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22 YEARS AGO
AUG. 27, 1998
Barlow recipient of Hart
Scholarship: Rotary Club of Evergreen, administrators of the Wendell Hart
Scholarship Fund, announces that Ben Barlow has been named the recipient of the
1998 Wendell Hart Scholarship in the amount of $2,500.
This scholarship is presented
in memory of Wendell Hart, former football coach of Evergreen High School.
Coach Hart was dedicated to the success of his students not only in athletics
but academics as well.
His enthusiasm and generosity
so earned the respect of former students that they established this memorial
scholarship in his name.
The Rotary Club of Evergreen
continues to raise funds to help provide even more financial assistance to
deserving students seeking higher education.
The Hillcrest Jaguars will
kick off their 1998 football season at W.S. Neal in East Brewton tomorrow
night. Kickoff is at 7:30 p.m.
The Sparta Academy Warriors
kick off their 1998 football season on the road against Monroe Academy tomorrow
night. Kickoff is at 7 p.m. Their first home game is here in Evergreen next
Friday.
33 YEARS AGO
AUG. 27, 1987
Warrior blanks Sparta 21-0:
Warrior Academy blanked the Sparta Academy Warriors 21-0 Saturday night in
Eutaw.
Robbie Bolton had 15 yards on
four carries; Lee Wild, 10 on 12; Kenny Bledsoe, 15 on 9; and Jamie Deason, 7
on 5.
Bledsoe completed five of
eight pass attempts for 24 yards and was intercepted once. Brad Watts was
incomplete on two tosses. Jeff Carrier had two catches for 21 yards; Watts, 1
for 9; Craig Blackburn, 1 for 1; and Deason, 1 for a loss of 7 yards.
Probable starters on defense
for the Evergreen Aggies when they open the season with J.F. Shields here
Friday night at 7:30 at Brooks Memorial Stadium are Craig Palmer, James Gross,
Patrick Atkins and James Grace; Travis Stallworth, Greg Stanton, Tony Simpson
and Russell Meeks; and Earl Johnson, Steve Cunningham and Marvin Cunningham.
This is probably the way the
Evergreen High Aggies will line up on offense here Friday night when they meet
J.F. Shields in Brooks Stadium in the season-opener at 7:30: Travis Stallworth,
TE; Patrick Atkins, T; James Gross, G; Craig Blackburn, C; Russell Meeks, G;
Scott Jones, T; and Marvin Cunningham, SE; Tony Simpson, TB; Steve Cunningham,
FB; Jack Harvey, QB; and Greg Stanton, TB.
Head Coach Ed Parrish and
Assistant Coach Gerry Watson are readying their Evergreen High Aggies for their
season opener with J.F. Shields High School of Beatrice Friday night.
47 YEARS AGO
AUG. 30, 1973
Evergreen Aggies open the
season: The Evergreen High Aggies will open the 1973 football season tomorrow
night when they meet the powerful Georgiana High Panthers in Georgiana at 7:30.
The Aggies are hoping for
better things this season under their new head coach, Buddy Davis. Coach Davis
has as assistant coaches Charlie Branum and George Armstrong.
Sparta Warriors meet
Greenville: The Sparta Academy Warriors
will open the 1973 season here Friday night when they meet Greenville Academy
in Stuart-McGehee Field.
Head Coach Richard Brown and
assistant Jimmy Hart and “Check” Ellis are hoping to improve on last season’s
5-5 record.
Returning starters are Walt
Lee Ward, fullback; Buddy Monroe, quarterback; Greg McKenzie, Will Ward and
George McKenzie, guards; Sam Skipper and Walker Scott, halfbacks; Tubby
McInvale, tackle; Larry Reid, center; and Bruce Hutcheson, end and quarterback.
Other players being counted
on are Eddie Hooks, end; Danny Joyner, Larry Darby and Ronnie Pugh, guards;
Woody Register and Dennis Culbreth, tackles; Johnny Cook, center; Joe Andrews,
quarterback; and Danny Baggett and Bobby Johnson, halfbacks.
Cheering the Aggies on when
they open the 1973 football season in Georgiana tomorrow night will be these
Evergreen High School cheerleaders: Lisa Armstrong, Susie Neese, Maxine
Matthews and Martha Smith; and Sara Ward, Co-Capt. Melinda Ausby and Capt. Rita
House.
Eight of north Alabama and
Georgia’s top professional wrestlers tangle in an eight-man battle royal
tonight at the Evergreen High Gymnasium at 8 p.m. The battle royal will lead
off the Evergreen Quarterback Club’s first big wrestling card.
72 YEARS AGO
AUG. 26, 1948
From “The Week’s Wash” by Bob
Bozeman – Cool nights have brought a flurry of football talk, the consensus of
which seems to be that Evergreen will have a better team than last year. Well,
it won’t be long before we find out just what they do have.
Practice will start at the
high school next Wednesday, and exactly three weeks from Friday night Evergreen
tangles with the improved Bulldogs of Repton High. One of the season’s largest
crowds will probably be here for that one.
I understand that last year
the people over in Repton had to hire a few night watchmen from Monroeville to
guard the town the night of the Evergreen game. Everyone in Repton had gone to
Evergreen to see the game.
Aggie Gridders Report To
First Practice Sept. 1: Coach Wendell Hart issued a call this week for all
football candidates to report to the high school next Wed., Sept. 1, at nine
o’clock. The Evergreen High School head coach said that equipment would be
issued and practice get underway at once.
Coach Hart has a big job in
front of him to get the team ready for their first game Sept. 17. The Aggies
will play the Bulldogs of Repton High in the season-opener at Brooks Stadium on
the night of the 17th.
All boys who will try for the
team are urged to be at the school at nine next Wednesday morning, so that no
delays will be encountered. The team will have only about 11 practice days
before the game with Repton.
The Evergreen Greenies lost
to the Standard Roofers of Montgomery by a 9 to 6 score. It was the first game
they had lost at home this year.
High School Stars Play At
Tuscaloosa Friday: Football will get an early start in Alabama this year with
two teams of handpicked high school stars of the 1947 season scheduled to play
in Tuscaloosa tomorrow night. The game will be played in Denny Stadium under
the best lighting system in the state.
The best backs and linemen
that concluded their high school careers last year have been divided into two
squads, one representing the northern part of the state and the other the
southern. H.L. “Shorty” Ogle of Decatur is head coach of the northern squad and
J.E. “Hot” O’Brien of Tallassee heads the southern coaching staff.
No Evergreen High players
will play in this first all-star classic, but Coach Wendell Hart of EHS is
assisting O’Brien. Russell Taylor of Enterprise and Comer Sims of Selma are the
other members of the south’s coaching staff.
Cliff Harper, former principal
of Evergreen High and now the first full-time secretary of the state athletic
association, was a member of the South’s staff, but resigned to put all his
time to promotional work on the game. The athletic association is sponsor of
this annual game.
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