LONGVIEW VS TEXAS HIGH
TEAMS
1ST
2ND
3RD
4TH
FINAL
LONGVIEW
0
0
0
0
0
TEXAS HIGH
6
14
7
7
34
INFORMATION
Grim Park
Texarkana, Texas
Friday, November 19th, 1954
District 4-3A
SCORING SUMMARY
TEAM
QUARTER
PLAYER
YARDS
TYPE
Texas High
1st
James Wedding
18
Run (Miss PAT)
Texas High
2nd
Billy Erie
26
Pass
Texas High
2nd
Derry Swanger
41
Pass
Texas High
3rd
Derry Swanger
2
Run
Texas High
4th
James Wedding
11
Run
GAME STATISTICS
STATISTIC
LONGVIEW
TEXAS HIGH
First Downs
6
18
Rushing Yards
Passing Yards
Passes
Punts
Fumbles/Lost
Penalties
LEE YOKUM STARS IN RINGING WINS FOR TIGERS
TEXARKANA - A powerful running attack and a rock-ribbed defense sparked by big Lee Yokum bore the Texas High Tigers to a 34-0 victory over the Longview Lobos here Friday night as the Bengals held Coach Catfish Smith's team scoreless for the first time this season.

Yokum never let the Lobos get started. When he wasn't busy stopping the Wolves, he was helping spring fullback James Wedding and halfback Billy Erie and Derry Swanger loose for five touchdowns, which completely subdued the scrappy visitors.

It was the Lobos' third consecutive District 4-AAA loss.

The Wolves were in trouble almost before the opening whistle's echoes stopped chasing each other around the ball park. The Wolves kicked off to the Tigers and on a pitch out Swanger moved to the Texas 43, on a 13 yard sweep around left end. Two plays later, Wedding took a pitchout and ran 37 yards more for a first down on the Lobo 18. Wedding then drove inside left end and chewed up the remaining 18 yards for a touchdown, just one minute and 54 seconds deep into the ball game.

It was a pretty good tussle from that point until late in the second quarter after Bobby Randell had kicked out on the Tiger 35. The smooth working orange team pushed the ball down to the Lobo 26 from which point James Monroe hit Erie with a bullseye heave which the shifty halfback carried on across for the touchdown. Erie converted.

The Lobos took the succeeding kickoff and tried to get a passing attack working. But a pitchout was fumbled on the Lobo 48 and James Van gobbled it up from the Tigers on the Texas High 41. On the next play Monroe shot a pass to Swanger which ate up all the necessary yards for another touchdown. David Terry's conversion was good, and the halftime score gave the Tigers a 20 to 0 lead.

About half way through the third quarter, Erie took one of Randell's punts and returned to the Lobo 38. Monroe passed to James Markham for 15 more and a couple of plays later he threw to Swanger for another 10 on the Lobo 2. Swanger hit the middle of the line twice, with the second plunge paying off for the fourth touchdown. Mike Fowler converted.

The Tigers then settled down to a little practice session aimed at sharpening their passing attack for the Thanksgiving day game with Kilgore, but the game was nearly gone when they finally scored again. A Lobo fumble grabbed by Kenneth Greene on the Lobo 29 set it up. The Tigers switched to their powerful running game to move the ball to their six, and from there Wedding lugged it over only o have the play nullified on a backfield in motion penalty. On the next play he took a hand off, swung to his left, waited for his blockers to get in their licks and ambled, almost effortlessly, across from the 11 for the final touchdown.

Fowler converted with just 58 seconds of play left.

Yokum, who is built like Lil' Abner (only more so) hustled his 210 pounds all over the ball yard to stand out like a sore thumb on defense. If anybody blocked him all night, this writer failed to note the name. Yokum stacked up line plays and stuck closer to Randell than a mustard plaster when the Lobo quarterback was trying to pass...he must have been just about as uncomfortable.

The Lobo defense leaked in too many places, and the hard charging Tiger forwards never let Randell get started as far as passing was concerned. He completed only 4 of 19 attempts for 55 yards, and he lost nearly that much from the powerful rushes of a fine Texas High line.

First downs were 18 to 6 for the winners, and that about tells the tales.

It was just Watty Myers night.