Delburt Schaefer was a gifted Cisco athlete who was QB of two winning football teams—1958 and 1959. He started on defense as a freshman, and was All-District in five sports his senior year, winning him a football scholarship to Texas Tech. His Freshman year at Tech they went undefeated. His teammate for 7 years in Cisco, Charles Lipsey, was also on that team.
Delburt Schaefer left Tech and finished his Bachelors at McMurry, and returned to Cisco as a teacher and coach. Although he was an assistant under Manning Davis either during or after his stint as Junior High Coach, his expertise as a QB aided him in having success not only as a player but as a coach. He related to me as we watched the Super Bowl game at Chip Drumwright's house in Cisco some details about one particular year. “We won all the games that year except one.
(To be continued...)
