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Page 6 THE LEXHIPEP September 29, 1960 Donnie's Dribbles By DONNIE LEONARD The reopening of school launches another football season, and thus the Yellow Jackets are in the initial stage of their 1960 schedule. Having just completed several weeks of a very successful football camp, spirits are high and the boys are ready to go. However, the team will be hurt by lack of experience, as only eight lettermen return from last year’s team. Co-captain Junior Webster leads the field of lettermen and should rate as one of the better backs in the conference. Two other ball carriers with game time are halfback Lamar Clark and fullback Noel Morphis. The five experienced linemen are Co-captain Dan Smith, Ricky Hooker, Butch Gibson, Rusty Yar brough, and Barry Williams. Lexington’s final record will depend heavily on the improvement made by the boys with no varsity experience. There are many of them who show a promising future. Johnny Fritts and Maxie Sander son should develop into clever signal callers. Kenny Freeman will be a real support to the backfield. Other boys who will be greatly needed are fullback Tommy Grayson, and defensive backs David Miller and John Myers. Ends Lee Brookshire, Jimmy Snyder, and Johnny Bum garner should expand the Yellow Jacket passing attack. Billy Hewitt, Van McKasskill, Ricky Rhodes, and Lauren Kugel will add needed strength in the line. V. G. Price is the head coach for the varsity, and his assistants are Frank King and Carroll Bowen. Athletic Coach Carroll Bowen and his staff are to be congratulated on the excellent condition of the playing field. SUMMER SPORTS Lexington High School is very proud of the achievements of a number of its students during the past summer. For the first time the Lexhipep wishes to acknowledge these accomplishments made in the field of sports. Senior High students made a good showing in tennis. Carol Craver continued to win more than her share of trophies. Charles Crouse won the City Junior Boys’ singles and later teamed with Larry Kirkman to take the doubles. Tony Craver won the City Boys’ singles and adult mixed doubles. Swimming and diving are rapidly gaining popularity in Lexington. The city contest was sponsored by the local Red Cross and was held at the Hillside Pool. The Country Club took a one-sided victory 566-317. The high school students who placed in the various events are as follows: Jimmy Snyder, Tad Meade, Phillip Reece, Zedena Allred, Mike Davis, Ann Evans, Lou Raker, Babs Mann, and Jane Burrell. After the city meet, the two teams combined and did very well in four A.A.U. meets. State Tennis State Golf Champ Miss Carol Craver, who this summer secured the title of state champion in women’s doubles, had a very successful tennis sea son. Althought the Yellow Jack ets did not have a female “racket squad” last year, Lexington is proud of Miss Craver, because she is one of the top athletes of the “weaker sex” that has ever attended Lexington High School. In the State Adult Tournament in Greensboro, Carol teamed with Miss Joanne Cooper of Char lotte to win the women’s doubles. At Southern Pines, Carol again took the doubles: this time she joined with Jane Davenport of Greensboro in the Sandhills Jun ior Invitational Tournament. Carol made a clean sweep of the women’s division in the an nual city tournament. She won the singles and doubles, and then added the mixed oubles to her long list of accomplishments. Champ Don Hedrick, whose pastime is patient practice, has become suc cessfully skilled at solidly socking a small sphere into a hole in the sod (he should succeed Sam Sneed). This summer proved to be very profitable for Don, as he raked in many honors. Hedrick won the Carolinas’ Jun ior Golf Tournament at Greens boro. He qualified with a 72, and then proceeded to swing his way through the opposition. In his final match he beat Roger Wat son of High Point to gain the championship. By winning the State Jaycee Junior Tournament at Morgan- ton, Don qualified for the inter national contest at Watterloo, Iowa. However, Don resembled a well known Frenchman and was defeated. From here, he made a good showing in the United States Golf Association Junior Tourna ment. Lexington Conquers Central Comes from Behind for 13-6 Win The Lexington Yellow Jackets pulled a 13-6 come-from-behind victory over the Central Spartans in the season opener. The location of the two schools forms a na tural rivalry, so a large number of spectators witnessed the con test. Each team, having just completed several weeks of foot ball camp, was well prepared and ready to go at the sound of the starting whistle. The Spartans drew first blood by surprising the Jacket de fense with a 50-yard pass play that secured them six points. Nevertheless, after Central mark ed up its quick touchdown, the Jackets hustled on defense and at halftime the scoreboard show ed that Central had a 6-0 advan tage. Defense is the word that de scribes the third period, as neither team was able to prolong a scoring drive, although there were many exciting plays. How ever, due to some inspiring last minute efforts by the Yellow Jackets, the final quarter was just the opposite. With only about a minute gone in the fourth per iod, Junior “the boss” Webster ran back a 45 yard pnnt return to tie the game at 6-6. Lexington was not satisfied with a tie, so when the right oppor tunity appeared, the Jackets took full advantage of it. The local boys had possession of the ball, but time was running out, and it was fourth down and three. Web ster took the handoff, hit the line, and then proceeded to pick his way through the opposition. Twenty yards later the score was 12-6, this time Lexington being in the lead. In desperation. Cen tral tried for a fast T.D. by pass ing, but Leonard CaldweU inter cepted a reckless pass and gal loped 40 yards to the Spartan 10. Although the clock caught Lex ington before they scored, the Jackets were content, because their fourth period scoring was enough for a come-from-behind victory. A few of the outstanding play ers for Lexington were Junior Webster, Dan Smith, Butch Gib son, Kenny Freeman, and Rusty Yarbrough. Some of the underclassm.en who saw action during the game had never played much in a varsity contest. These boys showed marked improvement and are to be commended for their fine showing. A number of these boys came through when they were really needed and they are as follows: Maxie Sanderson, Noel Morphis, John Myers, Lee Brook shire, Jimmy Snider, Johnny Bumgarner, Lauren Kugel, Ricky Rhodes, and Billy Hewitt. LEXINGTON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL SCHEDULE 1960 Sept. 30—Harding—Home Oct. 7—High Point—Away Oct. 14—Asheboro—Away Oct. 21—Greensboro - Home Oct. 28—Burlington - Home Nov. 4—(Open Date) Nov. 11—Thomasville Away Reynolds Drubs Jackets 18-6 By CHARLES BERNHARDT It looked as if it might have been a repeat of last year’s Rey- nolds-Lexington game, but the power-laden Reynolds team final ly managed to put together three touchdowns in the fourth quarter to defeat the Yellow Jackets eighteen to six. The September 9 game marked the beginning of the conference season for both teams. Neither team moved the ball well in the first quarter, but in the second quarter Lexington's David Miller intercepted a pa.ss on the Lexington twenty-two yard line, and from there Junior Web ster gained a first down to the thirty-three to set up the Jack ets’ only touchdown of the night. On the next play quarterback Johnny Fritts lofted a long pass to end Lee Brookshire who, with a brilliant display of running, completed the sixty-seven yard play for a touchdown. The extra point attempt was missed. Reynolds also had an oppor tunity to score before the half ended, but their plans were spoil ed when Johnny Bumgardner re covered a fumble on the Lexing ton five-yard line. The first half then ended, but it was not soon enough to keep stellar halfback Junior Webster from being side lined with a leg injury for the remainder of the game. The second half was dominated by the Reynolds’ strength-in-re- serve. Reynolds’ superior depth was clearly shown in the final quarter as the Black Demons rolled up three quick touchdowns and recovered a Lexington fum ble in the closing minutes to put the game on ice. Lexington out-passed Reynolds, completing five of nine for 121 yards against two completions out of ten attempts 23 yards for Reynolds. But the major differ ence was the running game. Rey nolds gained 184 yards rushing against only 56 yards for Lexing ton. Both teams recovered two fumbles. The Jackets intercepted two. Lexington punted five times for a thirty-two yard average. Reynolds punted twice for a forty- four yard average. Salisbury Jackets Sting Lexington Jackets 30-0 By CHARLES BERNHARDT On September 16, the Salisbury Yellow Jackets lengthened their winning streak over Lexington to seven games by smothering the Jackets thirty to nothing in a conference game which was play ed at Salisbury. Lexington’s most serious pene tration into Salisbury territory came in the second quarter when Rusty Yarbrough intercepted a pass and returned it to the Salis bury forty-five yard line. From there Lexington drove to the twenty before having to give up the baU on downs. Salisbury took over at this point and drove eighty yards for their first score. The extra point at tempt failed. Salisbury controlled the second half with an excellent running and passing game. Taking the second half kick-off, they drove for one touchdown, and capiral- izing on two intercepted passes and a recovered fumble, they JACKETS MUZZLE BULLDOGS 12-7 The Lexington Yellow Jackets scored a touchdown in the closing minutes of the final quarter to come from behind to defeat the Albemarle Bulldogs 12 to 7, in a game played at Albemarle on September 23. Lexington kicked off to Albe marle and after an exchange of punts the Jackets intercepted a pass on the 50 yard line. After eight plays the ball rested on the Albemarle two yard line. From there Junior Webster car ried the ball over for the first score of the night. The kick for the extra point was good but was nullified by a fifteen-yard pen alty. An attempt to pass for the extra point from the seventeen failed. In the second quarter, Albe marle scored on a drive from their own forty - yard line and added the extra point to lead 7 to 6 at halftime. Lexington’s only serious threat in the third quarter was spoiled when Albemarle recovered a fumble on their own 15 yard line. Finding themselves unable to move, Albemarle quick-kicked to the Lexington 37. The Jackets then drove to the Bulldog’s one-yard line where they were forced to give the ball up on downs. Albe marle moved the ball only to their own ten, where they punted to the thirty-seven. Lexington drove for their second tally from this point but the kick for the extra point bounced off the goal post and was no good. The Jackets have yet to score an extra point in any game this season. Lexington then kicked off to Albemarle but with only one min ute and forty-five seconds remain ing to play, the Bulldogs were unable to score before the game ended. All the boys who played turned in an excellent performance, the key backfield men being Johnnie Fritts, Lamar Clark, Noel Mor phis, and Junior Webster and the linemen being Butch Gibson, Rusty Yarborough, and Lee Brookshire. were able to add four more tallies to thoroughly overwhelm the Jackets. Sophomore Tommy Grayson, filling in for injured halfback Junior Webster, turned in a good job of running for Lexington, while Rusty Yarbrough was a standout on defense. Sock-footed Guy Smith also gave a superior display of punting. Three Lexington players were injured during the course of the game. David Miller suffered a broken leg; Johnny Myers re ceived a wrenched knee; and Tommy Grayson was sidelined with a sprained ankle. The Salisbury Jackets were well ahead in the statistics. Sal isbury gained 214 yards rushing, completed six out of twelve pass es for 64 yards, and gained sev enteen first downs. The victors intercepted three passes and re covered two fumbles. Lexington collected only 39 yards rushing and had only two pass com pletions from twelve attempts for 30 yards, gaining a total of six first downs. Lexington intercept ed one pass and recovered one fumble. The loss was Lexington’s sec ond conference defeat and left the Jackets with an 0-2 confer ence record and a 1-2 overall rec ord. The largest crowd ever to wit ness a Salisbury-Lexington con test was present for the import ant conference encounter.
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