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Colorado County Black High School Football
or 21-0, Smithville, 55-0, and Eagle Lake, 40-
0 or 41-0. It is equally certain that the Wildcats
lost to Lockhart's Carver High School Green
Hornets near the end of the season on Novem-
ber 9, though the score might have been 37-7
or 34-6. What is in doubt is the results in their
early games against Houston's Carver High
School and Yoakum's Asberry High. One re-
port states that they tied Carver, 18-18, another
that they beat them, 19-18. Regarding Yoakum,
they either beat them, 14-9, or lost to them by
that score. Columbus was scheduled to play
Schulenburg on November 16, but no report of
that game has been found.
For the first time in 1951, the Columbus
Colored School team was referred to as the
Wildcats rather than simply as the Cats. The
Wildcat squad featured starters Joe Browning,
Charles Clayborne, T. C. Collier, Roy Lester
Glover, George Jarman, Tom Moore, Willis
Perkins, Willie C. Stewart, Charles Ray Tho-
mas, Earnest Turner, Joe Watkins, and reserves
Ben Denley, Edward Fitzgerald, Thurman
hlaynes, Pearl Middleton, Joe Mitchell, Charles
Perkins, Joe Pollard, Carl Remm, Q. Thomas,
Charles Turner, Eddie Winn, and Leon Woods.
1952
Coach: F. D. Harris; Known record. 4-1 (beat
Hempstead Sam Schwarz 8-6, beat Van Vleck
Herman 14-12, beat Elgin Washington 28-0,
beat Eagle Lake E. H. Henry 13-0, lost to
Lockhart Carver 32-0)
The Wildcats were scheduled to play ten games
in 1952. They won the first three games, beat-
ing Hempstead, Van Vleck, and Elgin. Later
in the season, on October 23, they shutout Eagle
Lake, and, on November 13, were shutout by
Lockhart. Nothing is known of the remaining
five games. The Wildcats district was comprised
of Elgin, Eagle Lake, Lockhart, La Grange
(whom they were scheduled to play on October18), Smithville (scheduled for November 7),
Bastrop (November 20), and Sealy (November
25). The other scheduled game was to be played
against Houston's Carver High School on No-
vember 1.
1953
Coach. Leon Haynes, Known record. 2-2 (beat
Yoakum Asberry 12-0, beat Bastrop Emile 26-
0, lost to Eagle Lake E. H. Henry 39-0, lost to
Lockhart Carver 26-0)
The Wildcats started the 1953 season with a
new coach, Leon Haynes, who was able to pre-
side over only two practices before the first
game of the season on September 20. Still, they
easily beat their opponent, the Yoakum Asberry
Tigers. Seven days later, they shut out the
Bastrop Bulldogs. Later in the season they were
shut out by Eagle Lake's E. H. Henry Blue
Eagles and Lockhart Carver's Green Hornets.
Unhappily, these are the only four games of
which any record apparently survives. Among
the players on the team were T. C. Collier,
Clarence Bratcher, Pete Floyd, Roy Glover,
John Axel, and Willie Gus Ashton.
1954
Coach: L. C. "Zip" Roach; Known record. 3-3
(lost to Yoakum Asberry 25-0, beat Bastrop
Emile 25-14, beat Elgin Washington 7-0, lost
to Eagle Lake E. H. Henry 19-14, beat
Smithville Mary A. Brown 19-0, lost to Lockhart
Carver 27-0)
Columbus Colored High School got its third
coach in as many seasons in 1954, when L. C.
"Zip" Roach took over the team. Coach Roach
opened his first season with no seniors and only
three juniors on his thirteen-man squad. The
team's inexperience showed in its opener. Play-
ing in Yoakum on September 18, they were
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