Thursday, November 27, 2014

The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for Nov. 27, 2014

Higginbotham, right, in his heyday.
31 YEARS AGO
NOV. 24, 1983

“Sparta girls beat Jackson, but boys lose: The Sparta Academy girls basketball team beat Jackson Academy, 33-28, in Jackson Thursday night. Jan Coker led Sparta with 12 points. Leah Carrier had eight points; Carol Kendrick, six; Tina Bybee, four; Kim Searcy, two; and Tracy Holmes, one.
“Jackson Academy beat the Warriors boys varsity, 75-66. Al Etheridge led the Sparta scorers with 22 points. Rush Brown had 17 points; Connery Salter, 13; Britt McNeill, seven; Jim Wagstaff, four; Mark Rigsby, two; and Jason Evers, one.”

“Football Banquet Dec. 10 at EHS: The Evergreen Quarterback Club’s annual football banquet honoring the 1983 Aggies will be held Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Evergreen High School Cafeteria.
“The guest speaker will be Coach Tom Goode, offensive line coach of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide.
“Tickets are $5 each and are on sale at the school, at The Evergreen Courant or may be purchased from any QB member.”

“The 1983 Repton High School Bulldogs concluded a successful season by advancing to the state playoffs after winning their area championship.”

“35th Annual Senior Bowl College All Star Game, Jan. 14th at Ladd Stadium, Mobile – Tickets are $12 and may be purchased locally at Boykin Jewelers, The Evergreen Courant or see John Bryant Bolton. A portion of each ticket sale will go to the March of Dimes.”

46 YEARS AGO
NOV. 28, 1968

“Quarterbacks set banquet Dec. 12: The Evergreen Quarterback Club will stage its annual football banquet honoring the Evergreen High Aggies, coaches and cheerleaders, on Thursday night Dec. 12 at seven o’clock in the high school cafeteria.
“Coach Morris Higgenbotham of Livingston State University will be the featured speaker. He has taken Livingston from the depths up to the top of the small college circuit. Livingston has compiled an 8-1 record this season with Samford University to be played today. Livingston has been invited to play in the Peanut Bowl.
“Coach ‘Hig’ will have with him one of his stars who needs no introduction here. That’s Homer (Bubba) Faulkner, former Evergreen High star, who is the team’s punting specialist. Bubba will also appear on the program.
“Tickets are $1.50 each and are now on sale.”

“Homer (Bubba) Faulkner, star punter for the Livingston University Tigers, will return home Dec. 12 to appear on the program at the Evergreen Quarterback Club’s annual football banquet. His head coach, Morris Higgenbotham, will be the featured speaker at the event. Bubba, a sophomore who is earning his second letter this year, has averaged 41.9 yards per kick this year.”

61 YEARS AGO
NOV. 26, 1953

“Evergreen Batters Georgiana 25-0 To Close Season With Eight Wins: The Evergreen High School Aggies pounded out a 25 to 0 win over a stubborn Georgiana Panther eleven here Friday night to rack up their eighth win of the season against one loss and one tie.
“Capt. Sam Cope, a 215-pound all-state tackle candidate, had his favorite dream come true when he shifted to fullback to score the Aggies final touchdown and his first in five years of football.”
Other Evergreen standout players in that game included Ward Alexander, Wayne Bell, Shelton Brown, Wayne Douglas, Ronnie Edson, Jimmy Frazier, Eddie Johnson, Buck Lewis, Alvin Reeves, Lamar Sheffield, Richard Taylor and Bud Ward. Wendell Hart was head coach.

“Pix Theatre To Award Football Trophies Dec. 3: The Martin Theatres Football Trophies will be awarded to the outstanding player on the Evergreen High Varsity team and the player selected for this honor from the junior team next Thursday night, Dec. 3. The trophies will be presented on the stage of the Pix Theatre at about eight o’clock.
“Martin Theatres awards these trophies each year to encourage good sportsmanship and recognize the players who play the game hard but clean carrying out the best principles of sportsmanship and leadership.
“The players are selected by votes of the fans. Ballots may still be cast in the election of the players to be honored this year. Fans wishing to vote will find ballots in the lobby of the Pix.
“Mrs. Gladys Barron, Pix manager, will award the trophies to the players chosen. The Evergreen coaches, Wendell Hart and Bill Parsons, and the varsity and junior teams will be the theatre’s guests at the movie next Thursday.”

76 YEARS AGO
NOV. 24, 1938

“Warden Adams Gets Big Buck After Struggle: Warden I.E. Adams of Greenville was in Evergreen Wednesday boasting of having killed a large buck near Brooklyn early that morning after a most exciting struggle and a man to buck, hand to horn fight.
“Mr. Adams was in the vicinity of Brooklyn checking licenses and otherwise attending to his duties as game warden and was not a member of the hunting party. However, he had carried his shotgun along with four buckshot shells and two loaded with No. 6 shots. As is his custom, he also carried his pistol. While passing through the woods where the drive was in progress, the buck came by him. He fired all four of his buckshot shells at the deer and succeeded in wounding him pretty badly but failed to stop him entirely. Having shot him down several times and checking his speed, Mr. Adams was able to get closer and fired his No. 6 shot shells at him, which he said merely made the buck shake his head and get madder. Not having any more ammunition for his shotgun, he took out his pistol and emptied it at him and one of the bullets broke one hind leg. By this time, Mr. Adams overtook him and succeeded in getting hold of his horns. Realizing that he would have to have help, he began calling to the other hunters in the woods and Mr. Benefield who was about a quarter of a mile away came to his rescue. There were able to cut the buck’s throat, thus ending the struggle.
“Mr. Adams said he called in the hunters who were in the party and after the deer was dressed he only asked for a mess for himself, telling them to divide the remainder among themselves. Mr. Adams was good enough to divide his mess with the editor of The Courant, which we think a fitting climax to a very fine deer story.”

91 YEARS AGO
NOV. 28, 1923

“Girls Win First Game of Season: The girls basketball team opened the season last Friday with Junior High with a score of 5 to 2 in favor of Evergreen. The lineup for Evergreen was, forward, Carrie Shoemaker, Leona Moore; guards, Zettie Dickinson, Atiline Smith; center, Pauline Dreaden; side center, Kate Gaillard; sides, Erin Stallworth, Katherine Williams, Edith Cunningham, Francis Lee, Myrtle Brundage; manager, Sara Binion.”

“The hunting season began in Alabama this year 20 days later than the old law provided and as there has been a strict enforcement in the laws during the last few weeks, there is said to be an abundance of birds and other game.”

“Paul and Fish Pond had a very interesting game of basketball Saturday night on Brooklyn court.”


“The Paul basketball team has hit its stride. Two games to our credit in one week is going some. Wednesday night we journeyed to Brooklyn and beat them to the tune of 15 to 9. The second game was played Saturday night on the Brooklyn court, Fish Pond being our opponent. The result of this game was 18 to 9 in our favor. Paul should feel proud of its basketball team.”

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