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Columbus High School Cardinals
upset. The Eagles jumped off to a 6-0 lead, and
were in control of the game until the fourth
period. Then Rose and Justin Stein each scored
touchdowns to give the Cards the win. The game
winning TD was set up by a remarkable 35
yard pass from Rose to Stein.
The victory put the Cards into the thick of
a district race for the first time. They stood at
4-1, just a half game behind the Schulenburg
Shorthorns, who were 4-0, and just ahead of
Bastrop and Smithville, who were 3-1. But the
loss to Smithville knocked the Cardinals out of
the race. The game stirred up the first traces of
controversy in the team's history. In the third
quarter, Rose had carried the ball into
Smithville's end zone for an apparent touch-
down. But the officials did not blow the play
dead until Rose had been pushed back out of
the end zone by the defense. The touchdown
would have won the game for Columbus, but
was not counted by the officials.
1930
Coach: J. H. Harry; Record: 4-6-1 (lost to
Lockhart 7-0, lost to Richmond 19-13, lost to
La Grange 13-0, tied Flatonia 7-7, beat
Wharton 20-0, beat Bellville 38-6, lost to
Bastrop 31-0, beat Weimar 52-0, beat Wallis
52-7, lost to Eagle Lake 88-0 or 89-0, lost to
Hallettsville 51-0)
The Cardinals 1930 season was characterized
by apparent discontent with the coaching staff
and lopsided defeats on the field. Though team
star Red Rose was back, the Cardinals opened
the year with three consecutive defeats and a
tie. They rebounded to post impressive victo-
ries over Wharton and Bellville. Bastrop,
though, delivered what Coach J. H. Harry char-
acterized as the "worst pasting" any team of
his had ever endured, and ripped his team for a
lack of effort. He also berated the fans. The
Colorado County Citizen quoted him as saying"Anyone would think I didn't know what I was
doing. Some of these fellows make me tired
the way they nag at me after pulling men out or
sending them in. The spectators would do bet-
ter if they nagged the fellows I sent or pulled
out about their playing."
Perhaps motivated by their coach's strong
remarks, the Cardinals rebounded to dominate
two weak opponents and bring their record to
4-4-1. Then they met Otis Coffey's Eagle Lake
Eagles. With Bill Wallace and J. K. Davidson
each scoring six touchdowns, the Eagles handed
the Cardinals their worst defeat in history. The
Cardinals tried to beat the Eagles by going to
the forward pass, then a rare strategy in high
school football. The Cards threw eighteen
passes, but completed only one. Fourteen went
incomplete and three were intercepted. The
Eagles ran up 36 first downs, the Cardinals only
three. The following week, Hallettsville blis-
tered the Cardinals to end their season. By then,
Harry's days in Columbus were numbered. In
April, he announced that he was leaving the
school after only two seasons to accept an as-
sociate professorship at Columbia University
in New York.
1931
Coach. Ben Gustine, Record. 0-8 (lost to
Flatonia 20-0, lost to Weimar 6-0, lost to
Schulenburg 23-0, lost to La Grange 46-0, lost
to Smithville 25-0, lost to Bellville 25-0, lost to
Bastrop 31-0, lost to Eagle Lake 61-0)
Coach Ben Gustine began a miserable four sea-
sons at the helm in 1931 with what may have
been the worst team in Columbus High School
history. The team not only lost all eight games
it played, but failed to score a point all season.
Only once, in the second week of the season
against Weimar, did they hold an opponent
below twenty points. The season-ending slaugh-
ter by Eagle Lake was one of the worst in the121
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