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KEEPING TRACK OF THE BEARCATS)At the dinner Monday night held by the Athletic Club for the football players and their fathers, Coach Reid told members of the Club that he thought the team had an excellent chance of going through the rest of the season undefeated if the boys showed the same kind of spirit and hustle that they did against the Whitewright team. After watching the boys play such a whale of a game against Whitewright last week nearly everyone is inclined to agree with Coach Bo, The remaining games are with Muenster, Gunter, Bells, and Pilot Point. The game tonight at Muenster will probably prove to be the toughest of the four, although the Pilot Pointers are always primed fr the Bearcats. This will be the last game of the season for both teams.Coach Reid commended the team for its excellent showing against Whitewright and singled out several of the boys for outstanding playing. He said he also received the first charges of “dirty playing” against the Bearcats from Coach Sam Montgomery of the Tigers. Mr. Montgomery complained to the coach after the game that several of his boys had headaches and although he didn’t actually see any slugging or fouling by the Bearcats it would appear to be rather obvious, since all of his boys had headaches. After setting the Tiger Coach straight on the clean brand of football the Bearcats have played allyear, Coach Reid talked with several of the Whitewright players and asked them frankly if they had encountered any unsportsman-like oonrduCht on the part of the Bearcats. To this inquiry they all replied, “no”, and commented on the hard but clean game the Bearcats playedThe Bearcats unaminously voiced their approval of the clean game the Tigers played.It is not surprising that the Tigers had headaches after coming into contact with some of Teddy Dutton’s Carol Bibbs and Tommy Murphy’s jarring tackles, just lt;to mention a few. It is quite possible that Montgomery was expecting his Tigers to win with little opposition from the Cats and give his second and third stringers quite a bit of experience, but instead he had to keep his first string in the entire game. However, the charges of Sad Sum are of little concern as the Whitewright mentor had complained to opposing coaches before of the same offense. The local eleven has drawn one fifteen yard penalty aill year for illegal use of the hands on offense.We asked Coach Reid how he gotthe boys so “charged up” for the Whitewright game—if he used psychology or opium pills. Gmning, he said, “Neither”, and then taking on a more serious aspect, said. “I jus»ttold the boys that I was through talking, that they were capable of playing good football and it was just up to them, whether they wanted to make a good showing or not.” The team went on the field
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Whitesboro News Record
Whitesboro, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 04, 1949
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