Hunt Co., TX - Biggs Star For Celeste In Victory
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Biggs Star For Celeste In Victory
    Celeste Blue Devils made play of fashioning a 33 - 0 win over a visiting
Princeton last night with Allen Biggs, field general, furnishing most of the
heavy ammo that buried the visitors in the mud.
    A - Bomb Attack
    The slip and slide condition of the gridiron failed to hobble the Celeste
backs who ran and passed almost at will through the enemy defense.  Held
scoreless in the first quarter, the host team exploded like an A - bomb in the
second, ramming across three touchdowns in quick order.  The first drive into
pay dirt was the result of a pass and then a run.  Biggs did the flinging and
hit Gene Martin with a twenty-yard toss.  The quarterback himself lugged the
leather across the goal line on a five-yard run.  Then Jimmy Milton toted over
for the extra.
    Biggs Again
    Biggs got in the act again after the ball changed hands, when he pegged a
twenty-five yard touchdown pass into the waiting and eager hands of Johnny
Morton, then Garvin Pearce converted.
    With seconds remaining before the intermission, Biggs took to the air
again, zeroing in on Morton who lateraled to Pearce.  It was only a short
distance to the goal line.  The play converted forty yards in the triple
handed exchange.
    Switch To Ground
    Pearce, Biggs, Milton, and Donnie Duncan switched from above to below then
and battered away at the Princeton line.  The attack paid off from the two
with Milton going over in the fourth period.
    That man Biggs clicked once more with a sixty-yard heave to Pearce,
racking up another six points for Celeste.  Archie Lowe, playing his first
game for Celeste, got the extra on a run.
    Celeste's celestial lad, Biggs, connected on seven out of ten pass
attempts, three of them scoring throws.  Two aerials set up Celeste tallies.
(September 23, 1955, The Greenville Banner, Donna Childress Haynes collection)