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| 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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