Hunt Co., TX - School: Celeste Dropped ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Celeste Dropped Celeste--The rugged Leonard Tigers kept up their winning ways Friday night in trouncing the Celeste Blue Devils, 44 - 0 to win a 6 - 1 mark in 14-B play. The traditional battle was a Donnybrook all the way, with the officials stepping off long yardage in penalties; coaches, players, and officials engaging in discussions, and sideline quarterbacks entering in the melee with verbal taunts to the gridders. One player was ejected from the game. It was Leonard all the way from the opening kickoff as the heavier and classier Tigers turned Blue Devil mistakes into touchdowns. Jerry Shaffer and James Evans led the scoring spree. Evans posted touchdowns on runs of twenty-six and forty-five yards, snagging a pass for another and running over four conversion points. Shaffer pitched two touchdown passes and rambled forty yards for another marker. Billy Wright added the other six-pointer. Leonard showed the shape of things to come in taking the opening kickoff to the Celeste forty-eight, then pitched to end Larry Martin, who went into the end zone, but the play was called back on an infraction. The Tigers worked the ball back to the twenty-two, from where Shaffer rifled a pass to Evans on the fifteen and the fleet back stepped over into paydirt. Evans ran the extra points. Late in the first canto, the Tigers rammed back to the fifteen, with Evans, contributing most of the yardage on the forty-five yard march, before being halted. Celeste fumbled on a fourth-down punt attempt, and Leonard took over on the twenty-three, getting to the one-yard stripe before being set back on a penalty. Here the Blue Devils came to life. Charles Tillerson fell on the Tiger fumble, and with Anthony Mulkey doing most of the ball-toting, Celeste used an Oklahoma smorgasbord to move the ball into mid-field. But Larry Martin recovered Celeste's blocked punt and on the second play from scrimmage Wright went twenty-nine yards for a counter and Ken Deel added the conversion points. Next Leonard gained possession on the Celeste twenty-three and Shaffer aerialed to Wright for a thirty-three-yard touchdown play just before the half ended. Celeste's Richard Lyday provided the thrill of the evening in taking the second half opening kickoff back thirty-two yards. He was off and running for the goal before the last defender cut him down. But when Leonard took over again, the Tigers marched sixty-six yards for another score, with Evans picking up all of the yardage and going around left end for the final twenty-five yards and the tally. Then he ran for the conversion points to make the game thirty to zero. The Tigers posted two more touchdowns in the last quarter as Shaffer went through right tackle and for forty yards. Evans slipped away on a forty-five yard touchdown jaunt. The victory kept Coach Don Emery's lads in the lead in the 14-B play and gave Celeste a 3-4 intersectional record. STATS CELESTE LEONARD ========================================== 119 Yards gained rushing 303 11 Yards lost rushing 0 1 Passes attempted 9 0 Passes completed 3 0 Yards gained passing 72 First Downs 6 Rushing 13 0 Passing 2 0 0 6-70 Penalties 6-90 3 Fumbles 2 1 Ball lost on fumbles 1 5-56 Kickoff returns 1-8 0 Punt returns 1-10 0 Punt blocked by 1 (October 18, 1958, The Greenville Herald Banner, by George Near) ---