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25 YEARS AGO
DEC. 3, 1992
Senior Bryant Robinson will
represent Sparta Academy in the AISA All Star football game to be played at
Block Park in Selma Fri., Dec. 4. The game will start at 7 p.m. Bryant is the
son of Wayne and Cathy Robinson of Evergreen.
It was a ‘clean sweep’ for
Hillcrest High School on opening night of the 1992-93 basketball season. Each
of the school’s four teams posted a victory against W.S. Neal High School in
East Brewton Tuesday night.
The ninth graders started the
evening with a 46-32 win, followed by the B-team with a 47-44 win. The
Hillcrest girls picked up where they left off last year with a 52-48 victory
over the Lady Eagles. The Jags varsity finished off the evening three points
shy of the century mark with a 97-67 victory over W.S. Neal’s top players.
Conservation Officer Tommy
Atkins along with hunter safety instructors Hoover Kynard and Garvey Gates,
gave a lecture to students at Evergreen Junior High School. The lecture
included requirements of becoming a conservation officer, laws and regulations,
hunting accidents, night hunting and firearm safety.
40 YEARS AGO
DEC. 1, 1977
James Wendell Hart, 60, of
Evergreen died Sat., Nov. 26, in an Atlanta hospital after a long illness.
He was known as Coach Hart to
hundreds of former students as he served as head coach at Evergreen High School
for over 20 years. He also coached at Luverne, Elba and Lyeffion and was one of
the state’s most successful coaches and at one time the most senior in years of
service.
Coach Hart was a native of
Conecuh County, a member of a prominent pioneer family. He graduated from
Evergreen High School where he was an outstanding athlete and then played at
Sunflower Junior College and Millsaps College, both in Mississippi. He lettered
in three major sports – football, basketball and baseball in both high school
and college. He graduated from Troy State University.
After serving with the U.S.
Army in World War II, Coach Hart returned to Evergreen and was named head coach
at Evergreen High School in 1946. He coached football, basketball and baseball
and was successful in all three sports. He coached the only undefeated team in
Evergreen High School history, his 1949 Aggies winning eight, losing none and
tying two. The 1949 and 1950 teams had a record of 17 wins, one loss and two
ties.
Coach Hart was known for his
coaching primarily, but he was also recognized as an outstanding classroom
teacher.
55 YEARS AGO
DEC. 6, 1962
Coach Wayne Pope’s Conecuh
County High Blue Devils crushed Excel 56 to 29 in Castleberry Friday night.
Donnie Kast fired 18 points
and tall Henry Foster 16 to pace the Blue Devil attack as the home team grabbed
an early lead and pulled away steadily.
(Other players on CCHS’s team
that season included Larry Smith, Patton Brown, Don Garrett, Danny Norwood and
Ronnie Golson.)
Mr. and Mrs. D.T. Stuart
spent the weekend in Birmingham and attended the Alabama-Auburn football game.
There will be a donkey
basketball game Saturday night at Lyeffion High School at 8:00. Local stars
will compete from the beasts’ backs.
Advanced admission will be 50
cents for adults and 25 cents for children. Prices at the gate will be 60 cents
for adults and 35 cents for children.
The Evergreen Aggies will
open their 1962-63 basketball season in Repton Friday night, Dec. 7. Admission
is 35 cents for students and 60 cents for adults.
(Other teams on Evergreen’s
regular season schedule that season included T.R. Miller, Atmore, Frisco City,
Lyeffion, W.S. Neal, Repton, Greenville, Castleberry and Georgiana.)
70 YEARS AGO
DEC. 4, 1947
The boys who once took
advantage of an understaffed game warden force killed their game and fish
illegally and then sang a happy ditty about ‘never seeing one of them possum
sheriffs’ aren’t singing that song so joyously these days.
Four hundred and 14
transgressors of game and fish laws and regulations felt the heavy hands of
Alabama’s 72 game protectors on their shoulders during October, the first month
of the present fiscal year, it was announced by C. Graham Hixon, fish and
seafood chief of Alabama’s Department of Conservation.
Applications from alumni for
Sugar Bowl tickets are being received this week by the University of Alabama
Athletic Department, Frank W. Thomas, athletic director, announced.
Opening date for alumni
ticket orders was Dec. 1 and a limit of two tickets for each alumnus has been
set. All ticket applications must bear the class year and school of applicant,
Thomas said.
Sugar Bowl ticket price is
$5, and applications should included mailing fee of 25 cents, Athletic Business
Manager Jeff Coleman said.
Alabama received the Sugar
Bowl bid following its 41-12 victory over LSU.
85 YEARS AGO
DEC. 1, 1932
Alabama’s Crimson Tide left
for San Francisco Saturday morning where they will clash with the St. Mary’s
11, Dec. 3.
The Tide will be making its
fourth trip to the West Coast. They represented the South in the Rose Bowl of
Pasadena in 1925, 1926 and 1930. They won two of these games and tied the
third.
The 1932 Crimson Tide,
although it has lost to both Tennessee and Georgia Tech this fall, is rated
just as high as the others that have gone to the West Coast and Alabama fans
are in high hopes of victory over the Galloping Gaels of St. Mary’s.
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