A few not so common names: Bobby Layne Doak Walker Jackie Hathorne Gordon Leboufe Bobby Leborde Bobby Boyd Walter Fondren, III Larry Shields Bill Bradley Gene Maye Ronnie Scroggins Charlie Riggs (not sure how good he was, but he kept bring GP back) Pat Sheehan Steve Worster Jack Mildren Daryl Hunt Santana Dotson Jerry Ball David ??? from Brazosport Kendall Briles Of that list, Earl dominated that game; Larry Shields, was anyone else ever that good; Bradley was going to win, you didn't know how, but he was; Worster dominated his second championship game Briles performance was one of the greatest ever; Coach Bill Ellington would be really quick to tell you Gordon Leboufe. He said he had regular nightmares about the last play. According to Coach, Garland hit Gordon 13 times over that 50-60 yards, collapsing in the endzone with a 102/103 fever - he had pneumonia.
Lets not forget Warren McVea. As a senior, he averaged better than a first down per carry. Led a South San Antonio high school to a State Championship. It was around 1964'
Ole, I believe McVea & Brackenridge lost to Inez Perez and Corpus Christi "Meeler". Not sure if Richard Castillo was in jail for that one or not. Brack's coaches had a way of getting him out. I don't have time to look it up, but I believe Perez and Miller lost to Gene Mayfield and Borger in the final.
Thanks for the Garland inclusion Sabre. Gene Mays may have been the best lineman to play in a championship game. Coach Ellington went on to do yeoman work at UT. Ronnie Scoggins was just a talented halfback from the neighborhood that matured at the right time.
Sorry for the slight - Inez Perez, who personally lost more important football games than almost anyone got a chance to participate in by calling his own number when everyone knew 5'2"/130 pound QBs couldn't run up the middle, lost to Garland, not Borger in the Championship game. Putting toys together, reading PS??, and remembering 50 years ago didn't work well. As for Gene Mays, he is and always will be the greatest HS OL to take the field at any level in Texas, and Dave Campbell agrees with me. And he played both ways. I just remember every time Riggs led Galena Park down the field to score, here came Scroggins behind Mays block.
How about Matt Stafford? Or way back 1957 HP's Jack Collins who went to Texas and was sidelined by a knee injury.
If they had not performed the same in closing moments of the Texarkana Texas High bi-district game they never would have made it to the State game against GP.
Brackenridge upset Borger to win the 1962 state title in Class 4A, then the UIL's largest classification, I said around 64 but it was 62. Brackenridge was not picked to win their district.
You are correct, Sir. Don't know how I could forget that. After that game, Gene McCollum hired OA Phillips to be head coach at Port Neches. Over 600 candidates and he chose Bum over Gene Mayfield from Borger, The people of Odessa are eternally grateful. PNG had one brief era 74-77 and nothing since, Mojo became legend.
