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Mountaineers Romp On Bessemer City 59-0 In Opener McGinnis Leads Romp Wiih Three Touchdowns The Kings Mountain Mountain eers got off to a rip-roaring start for the 1955 football season by romping over Bessemer City by a 59-0 score Friday night. After being held to one touch down in the first quarter, the Mountaineers broke loose for three more TDs in the second stanza to put the game on ice. Bessemer City never seriously threatened to score during the game, although penalities hurt them in several instances. The Mountaineers won the toss and elected to receive, taking a short kick-off on their own 47 yard line. They immediately drove for a first down on runs of 6 and 11 yards over left guard by John McGinnis and Mearl Valen tine. Finding themselves stymied on the ground, the local lads then kicked out of bounds on thle Bes ... City JZl varfl.Hne with George Harris doing the punFing. Bessemer City picked up five yards on two running plays, and quick-kicked to Kings Mountain’s 36 yard line. Mearl Valentine,* husky full back, promptly picked up 48 yards to the Yellow Jacket 4. On the next play, Valentine plunged over the goal line for the first touchdown. J. L. Stewart split the uprights with a perfect kick for the extra point. A bad kick-off gave Bessemer City the ball on the Mountaineer 49 yard line, but the Jackets found the rough Kings Mountain line too much to cope with. After a loss of six yards on three plays, they kicked. McGinnis and Valentine romp Jed for runs of 8 and 12 yards to 'give the Mountaineers their fifth first down of the game. McGinnis and Harris then reeled off runs of six and five yards for the next YARDSTICK KM BC FINAL SCORE ...... 59 0 Touchdowns rushing . . 6 . . 0 TD. passing . 2 0 TD. iumble runback .... 1 0 TOTAL TD'S. 9 0 POT. placements .4 0 PAT. passing . 1 0 TOTAL PAT. . .. 5 0 First Downs rushing . 6 6 FD. passing . 1 0 TOTAL 1st DOWNS .7 6 Yds. gained rushing . . 282 132 Yds. lost rushing . 10 32 NET RUSH GAIN 272 100 No. rushes attempted ... 27 33 Average per rush . 9.4 3.0 Passes attempted . 6 9 Passes completed . 4 0 YDS. GAINED PASSING 69 0 Net Rush & Passing ... 335 100 Number of plays (not cbunting kicks and penalties where play is nullified) . 34 42 Avg. Gain Per Play.9.8 2.4 Passes intercepted by .... 1 0 YARDS RUNBAK 19 0 Number of punts . 1 5 Yards punts went ...... 22 120 Punts had blocked .0 1 Yds. punts averaged .... 22 30 YDS. RETURNED ...... 49 0 Number of kickoffs.10 i Yds" kickoffs' wSrii ~'7. . oai —12 Yds. kickoffs averaged 39.3 13 YDS. KO RETURNED . 0 101 Ball lost on downs . 1 0 Ball lost on fumbles .... 0 4 YDS. FUMBLES RET. ... 65 0 Number of penalties .... 8 12 Times enforced . 5 7 YDS. PENALIZED . 45 49 TOTAL YARDS GAIN ED IN GAME (add yards gained run-back punts, kickoffs, inter cepter passes. & re covered fumbles to net rushing, passing plus penalty gains) ...... 517 246 first down. » Mike Houser, who replaced Jerry McCarter in the Mountain eer line-up, got loose for five yards, as the quarter ended with the ball on the Yellow Jacket’s 20 yard line. Mearl Valentine picked up four yards on the second play of the second quarter to the one yard line, alter George Harris had brought the ball to the Jacket five-yard line on an option play good for 15 yards. Harris then sneaked over for the second TD. The extra point try by Stewart veered to the left and the Mountaineers led by a score of 13-0 in the early minutes of the second quarter. Still unable to move on the ground after they had taken the kick-off on their own six-yard line, the Jackets punted to their own 37-yard stripe. George Harris took the punt and raced for 33 yards to the Jacket 4-yard stripe. Three plays later, Kings Mountain had its third touchdown as Jerry McCar ter plunged over from the one yard line. The kick by Stewart was good and the Mountaineers led 20-0. The Mountaineers missed a scoring opportunity after the Jac kets fumbled on their own 20-yard line following the kick-off. A series of four plays found the local boys two yards shy of a first down and the Jackets took over on downs on their own 22. John Wilson then got off on the Jacket’s longest run of the •gtfSic," a tackle. Sid Woody followed this with a 12-yard dash to the Moun taineers 39. The lialf ended with the Jackets in possession on the Kings Mountain 30. Wilson took the opening kick off of the third quarter and raced back 24 yards to his own 35. He reeled off three morte runs of 2, 3, and 8 yards to give the Jac ket’s their third first down of the game on the Mountaineer 48. On the next play, Wilson was hurt and had to be removed from the game, this was quite a blow to the offensive movement of the Jackets. Bessemer City picked up anoth er first down on a 10-yard run by Strutt, but failed to keep the ball as Strutt fumbled three plays lat ter. George Harris scooped up the loose ball and raced 65 yards to give the Mountaineers their first talley of the second half. John Copr. Advertisers CxcKong# Inc. 1955 We're blowing lots of savings vour way at our annual FALL HEALTH & BEAUTY SALE which features big values in all the things vou‘11 need to look vour best and fe<jl your best in the new season. So get ready for Fall by getting all your favorite health and beauty aids at Kings Mountain Drug Company where it's a breeze to save with low prices like these. Woodbury Mak-Up Glo 59c Etkjuet STICK DEODORMT 63c Keeps you dainty all day M’autif*/ gta _breck $1.50 Value f I CLASSIC **»» some N#w- •otytofiii, «2S® onli *pla«h funnel. ■ KINGS MOUNTAIN! r^C^Dsro.e DRUG COMPANY PHONE 416.81 . THE CITY'S MODERN STORE HOW THEY DID IT RUSHING: PLAYER McGinnis Valentine George M. Houser McCarter Harris TOTALS Wilson Clark S. Harmon Strutt Woody Hodge TOTALS PASSING: PASSER Harris KINGS MOUNTAIN T 7 1 3 3 6 28 G 138 104 3 7 7 23 283 L 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 BESSEMER CITY 49 40 7 16 16 4 132 0 5 0 10 12 5 32 Net 138 104 7 7 13 273 49 35 7 6 4 —1 100 Woody Fletcher Strutt TOTALS RECEIVING: PLAYER M. Houser Bridges McGinnis TOTALS KINGS MOUNTAIN Att. Comp. Int. 6 4 0 BESSEMER CITY 3 0 1 3 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 KINGS MOUNTAIN Caught Yds. 2 31, 3 1 20 1 9 4 63 A*g. 19.7 13.0 3.0 2.3 2.3 2.2 9.7 8.1 3.9 3.5 1.0 .57 —.33 3.0 Yds. 63 0 0 0 TD 2 0 0 0 0 TD 1 1 0 2 Mcuinnis tnrew a Deaumui diock that jenabled Harris to go all the way. Harris passed to Charlies Brid ges for the extra point, and Kings Mountain led 34-0. Sid Woody took the kick-off and scampered 11 yards to his own 30. After picking up one yard on a line play, Strutt dropped a oii.d Ic;’* - ed by Keith Layton for the Moun taineers. Starting on the Jacket’s 21, the-i local boys got four on a run by McGinnis, and on the next play Valentine raced 17 yards for pay dirt. However, a clipping penalty brought the ball back out to the Jacket 20. Harris then lobbed an easy pass to Bridges in the fend zone and the Mountaineers had their seventh TD. Stewart’s extra point try was good and the score was 41-0. Bessemer City was unable to move after thfe kick-off and punt ed to the Kings Mountain 41. Two plays later, McGinnis went around right end on an option play and scampered the 69 yards needed for the TD. The extra point attempt was blocked and the score was 47-0. Still finding thfemselves stuck on offense, the Jackets started to punt on fourth down. J. L. Ste wart raced in from his tackle po sition to block the punt, and the Mountaineers took over on the Jacket’s 27-yard line. McGinnis then promptly took off for 27 yards on an option play for the touchdown. The extra point was no good and thfe score stood at 53-0. Bessemer City made two first downs following the kick-off on fine runs of 15 and 6 yards by Connie Clark. Minutes later, af ter both sides had been penalized, the Jackets lost the ball on a fum ble by Sid Woody. Starting on the Bfessemer City 18, John McGinnis swept right end for 18 yards to end the game’s scoring. A bad snap from center caused McGinnis to try to run the extra point, but he failed. Three plays later, the final gun sounded with Bessemer City in possession on their own 44. Bessemer City found the going rough from the opening kick-off and managed to run only 12 plays in Kings Mountain territory dur ing the game. On the other hand, the Moun taineers stayed in Jacket terri tory most of the evening running 25 plays there. * McGinnis was the big gun on the ground for the Mountaineers, gaining 138 yards in seven at tempts for a 19.7 average. Va lentine had 104 yards gained in eight attempts for an average of 13.0. A total of 283 yards was racked up on the ground by Kings Moun tain. They lost only 10 yards rushing, giving them a gain of 273 yards for 28 tries, an average of 9.7 yards per try. The local boys scored two of their tallys on passes, with Har ris completing four out of six, for a total of 63 yards. For Bessemer City, Wilson was the biggest ground gainer pick ing up 49 yards on six tries for an average of 8.1. The Jackets could gain only 132 yards on the ground. They lost 32 yards rush ing giving them a total of 100 yards gained in 33 tries. This is an average of 3.0 yards per try. Nine passes were attempted by the visitors with no comple tions. One of the passes was in terctepted by Kings Mountain. Penalities were about the same for both teams, with Kings Moun tain losing 45 yards on eight pen alities, and Bessemer lost 49 yards on 12 infractions. THE LINE-UP Bessemer City 36 Fletcher 64 Herman 67 J. Wolfe 85 Coon 60 Crlgg 70 Cuthrie 61 Davis 66 Woody 11 Wilson 63 Strutt 39 Clark Pos. LE LT LG C RG RT RE QB RH LH FB Kings Mountain Layton 84 Wells 88 Wright 64 Ormand 79 Smith 69 Marlowe 87 Bridges 44 Harris 86 McCarter 58 McGinnis 57 Valentine 86 SUBS. — Kings Mountain: Burton, 75 3owers. 76; Thomasson. 77; Gilbert, 80; Davis, 82; Stewart, 83; Hinson, 89; Coins. 40; Spurllng. 41; Ivey, 42; Geary, 56; George, 59; Jackson, 60; Baity. 61; Houser. 62; Wilson, 66; Chastine, 67; B. Houser, 68; E. Houser, 70 Bessemer City: Hodge, 62; Harmon, 41; Barnes. 33; Helms. 34; Car ver, 16; W7yatt, 32: and Shope, 40. SCORE BY QUARTERS Kings Mountain Bessemer City 20 0 14 0 Scoring: Kings Mountain, Touchdowns — Valentine (four-yard plunge, 1st quarter); Harris (eight yards on sneak. 2nd quarter); McCarter (12-yard run. 2nd quarter); M. Houser (21 yard pass from Harris, 2nd quarter); Harris (65-yard run after recov ering fumble, 3rd quarter); Bridges (30 yard pass from Harris. 3rd quarter); Mc Ginnis (69-yard run, 4th quarter); McGin nis (27-yard run, 4th quarter). McGinnis (18-yard run, 4th quarter). PAT—Stewart West WU1 Host Mountaineers Friday Night Coach Shu Carlton is working j primarily on defense this week in preparation for Friday’s game with West Mecklenburg High at Charlotte. Apparently satisfied for the present with his offense, which rolled up 59 points against Bes semer City in last Friday’s open er, Carlton is workirg his team on a new set of defensive ma neuvers for the single wing at tack of West Mecklenburg. West opened its season last week with a 13-0 win over East Mecklenburg at Griffith Park. Coach Don Parker and Fred Withers scouted the game and both report that West has a lar ge team, and a pretty gqod ground attack. Finback Mearl Valentine re ceived an injured ankle in last week’s game, and was working out in. light equipment early this week. Valentine is taking heat treatments for the damaged an kle and will probably be back in the starting line-up against West. Friday night's game will be played at Richardson Field, which is located at Harding High School in Charlotte. Kick off time is set for 8 o’clock. The TVA power project has re paid its debt to the federal gov ernment — 17 years early. The repayment included more than 10 million dollars interest. Pw'rw&ir? 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