos halted the Wildcats in the far reached of Lobo territory, once on the five when Pat Sisk grabbed a Jenkins pass and ran it 95 yards to cross the goal line only to have the run nullified by a clipping penalty in midfield. Then two Lobos batted another Jenkins pass on the five yard line in the last play of the game. The Wolves blocked, they tackled, the ran and they hustled as they never have before, and they simply wore down a bigger ball club. Don Davis was the hardest running back in all probability that they will face this year. But when the blue chips went down they stopped him. Little Tony Rothrock, who told Coach Smith before the game started that his sinus infection almost had him down but that he would play as long as he could, scored two touchdowns and played the game of his life but it's really unfair to single out him or Taylor, who scored the fourth touchdown, or Randel for a fine performance because the same thing is true of the whole crew. John Boyd played a magnificent game at the end and so did Chuck Brown, and those lads in the line out charged the Wildcats all the way. They rolled up 298 yards from scrimmages and 130 more passing and outplayed the Wildcats in nearly every department. |