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The* Fort Walton Beach High Vikings fought back from an opening gun deficit to a 6-6 half time tie only to finally lose to Wakulla 21-1*2 in a grudging bat tie Friday night at Memorial stadium.Weight and depth, as well as experience proved to be the fl-nal factor In the game, but no one could say that the Vikings ever gave up in the face of the tremendous size of the Wa kulla defensive line.Keith Harvey took the open Ing kick and snaked his way through the entire Viking teamJ. V. BULLETINThe Ruckel Jr. Rams took the worst beating in a five years as a determined band of Jr. Vikings from the New Kort Walton Beach Junior and Senior High School in vaded the lines for a final score of 34-8 Saturdav night.Billy Knowles was the sparkplug for t h e Viking JV’s scoring two touchdowns and running two point after touchdown’s. One of Knowles runs for the goal totalled TM yards.Ruckel finally scored with only 31 seconds left in the game as Paul Houy passed to Russ Harris for 36 yards overall, and Don Britt ran the conversion home to make the final score 34-8.as tie skirted the sidelines and racked up six points before the startled Norsemen could quite realize what was happening. The conversion failed, and the score in the first two minutes of play stood at 6-0. Wakulla.A stubborn defense and a de termlned offense brought about a resurgence of Viking spirit in the second half In two plays. Paul Leon tossing to Donny Anderson brought the Vikings to the Wakulla 14 yard line where Randy Carter took the ball in for the touchdown. The Vikings held on till half time where the score remained tied at 6-6.It was pretty much a stalemate through the third quarter, but iri the final stanza the supe-rtoi weight and depth of the Invaders began to tell In the final analysis, a game band of Vikmgs went down before an Invading force of big boys.Coach Chester Norris deliber-atel those this course when he drew up a schedule of varsity teams throughout the area. If he is going to gain experience for his boys to make them the winners they deserve to be two years from now, then now is the time for them to find out for themselves what it's like.In another two years, with this same band of Vikings. Chester Norris and the whole Fort Walton Beach High School will be telling them ’’like it is.
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Fort Walton Beach Playground Sunday News
Fort Walton Beach, Florida, US
Sun, Sep 28, 1969
Page 9
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