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To: Bender2

Corsicana... Home of the Corsicana Comet...

Happy Thanksgiving!


24 posted on 11/24/2016 7:00:29 AM PST by Rummyfan
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To: Rummyfan
Re: Home of the Corsicana Comet....

Gadzooks, Rummy-- Most FR folks here about know Corsicana for the world renown Collins Street Fruit Cake and occasionally hometown of Classic County Music Legend Lefty Frizzell and that lovable FR bucket of bolts, me--

Yet you are a true Texas football history aficionado mentioning Bobby Wilson, the Corsicana Comet. The Tigers won the m1932 Texas High School Championship when there was just one playing the Fort Worth Masonic Home Might Mites to a 0 to 0 tie, yet Corsicana was awarded the Title on penetrations 3 - 0. A penetration, you young whippersnappers, was moving the ball past the opponent's 20 yard line.

Wilson moved on to Southern Methodist in Dallas to play in the classic game that decided who went to the Rose Bowl from the Southwest Conference in 1935. It was Against TCU with Slingin’ Sammy Baugh. SMU won it, 20—14, with a stunning 50-yard touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter from Bob Finley to Wilson, who made a leaping, diving catch in the end zone.

If you know who the Corsicana Comet is... you may be a Texas Football fan.

And, by George, Rummy, you... do!

32 posted on 11/24/2016 12:42:24 PM PST by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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