Sobriquet

As the fans were arriving, approximately 6:30-6:45, the officials had everyone leave the stands due to a threatening lightening storm. They also stopped admitting anyone else to the stadium. Don't know anything after that. Rain persisted throughout most of the evening. I don't know if the game eventually went forward or not.

Listening to the sounds of silence. May have lost the radio again.

Weather radar shows that patch of rain still growing. On the screen it looks like the center of the rain band is directly over the stadium.

Weather radar shows the band of rain in LA is growing. Now seems to cover East half of Orange County. But it's mostly light rain. None of the really heavy stuff.

Radio finally has recovered signal from the stadium. Broadcasting game again.

Thanks again for updates. On radio someone is singing about dirty air.

3 minutes ago, PhatMack19 said:

Weather is coming

Weather radar shows a band of rain just over state line in LA. But clear enough to the West for at least a bit of time yet.

Much thanks for the updates. Radio station has lost signal from stadium and can't seem to get it back, so you're all we have.

Perhaps it would have turned out differently if instead of saying "Play my son, or else" the school board president had said "Play, my son, or else."

Probably no one is really having trouble reading and comprehending the statement, but just in case to spell it out as I understand it:

My two younger brothers and I are smacking our heads at Mr. Buddy Garrity's comment. For a coach who was let go for something like this I cite Dayton head coach Bruce Pruett who coached in the years 1968-69-70 with a record of 25-4-1. He was let go by the Dayton Independent School District under these circumstances. He told the son of the president of the school board that he would be off the team if he went to church camp for over a week. The player went anyway and the coach removed him from the team. The coach had the best won/loss record ever for Dayton and did it in only 3 years. He then joined the staff at Rusk for 2 years and then was head coach at Crosby in the years 1973-74 with a record of 13-8.

 

Here's my take. When you're tackled, when you're going down, I think it makes a difference, big difference if you have your knees to help absorb the impact of hitting the ground. Usually you do. But on this play the Celina QB didn't.

The WOS defender made contact but didn't execute a conventional tackle and in the process went down himself. The QB might have gotten away and kept on going except for what happened next. The WOS defender rolled on the ground. I don't know if he realized exactly what he was doing but that roll was a perfect maneuver to take the QB's legs right out from under him.

And with that the QB was going down in a way he wasn't used to going down. Head first and no support from his knees. In the split second he had before crashing into the ground he instinctively threw out his free hand, his left hand (he was holding the ball in his right hand) to help take the shock of impact.

Unfortunately that placed all his weight, all the force of the impact on his left arm and it broke under the shock.

So the WOS defense wasn't responsible for the way he used his hand. But the QB would never have been in that predicament if not for the rolling tackle.

Weather radar: Looking slightly better. Main line of storms still mostly stationary in west Harris County. The patches of lighter rain in front, on top of Houston, seem to be getting smaller.

Weather radar: The edge of the main line of storms is still in western side of Harris County. Some smaller patches of rain are pushing out in front and could reach the game soon.

Weather radar: The line of stormy weather may be moving faster than I thought. Just now entering the west edge of Harris County.

I'm keeping an eye on weather radar. Looks like just a few patches of wet weather in the Houston area for now. The line of real stormy weather is maybe 3 hours to the west. Possibly more than three hours.

No.

WOS never had a 4th down and (best I recall) only once a 3rd down.

Impressions of the game.

I kept counting and always came up with the same number. HS suited up 17 players for the game. They came out in the 2nd half with 15.

Liked their punter. Not much good for throwing a surprise pass on 4th down, but he could really kick the ball. Probably good enough to play for some really serious teams. Of course he obviously gets lots of game experience.

Off the field their little pep squad had plenty of spirit. Kept cheering their team on all through the 1st half.

Unbeatable???

There is no such thing. Gilmer (and any other extraordinarily superb, talent laded, explosive football team) is as unbeatable as the Titanic was unsinkable.

We won't play at Rice ANYMORE!

 

Wos Blue & Silver

 

Rice Blue & Gray

 

I don't want them to just play there

 

I'd like to see them own that stadium

 

It's just natural

 

What I didn't like about the article is that it seemed to take jabs at WOS for being successful. Their Director, made some excellent points about the character of their them which is admirable.  I hope they are going to use that big stick they made reference to, at the 10 teams they will face before they see WOS again.

Did the article take jabs at WOS? I couldn't really tell as the grammar was so atrocious I was preoccupied with wondering if English was the writer's second (or third or fourth, etc.) language.

"Most across the state may only going to see the final score....but it's the dance team did, spending most cold second half huddled together."

Indeed!!!

What I would say about tonight's game.

I know what it's like to watch my team lose and lose and lose. You pretend it doesn't matter, but that's just a facade. It really does hurt. But life goes on and as you move forward and the years pass by you discover that it really doesn't matter any more what happened back in those long ago days.

But if those losses no longer matter, neither do the wins. They're just distant memories rarely brought up for active consideration. If it was your lot in life to play on a winning team, a championship team, that's wonderful. But don't let that be the high point of your life. Don't let that be the only significant thing you ever did and everything afterward was downhill. It may cheapen the sport if everyone gets a trophy but that in no way diminishes the fact that all the players on that field tonight can and should be winners in the game of life.

The video of the recent trick play by Driscoll Middle School seems to really be an Internet hit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UIdI8khMkw

I guess it answers the questions I asked four years ago.

[quote name="Sobriquet" post="85959" timestamp="1164167515"]
I’m going to describe a trick play and ask, “Could this play be run in the modern game?
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They just did it.
[quote author=Sobriquet link=topic=10617.msg85959#msg85959 date=1164167515]
Would the officials allow it?
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They did in this game.
[quote author=Sobriquet link=topic=10617.msg85959#msg85959 date=1164167515]
And would the other team be fooled?
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The video speaks for itself.

A&M ran that play against UT (or tu if you prefer) in 1965. It was pretty well publicized and famous(?) at the time and for years afterward.

That might have been the first time the play was ever run. Don't know if anyone ever ran it prior to '65.

in 1963 the orange tigers, should have won state a bad cold day for us tigers

That certainly would have been a wonderful thing, if it could have happened. But realistically, we didn't have the team or the talent to go all the way in 1963.

In district play, the hard fought win over Nederland was impressive, and Bridge City, Vidor and Jasper didn't present much of an obstacle in the next three games. But we did lose the final game at Silsbee, which set up a three way tie for first place. Only one team could go to the playoffs back then, so they did a three way coin toss and Nederland won. And then they lost to Conroe in the very first round.

The real shame of it, at least from our point of view, was not merely the fact that we didn't go to the playoffs, but rather if we had been the team playing, the game with Conroe would have to have been played in Orange under UIL rules.

You see, the previous year the really great 1962 team had played Conroe in the first round. And when it came to choosing the location of that game it was the same old story. We wanted a neutral site, they wanted a home town site, so the school officials flipped coins to settle it. Of course they won the toss, the other school always did, but it didn't do them any good. We still beat them in their own stadium.

But since the 1962 game was played in Conroe, if there had been a 1963 game, UIL rules would have required it to be in Orange. And, Heaven Be Praised, it wouldn't have involved a coin toss. A real shame that we didn't get to enjoy that luxury, for just one time.

But it was Nederland not us, the location for that game was decided by a coin toss, and Conroe won that toss, opted to play in their own stadium, and won the game.

But even if things had turned out differently, I don't think we could have won state. Not even sure we could have beaten Conroe.

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About Jasper. Their really great days were ahead of them and they were not yet what they would later become. But they did have a really good quarterback named Tommy Mixon that year, and he was somebody who could hurt you. You don't forget opponents like that. Leastways I don't. Unfortunately for Tommy it didn't just rain that night when we played, it was a real SE Texas frog drowner. And the mud! Even our bright orange jerseys were just as brown as their white ones by the third quarter.

I always felt we would have won anyway, but I think the weather hurt them more than us because it limited Tommy so much. But he was a great quarterback. Hope he's still around and enjoying life. He certainly hasn't been forgotten.