21 YEARS AGO
AUG. 10, 1995
Benefit Softball Tournament
Aug. 19th at Evergreen Park: There will be a benefit softball
tournament, Class C & D teams, on Aug. 19 at the Evergreen Municipal Park.
All proceeds will go to offset surgical expenses of a local teammate.
Pre-registration will begin
at 8 a.m., first pitch at 9 a.m. $100 entry fee per team, deadline for entry
fee is Aug. 16. Trophies will be given.
For more information, contact
Kim Baker or Kim Gary.
Alabama Dog Hunters
Association Meeting: The Monroe County Chapter of the Alabama Dog Hunters
Association has a planned meeting called. The meeting will be held Aug. 24 at 7
p.m. in Monroeville. The meeting will be held at the Scott Paper Co. offices at
530 Hornady Drive.
The Alabama Dog Hunters
Association and the Member Chapters are dedicated to the preservation of dog
hunting in Alabama. All forms of dog hunting are included in this effort.
Mr. Buddy Bradley, President
of the Alabama Dog Hunters Association, will be the guest speaker. His efforts
and dedication to preserving all forms of dog hunting in Alabama is well known.
The only way dog hunting
preservation will be achieved will be from the efforts of all dog owners and
hunters. This effort is to the advantage of the coon, bird and squirrel hunter
as well as the deer hunter.
Please assist in preserving
your right to cast your dogs by attending this meeting and giving your support.
36 YEARS AGO
AUG. 14, 1980
These Repton High School cheerleaders were one of eight
squads chosen at the Bama Cheerleading Clinic to lead the cheers for the South
1A-2A Team in the annual State All-Star Basketball Game on July 31. The clinic
was held at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa July 28-Aug. 1. The girls
are Beth Ballard, Gale Stallworth, captain, and Patti Ballard; Donna Watson,
co-captain; Mary White, Gwen Stallworth and Sally Morris.
Lyeffion Saddle Club will meet: There will be a meeting
of the Lyeffion Saddle Club at 7:30 Friday night at Lyeffion High School at the
Vo-Ag Education Dept. Important business, both old and new, that needs prompt
attention will be on the agenda. All members of the club and persons interested
in the Club’s Arena are invited and urged to attend.
Castleberry QB’s meet tonight at 7: The Conecuh County
High School Quarterback Club will meet tonight at seven o’clock at the school
gymnasium. All members and persons interested in the school’s athletic program
are urged to attend.
Evergreen High QB Club meets tonight: There will be a
meeting of the Evergreen High School Quarterback Club tonight at 7:30 p.m. in
the school lunchroom.
51 YEARS AGO
AUG. 12, 1965
Aggies begin drills Monday:
The first call for Aggie footballers has been sounded by the new head man in
Aggieland.
Coach Cliff Little has
scheduled a football meeting for Saturday at 6 p.m. for all boys interested in
playing this fall. They are to meet him at Memorial Gymnasium for a get
acquainted session and to receive information for opening practice sessions.
The first practice will be
held Monday at a time to be given the boys at the meeting. It will probably be
two-a-days drills for the Aggie candidates for several days as much work must
be done prior to the opener in Atmore on Sept. 10.
Coach Little and Perry Outlaw
held a planning session on Monday of this week before Outlaw had to report back
to his military assignment at summer camp. The assistant football and head
baseball coach will be here for Monday’s practice.
Little said that he had not
had an opportunity to meet all of the boys, but had gone over the expected
prospects with Coach John Law Robinson, who resigned at the end of the school
year to devote his full time to his farm and beef cattle interests.
The new coach said that it is
obvious that the team will be short on experience with only four lettermen back
and only a handful with any playing time. Right now, he expects lettermen Tommy
Hartley, Mike Moorer, Brent Thornley and Arlie Phillips and such 1964 reserves
as Rusty Price and Winston Bailey and Olen Robinson, a transfer from Vigor, to
for the hard corps of the squad.
Little said he looks forward
to working with Coach Outlaw and with Principal Morris Ward. He said he is
counting on Ward for counsel and advice from his years as one of the state’s
top high school coaches.
Coach Little urges all boys
who plan to play to be at the meeting Saturday night.
66 YEARS AGO
AUG. 10, 1950
John Ralls Will Play In
All-Star Football Game: Alabama’s Southern High School All-Stars will seek
their first win in three starts over the Northern Stars in the Third Annual
All-Star Football Game to be played in the University of Alabama’s Denny
Stadium next Friday night, Aug. 18. The game will climax the University’s 18th
Annual Coaching Clinic, which opens Mon., Aug. 14.
Expected to offer a lot of
help in carrying the Southern colors to victory is Evergreen High School’s John
Greel Ralls, 175-pound halfback. Ralls was a star performer with Coach Wendell
Hart’s Evergreen Aggies for three years. He climaxed a great high school career
by pacing the Aggies to their first undefeated season last fall and was a first
team selection of the Montgomery Advertiser-Alabama Journal All-State team.
Coach Mal Morgan of Lanett
has a tough job on his hands in attempting to lead his Southerners to a win
over Coach Larry Buck Hughes and his “Yankee” squad. The Northern team won the
first game in 1948 by a 33-0 score and came from behind to edge the “Rebels”
last year, 7-6.
Coach Wendell Hart will
attend the coaching clinic which will feature Coach Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma
on football and Coach Everett Case of North Carolina on basketball. Cliff
Harper, Executive Secretary of the Alabama High School Athletic Association and
former Evergreen High Principal, will conduct a panel on rules and
interpretations.
81 YEARS AGO
AUG. 8, 1935
“Bully” Hitchcock Is New
S.S.A.S. Coach: Walter B. “Bully” Hitchcock, former Auburn varsity back, and
brother of the famous Jimmy Hitchcock of football fame at The Plains, has been
secured to direct the football, baseball and basketball destinies of S.S.A.S.
for the coming season, Prof. W.Y. Fleming, Principal, announced today.
Hitchcock will officially be
assistant physical education instructor, and will assist Coach E.L. McInnis,
who becomes head of the newly installed standard Physical Education program at
the local high school.
“Bully will be the head man
in football, baseball and basketball,” Coach McInnis stated following Prof.
Fleming’s announcement. “Having known him for a long time, I know that
Hitchcock and I can work together.”
The new coach arrived in
Evergreen Tuesday and “signed on the dotted line” Wednesday, after conferences
with local officials. With characteristic directness, Coach Hitchcock went to
work meeting and talking with his “boys” and expressed himself as being
optimistic, after looking over quite a few of his prospective pupils.
Since leaving Auburn,
Hitchcock coached three years each at Geneva and Florala, and has gained a
reputation for putting out hard-driving, alert teams.
First practice under the new
“head man” will be held around Sept. 1, Hitchcock stated, and the first
scheduled game will be played on Sept. 28.
A list of holdover players
upon whom the new coaching regime is counting heavily to bear the brunt of the
work this fall includes:
LINESMEN: Ed Johns, Dan
Johns, Rountree, Brassell, Fountain, Horn, Joyner, McCreary, Weaver and
Sheffield; BACKS: Cargill, Heifner, Lane, Wiggins, Bargainer and Hart.
Hitchcock has managed the
Abbeville baseball club during the past two seasons, finishing last year in
second place, and holding that place in his league this year when the team was
disbanded.
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