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THE LEXHIPEP
October 24, 1947
ORT
SPOTLIGHT
DOUG GRAVER
Editor
DOSTER WOOD
Assistant
LEXINGTON HIGH FOOTBALL SQUAD-1947
First Row, Left to Right—Redwine, Plott, Newell, Blolock, Wolser, Taylor, Eanes, McCrary, Matthis, Young. Second
row. Left to Right—McBride, White, Carter, Holmes, Timberlake, Cook, P. Clark, Kepley, Peeler, Dobey, Price, Graver. Third
row. Left to Right—Ass't. Coach Gaddy, Ass't. Coach Mauney, Bivings, Beck, Procter, Dillon, Crotts, Crow, N. Clark, Arnold,
Gibson, Everhart, Hurkhart, Jr., Coach Pickett, Head Coach Maus.
Home Gridders Edge Rival High
Point Eleven in Homecoming, 7-0
Lexington Hi took its homecoming
game Friday night October 10 by de
feating a powerful High Point team
by a margin of 7-0. This was the
“Jacket’s” fifth game of the season,
and the fourth win. This was a
well earned game for Lexington after
being defeated by High Point for sev
eral preceding years.
It was a tight and hard fought
game all the way. The visitors threat
ened twice, once from the thirteen-
yard line when Crowder blocked an
L. H. S. punt and Hunsucker recov
ered for High Point, then again in
the last quarter Isom broke loose and
ran to the eight, where he was knocked
out of bounds by Carter. Both threats
were stopped by the determined
“Jackets.”
Lexington’s only tally came in the
third quarter when a pass from Eanes
to Clark put Lexington on High
Point’s 9 yard line. Two downs later
Taylor caught a pass from Eanes and
went over for the touchdown. Newell’s
well-aimed conversion put the locals
in the lead 7-0.
Lexington
High Polni
LE—Taylor Hunsucker
LT—Blalock Yarborough
LG—Newell Campbell
C—Everhart Allen
RG—Price Saunders
RT—Walser Grant
RE—Timberlake Crowder
QB—Cook Isom
LHB—Carter Hinkle
RHB—Plott - Jones
FB—Eanes Bickert
Substitutes, Lexington—Clark, Mc
Crary, White, Kepley, Gibson. High
Point—Smith, Miller,. Elliot;
Touchdown—Taylor. Point after
touchdown, Newell.
Lexington-Henderson
Tilt Tonight
Though Lexington and Henderson
have only played one game in the
past much interest is being shown
towards tonight’s tilt.
Our ex-principal, Mr. Payne, was
largely ersponsible for the engage
ments, being the principal at Hen
derson High for a number of years.
Henderson took the initial tilt 20-
12, and the Jackets will be out for
reenge. Thovugh Henderson is blessed
with one of the fastest men in high
school football in the state, “Bozo”
Roberts, let it not be forgotten that
Lexington has some capable runners,
too.
The men from Henderson bowed to
Burlington in their last engagements,
but who hasn’t?
Children’s Home
Nips Jackets For One
Touchdown With Extra
A slightly favored Yellow Jacket
team received its first defeat of the
season October 3 at Bowman Gray
Stadium, Winston-Salem at the hands
of an inspired Methodist eleven—7-9.
The teams fought it out during the
first three periods with neither team
being able to score, but late in the
fourth period Sprinkle plunged over
from the one foot line. The extra
point was good, thus making the first
seven points scored against the Jack
ets thus far this season.
Lexington’s biggest threat came in
the third quarter with the “Jackets”
carrying to the one-yard line by way
of a pass from Eanes to Taylor, but
Lexington was not able to take the
ball across the goal line.
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Lexington Edges
Asheboro, 61-0
Everyone played and half of them
scored when Lexington’s powerful var
sity squad held a field day and
romped over Asheboro’s underdog elev
en on September 23, 1947.
With second and third teams play
ing more than the first eleven, the
lightning backs of L. H. S. .sped with
fleet heels through the weak Ashe
boro team to roll up nine touchdowns.
Seven tries for extra points were good.
Smiling Harold Carter tallied three
times, twice on beautiful broken-field
rims of more than forty yards. Eanes
and “Jaybird’’ McCrary each scored
for touchdowns twice. “Wild Tiger”
Cook and Mercury-heeled J. L. Peeler
also trotted for six points each. John
Newell, McCrary, and “Trutoe” Sammy
Everhart got the extras.
Asheboro’s line appeared to stand val
iantly against the wave.of white clad
touchdowns, though it was pitifully
unable to cope with the massive L.
H. S. forward wall.
The Asheboro backfield, however,
told a different story. It seemed only
necessary to get the “Jacket” backs
through the line to get a touchdown.
Asheboro’s backfield seemed almost to
give up after the first fifty points were
scored.
L. H. S. used substitutes with gay
abandon, but to good advantage all
through the game. The substitute
line, led by “Cootie” White was in
ferior to the first line led by immov
able “Bensy” Walser, “Vitamin” Price,
and “Pete” Clark, but Asheboro still
couldn’t advance.
As one wit put it, “Asheboro’s ‘blue
comets’ are like Halley’s comet. It
only comes around every seventy-five
years. This isn’t the seventy-fifth
year!”
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Lexington Beats
Barium 31-0
Barium Homecoming
“All Wet”
For the second time in Lexirigton-
Barium football history. Barium bowed
to the Yellow Jackets on scenic Sloan
field.
The white clad men of Lexington
took an early lead when the Jackets
‘“choo-choo,” “Freight-train” Gibson
steaked off the weak side for 40 yards
carrying to the Bulldogs’ 5 yard line.
Eanes continued for 2 yards after
which Gibson bulled over.for the score.
Johnny Newell split the uprights to
make it 7-0 and Lexington’s only con
version of the game.
In the second quarter Harold Car
ter ran wild by going over for two,
trucking off tackle for one and streak
ing inside end for the other, before
the half ended, placing the Jackets
ahead 19-0.
“The rains came” in the third quart
er, and the bulldogs held firm through
out the entire quarter while convert
ing their snowwhite imiforms to mud
spattered togs.
In the fourth quarter the “crimson
tide” began to move again, chalking
up two more tallies. Gibson carried
over for the first. In the closing min
utes of the game a desperate pass
was intercepted by “Tiger” Cook, and
he was “off to the races” with 55
yards to pay dirt and Barium’s big
gest homecoming since the war was
in the status of affairs as the field-
all wet.
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