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Historian. ?."CBS SportsLine takes a look back at some of the most memorable games in Orange Bowl history.
Jan. 1, 1965
Texas 21
Alabama 17
The Crimson Tide, led by Joe Namath, had already been named national champion, succeeding the Longhorns, so this first major bowl game played at night was for bragging rights between the last two national champions. The Longhorns jumped to a 21-7 lead, but Namath - who did not start due to a knee injury but came off the bench to finish with an Orange Bowl record 18 pass completions for 255 yards - led the Tide back into contention. He threw a 20-yard TD pass to Ray Perkins in the third quarter, and engineered a drive that resulted in David Ray's field goal early in the fourth to make it 21- 17. Jim Fuller's fumble recovery at the Texas 38 set the Tide up for the potential winning score, and Namath moved Alabama into position with a pair of pass completions that carried to the five. But Steve Bowman was stuffed on three straight carries, and finally, Namath was stopped on a quarterback sneak at the one on fourth down. Alabama had one more possession, but it ended when Namath's future New York Jets teammate, Pete Lammons, picked off one of his passes."

Pete played in the 1967 All-Star Game. In 1967, he set the AFL, tight end, receiving record: 8 catches for 141 yards, the most yards in a single game. Pete Lammons played on the World Championship football team of 1968, in the most famous Super Bowl of all - now known as Super Bowl III - in which a lowly AFL team beat the best of the NFL for the world championship. To much of America, and certainly to the NFL, the American Football League was somewhere between a minor league and a joke.

The Jan. 12, 1969, game wasn't called the Super Bowl then. That would come a year later. This game, tickets for it said, was the Third World Championship Game. Ticket cost was $12. It was during this game that quarterback Joe Namath made good on a preposterous guarantee -- that his New York Jets would beat the seemingly unbeatable Baltimore Colts. They did, 16-7. "Maybe Jets tight end Pete Lammons put it best. As NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle entered New York' s locker room to present the trophy, Lammons shouted: "Hey, Pete Welcome to the AFL "

[Taken from an article: Namath, Jets make statement for AFL, By BRUCE LOWITT, St. Petersburg Times, published December 9, 1999]

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Birth:
B-SLC #1481001: Henderson Co. Probate Birth Records, Vol P C 1, p. 390.

Peter married Frances Marie Thompson in 1937 in Dallas, Dallas County, Texas. Frances (daughter of John Sheppard Thompson and Frances Fern Walker) was born on 15 Feb 1916 in Waurika, Jefferson County, Alabama; died on 22 Jan 2002 in Jacksonville, Cherokee County, Texas; was buried in Jacksonville City Cemetery, Cherokee County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Harry Lammons, of Wills Point, native of Athens and resident of this town for many years, died of a heart attack Tuesday morning at 12:30 o'clock in a local hospital.

Mr. Lammons was born in Athens on August 4, 1891, and operated a drugstore here for about twenty-five years. He resided in Athens until 1940, when he moved to Mt. Pleasant to work for the Hinson Pharmacy as a druggist. He went to Wills Point from Mt. Pleasant and resided in that town until his death.

Mr. Lammons was the son of Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Lammons of Athens. He was a lifelong member of the Baptist Church and a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges. He was married to Miss Mattie Spencer of Athens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Spencer, on February 2, 1912 in Athens.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mattie Lammons; one son, Pete Lammons of Grapeland; one daughter, Mrs. Jake Gould of Blessing; one brother, Col. Frank B. Lammons of Camp Pickett, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Black and Miss Tex Lammons of Houston, and five grandsons.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Jarred I. Cartlidge, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Corsicana, and the Rev. S.H. Maples, pastor of the local church officiating. Burial was in the City cemetery. Hassell and Foster Funeral Home of Palestine was in charge.

The funeral was held on what would have been Mr. and Mrs. Lammons' thirty-second wedding anniversary.

Pallbearers were: Johnson Cone of Palestine, Edwin McCain, Jack Anderson and Lloyd Hurley of Wills Point,and Winfield Stirman, Will Paul Jones, Joe Lamb, Page Spradling, Bennett Smith and Owen Killingsworth of Athens.

Published in the Athens Review February 3, 1944

General Notes:
B-1900 Athens, Henderson co., Texas Census, ED 55, sheet 4, line 70.
B-SLC #1398560: Cemeteries of Henderson Co., Texas, p. 39.
M-SLC #1481020: Henderson Co., Texas Marriages, Vol. 8, p. 260 1910 Athens, Henderson Co., Texas, ED 12, sheet 6A, page 92/9151.
Probates: ibid.

Harry married Mattie Belle Spencer on 2 Feb 1912 in Athens, Henderson, Texas. Mattie was born on 8 Oct 1893; died on 27 Oct 1975. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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General Notes: B&D-Social Security Index. M-SLC #1481020: Henderson Co., Texas Marriages, Vol 8, p.260.

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General Notes:
B-1900 Athens, Henderson co., Texas Census, ED 55, sheet 4, line 70.
B-SLC #1398560: Cemeteries of Henderson Co., Texas, p. 39.
M-SLC #1481020: Henderson Co., Texas Marriages, Vol. 8, p. 260 1910 Athens, Henderson Co., Texas, ED 12, sheet 6A, page 92/9151.
Probates: ibid.

John married Frances Fern Walker. Frances was born on 14 Aug 1889 in Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas; died on 21 Feb 1988 in Travis County Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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General Notes: B-1850, 1860 census of Dale Co. Alabama. B-1900 Athens, Henderson Co., Texas Census, ED 55, sheet 4, line 70. 1910 At hens, Henderson Co., Texas Census, ED 12, sheet 6A, page 92 /9151. M-SLC #1481017: Henderson
Co. Texas Marriages, Vol. 3, p. 265. D-SLC #1398560: Cemeteries of Henderson Co., Texas, Athens City Cemetery, old cemetery section, p. 17. D-SLC #150 2715:
Probate Minutes of Henderson Co., Texas, Vol M, pp. 354,355. SLC #1502713:
Probate Minutes of Henderson Co., Texas, Vol. J, pp. 390-392, 396. SLC #1502714:
Probate Minutes of Henderson Co., Texas, Vol. K, pp. 129, 130, 167, 184-188. SLC
#1487288: Alabama Military Records--File M.D. Lammons


"Murdock served the last year of the Civil War in Georgia and Carolina (1865) in Company F, 27th Ala. Infantry. He volunteered Jan. 23, 1864 while at Clopton, AL. and was paroled from Greensborough, North Carolina. Served with Gen. Johnson and was in the Battle of Atlanta and Peach Tree Church battle. In 1878 he moved to Athens, Texas. In 1885 he married Texana Richardson in Athens. He became a merchant while in Texas. He and Texana had four children. He died of a heart attack in 1918 in Texas. " --Col. Frank Bishop Lammons

Murdock married Richardson Texana on 9 Dec 1885 in Athens, Henderson, TX. Richardson was born on 23 Oct 1856; died on 10 May 1904. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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General Notes: B-SLC #1398560: Cemeteries of Henderson Co., Texas, Athens City Cemetery, old cem. section, p. 17. "Old Homes of Henderson County," p. 143-144, Henderson Co. Historical Commission, Athens, Texas, Publications Development Co., Crockett , Texas 75835.