Players of the Week: Coaches at Hillcrest High School have chosen for their Players of the Week Jermaine Watkins and Henry Jones. Watkins defensive tactics last Friday night landed him five tackles, three assists and one caused fumble. Jones as the offensive player rushed for 63 yards on 13 carries, caught a 34-yard touchdown pass, passed for 13 yards for a touchdown and caught three passes for 54 yards and returned four kickoffs.
Warriors lose to Fort Dale
24-16: The Sparta Academy Warriors dropped their first game of the 1997 season
last Friday night to the Fort Dale Academy Eagles, 24-16. The game was played
at Stuart-McGehee Field in Evergreen.
Lee Goodwin led the Warrior
ground game with 81 yards on 18 carries. Cliff Herbest had 28 yards on 12
carries and one touchdown. Chris Mitchell had five yards on three carries.
Justin Brown had two yards on four carries, and Seth McIntyre had -4 yards on
eight carries.
McIntyre completed five of
his six pass attempts for a total of 135 yards and one touchdown. Charlie Ward
caught four of the passes for 136 yards and one touchdown, and Cliff Herbest
mad the other reception for -1 yards.
The Warriors only two scores
came on a 65-yard pass reception to Charlie Ward from Seth McIntyre and a
one-yard run by Cliff Herbest.
The Warriors will try to get
back on the winning track this Friday night when they host South Montgomery
Academy at Stuart-McGehee Field. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m.
48 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 28, 1972
Go, Warriors, Go! These Sparta Academy cheerleaders will be doing their thing at the home field for the first time this season Saturday night when the Warriors meet Wesleyan of Citronelle at Stuart-McGehee Field at eight o’clock. Sparta has posted a 2-1 record while playing its first three games on the road. Leading the yells are Susan Jeffries, Barbara Findley, Jane Carleton, Deborah Burt, Linda Jones, Val Nielsen, Angie Taylor and Prather Nielsen.
Warriors lost first to
Jackson, 28-20: The Sparta Academy Warriors journeyed to Jackson and were
handed a 28-20 defeat by an aroused band of Jackson Academy Eagles in a game
played without registered officials.
The Eagles scored 22 points
in the first quarter and the halftime score was 22-0.
Coach Richard Brown pointed
out to the Warriors in the dressing room at halftime that their first half
performance left much to be desired. The Warriors apparently were tuned-in on
Coach Brown’s wavelength.
The second half was an
entirely different contest as the Warriors scored 20 points and limited their
hosts to one touchdown.
Aggies drop fourth in Butler,
14-0, Greenville here: Rain fell on Evergreen Friday as the Butler Tigers
blanked the visitors, 14-0, in a lackluster defensive game, leaving the Aggies
with an 0-4 mark to their seasonal credit Friday night.
Friday night the Aggies go
against the Greenville Tigers, with a 0-3 and 1 on their credit. The game will
be played at home at 7:30.
60 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 22, 1960
CCTS Opens Grid Season: The 1960-61
edition of the CCTS football team, under the tutelage of new head coach Michael
Cheatham, ushers in a new season Saturday, Sept. 24, against the ever
formidable Ralph Bunche Bulldogs of Andalusia.
Coach Cheatham was assistant
to former head coach John Kennedy, who resigned to assume a more lucrative
position. He is well versed in the annals of football, having been a star
halfback himself at Alabama State and with Fort Benning, Ga. while in service.
Coach Cheatham is using the
same offensive system used by Coach Kennedy, the “T” formation and various
innovations of the “T.”
The Eagles are imbued with
the high spirit of traditional Eagle teams, and have jelled into a fairly
smooth working unit despite short and limited practice sessions.
The team is studded with
freshmen and veteran players who should play representative football for CCTS.
They expect the public’s wholehearted and conscientious support throughout the
entire season beginning with Andalusia’s Ralph Bunche High here at Evergreen’s
Brooks Stadium Sat., Sept. 24. Kickoff time is 8 p.m. – Oscar D. Tucker.
It was Andalusia power over Evergreen speed Friday night as the Bulldogs took a 13-6 decision. Using a crushing ground game, the home crew slammed across a single six-pointer in both second half periods. The Aggies journey eastward this coming Friday night to take on the Monroeville Tigers as they search for their first victory of the still young season.
73 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 25, 1947
Evergreen Downs Repton 30-0
In Opener: Presenting a stonewall defense and a pair of fleet-footed halfbacks,
the Evergreen Aggies opened the current season with a 30-0 win over their
county rivals, Repton. A crowd of 1,046 was on hand to see the curtain-raiser.
The locals won the toss and
elected to defend the north goal while Repton chose to receive. The kickoff
rolled out on the 25 and after three line plays that netted nothing for the
visitors, Salter broke through and blocked a kick that was recovered in the end
zone for a touchdown. A pass for the extra point was incomplete and the locals
led, 6-0. The Aggies tallied again on a 40-yard drive spearheaded by McIntyre
and Rawls. After Rawls went around end for six points, Logue attempted to
convert for the extra point but his try was wide. A few minutes later, the
Aggies took over on Repton’s 25, following a blocked kick. Logue sneaked over
for the Aggies’ third touchdown from the six-yard line a few plays later and
again failed to convert.
The Aggies were unable to get
started in the second stanza and the first half ended with the score standing,
18-0, in favor of the locals.
The Aggies kicked off again
to start the second half and soon found themselves in possession of the ball
after Repton failed to gain and was forced to kick to McIntyre, who returned
for 10 yards to the midfield stripe. After a couple of trick plays failed to
go, Logue to O’Gwynn, who fumbled on the one-foot line where the Aggies
recovered. McIntyre then raced around end standing up for the six-pointer.
Again the conversion was no good.
The final score of the game
came in the fourth period after Craig blocked a kick inside the 10-yard stripe.
Logue went over on fourth down to make the score 30-0. For the fifth and final
time, the Aggies failed to convert.
85 YEARS AGO
SEPT. 26, 1935
Evergreen fans who attended the Troy-Springhill football game in Montgomery Friday night included Mr. and Mrs. C.A. Gantt and son, Claude; Mrs. Ralph McCreary and son, Lauris Jones; James Lane; Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Wilson Jr.; and Bayne Petrey.
Joe Louis Defeats Baer In 4th
Round: Yankee Stadium, N.Y., Sept. 24 – A brown tornado, merciless, savage Joe
Lewis, swept over the magnificent Max Baer tonight, picked him up in the most
devastating whirlwind of punches the prize ring has seen since the heyday of
Jack Dempsey, smashed him down three times, and finally crushed him in four
rounds before the first $1,000,000 crowd of boxing’s new era.
Baer was knocked out after
two minutes and 50 seconds of the fourth round. In little less than 12 minutes,
he faced the chocolate cyclone, he took a beating so unmerciful, so complete,
that the crowd of 90,000, nearly filling the huge ball park, gasped at the
cruelty of it.
Three times the giant, curly
headed Californian, trying to grin to the last through the crimson mask of his
torn features, was hammered to the floor under two-fisted blasts that hit him
with all the suddenness and deadly accuracy of a tommy gun at point blank
range. He was floored three times in all, twice in the third, for counts of
nine and four, the last time saved by the bell, hauled to his corner by his
chief second, Jack Dempsey.
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