LONGVIEW VS FORT WORTH NORTH SIDE
TEAMS
1ST
2ND
3RD
4TH
FINAL
LONGVIEW
7
6
7
0
20
FORT WORTH NORTH SIDE
0
0
0
6
6
INFORMATION
Lobo Stadium
Longview, Texas
Friday, October 12th, 1956
Non-District
SCORING SUMMARY
TEAM
QUARTER
PLAYER
YARDS
TYPE
Longview
1st
Dub Thomas
30
Run
Longview
2nd
James Wood
1
Run (Miss PAT)
Longview
3rd
Dub Thomas
68
Run
Fort Worth North Side
4th
J.F. Tidwell
2
Run (Miss PAT)
GAME STATISTICS
STATISTIC
LONGVIEW
FORT WORTH NORTH SIDE
First Downs
Rushing Yards
Passing Yards
Passes
Punts
Fumbles/Lost
/-2
6-6
Penalties
LOBOS RAP STEERS, 20-6
LONGVIEW - With Fullback Pete (The Train) Burks, their leading ground gainer and the top scorer in the district, sitting out most of the game because of illness, the Longview Lobos took full advantage of North Side fumbles to defeat the Steers here Friday night, 20-6, as they handed the Fort Worth eleven its fourth loss in five starts. It was Longview's fourth victory against one defeat.

Burks, who was on the sick list nearly all week because of a cold, was used sparingly in the first half and was removed from the game early in the third quarter and sent to the dressing room for the remainder of the contest when he became ill. He carried the ball only eight times but gained 96 yards for an average of 12 yards per try.

Burks failed to score for the first time this season, although he twice broke loose in the secondary only to find that illness had sapped his strength and he simply couldn't turn on the steam as he had in Longview's first four contests.

The Lobos drove for touchdowns in each of the first three quarters to take a 20-0 lead before the Steers finally pushed across their only score in the final period after the game had already been safely tucked away by the Lobos.

Two of Longview's three touchdowns came after the Lobos had recovered fumbles by the Steers and their first followed a poor North Side punt that went out of bounds three yards behind the line of scrimmage on the Fort Worth eleven's 29-yard stripe. The steers fumbled six times and the alert Lobos recovered no less than six of them.

Longview lost the ball on fumbles only twice, but each time it cost the Lobos an almost certain touchdown. Longview fumbled the ball away once on the North Side 13-yard line and again on the one-yard stripe of the Steers.

Dub Thomas, Longview co-captain and halfback who has been sidelined by injuries for much of the season, scored two touchdowns for the Lobos while the other went to quarterback James Wood on a one-yard sneak over center. Thomas slashed 30 yards one right tackle for Longview's first touchdown with only 10 seconds remaining in the first quarter and then in the third period he turned in the fanciest run of the night when he took a pitchout, toe-danced his way down the west sideline and then picked up a horde of blockers to gallop 68 yards into the end zone.

Sophomore Bob (Applejack) Abney converted two extra points from placement in three attempts for the Lobos.

Longview threatened in the opening moments of play when the Lobos took the opening kickoff and, with the aid of a 51-yard scamper by Burks, drove 79 yards to North Side's one-yard line before a 15-yard holding penalty halted the march and the Steers finally took over the ball on their own 21.

Later in the same period the Steers stymied Longview again by recovering a fumble on the North Side one-yard stripe and still later the Lobos covered a fumble on the North Side four, only to fumble it right back to the Steers on the next play on the North Side 13.

Bill Bolger recovered a fumble on the North Side 34 late in the first quarter to set the stage for Longview's first touchdown, which Thomas scored on his 30-yard blast over tackle to give the Lobos a 7-0 lead at the end of the period after Abney converted.

Wood scored early in the second quarter and Jimmy Bland blocked Abney's attempt at the extra point to leave Longview in front at the half, 13-0.

Early in the third period co-captain Rex King recovered a fumble for the Lobos on their own 27 and two plays later Thomas dumped to his second touchdown of the night on a 68-yard sprint and Abney converted to end Longview's scoring.

The Steers made good on their only serious scoring threat of the night when they drove 77 yards for a touchdown in the final period with J.F. Tidwell slamming over from the two. The try for extra point was spoiled when Tidwell fumbled the snap from center and was smeared when he tried to run it across.

The Lobos took the ensuing kickoff and quickly reeled off four straight first downs to launch another scoring threat. They pushed their way down to North Side's 12-yard line before the final whistle caught them and would have been able to score even then if a 15-yard penalty for holding hadn't set them back to the North Side 38 five plays earlier.