Continued from March 2, 2023 edition
“We won all the games that year except one. Comanche was not as good as we were, but beat us 6 to 0. They really played over their heads and would not give up. After the game, I was congratulating their coach and he said that one of the players had died a few days before the game and the boys dedicated the game to him.”
One of the smartest players he ever coached was Lanny Fraiser. There was a special play they developed for the Ranger game, but were beating them so badly that they never used it. In a later game Coach Schaefer told QB Fraiser to run whatever play he wanted to run. This was after 2 unsuccessful attempts to get a first down or score. Schaefer looked up and QB Fraiser was running the play designed for Ranger, where the QB handed off to a back and the back threw the ball back to the QB as he went out as a receiver. Fraiser remembered the play although it had never been run in a game and it was a success.
