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Late inFWITHEY DID IT AGAIN, i Completely outplayed in « every way for 45 minutes and 46 seconds of thegame, the FWB High School called on some un believable source of pow* Sler and defeated the Centu ry Black Cats 8 to 7 F'rl day night at Century Florida.II Despite a tremendous [offensive effort that netted 19 first downs for the Slack Cats, they were able to score only one touchdown and elected to kick the extra point. Century Is a good ball club and they were highly fired up for their homecoming. The Cat defense allowed the Vikings only three scattered first downs.Trailing 7 to 0 wdth 2 minutes and fourteen sec- 0 onds to play, a groggy b Ricky Whitfield dropped back to cover a Black Cat punt. Whitfield started to ground the ball at his 20 yard line, changed his mind and raced 80 yards down the sideline behind perfect blocking to score. The Viking offense came on the field and contributed their big play of the night. Paul Leon passed wide in the flat to Ricky Whitfield who battled his way over the little white line, and the Vikings had the lead at 8 to 7.Century, stunned and mad, swarmed off the bench to take the kickoff and return it to their ow’n 32 yard line. Paul Leon broke up a third down pass, but Kenny Stuckey, the big Century quarterback, raced around his right end on fourth down to pick up the Important first down with 1:34 left in the game. Stuckey dropped back to pass and Randy Carter dropped him for a 6 yard less. James Rose batted down a pass attempt, and on third dowm Denny Anderson intercepted a Stuckey pass at the Viking 46 wdth 1:10 left to play. Paul I Leon ran out the clock wdth three keeper plays.A really good Century w'as still sitting on their bench long after the victorious Vikings ran screaming from the field and the stands had emptied. They w’ere stunned after losing their third straight game on the scoreboard even though they have outplayed each opponent. The jCats had run 234 yards from scrimmage, had a good night passing, and had totally stymied the Viking offense all night; yet the record book wdll say (that they lost.The first half of the game was all Century. Century took the opening kickoff and marched for four consecutive first-dowms to the Viking 30 | yard line. James Melvdn broke through the Century line hit Stuckey and took the ball away.James Rose stopped the second Century drive wdth a timely interception and ran 10 vards to the Centu-
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Fort Walton Beach Playground Sunday News
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, US
Sun, Oct 12, 1969
Page 8
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