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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1950 THE BLACKBIRD, ROCKV JVTOUNT HIGH SCHOOL PAGE 3 SPORTS SCOPE —by— Johnnie and James Football has just about passed, but it is still lingering around. With the Bowl games to come, there will still be plenty of talk about football after the New Year comes in. Congratulations are in store for Coach “Knocker” Adkins for be ing named “High School Coach of the Year.” Bill Phillips, captain of the 1950 Blackbirds, was named line-ma’i of the year. Congratulations! George Harris, tackle, started off in that position in the annual Shrine Bowl game. North Caro lina defeated South Carolina in a fiee scoring contest. Robert “Monk” Bartholomew went all out in receiving honors. The coaches through-out the state, around 200, picked the Greens boro Daily News Scholastic All State team. Robert was the only Blackbird to be placed on it. He was placed at the guards post. In picking the above team three ether Blackbirds received honor able mention. They are, George Harris, tackle, Roy McCarter, end, and Dan Herring, back. In looking over the A P All- American team we find that Caro lina again placed a man on the fir» team, Jj-vin- HoId«sh was selected as one of the defense line backers. Coach Wallace Wade of Duke Was picked as the first commissar of the Southern Conference. The Blackbird cogers are whip ping into shape for their confer ence schedule after Christmas. With a few practice games under their belts they are looking fine. PROCTOR'S Victor - Bluebird - Decca Columbia - Capital Records 15(1 Main St. - Rocky Mount Kodaks - Film - Accessories and Developing I. W. Rose Drug Co. If It’s New — We Have It Vogue Dress Shop 226 S. Main Street lames M. Fox JEWIELER 126 S. Main Street ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. In Time For Christmas Cashmere Sweaters $16.95 Bunting, Hardy fi Adkins Receives Award Coach “Knocker” Adkins was honored as Eastern North Caro lina’s coach of the year at the annual Wilson Touchdown Club banquet held at the Cherry Hotel in Wilson on the 4th of December. Jim Tatum, Head football Coach at the University of Maryland, was the main speaker. Also present at the banquet were members of the All-Eastern football team as pick ed by the .32 h'gh school coaches in the East. It was composed of three Rocky Mount boy.s; tackle, George Harris, Roy McCarter, end, and Bob Bartholomew, a guard, and four boys from Wil mington and Fayetteville. Others pjesent were the Wilson High and ACC football teams. Frank Mock, head coach at Kin ston and last years “Coach of the Year,” presented Adkins to the club. Projects Completed (Continued from Page 1) JR. RED CROSS FILJLS BOXES Through the Jr. Red Cross, the Rocky Mount high school students have filled approxmately 25 gift boxes for the children of Europe who will have no Christ mas. Other projects for Christmas are the making of nut and candy cups for veterans in the hospitals of Rocky Mount. Over 175 decks of cards were also collected from the homeroom to send to the ser vice men going over seas for Christmas. GEHMM'S JEWiEOjERS ISQ South Main Street ROCKY MOUNT, N. C. Dixie Letter Service Photo-'Offset, Booklets and Newspapers, School Annuals Complete Duplicating and Mailing Service Rocky Mount Phone 7095 Red's Grocery 232 Falls Roads Meats and Fancy Groceries Overby's Grocery and Market Groceries - Meats Fruits - Vegetables Dial 5730 Carolina School Of Commerce Specialists in Business Training Licensed by State of N. C. 12il N. Main St. - Phone 709*5 Eastern Carolina’s Most Complete Stock Of TOYS Sporting Goods IT ROCKY MOUNT. N.«. ★ Clubs Entertain Team Each year the Civitans and Jay- cees give an annual banquet in honor of the football team. The Sportsmen honored the team with a supper also. The Civita'n presented each member of the team with a minia ture football. “Peahead” Walker, Wake Forest coach, wast he guest speaker. The Carolina-Wake For est 1950 football pictures were shown. George “Turk’ Harris was awarded the Blocking Trophy at the annual Jaycees Banquet. The guest speaker,*Ted Hazelwood, as sistant coach at Carolina, showed football highlights of 1948, star ring Charlie ‘Choo Choo’ Justice, Art Weiner, and Hosea Rogers. The Sportsmen guest speaker was Darrl Royal, assistant coach at State College. Another high light was the first presentation of the Billy Smith Memorial Lines man Award. The lucky lineman was Captain Bill Phillips. Athletes Of The Week Picked 303 Wins Tournament Homeroom 303, Miss Grant’s junior homeroom, won the Volley Ball Tournament. They won among the junior homerooms. Then they played the Sophomore champions, Mr. Chapman’s home room. Homeroom 303 then played senior homeroom 109. This win en titled them to the Volleyball Championship. Experience may be the best teacher, but the tuition is some times terrific. This year the Sportsmen of Rocky Mount decided to choose an athlete of the week from the stars of the proceeding Friday’s football game. Each of these ath letes was invited to supper on a Monday night. There were speak ers and pictures of college foot ball games at these meetings. Dan Herring was chosen first in the Goldsboro game. He played H. B. and is a senior. In the third period Dan ran 47 yards for a touchdown and in the fourth quar ter he raced 70 yards for another T. D. Besides these scores he set up the other touchdowns. Captain Bill Phillips was pick ed as the outstanding player of the Wilmington game. He played center and is a senior. His passes from center and blocking has been supurb throughout the year. He seems to know how to keep the boys together. Roy McCarter received the honors in the Fayetteville game. He played end and is a senior. He scored a touchdown on a pass from Herring to the five and went over standing up. He also kicked 3 extra points for a total of 9 points. In the Charlotte Tech game an end, Arthur Proctor, was picked as the athlete of the week. He is a senior and during the game he scored, on two touchdown passes from Bob Britt and Billy Gray. He was a substitute end and came into the game in the final quar- Recommended by Duncan Hines Wilro, Inc. Restaurant 220 S. Church St. Rocky Mount, N. C. Youth Shop 2ill S., Main St. Sporting Needs —SEE— “THE BICYCLE MAN” I. R. MOORE £. S. Bulluck, Jeweler Watch, Clock, Jewelry Repairing ter. Billy Holden, a guard, was chosen as the outstanding player in the muddy game with Durham. He is a senior and during this summer he played rough and ready football. He was in on almost every tackle and played a defen sive game that any one would be proud of. Quarterback, Bob Britt, a senior, was the star of the annual contest between R. M. H. S. and Wilson. During the game his pass ing set up most of the touchdowns and he went over on a quarter back sneak. Britt passed to Live- say in the end-zone for still an other touchdown. In the last quar ter Britt tossed to “Cowboy” Mc Carter for the final score. He com pleted 9 out of 16 passes for 219 yards. Paul Daughtridge, a fast back, was the outstanding player of the Raleigh game. He is a junior and may be back next year. He was al most the only player able to gain any ground at all during the last half of play. In the New Bern game, the athlete of the week was Eddie Braswell, a sophomore playing his first varsity game. Braswell car ried the ball eight times for 88 yards. This gave him an average of 11 yards per carry. He made a touchdown, going over from the five yard line. 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