First a little catching up. I found an article on the Ganado victory. Red Binford had a good game -- today is his birthday, by the way.
I also found a couple of pictures from freshman initiation, which I mentioned last week. I wonder why they didn't get some buffed football players to act in the skit. (Just kidding.)
The Viking Shield reported the student body was behind the move to get a mascot.
Finally, the Vikings beat Needville 14-0 in both team's district opener. The two newspaper accounts make it sound like a tough victory.
Our friends to the north, the Rockwall Yellow Jackets, were also victorious in a low-scoring game over 7th-ranked Plano. (It's hard for me to imagine Plano as a AA school.) It was their district opener, too.
The Dallas Morning News honored Jackie Anderson as Back of the Week, and Rockwall popped up in the top-10 ranks for AA teams. Dulles is absent in the poll. (Oops: looks like I jumped the gun on the poll. It came out the following week, after teams had played 8 games.)
It seems Rockwall was the site of exciting events besides football in the fall of '63.
