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PAGE FOUR I—SECTION TWO The Billings Years: 1960 By Bli>u GOODWIN, JR. Bill Billings lost four starters frojn his 1959 edition of the Edenton Aces, but in August of 1960 he found several experi enced lettermen to take their places. Never had or never would he and Bill Hardison have reason for being as optimistic as they were before the start of 19u0. By moving Leroy Spivey to end and inserting experienced Erwin Griffin at a guard, Bill ings hadt only two positions left of which he was unsure. Jack Sawyer, a senior, and Charles Cuthrell, a junior, stepped into those positions like they were made for them and .erased any doubts Billings had about his 1960 squad. Sawyer, in fact, went On to win all-conference laurels, and Cuthrell was a lead ing lineman for two years. The other positions on the Aces squad were taken years ahead of 1960. Fred Britton | claimed his end, Wayne Baker I his tackle, Jimmy White his guard, Jerry Tolley and Rich ard Dixon their halfbacks, Bub ba Hopkins his rugged fullback position, and Carroll Forehand took over as the quarterback. Besides these starters, the Aces had a bounty of experienced lettermen to fill the reserve spots and play extensively on defense. Many teams in the Albemarle j Conference would loved to have I had Billings’ reserves of 1960. j Camden made it close the first two times the Aces had the ball, but Forehand soon galloped 80 yards for a score, Hopkins plung ed for one and raced 76 for an other, Tolley added 44- and 62- yarders, and Douglas Sexton ramped 9 yards for the finale as the Aces stomped the Rebels, 38-0. Roanoke Rapids made it a little closer with their beef, but by the time the clash was over the pattern was well set for the season. Forehand had tossed two touchdown passes to Britton, of 13 and 50 yards, Hopkins had rattled 37 yards for a score, and Tolley had scored twice on runs | of 40 and 27 yards. The Aces j romped again, 33-6. Wallace-Rose Hill met the | Edenton blitz immediately after the start of the game when Tol ley roared for touchdowns of 61 and 48 yards on two straight scrimmage plays. Tolley got an other one, of 52 yards, and lat-1 eralled to Britton on a 59-yard scoring play. Forehand passed to Hopkins for the final tally to make it 30-6. Williamston played spirited ball and managed to keep the Edenton reserves out of the game until the fourth quarter. Hopkins scored twice and Brit ton, Dixon, and Spivey once each as the Aces won their fourth straight, 34-0. Scotland Neck was. out of the , Aces’ class. Tolley raced 731 yards with a punt return and j scored a 15-yarded, Hopkins and j Spivey scored, and Forehand lob- j bed a 70-yard touchdown pass I to Britton. The 33-0 victory was j clearly a result of the Aces blitz scoring tactics and tough de- ! sense. Edenton had won in Elizabeth City only once in history, and had not beaten the Yellow Jack ets twice in succession in 26 years. Bill Billings took his fmEBpS BALLYHOO WMjm' VITAMINS , “Vita™ ll deficiency” has become a kind of ca t c h phrase. Yet it relates to health, the province of your physician. BjM Should you suspect that you need vitamins, yr consult your doctor. Let him decide what vitamins, if any, are required. How much more sensible a procedure than to succumb impetuously to nonprofessional ballyhoo for all-purpose, bargain vitamins. Rely on your physician’s advice. When he writes . a prescription, we are prepared to fill it promptly. HOLLOWELL'S PHONE 3127 PROMPT DELIVERY REXALL DRUG STORE . . - TWO REGISTERED PHARMACISTS »iA Reg***** Pharamacist Always On. Duty ; mighty Aces to Memorial Field - highly favored to crack history ' and win by a big margin. The Jackets, always capable of up setting the Aces, star tea u.e game as if they intended to do it again. Late in the first half, however, the Aces began a drive. Hopkins carried the ball ten straight times, bulling over the Yellow Jackets until he scored. Elizabeth City kicked to start the second half, and Tolley, be hind excellent blocking, brought it back to score. After that the Jackets were broken and thfe Aces had a field day.. Britton took a lateral from Tolley and scored, and Forehand threw 44 yards to Tolley for another touchdown. Edenton won, 28-6. Billings used his reserves for three quarters against Weldon. Tolley carried two punts into paydirt early in the game, and j Spivey, Forehand, Dixon, Sexton, 1 Wayne Ashley, and Herbert Adams each scored in the 52-0 rout, which The Herald termed a “practice game”. There were two victories each year under Billings which were! musts. The boys wanted to win I against Hertford, and Billings wanted a win over Ahoskie. In 1960 Billings agreed to let his aggregation run up as big a j score as they liked over Hert- I ford as long as they defeated i Ahoskie. Hertford, therefore, caught the brunt of the Aces fabled attack, and the 51-6 rout evened the count for 1953. One of the Aces tells this story about the Ahoskie game: “Coach Young (Ahoskie head coach Jack Young) came into our dressing room and told us we might as well pack up our stuff and head home. Well, this got us pretty worked up, and naturally everybody wanted to score a touchdown.” Billings obliged his boys and left his first team in the game until ev ery back on the team scored. Hopkins was last, and he got his on the last play of the game jto give Billings his most com plete victory 40-0, and his sev jenth straight conference crown. I The Aces gained 349 yards to Ahoskie’s 99, and the Indians 1 crossed the midfield stripe only i once. Plvmouth was demolished in a track meet affair. Every Edenton back scored for the third straight week, and of sev en touchdowns, six were of over 50 yards. Jimmy White, play ing fullback, even scored a 56-1 yarder with the reserve outfit. It was raining in Greenvile, but the Aces routed Garner just the same. Every back again j scored as the Aces won the re- 1 gion title 40-0, showing very I little playoff tension. Playing Wallace for the second time in 1960, the Aces met diffi- ] culty in East Carolina's stadium for three quarters. Tolley rattled off a score in the first half, and Forehand plunged for one in the third quarter, but the Aces could not breathe easy. Then, in the final period, Hopkins ripped for ( a 10-yard marker and thundered for a 38-yarder down the middle I and Tolley rounded out the 32-0! win with an 87-yard romp. Winston-Salem Hanes came to' Hicks Field and Edenton for the second time in four years had THE CHOWAN HERALD. EDENTON. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. AUGUST 23. 1982. GOSH SNAKES!—AII grin and freckles, little Scott Thur ber is kept afloat with the help of his twisted friend, while swimming in Sun Valley, Idaho. Snake is a plastic tube. a championship played on its; gridiron. Hanes had by far the j best team the Aces played, and [ were worthy of being in the j championship game, but they I [still could not contain, the dyna i mite that Billings had stored in his backfield and fierce line. A Hanes fumble set up a score for Hopkins in the second quar ter, but the Aces missed the ex tra point. On the second half kickoff, the Aces fumbled deep in their own territory. Buddy Bovender, flashy Hanes back, soon scored, the extra point sail ed through the bars, and the Aces were behind for the first time in i 960- As Plymouth had done in 1959, so had Hanes done in 1960 —they gave the Aces the spark to vic tory. Two long drives netted touchdowns for Hopkins and the Aces were safely home, 19-7. The big fullback carried the ball 43 times during the night for 177 yards and gained for himself a place on the All-Fastcrn team. Billings greatest year had ended. His team was state cham pion and had finished undefeat ed with a 13-0 record. He would lose heavily from the 1960 team, but he would have material re-: turning. Bill Billings was to meet the challenge of his last! year in Edenton and meet it \ well. In some small field each child should attain, within the limit ed range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts. —Charles W. Eliot. I NOW’S 8 THE TIME ||| " > * ' . ...fora U once-a-year buy on just the one || you want! Wh Getting ready for a vacation trip couldn’t be easier: just pick a Chevrolet, pack your family and go. And that first part is easiest of all with what your Chevrolet dealer has to pick from. 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Mrs. Winnie Mae Bray, Mrs. Joyce Ann Ainsley, Mrs. Shirley Miley, Mrs. Elsie Ray Toppin, Miss Carol Lassiter, Miss Lou Ann Bunch, Elton T- Chappell, James Lassiter, Jr., Joseph P. Ward, Mrs. Janie Harrell, Mrs. Inez Moran, Mrs. Berta Stall- "RECAPS^W^. gafRERRY ’nS MIGHT, To LOSE PLAIN LOOKING I Q,,| n,nnu A CiLLNWFEP ffIarPERRYS prrsigA Service Station 4 ?!Uc9721 CHEVROLET BEL AIR 4-DOOR .SEDAN ► 4 . : j m # ~ - ... . ■ r 1 —■— : —~ r— * r* i,,^ EHPV.V A m CORVAIR MONZA 4-DOOR SEDAN L i i ings, Miss Pamela Bunch, Jo seph Hathaway. Colored Mrs. Violet- Marie Norman, Thomas Frank Thatch, Mrs. Al berta Rankin, Mrs. Loretta Hol ley, Mrs. Marvella Jones, Mrs. Stella Jackson, 'Mathew Blount. Patients discharged from the hospital during the same period were: White William C. Roberts, Mrs. Della Mae Coburn, Francis L. Everett, Mrs. Mary Hassell and infant son, Mrs. Elizabeth C- Ward, [Mrs. Dorothy Yates, Richard Rid idick, Stuart Hoilowell, Mrs. Ai ' leen M. Bunch, Mrs. Joyce Ann Ainsley and infant son, Mrs. Shirley Miley and infant daugh ter, Miss Lou Ann Bunch, Elton T. Chappell, James Lassiter, Jr. Colored Mrs. Loretta Holley, Mrs. Mar vella Jones, Mrs. Stella Jackson and infant son, Mathew Blount, Mrs. Doris Jean Ferebee and in fant daughter, Richard Andrew Cox, Mrs. Estelle Holley. Births Births occurring at the hospital during the same period were: White Mr. and Mrs. Elton Ainsley of Creswell, a son; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Miley of Edenton, a daugh ter; and Mr. and Mrs. Garland Toppin of Edenton, a son. Colored Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson of Edenton, a son; and Mr. and Mrs. Willie Ferebee of Edenton, a daughter. w^OOO • ill FURRY TALE—Long vest is designed for chilly fall days. It is done in orlon fabric at a London, England, preview. $ STUDENT CERTIFICATE Comprehensive neaTth protection tor colleqe and trade school students un der 24 years ot aqe and in qood health. Individual or Family Plan. 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