PLAYING "GOOBER TOWN" IN THE SNOW

By Richard Drake, guest writer

It did not snow often in Clovis when we were growing

up.

The annual football game with The Portales Rams 

was always played on Thanksgiving Day....it was an

old tradition.

One Thanksgiving we had to play the Rams after a

big snow. The Clovis school system did its best to

remove the snow from Wildcat Field. They "cleared"

the field pretty good and a freeze followed...just 

enough to make a messy field.

There were ridges everywhere. I loved it! I had good

cleats and knew which direction I was going. Jerry 

Lott and Dwayne Perry were good with their passes.

It was a wonderful game, especially since we beat

"Goober Town" High School. The exact score is lost

somewhere in the mists of time!

They had found that their manager had a good passing

arm, and they put him in and threw a spread formation

at us. Their problem was that their guards and tackles

did not have enough speed to block our crashing ends!

It was not fair but we did not let up. The poor passer

barely survived.

Bob Snipes, CHS, had a good game as our fullback.

WHAT HAPPY MEMORIES!

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FOR MIL'S PLACE

By Richard Drake, 

   "The Bard" of CHS '53