Mike Fowler
Sports Editor
Daily Commercial
November 11, 1969
Last Friday's football, arcing high at kickoff, landing hard on Eustis' Class B Championship hopes, bouncing crazily away, still bouncing now on Tuesday. ..that is to say, here are some random blinks at what happened last week...
Up in Lake City, a big clash between undefeated Lake City Tigers and undefeated Palatka, only conquerers of Sanford, Leesburg's main competition for this district's Class A title.
Perhaps a preview of the Leesburg-Lake City contest which will close out the regular season Nov. 28, since Leesburg also plays Sanford, Nov. 21.
And Lake City the victor in a rugged defensive battle, with one boy, Lake City fullback Walt Peterson, scoring the only touchdown after setting it up himself with a 53-yard punt return-plus rushing for 93 yards while the rest of his team was totaling 16 and Palatka was getting 63 total yards, passing and rushing, for the night...
...after Leesburg's victory over Eustis, everybody was figuring points toward the District championships, everybody for some reason getting different answers...but it looks, as if Leesburg can beat Sanford and lose to Ocala and Lake City, and still win District, now that Sanford has lost twice (to Lyman Friday, 21-12 in case you haven't heard)...
...and there was some talk that if Leesburg and Lake city both approach their game with perfect records, 9-0, the game would be cancelled...figuring, it seems that the game could do nothing for either team but risk a marring of their records, while they perhaps meet later anyway in the State Championships.. but no, says somebody who knows a lot about such things, the game could not be cancelled at that late date unless some major disaster occurred.
Sports Editor
Daily Commercial
November 11, 1969
Last Friday's football, arcing high at kickoff, landing hard on Eustis' Class B Championship hopes, bouncing crazily away, still bouncing now on Tuesday. ..that is to say, here are some random blinks at what happened last week...
Up in Lake City, a big clash between undefeated Lake City Tigers and undefeated Palatka, only conquerers of Sanford, Leesburg's main competition for this district's Class A title.
Perhaps a preview of the Leesburg-Lake City contest which will close out the regular season Nov. 28, since Leesburg also plays Sanford, Nov. 21.
And Lake City the victor in a rugged defensive battle, with one boy, Lake City fullback Walt Peterson, scoring the only touchdown after setting it up himself with a 53-yard punt return-plus rushing for 93 yards while the rest of his team was totaling 16 and Palatka was getting 63 total yards, passing and rushing, for the night...
...after Leesburg's victory over Eustis, everybody was figuring points toward the District championships, everybody for some reason getting different answers...but it looks, as if Leesburg can beat Sanford and lose to Ocala and Lake City, and still win District, now that Sanford has lost twice (to Lyman Friday, 21-12 in case you haven't heard)...
...and there was some talk that if Leesburg and Lake city both approach their game with perfect records, 9-0, the game would be cancelled...figuring, it seems that the game could do nothing for either team but risk a marring of their records, while they perhaps meet later anyway in the State Championships.. but no, says somebody who knows a lot about such things, the game could not be cancelled at that late date unless some major disaster occurred.
...tiny St. Cloud, fielding a team of less than 20 boys, playing the old single-wing offense to accommodate the few players, was variously reported playing three different teams Friday.
We had them playing South Sumter, anther newspaper had them at Groveland, a local expert said they were playing Ocoee...St.Cloud (this is definite) lost to South Sumter 34-12.
And the Honor Roll, full of familiar faces as the season heads toward the finish line...
On offense, plenty of top performances.
But perhaps the best was by Greg Williams. The Yellow Jacket's fine end caught a short sideline pass from Mike Napier, then proceeded on what Coach Wilbur Lofton called the finest run he's ever seen in high school football, leaving Eustis defenders wrapped up like contortionists with a series of exceptional fakes, to gallop the rest of 54 yards for the Jackets first touchdown with only 38 seconds left in the half...on another play he took a pitchout from
Napier, faked a run and lofted a long pass, his first of the season, to Sherrill Lackey, who ran enough to make it a 48-yard play.
Tavares got its first victory after a half-season of coming close, as quarterback Robert Jones passed for one touchdown, scored one on a 20-yard pass reception, passed for a to-point conversion and ran one to account for all the 16 points the Bulldogs scored against Groveland.
He got an able assist from Harold Hanna, an Honor Roll regular, who rushed for 158 yards and tossed the pass that Jones scored with.
Another Honor Roll regular, Wayne Allen, again was the biggest of Wildwood's big guns in a 38-0 smashing of Lakeview. Allen gained 153 yards, half of the Wildcats' total, scored two touchdowns. Doug Powell and Richard Watkins each ran for long TDs to join Allen.
Clermont beat Lake Weir in the Highlander's best offensive show of the year, with Larry Jackson rushing for 94 yards, including a 775-yard touchdown dash, and Bruce Kirkland carrying 10 times for 59 yards and scoring the two last-half TDs that won the game, one on a 16-yard run, the other on a short pass from quarterback Scott Dykehouse.
And defense:
Leesburg's Jim Mackey, whose bruising line play led the defensive effort that limited Eusits' powerful offense to 111 total yards. ..11 unassisted tackles, numerous assisted ones, plus part (with Tony Hart) of the tackle of Rich Day in the end zone for the (and winning) score of the game, a safety.
Richard Watkins of Wildwood, who added two interceptions and several unassisted tackles to his TD on offense, for an all-around starring night.
Eustis Jim Tyre, who led the Eustis defense to hold Leesburg to its second lowest point total of the year, by making 14 unassisted tackles, one of which , on Mike Chatman at the one-foot mark, stopped a Jacket drive at the goal line.
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Mike Fowler
Sports Editor
Daily Commercial
November 11, 1969
Sports Editor
Daily Commercial
November 11, 1969
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