TARTAN Fall 1962 - Page 2 - Editorial

TARTAN Fall 1962 - Page 4 - Sports

These are the sports pages for some of the Fall 1962 TARTAN newspapers.

A pretty good season.

Adios

TARTAN Fall 1962 - Page 1

Page 1 from several Fall 1962 TARTAN newspapers.  Enjoy.

1952 - 1953 Eastside Business Ads

At the time these businesses were active, the Central Meadowbrook area between Meadowbrook Junior High and EHHS was mostly open land with some widely spaced homes on small acreage, similar to Colleyville in the 1970s,  MJH opened the year after this and EHHS would not open for another 6-years.  Handley was still a separate area and building was active along Meadowbrook Drive, mostly on its south side.

Ft. Worth's fine historian, Phil Vincent, grew up in this neighborhood and has lived in the area most of his life.  Phil kindly contributed the following recollections about many of these businesses:

Morrison's Pharmacy was next door to John Morris Florist on one side and Worth Food Mart on the other. Before Jack Collier's came along, Morrison's was sort of the premier drugstore in Meadowbrook.

Kuykendall Lumber was on Collard Street, just off Lancaster. The Kuykendalls built Panther Hall and Meadowbrook Bowl hoping to become part of a national bowling league. It didn't fly. Panther Hall became a dance hall and performance venue, first for country acts, then for rock artists. Eventually both PH and the bowling alley failed, and that area is now a soccer field for Texas Wesleyan University.

Jack Collier Drug was at Ayers and Lancaster. Great full-service drugstore. Good soda fountain, lunch counter, pharmacy, medicine shop, etc. I dream about the place.

Meadowbrook Drug was at Meadowbrook and Ayers. Never a great drugstore, but was there for years. Northcut's insurance agency was in the same strip, where Huey Northcut's barber shop had been. Not sure when he stopped cutting hair and started selling insurance, but the Northcut's daughter, Kay, was a good friend and classmate. Brilliant girl and woman. Died a couple of years ago after several long illnesses.

White Lake Dairy was an institution. It spread across White Lake and into what is now White Lake Hills. It was co-owned by Robert Mann Sr. and W.O. Kelly Sr, who were half-brothers. A silo from the dairy still stands west of Oakland.

Bernie Crowder's (Carol Crowder’s Dad) Texaco station was across Lancaster from the Gateway Theater and Kragen's Auto Supply. My dad traded there, and so did I when i got my first car. Bernie was a nice guy; good to do business with.

Crown Root Beer was three or four blocks east on the south side of Lancaster. I worked there as a carhop the summer of 1956, between my sophomore and junior years in high school. We served burgers, fries and root beer, which was delicious.

1962 Eastern Hills 8 - Paschal 7 Post-Game

And when it was done, a newcomer to the Ft. Worth city school football league had accomplished not only the unexpected...it had dumped the long-standing city standard bearer, R.L. Paschal by a single point.

Starting Saturday morning after the Friday night game, the Ft. Worth newspaper writers embarked on an amazing Paschal postmortem seeking to explain what happened to the City's darlings.  Praise toward our mighty Highlanders was given grudgingly but there was no shortage of speculation by the writers about some questionable calls, and on, and on.  The result was where a Friday night game was usually old news by the next day, this event went on into the following week as the writers kept moaning.

 
And finally, it was recognized that the old order had been rocked.  The Highlanders had 3 more games to play before they could claim the City title, but for a couple of weeks, they sat atop the City rankings all by themsleves.

 

Highlanders 8  Paschal 7

1962 Eastern Hills 8 - Paschal 7 Pre-Game

Pre-game clippings from both Ft. Worth papers; the Star-Telegram and the Press.  We had a couple of writers following our games, Tony Clark and Dana Campbell.  Both of them were probably in their mid to late twenties and boy could we get mad at them after reading some of their stuff.  In their world, Paschal was Ft. Worth; EHHS was a little noise out by Handley...not much to consider seriously.

These pre-game articles appear over the period of several days leading up to game day.  We got some attention to certain members of our team, but they really liked those Panthers, didn't they?

Early in the week, the coaches would pass out scouting reports for the next game.  I think Coach Willingham drew these things up, but I'm not sure if he was the only one.  As the two pages below illustrate, the information was pretty basic: Opponent's guys at each position, notes about their skills, their size; and on the next page or pages, there were diagrams of the opponents favorite plays.  Then for the rest of the week we would target our practices against those plays.

Once in the game, it was a matter of noting how big the other sonofabitch was and then challenging their best ones as soon and as firmly as possible.

 

As kids, we watched these articles pretty closely, saved some clippings as you can see here.  On game day, the butterflies set in.  Not too much, though...we were well coached and in great shape.  Everyone was healthy, as I recall.  Before going back to school to suit up for the game, we usually had the afternoon off to go home and relax.  Don't eat much, the coaches admonished; dry toast, some hot tea, maybe a small lean steak.  And so we did.

"Dump Paschal"