| Lufkin's 1943 high school football team was the first to play in the state finals. the team lost to San Angelo, 26-13, in Dallas. First row, from the left: Ed Parrish, Huda Green, James Mott, Buddy McKinney, Jesse Bolles, Oliver McKay, Ernest Lord, J.C. Koch and Bert Westmoreland. Second row from left: Elton Beaird, Walter Still, Kenneth Outlaw, Chester Moore, Buddy Shotwell, Joe Tilley, Thomas Lee Roebuck, Carl Peppard, Joe Fontenot and Richard Lewis. Third row from the left: Coach Buck Prejean, Bobby Musslewhite, Arthur Leggett, Stanley Beck, Tom Tatum, Carl Bassey, Pete Hughes, Pete Runnels, Harmon Carswell and Coach Watty Myers. Fourth row from the left: Richard Cox, Talmadge Garner, Ernest Rutland, Ernest Bartlett, Leroy Lott, Don Patterson, Jack Ivy, Everett Griffith, H.J. Shands Jr., Robert Booker and Bobby Medford. Not shown is Les Taylor. |
