Forney Squad on Threshold of District Football Crown

Dallas Morning News
November 23, 1939, Section II, Page 3

FORNEY, Texas, Nov. 22 – This is the squad which Coach James Adkisson hopes will defeat Lancaster High here Friday night and win the District 16-B grid title for Forney. Left to right, front row, are Thomas Hawkes, Harold Dykes, John Bell Adams, Keith Boone, Captain Leon York, Bob Harris, Henry Boyd Blaylock, Leon Crittenden and Bud Taylor. Second row, same order, Johnny Layden, Jess Moore, James Mills, Curtis Adams, James Henry, Jack Wallace, Frank Rhea, Bill Adams, Billy Roland and Percy Bolding. Third row, Manager Jake Hamm, O’Neal Weant, Charles Adams, Hubert Chapman, Conway Senter, William Boles, Ben Harris, Newt Whittemore, Harvey Crittenden, Dan Fleming and Coach Adkisson.