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ow we tak you back to tho e port days with the and in an off-tackle play, Frank hit head on with
hard fightin Falcon Football Team, which won two Yonge defensive men. This put Frank out of
three, tied two and lost one game. play for the rest of the game, with a head injury.
FALCON OVER P. K. YONGE 19-6 On a quarterback keep, Gardner plunged over for
A hard fightin Falcon team o Ricky Gardner, the TD, and the half ended with the core 12-0.
Frank mith, Roger G rman, Glen Hunter, Dale On the econd half kick off, Cunningham of
M rritt, Johnny Cox, Rocky Pitts, Allan orton, Yonge ran the ball from the 20 to the 43. But Yon e
Calvin Dampier, Langdon Kirby, ike Lee and could not put together enough spark to get a TD.
David Harrin ton cored their first win at M mo- The Falcons took possession of the ball and moved
it from their territory to the 16- yard line of Yonge.
rial Field.
Lake City won the to and elected to receive. J?hnson and Smith of Yonge put together a eries of
Frank ~ mith ot the ball on the 20 and ran it to the fust downs and marched the ball 4 yards for a TD
33. In the first eries of downs the Fa Icons were In the forth quarter, Roger German recovered ·
forced to punt. another fumble for the Falcons, which et up anoth-
P. K. Yonge couldn't do anythin again t the fight- er TD. Harrington went over on a hand off, and
ing Falcons and punted back. Gar. dner pa ed to Hunter for the extra point.
Wah a minute and a half to go, P. K. Yonge tned
Under the leadership of quarterback Ricky Gard- to bomb a score but failed. Final score Lake City
ner, the Falcon marched to their first touchdown 19, P. K. Yonge 6.
on an end around to Mike Lee who ran 53 yards.
The extra point failed, and the Falcons kicked off FALCONS TIE PALATKA 13-13
to P. K. Yon e. Another ee-saw battle about mid- In action at Memorial field the Falcons tied the
field with n ither ide making lar e gains. Then on Palatka Bearcat .
a punt toP. K. Yonge, the ball was fumbled, and Lake City won the toss and elected to receive.
the Fa leon were in Yon e' territory. The ball was Glen Hunter carried the ball for 25 yards on the
moved to the ic yard lin , where Yon e again took kickoff. The Palatka defense held, and the Falcons
ov r. On the econd play a fumble at the one yard were forced to punt.
lin recov red by the Falcon et up another touch- . The Bearcats were uccessful in their march down
down. Frank mith parked most of the line bucks, f1eld, and on a series of first down they moved
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