San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-10-25
HERO
OF EAGLES
DECISIVE
VICTORY
Smooth-working Team Is
Personal Triumph for
Coach Cannon. \

Any doubt as to Bobby Cannon'S
ability as a football coach was dis
PEELED in the minds of some 5000
excited fans who saw his Bracken-
ridge High Eagles hand the power
full Corpus Christi Buccaneers a 10
too lacing ut Schwab Field Satur1
day afternoon.
1t was personal triumph for
Bobby, engineered by a crew of.
courageous battlers who went out
determined to fight their heads off
for their mentor. A week ago they
gave miserable display of football
in defeating San Antonio Academy.
Saturday. facing team which had.
beaten Main Avenue High School and
held the Austin High Maroons to
tie, they conducted themselves like
champions.
In weeks time, the Eagles coach
has picked up the parts of what mp
peared 10 be a rather demoralized
team and nodded it into a smooth-runr
ming machine: dangerous, fighting
machine. Saturdays victory leaves
the Eagles with only one obstacle IN
their path to the championship of
District s, Austin High School.
FRIERY HITS 1T UP.
Saturdays came was won by the
Individual brilliGnce of Hub" Friery.
who demoralized the Buccaneers with
such an exhibition of kicking, rum
ming, stiff-arming, side-stepping and
passing as is seldom seen in a high
school game.
1t was saved by a staunch line
t.-birb StnnuaI hn lie fhraaf Hantaiti
Askey, almost dead in his tracks and
refused to crack in the face of
great Corpus Christi offensive in
the first and fourth quarters.
Corpus Christi brought to San An
tonic a fine forward line, one which
outcharged the Eagles practically the
entire game and tackled ferociously,
but there was no real running threat
behind it. The buccaneers seem 10
possess Il .45 caliber line and d.
caliber backfield. if you know your
artillery.
Mayo, right tackle of the visitors.
| opened up yawning holes for his
! backs to plunge through, but after
they passed that first wall they i'm
variably were hurled back by Big Bob
Fenner or Frank Cheatham. Through
the first quarter in particular. Fem
ner made at least half ot the Braek-
enridge tackles, while Cheatham, at
rowing center, played a wicked de-
| fensive game.
ENDS ON JOB.
Captain Mona Rees and Bass al
| the end posts were unbeatable. Ob
Friery's long punts they time after
time hit the receiver at the same time
spilling him in his tracks. The
visitors interference seldom succeed
ed in taking them off their feet.
Breckenridge scored both its toucll-
downs in the third quarter, Captain
Rees snagging 20-yard pass from
| Fricry for the first and "Posey"
Elkins plunging four yards across for
the second after an attempted kick
! by Askcy has been blocked and rc-
covered on the 20-yard line.
The Eagles lost chances to put
across three more counters on fun
bles by Sweet. Fenner and Brother
man within the five-yard line. while
the Buccaneers failed by two yards to
score in the closing minutes of play-
The Eagles made six first downs; Cor
pus Christi, two.
Corpus Christi threw n scare int6
the Eagles in the first play of the
game. Quarterback White elected &c
make the first attempt ut ,he Bracken-
ridge line, hi left tackle and was ape
parently stopped. but sifted through
and up the sideline 80 yards befGrs
the asfcty man downed him. That
settled it. however, and, after thre's
futile attempts at the line, AsSeY
kicked OYER the goal line. N
IN EAGLE TERRITORY.
The rest Of the quarter was kicks
ing duel between Friery and Ask2t.
with the Purple team making n des~
perate effort TO push the visitors
back to midfield. The ball was IN
breckenridge territory throughout.
Askey again kicked behind the goal
posts To start the second quarter. but
the move seemed to irritaie Friery
and move him to sudden action. ~
soon as the ball had been put bark
in play he raced around right end iaf
10 yards and. with a clear field ia
front of him, was oyertaken By Askeys
Cannon, sensing that his team had
hit its stride. then sent in Sweet iut
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