Brownwood Bulletin from Brownwood, Texas • Page 12

Lions, H-Payne notch shutouts Pesky Stephenville OVER THE TOP-Brownwood High fullback Haul (40) goes up and over the pack for three-yard gain during second half of Lions' 48-0 romp over Stephenville here Saturday. Leading the Yellow Jacket charge are Jeff Lewis (33) and James Young (80). Lions travel to Burkburnett for key District 4- AAA game Friday night. (Bulletin Photo by Gene Dcason) HPC aims at championship Jackets down lower sights on ACC battle of the Lone Star Conference un- dream game matching Howard Payne College and Abilene Christian for the loop unfold this Saturday in Abilene following the HPC Yellow Jackets' 28-0 football win Saturday night over Texas ACC handed Sam Houston a 46-23 loss Saturday while HPC was forging its shutout to wipe the slate in preparation for the title battle. ACC and HPC were rated third and fourth, respectively, in the NAIA national standings going into Saturday action.

Both teams stand 8-0 in ISC play. Big errors, the Jackets' ability to capitalize on them, an alert defense, and another impressive evening in the air by HPC quarterback Rick Worley spelled defeat for the Javelinas in the first half, during which all of the scoring was done. Worley passed for 176 yards, completing 15 of 31 attempts, and accounting for the first Jacket touchdown. Howard Payne forged its 28-0 margin in the first half before Coach Dean Slayton began to substitute freely throughout the remainder of the game. But tailback David Jones, only last week brought up from the defensive secondary to fill in for injured Charles Louis, left the game early than expected with an injured knee, later said to be torn ligaments which would mean Jones is lost for the ACC contest.

The converted basketball player led rushers and figured in four touchdowns in last week's HPC defeat of Southwest Texas, his offensive tailback debut game. HPC's first touchdown came with 10:03 left in the first period when Worley passed to L. J. Clayton for a 23-yard scoring play. The TD was set by a bad snap on a field goal attempt, recovered by David Smith.

Bilberry's kick was wide, leaving the score 6-0. The drive covered 55 yards in 5 plays. The Jackets took an punt and marched 80 yards in 11 plays for the second score, capped by an 18-yard Worley to Clayton pass. The march featured a 22-yard Worley to Daymun White pass and an 18- yard scamper by Jones. Bilberry converted, upping the score to 13-0.

GAME ATA GLANCE HPC 19 First downs 20 83 Rushing 158 200 Passing 154 3817 Passes complete 3717 1 1 Moris? Punting 5 lor 37 1 lor 13 Penalties 10 lor 81 3 Fumbles 5 RUSHING LEADERS Brown 5tor2B barren 7 tor 24 PASSING Pass Com Yds Int TDs Worley 3' 15 176 2 I Peel 7 2 23 0 0 RECEIVING Bpl Yds TDs Clayton 7 96 1 Barr 5 58 0 While 28 0 Lead Open PINEHURST, N.C. (AP) Young Allan Miller, a non-winner in two years on the pro golf tour, battled wind and cold for a 72 Saturday and caught front- running Gibby Gilbert for the third-round lead in the $500,000 World Open. The 25-year-old Miller tied for the lead in this event, which offers a record $100,000 to the winner, with a 210 under par. He was one-over-par for Saturday's round, which began with the temperature at 27. Gilbert, the leader since he fashioned a record 62 in Thursday's opening round, took a second consecutive 74 and also had a 210 total with five more rounds to play in this 144-hole tournament that ends Nov.

17. Both leaders played the yard No. 4 course at the Pinehurst Country Club. The rest of the way, they'll play the tougher par-71 No, 2 course. Gilbert had a five-shot lead after the first round and led by two at the end of 36 holes.

He and relation to absent U.S. Open champion Johnny the only players in the international field of 240 to be under par after three rounds. Jerry Heard matched par of World tied up of the best rounds of the cold, windy was alone in third at 213. ACC bombs Sam Houston, 46-23 ABILENE, Tex. (AP) Freshman tailback Wilbur Montgomery of Abilene Christian College scored five touchdowns here Saturday night to lead ACC to a 46-23 victory over Sam Houston State University in a Lone Star Conference game.

The victory raised ACC's record to 8-1 for the year and 8-0 in conference and set up Saturday's game in Abilene with Howard Payne College for the LSC championship. Howard Payne, 9-1 for the year and 8-0 in league play, defeated Texas Saturday 28-0. Montgomery carried 16 times for 109 yards for four touchdowns and caught two passes for 49 yards including one touchdown. Montgomery, NAIA's national scoring leader now has 164 points for the year, four short of the NAI.A record. The score came with 3:52 left on the first quarter clock.

A hard rush from the defensive unit set the next HPC touchdown, as attempted to punt from its own 17 yard line. The Paynemen ran the punter out of bounds back of his 13 yard line, where the offense took over and punched across the goal line in three plays. Paydirt came when tailback Shipp Brown run through for four yards. Again, Bilberry's kick was wide as 6:16 remained in the first half. What started out as a comedy of errors produced a defensive prize for Yellow Jacket William Adams -who caught quarterback Mike Wendel in his end zone for a safety.

Following Brown's touchdown run, took the ball on its 20, but fumbled away to Howard Payne. Brown and Charles Franks ran the Jackets up to the 10 yard line, and appeared to be scoring when Barren fumbled back to on the one yard line. Two plays later, Adams nailed the quarterback for the safety, upping the Payne lead to 21-0. Another fumble, this time recovered by Herbert Reese for HPC, set up the final Jacket score, coming on a sneak by Worley from one-yard out with 2:26 left in the half. Reese scooped up the loose football on the 34, and it took the Jackets 7 plays to score.

Bilberry's accurate toe made the score 28-0, which stood up through the rest of the game. threatened late in the half, but the buzzer sounded with the Javelinas holding the ball on the Jacket two yard line. advanced beyond the HPC 20 three times during the contest, but could never cross the goal. Cited for outstanding defensive work in the shutout were Jackets Roberts Woods, Ernest Kirk, William Adams, David Smith, Alan Luker and Jesso Tello. The win marked a record for the Paynemen, who hold eight consecutive IJ3C victories, the best in the school's history.

But it came at a high cost, having lost Jones, the second serious injury this year to HPC tailbacks. S'west replaces AH on Lion slate A road game with Fort Worth Southwest has replaced a home game with Fort Worth Arlington Heights on Brownwood High's 1974 football schedule. Brownwood athletic director and football coach Gordon Wood said the change was made at Fort Worth officials' request. The move leaves the 1974 Lions with five games at home and as many on the road. Southwest, with an enrollment of almost 3,000 students, shares the District 10-AAAA lead with Arlington Heights at 4-0 after Thursday's 19-12 victory over Fort Worth North Side.

The Rebels are currently 7-2 on the year and rank 68th among Class AAAA teams in the Harris Rating System. The 1974 Lion slate: Sept. Cooper; Sept. At Kerrville Tivy; Sept, Sept. Southwest; Oct.

Park; Oct. Weatherford; Oct. Oct. Vernon; Nov. Stephenville; Nov.

8-open; Nov. Graham. falls fo BHS, 48-0 To be truthful, there have been closer presidential landslides. Brownwood's Lions, spurred on by a homecoming crowd and new hope in the District 4-AAA title race, exploded through, over and around a weaker-than- expected Stephenville team in crushing the Yellow Jackets 480 in Cen-Tex Stadium Saturday afternoon. Even though Lion coach Gordon Wood unloaded his bench as early as the second period, the score mounted to the final 48-0 before halftime.

Then Lion reserves fought the Yellow Jackets to a scoreless standoff after recess. The victory hauled Brownwood into a three-way tie for the district lead with Wichita Falls Hirschi and Iowa Park at 5-1 going into next week's closing round of games that finds the Lions visiting Burkburnett and Hirschi calling on Iowa Park. The Brownwood-Stephenville score reached ridiculous proportions in the second period when the Lions exploded for 35 points mostly on mistakes by the error-prone Jackets who went down to their seventh defeat in nine starts. By halftime, Wood had played everybody but the women and children. When it was over, Brownwood had used three quarterbacks, 13 backs had dented the rushing column and three Lions had scored the first touchdowns of their varsity careers.

STKPHENVILLE PITCHED in to help produce the massacre by turning the ball over seven times. The Lions turned four of those errors into touchdowns. The Lions also rediscovered an old forward cruising to their eighth victory in nine starts. When quarterback Dean Low hummed a 26-yard strike to Pete Hicks in the game's opening minutes it marked the Lions' first touchdown pass in six district games. Low later teamed up with James Williams on a 91-yard beauty and Larry Templin, the second of three Lion quarterbacks, came on to throw touchdowns of 24 yards to Johnny Skeen and 4 yards to Glen Jones.

Brownwood's other scores came on a 19-yard fumble return by Brad Bowen, a 2-yard blast by tailback Richard Riggins and a 5-yard jab by Frank Bunnell who later switched from tailback to quarterback. In all, the Lions rolled up 208 yards on the ground and 196 through the air for 404 yards of total offense. In addition to his short touchdown run, Riggins led all rushers with 117 yards in just 10 carries and set up a Lion touchdown with a 32-yard interceptions return to the Jacket five. Fullback Scottye Ratliff was next with 27 yards, Pete Hicks had 19 and Raul Martinez and Gary George added 18 each. Brownwood Bulletin SPORTS Page 1-B Sunday, November 11, 1973 Mike 62 yards led the Jackets who finished the day with 123 yards of offense.

LOW HAD A productive day with four completions in five attempts for 124 yards and two touchdowns. Templin completed three of four for 32 yards and a brace of touchdowns and Bunnell finished with 2 of 5 for 36 yards and a couple of drops. Ordeal for the Jackets opened on the game's fifth play when Low rifled his 26-yard touchdown shot to Hicks. That capped a 62-yard drive triggered by Riggins' 35-yard return of the opening kick-off. Riggins carried twice for 26 yards and George twice for 10 before Low found Hicks wide open at the goal line just 2:08 deep in the game.

Jeff Vienneau, who was to kick true on his last six attempts, was wide with the placement. Then the Jackets, who lost six fumbles plus a pass interception, started a vain search for the handle on the football. The roof began to cave in midway through the first period when Bowen, a sophomore filling in at linebacker for the injured Don Wright, stole the ball from Stephenville's Howard Evatt and strolled 19 yards to paydirt. Vienneau kicked the score to 130. Later in the quarter, Stephenville launched a drive that reached the Lion 25 before Oscar Lewis barged through to spill Clayton Whalley for a minus 10 on fourth down.

FROM THERE the Lions covered 65 yards in six plays to go out front 20-0 3:49 deep in the second quarter. There were two big 19-yard ramble on a sweep plus a 36- yard beauty that saw Ratliff race to the Jacket 36 before pitching to Riggins who hotfooted it 29 more steps to the 7. Two plays later Riggins swept the leftside to score standing up GAME ATA GLANCE Brownwood Stephenville '6 First Downs 10 208 Yards Rushing 99 196 Yards Passing 24 Total Yards 9ofl4 Passes Completed 4oM2 I Passes Intercepted By 0 Fumbles Lost 6 7 lor 30.8 Punts, Avg. 7 tor 39.1 for 50 Penalties 2 lor 20 Score by Qtrs: Brownwood 13 35 0 Stephenville 00000 LION RUSHING Yds Alt Richard Riggins Scottye Ratlin Pete Hicks Raul Martinez Gary George James Williams Frank Bunnell Truman Rowe Jonathon Wells William Thompson Dean Low Larry Templin Lem Sellers from the 2. Brownwood's first bunch fired one more shot before going to the bench for good.

It turned out to be the Lions' longest yainer of the year as Low, on first down from his 9. dropped back and speared Williams who made a neat catch at the Lion 40 and turned it into a 91-yard scoring play. Almost six minutes remained in the half when Vienneau's kick ran the score to 27-0. Then, like lightning, utter devastation arrived in the form of three Stephenville miscues that Lion reserves turned into touchdown "Drives" of 25, 5 and 4 yards. Stephenville quarterback Tab Thompson, caught in a Lion pass rush, coughed up the football, and Tony Jones recovered for Brownwood and two plays later Templin passed 24 yards to Skeen for the touchdown.

Skeen got the last seven yards with some nifty running in heavy traffic. That carr.c with 3:32 left in the half and it took the Lions just 24 seconds to get on the board again and jack their cushion to 41-0. Bunnell scored this one from the five after Riggins' leaping interception and 32-yard return. THE FINAL TI) came compliments of Martinez who embraced a fumbled punt at the Jacket 4-yard line with 36 seconds left in the half. Templin then flipped to Jones for the score.

The second half turned out to be one long exchange of punts and turnovers as Lion reserves played the Jackets on even terms. The deepest penetration by either team came in the final seconds came when Bunnell's 27-yard pass to Lem Sellers carried Brownwood to the Stephenville 22. Stephenville's best opportunity died in the arms of Lion guard Jess Galbreath who gathered in Dwayne Wolf's fumble at the Brownwood 24. LION PASSING Alt Comp Yds Td Int Doan Low 5 4 124 2 0 Larry Templin 43 36 2 0 Frank Bunnoll 52 16 0 0 LION RECEIVING Rec Johnny Skewi 2 Glen Jones 2 Gary George James Williams Pete Hicks i Lem Sellers Yds 32 13 7 91 26 27 Td 117 27 19 le 18 Avg 11.7 2.7 9.5 9.0 3.6 8.0 3.0 5.0 00 0.7 1.0 0.7 4.0 LION PUNTING Alt Yds Avg Pete Hicks 3 97 322 Mike Dillarcl 3 no 36 7 James Williams 1 LION SCORING Pete Hicks Brad Bowen Richard Rigqins James Williams Johnny Skeen Frank Bunnell Glen Jones Jell Vienneau Td Ep 1 1 0 i 1 0 067 9 Tp 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 STINGER STOPPER prowuwood sophomore Truman Rove (35) is shout the brakes on sjephenvilte's Clayton Whalley as teammates Larry Carlisle (72), Jonathon Wells (5), WilUam Thompson and Harold Barnes (88) close in, Lions won 4- AAA contest, 48-0, scoring all their points in the first half. (Bulletin Photo).