FOOTBALL Bisons show spirit and IISON comerback Bob Pearcy is finally stopped by severa l Majors ofter intercepti ng a M ill saps' pass. Harding won the Homecoming thriller 39-0. desire • rugged play With h igh hopes and good prospects, Harding began i ts 1963 grid campaign, but due to injuries and other disappointments the Bisons fell to last place in the AIC. In the first game with University of Tennessee Martin Branch , Harding faced a much bigger and more polished t eam and was defeated 19-7 by two long passes. Conference play began with a 23-7 loss to a young, fired-up Tech team . In this game injuries began to mount up . The next two games were home games which the Bisons lost to Southern State and Ouachita . The Ouachita game proved very costly to the Bisons because there were many injuries to key players . The next two games the Bisons faced two of the top teams in the conference wi thou t the services of eleven of the first twenty- two players. For most of the remainder of the season the coaches had to rely heavi ly upon freshmen and 'sophomores who gained valuable experience. Scoring twice in the second quarter and twice in the fourth quarter the Arkansas Sta te Teachers Bears defea ted Harding 28-0. Then Arkansas A&M r an away with the nex t game 35-7. FOOTBALL TEAM. FRONT ROW: Aigee, Watson , Honey, McAfee . Brock. Campbell , Corter, Tubb, McGee. Bob Pearcy. SECOND ROW: Coach Prock. Tucker, Ford , Johnson. Prince, Peacock. D. Cox , E. Davis, Maddox, Hillon . THIRD ROW Jones (manager!. Mote, B. Cox . Chandler, Plummer. Moss, Stone, Phillips, Ritch ie. pour . Coach All ison . FOURTH ROW, Ragsdale. Brown , Jern igon , Soman e, Thompson , Jeter, Henry, Sounders. Foster, Arnold (manager). FIFTH ROW: Camp, Odom, Outlaw, Bill Pearcy, Ruckman, L Jones, J. Davis, R. 00\1 s, Dean, Coach Altman .
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