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The BMings Years: 1957 By BOA. GOODWIN, JR. Contrary to his first three years, Sill Billings found a iKavy jgftqg erf experienced line men when he fiyst called his Edenton Aces of 1957. David Fletcher wds returning at tackle, Charlie Small was back, and both ends, .Henry Overton and Marvin Ashley, were return ing from 1956. As Billings looked over his big crop, he said he hoped that “we’ll be able to move as well |as the light lines we’ve had in the past.’’ The backfield had only Bruce White returning, and Billings commented, “We have a lot of, positions which have to be filled, i but the boys are doming along fine and win or lose, I’m sure they will give a good account Os themselves.” - After two weeks in the sum mer sun, Billings had juggled his material and came up with a starting line-up. Overton and Jack Hunch were at the ends, Fletcher and Small at tackles, S'd White and Donald .Roche at dhe jpuards, and Jack Overman !0 center. In the backfield, Robert White—the hero of the BHK| HUkl|Y T A II- BE IN THE SWIM, I [yß/Sh. J ft ' Bill Perry ’ I f IS YOUR GUIDE TO I /' ASSURID . I 1 mjnf Acnow^y —- jjuuk *4 p j IML*Ik - ; jrowr Chevrolet Dealer has lots of new car buys for July 4 * but they’re going fast so better yet yours Ig^ggyjlllgyQygb before they’re all I* - ' • •' • | gone! ■% C£Zm i- ' -/ _ ... |t• * ’ ' L -, 1 - -—--~r - ~ -——r-~ ——- ~—— f. .-•• first two 1956 games—was at I quarterback, Ashley was shifted, to halfback to team with either ■ Ted Hardison or Bobby Ashley, | and veteran Bruce White was at his fullback spot. In the first game against Ro anoke Rapids, the big line did ! not impress Billings. The Aces were far from sharp, but Bruce | White managed to punch over a touchdown, and Bobby Ashley \ broke away on a 65-yard scor- j ing romp to give the Aces a j 12-0 victory. , | If there was ever a test for a j . line, it came the next week as I | Wallace-Rose Hill brought their monsters to Hicks Field. Bjil -1 ings put his boys through his fierce routine during the week, and the line played inspired ball to a 6-0 lead at halftime. Wallace came on strong and gained a 12-6 advantage in the third quarter, but Billings fired the Aces back and they knotted the count as Robert White sneaked over. A final drive brought hopes of another Great Bridge upset, but the Aces’ threat died and a respectable THE PERQUIMANS WEEKLY. HERTFORD, NORTH CAROLINE, fRXPAT AUGUST 2. 1962. 12-all tie resulted. Williamston led 7-0 at 'half time in the first conference; game, but the Aces, .after facing j, one of Billings! most blistering j intermission tirades, came roar-! ing back. Bruce White grabbed j [a Green Wave lateral and ran 1 52 yards to score and capped a drive with a touchdown as the Aces dominated the second half and won 12-7. Elizabeth City, with Bill Bur gess and crew, ran up a 32-0 j lead before a stunned Edenton mob around Hicks Field, fiill j ings went into the half with fire in his blood and, While blasting j his team, made ope qf the most | important coaching decisions of i his career. Henry Overton be | came the quarterback, Marvin | Ashley went back to end, Robert •White became a halfback, Char lie Small returned to center and big Frank Johnson came in at tackle. Bobby Ashley scored a 20-yarder, and Bruce White added another as the Aces avoid ed a complete rout and absorbed a 32-12 loss. Robert White took his injured brother’s place against Tarboro, Bobby Ashley plunged over for a score, Overton passed to Mar vin A’shley for another, and Third-Down Hardison added a third as Billings’ new combina tion worked effectively. Tarboro scored once to make it 18-7 When Bill Hull, the later Wake Forest star, caught a pass. Tommy Mathews electrified the Edenton legions as he gal loped 79 yards on the second play of the game to give Hert ford a 7-0 lead the following week. The Aces failed to falter, however, and Bruce White re peated his performance of the previous year by pulverizing the Perquimans line 34 times for 134 yards. Edenton scored a safety, ‘Overton tossed two scor ing passes to Marvin Ashley, and on the second attempt Overton kicked the Aces’ first extra point of the year. White and Overton each scored again to run the score to ’2B-7. Ahoskie came to 'Edenton as a four-touchdown underdog, but Billings saw otherwise/ as the Great Asiatic Flu Epidemic of - humbled his team. His sick | starters played the first half and I ran up a 21-0 lead on scores by the White brothers and Hardison.. , ! After the half the regulars play |ed long enough for Bruce White ' to score, but when they went out t Ahoskie rampaged for four ( touchdowns. Fortunately, they missed two extra points and Bill- i ings took his fourth conference c championship, 27-26. c Both Edenton and Plymouth ( were hobbled by the influenza, j and the game was played on ( Monday night. Bobby Ashley, 1 Bruce White, Billy Wilkins and ] Ted Hardison scored to give the ] Aces a 26-0 win. j The disttrict playoff was post- I poned by rain at Ahoskie until ] Monday, a bitter cold day, but i the Aces used the rest to recup erate and pounded Weldon 40-13. Bruce White scored once and took an Overton pass for an other, Overton returned an in tercepted pass 50 yards for a marker, Bobby Ashley got one, and Hardison scored the last. [ The highlight came when Ashley , took a punt 90 yards down the • sidelines to score. Erwin scored first in Green -1 ville during the regional cham i pionship, but the Aces came up . hill for a 19-6 advance in the > rain. Bruce White got the equal r izer, Overton sneaked for the go ; ahead score, and Overton pitched jto Marvin Ashley for the icer I late in the game. In GreenviHe again for the 1 ' eastern title, Overton hit Bunch for an early lead over Farmville. r The Red Devils came back for two, however, and after Robert . White scored, they went ahead , again. Bruce White evened . things, and Bobby Ashley added . another late in the contest to cap , a win. Never had one section of the I state dominated high school foot i ball in North Carolina as the Al bemarle section did during the i Thanksgiving week-end of 1957. . Williamston had just won the state AA-C title. Elizabeth City L was hosting Charlotte’s Myers t Park for the AA crown, and , Edenton was rewarding its loyal fans by bringing in Mebane for the Class A championship game on Hicks Field. Mebane, after revenge for the 195 G humiliation, was firmly established as a three-to-four-touchdown favorite. The game saw no score during the first quarter, and the only outstanding feature was the punting of Overton. Then, early in the second period, Robert White blasted Mickey Walker with a mighty tackle. Walker’s following punt went out of bounds on the Mebane 30, and in six straight carries Bruce White was over for the score. Overton’s kick made it 7-0. The lead was short lived, foi big Irvin Poteet took a screen pass, ran 60 yards to score, and kicked the point to tie it before the half. After the intermission, Overton boomed a punt deep in to Mebane territory, the Aces held there, and the Tigers punt ed. Bobby Ashley received on his own 45, cut right toward the home stan.ds, and turned behind a solid wall of blockers. Meb ane, unaware of the old Billings trick, let the scatback score un touched. On the next series of plays, the Tigers punted again. Ashley gathered this one on his 25, fol lowed the same procedure as be fore, and crossed the goal in the same place. An official detected clipping on the play, but Mebane never got off its feet after those two mighty bolts. Billings took his second con secutive State Class A title, and there was no question then of his dominance in the single-A ranks. His 1957 champs had probably received more of his personal direction as any of his teams considering the great mid-season change. After 1957 there would be frustration for two years, but one thing loomed big in the future after the 1957 season. That thing was the freshman class Billings’ first class of his own in Edenton. He had trained them from the eighth grade, and upon that class Billings would call for the next three years. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Mankind’s need for prayer based on heartfelt gratitude to ' God will be brought out at Christian Science church services Sunday. Highlighting the Lesson-Ser mon on the subject of “Love” is the Golden Text from the Bible (1 John 4): “God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwell eth in God, and God in him.” Ji citation to be read from •'Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures” by Mary Bak er Eddy states (p. 4): “What we most need is the prayer of fer vent desire for growth in .grace, expressed in patience, meekness, iPUft, 4*l .deeds.” SUNQAY SCHQOU LESSON C ant'd, from 4—Soction 2. this happen to me?” “Where is God?” Our knowledge, however, also forces us to hear answers to the questions. In rqply, many stale outright that there is no living God ,in the first place. Accord ing to their view, historical events are determined by na tural, material and social forces. ! Events qf history, then, are the results of man’s manipulation or failure to manipulate these , forces in accordance with im personal universal laws. On an other hand there are those who hesitantly say that there may be a living God. But, granted that there is, he is beyond or re moved from what takes place in history. He is either powerless to act, or he does not care. A third group replies that there is, indeed, a living God. He is Creator and sustainer of the heavens and the earth. In character, he is righteous, just and gracious, and he requires that man exhibit the same char acteristics in his individual and social life. What is more, this living God is greater than all that takes place in history. At the same time, he is active in historical events and in the ex periences of individual man. Additionally, this God has a will for mankind and a purpose in history. God is working out that purpose despite all that man can or may do to the contrary. Evil men, instead of defeating God’s purpose, are used by him from One Season To Another ... in beautiful fashion Transcend the seasons ... in lovely fashions that know no seasonal boundaries! 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Ac cording to the biblical view point, however, greater than any tiagedy would be the failure to hear God speak in that tragedy. The universe is a moral one. (like the God who made and sus tains it. In the moral realm we reap as we sow. This truth is affirmed in the Bible; it is con j firmed in our own experiences, j Christians are called upon‘to J sow in keeping with God s ’•igfhteousnexs, justice and love. We arc called upon to sow to the Spirit. In so doing, wc reap a reward that overcomes tragedy, now and in the world to come. (These comments are based on outlines of the International Sunday School Lessons, copy righted by the International Council ot Religious Fducation, and used by permission). Peace begins just where atn | bition ends. —Edward Young. y. J| gSf 1 . I JKmm.matz I § : ' Vyoui'vj isavings 1 are \ EVER BLOOMING at The Peoples Bank And Trust Company Regular deposits plus liberal interest will put a “rosy” out-* look to your future! 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