Volume 76 No. 2
Grimsley High School
801 Westover Terrace
Greensboro, NC 27408
October 29, 1999
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The annual Renaissance Festival
will take place on Saturday, Octo
ber 30 beginning at 10;00am in
Davidson, North Carolina. Both
the Silver and Gold Madrigals will
perform.
The Armed Services Vocational
Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) will be
offered on November 18 at Grimsley
to any interested jimiors and se
niors. This test is an excellent tool
in helping students identify their
interests and aptitudes. Students
should sign up in Ms. Mamting's
office by November 10.
The PTA encourages all smdents
to submit their orignal work to the
aimual Reflections contest in the
categories of Visual Arts, Literature,
Photography, and Music Compo
sition. This year's theme is "Any
thing is possible. ..." The dead
line for submissions will be in late
December or early January.
Ms. Roberta Rohan, math teacher,
was one of five finalists in the
Guilford County Schools Teacher
of the Year competition.
The Grimsley band began their an
nual fruit sale on October 2 8 and will
continue taking orders until Novem
ber 19. The selection includes or
anges, grapefruits, pineapples, and
tangelos. Dehvery will begin on De
cember 7. Order forms are available
from any band member.
T riumphantwin kicks off new millennium of football
By Kevin Macintosh
Reporter
What is the one thing you want to
happen more than anything else this
year? All right, so going to prom with
your dream date is probably first on
the hsf, but Grimsley beating Page in
football has got to be a close second.
And, despite all the disbeUef they
faced, this superior Whirhe football
team did the impossible with a victory ■
over Page. Even still they did not just
beatPage, they killed fltem27-14. -
October 15,1999 will be a day that ‘
hves on in Grimsley High School
forever, for diis is the year for which
the Grimsley Whirhes have waited 28
years. Junior quarterback David
Mahix) says, “I feel very privileged and
excited that I was a part of the teanr”
Not only did Grimsley get its first
regular season win against the Pirates
sincel971,but fliey did it with a new
coach and an injured quarterback
against an undefeated Page team that
was ranked fifth in the state.
The game began with a scoreless
first quarter. Then things opened up
for Grimsley as Paul “Tmck” McGee
ran for a long touchdown run off of a
JasonWoodyblock.. McGeesays,“I
knew right then when we scored, if we
got the first touchdown there was no
looking back.” The Grimsley stands
then exploded as Grimsley led at the
end of file first half.
Page answered in the third quarter
after a Grimsley fumble with a
touchdown by Mike Shelly, but
Grimsley retaliated as McGee ran 28
yards for his second touchdown run,
followed by yet another touchdown
in the start of the fourth quarter by
Jason Woody. Then, just as Grimsley
students poured out of tire stands
ready to storm the field for Grimsley’s
wiir,Page’sCharles Pratt ran 77 yards
off the Grimsley kickoff to put Page
downbyonlyatouchdown. However,
.McGee was not done yet as he ran 74
yards, breaking through the Pirate’s
defensive fine for his third touchdown
of the night. This left Page fans
shocked, as the undefeated Pirates
were about to get their first taste of
ifij
Jason Woody carries the ball during the Page/Grimsiey football game.
He is a valuable player on offense and defense.
bitter defeat
Every player on the Grimsley
football team did his or her part to
crush the Pirates. Coach Stewart
said , “We were outplaying them
on offense and defense.” An
under-appreciated and somewhat
inexperienced David Malino and a
phenomenal Paul McGee
contributed much to the success
of the Whirlie offense. McGee ran
for 253 yards overall, whereas
Page’s star tailback, Gary
Whitman, had a mere 54 yards
rushing. A modest Paul McGee
says, “I can’t say that I’m a star
because without my teammates I
would not have been able to do
anything, but it felt great to have
beaten Page as a team.”
On the defensive end, the
defensive pressure of Lorin Akins
and huge tackling of Jeff Jefferies
left the Pirates who were usually
scoring 3-4 touchdowns a game in a
hopeless situation were they could
barely get two. “We played as a
team. We didn’t have any individual
goals. The one goal for us was to
beat Page and become number-one
in the conference. And now we are
Gods for defeating Page,” said Akins.
What probably did it for the Whirlies
was when they went from a shotgun
formation to more of a power spread.
As soon as Grimsley left the shotgun
formation, Malino handed the ball off
to McGee who went all the way against
a stunned Pirate defense. This
formation change fueled fire Whirlie’s
rushing as they ran for 212 yards off
37 attempts, averaging 5.7 yards per
carry.
This win over Page not only
ends Grimsley’s long, painful losing
streak to Page, but it also places
them at the top of the Metro 4-A
conference with a 2-0 record. The
win also brings the Whirlies an
impressive 5-2-1 record overall.
Grimsley football will enter the
millennium with a new winning Same
of mind that Page can be beaten and
will be. As for Page, the idea of
being able to walk on to the football
field and win every year has been
put out of the minds of its players
and fans as they had to endure
shouts of “over-rated” from
Grimsley students as they watched
Grimsley take the win.
Victory brings new tradition
By Abe'Whaley
Reporter
With a 27-14 victory over Page,
Grimsley students rushed the field of
Jamieson Stadium in a beautiful show
of frantic ecstasy, letting loose years
of unreleased frustration, knowing that
in that moment, right then, they had
rewritten the history books. They had
beaten Page.
The rivalry with Page is an
institution here at Grimsley. Every year
cars get painted in blue and white
phrases of school pride like “Sink the
Ship!”, and “Put ‘emin aBody Bag!”.
The days before the game are part of
’’Spirit Week.” Each day has a theme
and students come dressed for days
like “Hat, Shades and Lollipop
Day”, “Page Prep Day”, and for the
day of the game, the mighty “Blue
and White Day."
Historically, Spirit Week has also
been a time for what can best be
described as Whirlie Pride taken to a
negative extreme, in the form of
practical jokes (usually graffiti, or some
sort of damage done to school
property, or the surrounding
neighborhoods). Another outlet for
spirit week has been the traditional egg
wars on the streets of Greensboro. In
this yearly automotive waste of
breakfast, the painted cars of Grimsley
and Page students are filled to the brim
with teenagers, armed with cartons of
eggs. Sadly some students don’t
always have the best aim, and the
results can be tragic for neutral
Greensboro residents driving that
night.
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