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Saturday. September 7, 1W3Kingsport News IIDobyns-Bennelt Smothers Jellico In OpenerTribe RollsUp 54-0 WinWith PowerUndermanned Jellico was swallowed up in a Dobyns-Bennett tide Friday at J, Fred Johnson Stadium and the Indians floated downstream to aji easy 54»d opening season victory.D-B rolled almost at will by ground, air and via a punt return —which surprised no one. Going at less than half throttle except for a few minutes, the Big Red rolled up 278 3'ards along the ground and added. 160 through the air on eight completions in 12 attempts.D-B got possession of the ball five times in the first half and drove for four touchdowns. The halftime gun interrupted a fifth goahvard drive at the Jellico 31. They did not, purit during the game, while the blueshirted kickers got sore toes—booting nine times.Pat Kelly plunged in for the first score from the five-yard line and fullback Art Brumit added the extra point—the first of five he kicked during the game. He missed two.SHOWALTER’S SHOW—Nick Showalter (11) goes into high gear after taking a punt at the Dobyns-Bennett 41 and breaking into the clear at the 50, the yard stripe his right foot is on. He gat several(T*N Photo By Binkley)key blocks from there oh and made it a 59-yard runfor a third quarter touchdown against Jellico. Other:4;D-B players are Eddie Grills (41) and Tonv Grills (65).Valiev Leads Gate CitvROBERTS PA CES’Cats Nip TigersBy BILL DALET-N Siwr is WritfrKelron’s unbeaten Wildcats pushed across a Ihird quarter touchdown to defeat a determined Blountville High Tiger outfit, 14-7, in a Rotherwwd Conference battle last night.The Wildcat? had one touchdown called back and fumbled away another scoring opportunity in the final quarter but the third stanza TD gave them a perfect 2-0 ivork-sheet in conference play thus far diis season.Blountville, a surprise to many in its first year of football, kept lighting from beginning to end but just couldn’t manage to handle Ketron's powerful defensive play when in Wildcat territory.Coach Clyde Groseclose’s Wildcats, behind die running of Charles Dean, Andrew Tolley and Gary Roberts, rolled up an impressive 336 yards rushing to only 75 for the Tigers. Kelron picked up 15 first downs, all by rushing, and Blountville amassed only six.The two Rotherwoad teams bat-41^. 4 ______middle la move the ball to the Blountville 29 to mount the first threat of the night. Dean pushed his way three yards to the 26 as the first period ended.After Dean drove his way to the 2L Tolley raced 16 yards before being run out. of bounds on the Tiger five. Roberts took it over from there bn a pitchout. Dean ran the extra point to give Ketron a 7-0 lead with only three minutes gone in the second quarter.Blountville then took the kickoff and marched 80 yards to paydirt.Quarterback Blaine Cornett opened the drive by hitting Lorry Lane with ft 15-yard pass..Lane, George Rogers and Bill Winters then took ova* and took turns in picking up small chunks of yardage, helped along by two Ketron penalties to move the ball inside the Wildcat 30 to the 24. Another 15*yard penalty gave Blountville a first down on the Ketron 9. After a Cornett pass fell incomplete, Rogers bulled his way six yards to the four and Winters needed two plays to carry it over from the two. Rogers divedKetron made a desperate bid to take a one-touchdown lead into the dressing room at halftime by moving the ball from its own 34 to the Blountville 28 in the last minute and 30 seconds but lime ran out.Fred Bass set up Ketron's winning touchdown midway \n the third quarter when he picked off one of Cornett’s aerials on the Blountville 30 and returned It to the 25. The Wildcats needed only five plays to cover the 25 yards to paydirt. Tolley and Dean combined to move die ball to the five where Roberts again carried the mail across the double stripes. Roberts also ran the point for the 14-7 margin.? toppers Tie MorristotvnIn Big Seven
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Kingsport News
Kingsport, Tennessee, US
Sat, Sep 07, 1963
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