This isn't a game article but using this to preserve Longview football history, I thought this article merited being posted. - via Dallas Morning News
Training rules violations cut 16 off Longview squad
As an explosive after math of last week's upset loss to Kilgore, 13 to 0, sixteen players Tuesday were dropped from the football roster of the Longview Lobos of District 9-AA for breaking training rules.
The sixteen players were suspended for the remainder of the season by Supt. Henry L. Foster on the recommendation of head coach Maco Stewart. Coach Stewart is a former Southern Methodist University star who was end and captain of the 1935 Mustang team that lost to Stanford in the Rose Bowl.
School officials refused to divulge the names of players dropped from the squad, but it was understood that ten of them were either members of the starting line-up or were first-line reserves while the remaining six were members of the B squad.
School officials added that all sixteen of the suspended players admitted in a meeting of the football squad that they broke training rules.
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Suspended gridsters may return
Longview high School's twenty-two suspended gridsters may be reinstated before next Friday's conference game against Tyler.
The suspended players and their parents met with Coach Maco Stewart, Supt. henry L. Foster, and other officials Friday night and heard Stewart's action clarified.
Both Stewart, a captain on the SMU Rose bowl squad of 1935, and Foster pointed out that the determining factor for suspension in each case involved the question of smoking during training season.
Both emphasized the fact that there was no question of morals involved.
Superintendent Foster said that the only question asked any of the boys was: "Have you been guilty of smoking since Sept. 1?"
Each member suspended answered affirmatively.
The question of whether or not the boys are to be reinstated to the team was unanimously voted to be "a matter to be worked out by the players and Stewart." Each of the boys present expressed a desire for another chance. They recognized that such action depends entirely upon their ability to convince their mentor that such action is justified and promised they will not break training rules again.
Foster suggester that the coach and the suspended players "sit down and review the procedure governing training conduct established at the start of the season."
The girders, many of them varsity stars, were ordered tot urn in their suits shortly after Longview's upset loss to Kilgore last week. Leading contenders for the District 9-AA diadem this year, the Lobos had previously lost to Texarkana in their only other conference battle.
They boasted three triumphs and a tie in non conference competition.
Each of the players were highly complimentary of the leadership of Coach Stewart, and they expressed complete confidence in both he and Foster.
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Longview girders' suspension stands
Maco Stewart, head coach of the Longview Lobos of District 9-AA, Monday declined to reinstate twenty-two members of the football squad who recently were suspended for the remainder of the season for breaking training rules.
Announcement that the players will not be allowed to rejoin the squad this year was made by Spt. Henry L. Foster, who said that Stewart's decision in the matter is final and has full backing of school officials.
Sixteen players were dismissed from the squad early last week for smoking and six more were dropped later in the week for the same violation of training rules. The wholesale suspension followed closely on the heels of Longview's upset 13-to-0 loss to Kilgore in a conference game.
A proposal to reinstate the suspended players was advantaged at a meeting Friday night attend by coaches, school officials, and some of the suspended players themselves together with their parents.
At the conclusion of the meeting it was agreed by all concerned that reinstatement of the players was a matter to be decided solely by Coach Stewart and that his decision would be final.
Simultaneous with the announcement that the suspension will stand, Superintendent Foster denied a rumor that Stewart and Line Coach Wilson (Swede) Dees have resigned.
"They have not resigned and as far as I know neither of them has any intention of doing so," Superintendent Foster said.
