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| Wendell Hart |
42 YEARS AGO
JAN. 27, 1972
From “Front Page, Upper Left Corner” by Bob Bozeman – “One
of Alabama’s longest coaching careers has ended. Head Coach Wendell Hart of
Evergreen High School has resigned and will leave the coaching field, although
he will continue as a classroom teacher. His career as a high school coach
spanned 26 years, most of them at Evergreen High School with a few years at
Luverne and Elba.
“Wendell, who started with the Aggies in 1946, might well
have been the state’s senior prep coach. Certainly, he is one of the few who
logged over 150 wins in his career. He started out with a winning team his
first year and had only a few losing seasons in his long career.
“Although he was a winner, Coach Hart was perhaps best known
as a molder of character and firm disciplinarian. His boys always behaved. He
had only one undefeated team, the 1949 club that went 8-0-2 with only ties with
powerful Andalusia and Greenville marring the record. Over a three-year stretch,
1948-49 and 1950, his Aggies won 24, lost four and tied two.
“A number of his boys went to play college ball. Sam Hanks
was the first, playing tackle at Auburn. Wayne Frazier, center and linebacker,
starred at Auburn and went on to an outstanding pro career. Once he had two
grads playing side by side at Alabama as starters at tackle and guard, Doug
Potts and Jeff Moorer. Ward Alexander Jr. earned four letters at Louisiana
College. And there were others.
“I’m sure Wendell will miss football, and I know football
will miss him, but 26 years of tension and agony on the sidelines is enough for
one man, I would imagine. Best of everything, coach.”
57
YEARS AGO
JAN. 31, 1957
“Castleberry Five Tops Flomaton Quint 57-31: Brothers Robert
and Gene Warr led the Castleberry Blue Devils to their eighth cage win of the
season last Friday night as they walloped Flomaton, 57-31, on the Castleberry
court.
“Gene Warr hit for 11 points followed closely by brother
Robert with 10, Ryals and Castleberry with nine each and Heaton with seven. Sub
Uptagraph for the Blue Devils also had nine points.”
“Aggies Top Lyeffion 80 to 42 Tues., Night: The Evergreen
Aggies rolled to an easy win over the Lyeffion Yellowjackets 80 to 42 in the
Lyeffion gym Tuesday night.
“Big Wayne Frazier almost equaled the entire output of the
Lyeffion team as he ripped the cords for 31 points to gain scoring honors for
the evening. Jimmy Moorer netted 12 for runner-up honors, followed by Bill Ivey
with nine, Mickey Joyner, Paul Pace and Billy Grace with eight each and Buddy
Zukowski with four.
“For the Yellowjackets, Riley and Booker had 15 each
followed by Salter and Williams with six each to round out the scoring.
“The Aggie B’s notched a 44-19 win over the Lyeffion B’s in
the preliminary battle with Robert Ellington and Cleveland Brown leading the
scoring with eight points each. Others Aggie scoring was Bell and Pate, six
each, Mitchell, Boykin and McKenzie, four each, and Tucker and English, two
each.”
72
YEARS AGO
JAN. 29, 1942
“Aggies Defeat Lyeffion; Drop One To Greenville: The
Evergreen High School cage squad won one and lost one to split this week’s
encounters. Thursday night the Aggies defeated Lyeffion here in a tight battle,
23 to 21. Jumping into the lead the Aggies were in front all the way, gaining a
15 to 8 lead at the half. Hanks led the local’s attack with 10, while E.
Sanders was the key man in the visitor’s attack. This game ran the local’s win
streak to 10 games without a loss.
“The first defeat of the year was handed to the Aggies by a
smart Greenville aggregation, 22 to 17. D. Moorer and Johnson led the Aggie’s
offensive effort with 9 to 7 points respectively.
“This game hurt, but it won’t be forgotten. It ruined the
perfect record of the locals, but it did not down their spirit. They only
promise revenge when they meet the Tigers Thursday afternoon. Both games at
Greenville.
“Friday night the locals take on Red Level on the local
court at 7:30 p.m. The visitors are still smarting from two defeats handed them
by last year’s team. So, if you want to see a good game, drop around to the
E.H.S. auditorium tomorrow night and see the Aggies go out in an all out effort
to get back on the right track again with a win over Red Level.”
87
YEARS AGO
JAN. 27, 1927
“CITY SCHOOL CAGERS TO MEET CASTLEBERRY: The boys basketball
team of the Evergreen City School is scheduled to meet the Castleberry team on
the local court Friday afternoon at three o’clock. Both teams are primed for a
real fracas and each hopes to get away with a victory.
“The locals have had a fairly successful season, taking into
consideration that this is their first year to play match games. The boys are
anxious to have the support of the local people and urge as many as can and
will to come up and root for them Friday afternoon.”
“EVERGREEN SPORTSMAN ATTENDS CONFERENCE: Dr. H.C. Fountain
has been appointed by Col. E.F. Allison, president of Alabama Wild Life
Conservation League, as member of a committee of sportsmen, which will confer
with the committee from the legislature on game and fish to ascertain what
legislation is needed to further the propagation and conservation of game and
fish in Alabama. Dr. Fountain left Tuesday morning for Montgomery to attend
this conference.”
“The (Ivey School) girls and boys won the victory over
Repton’s junior team. The score being 23 to 9.
“The girls did splendid playing with Repton’s junior team,
with two first team players playing. At the close of the first half the game
was called off, at that time the score was 22 to 3 in favor of Ivey.
“On Thursday, the boys played basketball with Lenox’s second
team. The score was 13 to 3.”
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