50 Years Ago, Shorthorns Won Fayette County’s First State Football Title

The Schulenburg Shorthorn football team won the 1972 state title with a 1410 win over Clarendon. It was not only Schulenburg’s first football state title but the first won by a Fayette County team.

Here’s how the game was chronicled in the Dec. 29, 1972 edition of The Fayette County Record:

“The Schulenburg Shorthorns just didn’t believe in any more ties up at Brownwood, so they went for all the marbles and the strategy paid off. As a result, Coach Tom Walker’s charges used another of their now famous closing quarter rallies to hand the Clarendon Broncos a 1410 setback with a touchdown with just 23 seconds left to play to put the keys to the state Class A throne room in the Shorthorns’ possession. The drive to the title was an 80-yard effort in 12 plays, with a 14-yard pass interference penalty thrown in for added yardage.

Trailing by 10-7 with 4:06 left to play and with Clarendon driving goalward for what would have been an insurance touchdown, Allen Mikesky in-

See ‘72 Shorthorns, Page 18