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By Lew
October 14, 2005

I got some answers on the Snyder/Sweetwater Rivalry. I wish I could tell you who sent them to me, but he/she has requested I not identify him/her. Thanks and you know who you are.

Lew

Sweetwater Mustangs vs. Snyder Tigers
Since 1926 Sweetwater’s Mustangs have played the Snyder Tigers 51 games in Varsity High School Football.

Sweetwater and Snyder played twice in 1982 due to the closing of Ector High School in Odessa, leaving each team with out a district game that year. The first game was considered a non-district match up and the second meeting that year was a district contest.
In 1990 the Mustangs and Tigers met for a playoff match up in Sweetwater’s Mustang Bowl.

In the past 53 years there have been 7 seasons that the two rivals have not played, 1972,1973,1974,1975, 1991, 2000 & 2001.

Information for the results of the 1969 season could not be found

Sweetwater holds a 32-18-1 win to lose advantage over the tigers.
The only tie took place in 1965 with neither team scoring.

Sweetwater held Snyder scoreless on 7 occasions (1926,1937,1962, 1965,1968, 1970,1982)

Snyder shut out the Mustangs 4 times (1927,1956, 1965, 1979)

The largest margin of victory is 49 points with the Mustangs being victorious by this amount in 1937,1968,& 1988.

The largest margin of victory for the Tigers was a 24-0 win in 1979

A one point margin of victory has happened twiceonce in 1954 with the Mustangs winning 13-12
And once in 2004 by Snyder 21-20 in playoff game at Big Spring

Snyder’s longest winning streak took place in the 70’s with a streak of 5 wins from 1971-1979 No games in (1972-1975)
Sweetwater’s longest winning streak is 11 games from 1980 - 1989

Below are the scores from each of those contests.

1926- Sweetwater 6 Snyder 0
1927 – Snyder 6 Sweetwater 0
1928 – Sweetwater 21 Snyder 12

1937 – Sweetwater 49 Snyder 0

1952 – Sweetwater 47 Snyder 7
1953 – Snyder 13- Sweetwater 0
1954 – Sweetwater 13 Snyder 12
1955 – Snyder 26 Sweetwater 14
1956 – Snyder 3 Sweetwater 0
1957 – Sweetwater 21 Snyder 7
1958 – Sweetwater 27 Snyder 20
1959 – Snyder 10 Sweetwater 6
1960 – Sweetwater 28 Snyder 7
1961 – Sweetwater 28 Snyder 8
1962 – Sweetwater 3 Snyder 0
1963 – Snyder 20 Sweetwater 7
1964 – Sweetwater 30 Snyder 6
1965 – Sweetwater 0 Snyder 0
1966 – Sweetwater 24 Snyder 15
1967 – Sweetwater 24 Snyder 3
1968 – Sweetwater 49 Snyder 0
1969 – No information available
1970 – Sweetwater 7 Snyder 0
1971 – Snyder 32 Sweetwater 13
1972 – No Game
1973 – No Game
1974 – No Game
1975 – No Game
1976 – Snyder 27 Sweetwater 14
1977 – Snyder 25 Sweetwater 14
1978 – Snyder 24 Sweetwater 7
1979 – Snyder 24 Sweetwater 0
1980 – Sweetwater 18 Snyder 7
1981 – Sweetwater 40 Snyder 2

1982 – Sweetwater 28 Snyder 0 (non dist)
1982 – Sweetwater 42 Snyder 21 (dist)

1983 – Sweetwater 28 Snyder 6
1984 – Sweetwater 48 Snyder 7
1985 – Sweetwater 35 Snyder 6 (Sweetwater 4A State Champions)
1986 – Sweetwater 43 Snyder 6
1987 – Sweetwater 31 Snyder 15
1988 – Sweetwater 55 Snyder 6
1989 – Sweetwater 18 Snyder 13

1990 – Snyder 17 Sweetwater 3 Play off Game @ Sweetwater’s Mustang Bowl.
1991 – No Game
1992 – Snyder 13 Sweetwater 6
1993 – Snyder 33 Sweetwater 28
1994 – Sweetwater 38 Snyder 33
1995 – Sweetwater 21 Snyder 7
1996 – Sweetwater 27 Snyder 16
1997 – Sweetwater 27 Snyder 7
1998 – Snyder 23 Sweetwater 7
1999 – Snyder 34 Sweetwater 14
2000 – No Game
2001 – No Game
2002 – Snyder 26 Sweetwater 20
2003 – Sweetwater 25 Snyder 13
2004 – Sweetwater 35 Snyder 25
2004 – Snyder 21 Sweetwater 20 Play off Game @ Big Spring’s Memorial Stadium

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