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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

The First Football Game Plaved at Memorial Stadium

Leon Bows to Lake City 7-0 in Northeast Season Opener

By Fred Pettijohn, Tallahassee Democrat

Lake City, Sept 24, 1949—Lake City’s Columbia High Tigers broke a

long victory famine against the Leon Lions here Friday night when they

cashed in on a second period scoring drive and fashioned a 7-0 triumph
in a Northeast conference game that opened the current season for both
elevens.

The Tigers, who scored their last previous win over Leon in 1934,
couldn’t have picked a better night to spring their upset over the Red and

White clad defenders of the NEC title. The game featured ceremonies
dedicating their new Memorial Field athletic plant to Columbia County

servicemen who were killed during the past war.

A crowd of around 2,700 persons watched Coach Bill Armstrong’s first

Tiger team stun Johnny Westberg’s big Lions with the setback.

Coming off the ropes after a hectic first quarter which had seen the

Lions twice knock loudly at the scoring door, the Tigers took command
in the second period and moved to their touchdown.

After Bill Jacobs had punted over the Tiger goal on the fourth play of
the second quarter, the Bengals went into action.

Tigers Move

With co-captain Tommy Ives, Hawaiian fullback Eleno Cabalda and

sophomore Gene Cox taking turns carrying the mail, the Tigers moved
71 yards before the Lions finally halted the march by recovering Cole’s

fumble of a completed forward pass on the nine-yard stripe.

Jacobs punted out to his own 45 where Tommy Ramsey gathered in the

boot and set sail 29 yards back to the Red and White 16.

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