The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for Aug. 30, 2021

Cliff Harper

23 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.

34 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.

48 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.

73 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 17^th.
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.