48 YEARS AGO
DEC. 7, 1967
Coach Wendell Hart has a
fulltime job as head coach of the Evergreen High Aggies, but he still took time
for an interview in the Labor Survey now underway in Conecuh County. Mrs.
Harold Adams is conducting the interview. Coach Hart joins other citizens in
reminding you that it is just as important for the employed to register in the
survey as for the unemployed to do so.
From “Front Page, Upper Left
Corner” by Bob Bozeman: Evergreen and Conecuh County got prominent mention in
the “Alabama News Scope” column which appears in the Sunday editions of The
Birmingham News. For the benefit of you who do not read The News or failed to
see the item, I’ll repeat it here:
“Small World Dept.: Swapping
small talk about mutual acquaintances back in Alabama the other night were
George C. Wallace and John Kennedy, former athletic coach at what is now
Thurgood Marshall High School at Evergreen.
“Wallace had dinner at the
Sheraton Cleveland where Kennedy, a waiter in the dining room, served him
dinner.
“Kennedy coached football and
basketball and was assistant principal at Marshall High School before going to
Cleveland several years ago.
“At Evergreen, the principal,
Oran Frazier, who visited Kennedy in Cleveland recently, said the former coach
had one of the best coaching records in the South Alabama Conference.
“The name of the school was
changed from the Conecuh Training School to Marshall High School in honor of
the new U.S. Supreme Court Justice.”
63 YEARS AGO
DEC. 4, 1952
Aggie Five Plays Here
Thursday Nite: The Evergreen High Aggies will swap baskets with the Frisco City
cagers here next Thursday night, Dec. 11, in the first home game of the 1952-53
basketball season. Coach Ralph Law’s Aggie Bees will play the Whippet ‘B’ Club
in the first game at seven o’clock with Coach Wendell Hart’s varsity to take
the floor at eight.
The Aggies open the season
with Beatrice tomorrow (Friday) night in Beatrice. Nothing is known of the
Beatrice team, but the Monroe County school is expecting to field a high
scoring quintet in spite of the absence of hill-high Dale Brown, who graduated
last June.
Shirley Frazier, high-scoring
artist who tosses ‘em in with either hand, leads the returning lettermen.
Others are Ward Alexander, Pace Bozeman and Wayne Douglas. Hugh Ellington, a
long and lanky newcomer, has looked good in early practices. Clayton Cobb, a
‘B’ performer prior to his entry into service, John Henry Brantley, Cullen
Edson and Charles King are other varsity squadmen.
Coach Law has Hosea King,
Buck Lewis, Randy White, John Wilson, Eddie Tuggle, Robert King, Wendell
Tolbert, Tommy Melton and Timmy Boykin battling for starting berths on the ‘B’
team.
Memorial Gym’s floor will be
refinished and other improvements made including the return to operation of the
scoreboard and clock prior to the first game next Thursday.
Q.B. Club Will Hold Banquet
On Dec. 18; Tide Scout To Speak: The Evergreen Quarterback Club will hold its
annual banquet honoring the Evergreen High School football squad on Thursday
night, Dec. 18, it was announced today by President Brown Boykin. The banquet
will be held in the high school lunchroom.
Alabama Assistant Coach and
Scout Bubber Nisbet will be the principal speaker. Nisbet heads the Tide’s
recruiting forces and is responsible for a large number of its stars being at
Alabama. He was captain of the Alabama team in the thirties and is an able
speaker.
The banquet is held each year
following the end of the football season and is highlighted by the presentation
of the D.T. Stuart Sportsmanship Award and Trophy. Coach Wendell Hart will also
award letters to members of the 1952 team who earned them at this time.
Captains of the 1953 team will be elected before the banquet and introduced
during the program.
Coach Hart and Assistant
Coach Ralph Law led their charges to a record of five wins, four losses and one
tie this season. The Aggies closed out the season with three straight wins.
The public is invited to
attend the banquet and enjoy this outstanding sports program. Tickets will go
on sale next week and can be obtained from any member of the Quarterback Club.
The Martin Theatres Football
Trophies will be awarded at a ceremony on the stage of the Pix Theatre at eight
o’clock Thursday night, Dec. 11, Mrs. Gladys Barron, Pix manager, announced
today. Two trophies are to be awarded, one to the outstanding player on the
Evergreen Aggie varsity and a smaller one to the outstanding player on the
Aggie junior team.
The winners are being
selected by the fans. Mrs. Barron reminds those who have not voted that they
can still take part in the selection of the players to receive the awards by
voting before next Thursday. Fans may vote in the lobby of the Pix Theatre.
78 YEARS AGO
DEC. 2, 1937
Boy Scout Bulletin: Before the
meeting Monday night, the Scouts enjoyed a relay race. Teams were chosen by
Lauris Jones and Greely Moore. Greely’s team won two matches out of three tries
to cop the contest.
Alabama Gets Bid To Play At
Rose Bowl: The undefeated and untied 1937 Alabama football team has been
invited to the Rose Bowl again, and will meet the California Bears there on
Sat., Jan. 1, 1938.
This will be the fifth trip
to the West Coast for the Crimson Tide. Out of the four former trips, they have
won three and tied one. They have beaten Washington State, Washington and
Stanford one time each, and tied Stanford once.
Teams of 1925, 1926, 1930 and
1934 have gone west, and now the 1937 machine takes its place to try to hold
that clean record for the Southland over the coast. Alabama is always a big
drawing card in the west, and packed the big bowl to its capacity of 86,000 for
the first time the feat was ever accomplished in 1934.
Evergreen High School:
Traffic is heavy in the school vicinity this week with the coming and going of
trucks to and from our athletic field, which is being enlarged. We are looking
forward to this being the beauty spot of our campus in the near future.
93 YEARS AGO
DEC. 6, 1922
Thanksgiving Observation At Loree: Thanksgiving was
fittingly observed here. Early in the morning those who were fond of the sport
took their guns and went hunting.
About four o’clock in the afternoon the hunters came out,
bringing squirrels, rabbits, birds, etc. with them.
Mrs. C.W. Reid supervised the barbecuing of the meats and
about eight o’clock all was in readiness for the Thanksgiving supper, which had
been anticipated with great pleasure especially by the children of this
community.
Conecuh Communities Hold Joint Exhibition: Castleberry,
Ala., Dec. 2 – The grammar school of this place, the Kirkland and Cedar Creek
schools east of here, held a joint community fair at the Kirkland school house
Wednesday.
An old fashioned “dinner on the ground” was served. The
afternoon was devoted to athletics.
107 YEARS AGO
DEC. 4, 1907
There were a lot of birds’
lives saved on Thanksgiving day as the weather was too bad for hunting.
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