Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal, Volume 8, Number 3, September 1998 Page: 120
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Nesbitt Memorial Library Journal
nals," opened their second season with a home
game, the first official high school game played
in Columbus. Their field was at West End Park,
on the south side of the river just west of the
north bridge. The game, against Weimar, was
reportedly rather dull. Both teams simply ran
up the middle, with very few substantial gains
by either team. There were numerous punts and
neither team scored.
Unfortunately, the Cardinals kept their
scoreless streak through the first five games.
The team finally scored, and got the first vic-
tory in the school's history, against the Rich-
mond Wildcats. Richmond jumped out to a 6-0
lead, scoring a quick touchdown after an inter-
ception. But the Cards battled back and drove
the ball deep into Wildcat territory. They were
set up with a first and goal at the two yard line
when the half ended. The Cards finally broke
their scoring drought in the third quarter. Earl
Brune got both Columbus touchdowns. The first
was set up by Ernest Lawrence's recovery of a
fumbled punt.
The locals started to get the hang of the
game against Flatonia and Sealy. For the first
time they ran fakes and regularly completed
passes. In fact, they threw their first two touch-
down passes against Sealy, one a fifty-yarder
from Brune to John Huebel. Perhaps signifi-
cantly, the Cardinals played Sealy under a new
coach, Herman Lowrey Bills Skinner. Coach
A. L. Ahrens resigned the day after the Flatonia
game, and Skinner, a local businessman, took
over the team for the last two games.
1928
Coach. Otis Coffey; Record: 2-7 (lost to
Somerville 2-0, lost to Bastrop 13-0, lost to
Eagle Lake 19-0, beat Weimar by forfeit, lost
to Smithville 44-0, lost to Weimar 13-0, lost to
Hallettsville 6-0, lost to Rosenburg 32-6, beat
Richmond 20-2)The 1928 Cardinals were held scoreless for their
first seven games, but were nonetheless cred-
ited with a victory. On October 12, the Weimar
Wildcats beat the Cards 9-0, but then forfeited
the game because they had used an ineligible
player. The following week, the scheduled game
with Hallettsville was postponed because sev-
eral Cardinal players were ill. The team scored
its first points of the year in its penultimate
game. Charlie Schultz hit Raymond Guyon,
then Billie Richardson, to put the Cards deep
in Rosenburg territory, and Richardson carried
the ball over. Columbus' lone legitimate vic-
tory of the year came the following week. Red
Rose, Schultz, and Richardson all scored. But
the victory was somewhat tainted. Their oppo-
nent, Richmond High School, had no athletic
coach on its staff.
1929
Coach. J. H. Harry; Record. 9-3 (beat Rich-
mond 32-0, lost to Bastrop 12-6, beat Rosenburg
7-0, beat Flatonia 16-12, beat La Grange 19-
0, beat Giddings 19-0, beat Eagle Lake 12-6,
beat Weimar 25-0, lost to Smithville 3-0, lost
to Hallettsville 7-0, beat Flatonia 27-6, beat a
town team 19-6)
In 1929, under new coach J. H. Harry, the
school's fifth in the four years it had fielded a
team, the Cardinals enjoyed their first winning
season. In a big early season victory, they up-
set Rosenburg on Red Rose's 73 yard intercep-
tion return for a touchdown. The team then tal-
lied six straight victories to challenge for the
district title. The biggest game in the stretch
was that with the Eagle Lake Eagles. The 1928
coach, Otis Coffey, had left Columbus to take
over the coaching job in Eagle Lake, where he
had a future college star, Bill Wallace, to work
with. But Wallace missed the Columbus game
with an illness, and the Cardinals won in an120
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