Tuesday, May 12, 2020

THE HEROES OF THE 1950S, CITY NOTABLES IN LATER YEARS
























1950 Soft Shoe League: Former East Brownsville ( Los Tomates) Elementary, now Longoria 
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FIRST ROW: Lupe Garza, Armando Torres, Arval Headrick, Robert Santa Ana, Joe Manzano, Gilbert Acosta, Rene Rivera
SECOND ROW: Coach Ruben Torres, Tony AGuilar, Henry Zamarron, Juan Longoria, Abelardo Campos
THIRD ROW: (Name unknown), Roy Sanchez, (Name unknown) Albert Avalos, Juan B. Lopez

25 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is was a great team... thx for the post

Anonymous said...

My dad was on the team WOW!!!

Anonymous said...

I would GLADLY put Obama accomplishments up against Trump up or any Republican President of the past 40+ years.

It absolutely kills you guys that Obama has something that Trump will never have - the absolute respect and admiration of the majority of the American people.

Drumph (Trump's real last name)? LOSER

Anonymous said...

Donald Trump has decided that former President Barack Obama is the big new enemy to rant about all the time, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is falling in line. Trump spent Monday rage-tweeting about something called “Obamagate” and, asked by a reporter what crime he was accusing Obama of, said “You know what the crime. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.” (At no point did Trump name a crime.)

Hours later, Moscow McConnell appeared on the Team Trump Livestream with Trump daughter-in-law Lara, and went after Obama on COVID-19. “Clearly the Obama administration did not leave to this administration, any kind of game plan for something like this,” McConnell said.

The Obama administration literally left the Trump administration a literal pandemic playbook, complete with warnings about the need for testing and personal protective equipment and instructions for coordinated response

Trump ignored all of it.

Anonymous said...

Wow! What beautiful memories! Most were later members of the 1962-63 Golden Eagles who went to state quarterfinalists. I was able to identify most of them especially Albert Avalos who give his life for us in Viet Nam. We were all good kids

Anonymous said...

For Brownsville, it's always 3rd and long.

Anonymous said...

No size, no speed - even back then!

Anonymous said...

Write your trump shit some where else... the man is doing his job... if u don’t like him Send the check back

Anonymous said...

Who are the idiots criticising Trump? Stay on subject.

Anonymous said...

Yes, no size but an abundance of heart and a winning attitude. A bunch of hustling kids!!

Anonymous said...

If you were around when Arval Headrick was the fullback for the Eagles, you would know that he was all heart and legs. He was amazing on the field. We lost to Warren McVea's who made it to the NFL, but we never gave up. Coach Parker continued to back his boys up even after graduation, staying behind them and supporting them. That is what our coaches did then and they were not payed the amount of money the current coaches get. For those who say that we came short from a win, were you on or did you ever try to get on the team?

Anonymous said...

The haters are the non-achivers, the nerds, the bafoons, los idiotas and they squad here because nobody else wants them, ANONYMOUS is their ticket. At that time they were the cheerleaders wearing medias, now they are the perverts...

Anonymous said...

No maricones cheerleaders here, NOW THAT'S FOR SURE!!!

Anonymous said...



Arval was a halfback, Jim ticer was the fullback.

Anonymous said...

Rubio was the fullback and also quaterback and NOBODY stood in front of Rubio and that's a fact...

Anonymous said...

Some of these guys played tackle football on weekends at Cummings

Anonymous said...

Onta el cheque Pat?

Anonymous said...

La doce contra la west, or la moraya, el ramireno, o las prietas, almost every weekend and good games and fun...all at cummings.

Anonymous said...



RUBIO FULLBACK,NOT IN 62-63.

Anonymous said...

The Rubios’ Rene n Lupe,... good athletes

Anonymous said...

Lupin R he played with Headrick and was a full back and backup QB.

Anonymous said...

It’s amazing how time flies. I remember as a former student from Longoria watching this team playing on campus like it was yesterday. Thx 4 the memories of those yesteryears

Anonymous said...

A time capsule to the past... in simple times when playing during recess gave us the freedom to makeup our own games with our own rules

Anonymous said...

Juanito thanks again for sharing

Anonymous said...

Where are they now?

rita