Mean Green machine moves in on Yoakum
Cuero High School football opens season at Yoakum with the Gobblers favored to win district 14-AAA while Yoakum sits in district 25-AA. Coach Wm Gilbreth notes CHS’s state finals run in 1970, facing a younger squad but aiming for victory with the wing T offense and strong up front play led by Saenz and Wittmer.
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Wm. ‘Buster’ Gilbreth
Cuero High School
Yoakum
Gobblers
Bulldogs
Gilbreth
CHS
Green & White
Cuero
Ricky Saenz
Charles Wittmer
CHS Cuero
Cuero Slo-Pitchers Stage Weekend Tournament
The Cuero Hot Pants Slo-Pitch team hosts a Sunday tournament at Live Oak Park starting 2 30 p m. Players coach Mattie Belle notes entries from Victoria Thomaston Refugio Woodsboro Yoakum Hallettsville and Cuero with boys and girls teams. Jesse Center Hallettsville coach Ernest Carter Cuero unit manager Tyrone Galloway Buck Hopkins umpire in chief. Hopkins formerly Cuero Turkey Trotters organizer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuero ‘Hot Pants
Live Oak Park
Mattie Belle
Cuero “Hot Pants
Victoria
Thomaston
Refugio
Woodsboro
Yoakum
Hallettsville
Cuero
Jesse Center
Ernest Carter
Tyrone Galloway
Hot Pants
Manuel Hopkins
Moulton
Hopkins
Cuero Turkey Trotters
Compton Birthday and Notable 1813 Lake Erie Battle noted
Almanac entry for September 10, 1971 highlights physicist Arthur Compton born 1892. It recalls 1813 Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory at Lake Erie, 1864 patent of the sewing machine by Elias Howe, 1899 Empress Elizabeth assassination, and 1962 Mount Spokane jet crash with 42 deaths. Also includes a poet Samuel Lover quote.
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United Press International
Arthur Compton
Olivar Perry
Lake Arie
Elias Howe
Elizabeth
Austria-Hungary
U.S. Air Force
Mount Spokane
Washington State
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bobby Guenther
Alois Blackwell
Arthur Whittington
Ricky Kasper
Rufus Green
Charles Arndt
Joe Sheppard
Larry Williams
Kasper
Guenther
Dub Allee
Vino Hombre
Allee
Tommy Marshall
Jim Yeager
J.C. Hermes
Jim Story
Harry Thiele
Joe Sutton
Charlie Braun
Wilfred Block
Skeet Powers
OUR Call
New San Antonio Highway
Texaco
Texas
Saenz Texaco
Richard Saenz
FE. Broadway
Dromgoole
ENCO
N. Esplanade
Cuero Slo
the Almanac
Samuel Lover
Chrysler
Plymouth
Wallis
Dodge Trucks
Leike Motor CO
Gonzales
Fesplanadf
Farmers State
Mymber Fdic
Duckett
Chevrolet
Oldsmobile
Bank Americard
Duckett Motor CO
E. Broadway
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