SPORTS
Looking back: First Bowie coach
This story and photo ran in the July 24, 1958 edition of the Bowie News. It is about Bowie Independent School District’s first football coach, Percy Stallings. If anyone has any stories about Stallings, we would love to hear about it.
A Bowie business man – Percy Stallings – was the first coach in Bowie High School.
Although he gave much of his time to the job he was not paid. He turned out some mighty fine teams from 1912 to 1917 when he was the coach. Bowie played teams from much bigger towns in those days as they did not have organized play for high schools.
Three members of the famous football teams produced by Mr. Stallings went on to live in Bowie – Bob Burgess of the Burgess Funeral Home, Jess Parrish who went on to play semi-pro baseball and C. A. Wilson who became a football star at Austin College and who owned a the Wilson Drug Store.
Those on the first football team coached by Percy Stallings were: Bob Burgess, Claude Buffalo, Emett Archer of Austin, Floyd Archer of Wichita Falls, Weldon Youree of Arizona, Floyd Springer of Wichita Falls, Jack Younger of Amarillo, Dick Gililland of Lawton, Ben Dearmore of Fort Worth, Tom Stephens of San Antonio, Robert Meyer who gave his life for his country, George Barry of Childress, Carl Hare of Lubbock, James Ayres of Fort Worth Jess Parrish of Bowie.
Percy Stallings was an outstanding player on the University of Texas football team and always has been a sports enthusiast, especially as a booster for the Jackrabbits. His high school team was the first team in North Texas to effectively use the forward pass.
“The Jackrabbits received their name from the Decatur fans when we were playing Decatur one time. The boys were moving so fast over the field that they nicknamed them the Jackrabbits,” Stallings said. “In the fourteen years that we played we were only beat one time and that was by Electra.”
To read the full story, pick up a copy of the mid-week edition of the Bowie News.
Bowie, playing on a short rest, held with host Jacksboro for most of the volleyball match Oct. 1, but the Tigerettes pulled away late and defeated the Lady Rabbits 3-1 (26-24, 12-25, 25-14, 22-25).
The match was scheduled for Oct. 2 but was moved. Both teams are now 2-2 in District 6-3A.
Jacksboro got out to a quick lead in game one before Olivia Stewart’s kill and a three-point Olivia Richey serving run put the visitors up 8-7. Junior Abby Reneau broke things open with a six-point string to give Bowie a 15-8 cushion and force Jacksboro into a timeout.
The Tigerettes came back and took an 18-16 lead. KP Rutherford’s kill broke the serve and allowed Molly Enlow to tie the game at 18.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Gold-Burg Football Coach Austin Norman called his Bears’ 35-32 loss to host Perrin a “barn burner”.
It most definitely was as Gold-Burg, now 1-5 for the year gave the 5-1 Pirates everything they wanted for four quarters. Gold-Burg scored on the last play of the first half on a Peyton Epperson run with the two point conversion cutting the deficit to 20-16.
The Bears were their own worst enemy to open the third quarter with face mask and offside penalties moving the Pirates downfield setting up a first-and-goal at the Bear three. Defense by Epperson, Keelyn Case and Barrett Allen and a pair of Perrin penalties helped stop the drive and force a turnover on downs.
Gold-Burg was slapped with an intentional grounding penalty on the first play, giving Perrin a safety and extending the Pirate lead to 22-16. Defense by Epperson and JoJuan Grace after a first down run closed out the third quarter.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
Nocona and Prairie Valley cross country teams took part in the Prairie Valley Invitational Sept. 20 while Bowie varsity runners competed in the Lubbock Invitational.
Lubbock
Leading the Rabbits was Kellen Rater who finished 10th among 162 runners with a time of 17:24.50. Finishing behind Rater was Shawn Willett with a time of 19:33.20. Hayden Sutton ran a 20:27.10 followed by Taven Melton in 20:39.20, Coleman Holloway in 20:53.80 and Jaxon Castro with a time of 21:31.60.
Laney Segura led the Lady Rabbits with a time of 14:41.30. She was followed by Kylee Waldrep in 15:56.80, Bella Lozano in 16:04.80, Angeles Alvarez with a time of 16:15.40, AnDee Miller in 16:23.70 and Isabella Caswell in 16:51 flat.
For further details, pick up a copy of Thursday’s Bowie News.
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