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Bulldogs Bop L i t tie ton 9- 42- 8 Louisburg's sophomore quarterback Larry Fuller re wrote the record book Friday night as he threw three touch down passes in the Bulldog's 42-8 dubbing of the Littleton Blue Jays. Running back Randy Seidel ran for two more TD's to lead the locals to their seventh win of the season. Fuller now has nine touch down passes for the season knocking down Louisburg's previous one-season high of four held jointly by Fuller and Jimmy Geddie. His three scoring tosses also set a new school record. The previous high was two held by Geddie, Frank Freeman and Fuller. Fuller's nine TD tosses this year with the five he threw last year has also swamped the previous career high of seven held by Charlie Oakley. Two of Friday's throws were for seventy yard scores, beat ing the longest TD toss record of 68 yards previously set by Fuller last year. Seven Bulldogs figured in the scoring as Louisburg set out to prove they were better than the two one-point de feats they suffered in the last two outings. Phillip Redmond galloped nine yards. Seidel scored from the 3 yard line after a 40-yard pass play set up the TD. Seidel tallied again from the 2 yard line after he had carried for long yardage to set up the TD. Charlie Hobgood broke the Bulldog conversion hex as he ran over for the two-pointer and later carried a Fuller pass in for a TD. Eddie Edgerton scored the conversion on a run and Rob bie McDonald caught his fifth Fuller pass for a TD with Ed Pergerson carrying for the two-point conversion. Littleton scored in the fourth quarter when Butch Hale grabbed a fumble in the handoff and raced into the end zone and Earl Spivey caught a Jimmy Kearney pass for the conversion. Neither team scored in the first quarter. Littleton moved as deep as the Bulldog 29 and as the quarter ended, Randy Seidel had carried to the Lit tleton nine-yard line for Louisburg. On the fust play of the second quarter, fullback Phillip Redmond ran the nine yards for Louisburg's first score. A point-after pass from Fuller to Robbie McDonald fell short and Louisburg took a 6-0 lead. At the 9:22 mark, Little ton kicked to Louisburg and on the first play from scrim mage, Fuller hit Jimmy Wrenn on the thirty yard line and the speedy flanker raced all the way for the Bulldog's second tally. The PAT pass to McDonald was again missed and Louisburg led, 12-0. With 5:13 left in the first half. Fuller hit Seidel, who raced to the Littleton three before being run out of bounds. On the next play the senior star carried for his first TD of the night. Charlie Hob good ran for the two-point conversion and received a key block from Fuller as he scor ed the first conversion in four tries and only the second out of the last ten attempts by the Bulldogs. At this point, Louisburg led 20-0. Three minutes were left in the half when Charlie Hob good intercepted a Kearney pass on the Louisburg ten yard line but the Bulldogs had to give up the football with 1:19 left. Littleton moved inside the Louisburg twenty as the half ended. With 9:24 remaining in the third frame, Fuller hit Hob good on the Louisburg thirty yard line and the senior half back raced for another Bull dog score. Eddie Edgerton ran the extra points to give Louisbtirg a 28-0 lead. Littleton was forced to punt and booted the ball to the Bulldog one yard line with 4 minutes left in the third . period. The Bulldogs moved the ball well as Seidel broke loose with 2:02 left and raced for long yardage setting up a 2-yard scamper by him for another Bulldog tally. Mike Pearce attempted to kick the extra point but failed and Louisburg led, 34-0. With 53 seconds left in the third period Charlie Hobgood' intercepted another Littleton pass to set the stage for one of the most unusual playi seen in many years. Hobgood gave Louisburg the football on the Littleton 38 yard line. Fuller Caked a handoff to Phillip Redmond who ran up the middle. Fuller hid the ball on his hip, rolled out to the sideline and raced into the end zone for what appeared to be a Bulldog touchdown. The officials took ,the fake on Redmond and blew the play dead when the sophomore fullback was stopped at the line of scrim mage. With Fuller holding the football in the end zone, the officials- red faced and all called the play back. This brought on a lengthy dkacuasion between the ref eree and Louisburg Coach Tommy. Twitty. The official apologized to Twitty and to Fuller saying that the quarter back had "faked me out of ?PV - Z*T -Wi.^ ' * ? % robbie Mcdonald hugstd catch Photos bv Clint Fuller. JIMMY WRENN SNAGS TD PASS LARRY FULLER ROMP CALLED BACK WHEN OFFICIALS TOOK FAKE HANDOFF A HUG FOR CLIFF WILLIAMS (32) Photo by Mack Burgess CHARGERS CHARGE RAMS' TIM LEONARD (31) Photo by Mack Burgess. FAC Coaches Map Cage Plans Coaches from the eleven Fnnklin Area Conference schools met here Sunday afternoon and mapped plans for the upcoming basketball season which is slated to get underway on November 21. Represented at the meeting of principals and coaches were Apex, Bunn, Cardinal Gibbons, Edward Best, Ep som, Franklinton, Gold Sand, Louisburg, Oxford Orphan age, Wakelon and Youngs ville. The old Franklin County League-in operation since 1927--voted to expand in a meeting here last April 21 when Apex, Oxford and Car dinal Gibbons were added and Edward Best and Epsom were readmitted after an ab sense of one season. Wakelon became a member last year. Following the additions, the name was changed to the Franklin Area Conference last May. Eric Morgan, assistant principal at Louisburg and President of the Conference, presided at Sunday's meeting at Louisburg High School. All schools except Franklinton will have girls teams this sea son and eight schools will enter a Jayvee program. Franklinton in addition will play its Jayvees prior to their varsity contests. Only Edward Best and Gold Sand will not participate In the Jayvee pro gram. Epsom said it is not sure it can field a squad but asked for time to look into the possibility. Oxford, Wakelon, Youngs ville and Franklinton stated they would have a seventh eighth grade program and this program and schedules was left to the individual schools. A lengthy discussion was held on distribution of passes with my pants." After the game, two officials admitted that they had lost the ball several times due to Fuller's faking. The touchdown was not al lowed. With 9:49 left In the game, Fuller fumbled a handoff In the backfidd and Hale picked up the football and raced twenty yards for the only Blue Jay score. A PAT kick was off but a flag on the play the final decision being to give eich school ten com plimentary passes and alloting the President 23 passes for board and committee mem ben. Each school gets 45 team passes. Morgan appointed Frank linton Coach J. C. O'Neal and Bunn Coach Pat Corbett as a committee to work out plans for all conference selections in basketball. .Gold Sand Coach Eddie Boyette, Youngsville Coach Larry Lindsey and Wakelon Coach Jimmy Harris were named to a committee to study sugges tions for the Conference tour nament. Louisburg Coach Tommy Twitty was appoint ed to work out a Jayvee schedule. Youngsville and Cardinal Gibbons were granted per mission to shuffle their sche dule so as to be able to play a conference game on Novem ber 22. The two squads have been invited to be the pre liminary to a Carolina Cougar professional basketball game in Dorton Arena that night. The Conference set its next meeting for January 7 here at The Murphy House at 6 P.M. Unimportant It was Ms first experience as i shop anisUnt. "Have you an account here, ma'am?" he asked, after booking a cus tomer's order. "No!" was the reply, "but I would like to see this man ager." The assistant walked acroas to where the manager stood. "A lady of no account to see you, sir," he said. gave the Jays the opportunity to try again and Kearney hit Earl Spivey for the two points to make the score, 34-8. With 1:23 left, Fuller hit McDonald on a 16-yard pass In the end zone to complete the BuRdog scoring. Ed Per gerson ran the extra points to , end the game with Loulsburg ahead. 42-8. Rams Scare No. 1 Weldon Special Correspondent The Rams win streak end ed at four straight Friday night as they were downed by the Weldon Chargers 18 to 14. The Chargers won the toss and elected to receive. After getting a first down on the first series of downs the Chargers were unable to move the ball and had to punt to the Rams. Cliff William carried for 4 yards and a 5 yard penalty against Weldon gave the Rams a 2nd and 1 to go for the first down. Bobby Kearney carried 1 yard for the first down. On the next play there was a 15 yard penalty against the Chargers and another first - down. On third and 8 Sim mons hit Tim Leonard for 19 yards and a first down inside Weldon territory. On the next series of downs William gain ed 7, Kearney stopped for no gain, 3rd down Kearney was thrown for 4 yard loss, on 4th and 8 Simmon hit Leonard for 11 yards and a first down on Weldon 20. From there the Rams re ceived two 5 yard penalties an incomplete pass and had to punt. AS me is quarter enaea the Chargers had moved to the Rams 36 yard line. After 4 yard gains by Yarborough and Frazier, Krazier won a sweep to the left and went 28 yards for the Chargers first TD. The PAT was no good and Weldon led 6 to 0 early in second quarter. Tim Leonard made a good return of the Weldon kick-off 'but fumbled on the Weldon 46. On 1st down quarterback passed to end Bobby Johnson who ran 54 yards for a TD. Conversion attempt was no good and Weldon led 12 to 0 with approximately 9 minutes left in the 1st half. - For the remainder of the half neither team could mus ter much offense so he half ended with Weldon in front 12 to 0. The Rams had 25 yards rushing and 30 passing. The Chargers had 70 yards rushing and 61 passing. The Rams received in the 2nd half and drove for a first down then had to punt. The Ram defense threw Yar borough for a 3 yard loss and then after another loss they received a 15 yard penalty for piling on. Yarborough carried for 12 yards up the middle and Craig William went up the middle for 13. On the next play the Chargers were penalized 15 yards for un necessary roughness. On the next play Q. B. Edwards threw incomplete pass, and then on the next play Donnie Beckham intercepted a Ed wards pass. Simmon hit Beckham for a 26 yard gain, William carried for 4 yards and Simmon hit Leonard for 19 yards, Kear ney carried the next two times for 1 yard gain and Simmon threw incomplete passes to Leonard and Beck ham. The Chargers took over and on 1st down fumbled on their 20 yard line. On first down Simmons hit Royal Per gerson for 17 yard gain. Wil liam carried next for 2 yards and then ran a 1 yard plunge for TD. Collins kicked extra point and the Rams trailed 12 to 7 in closing minutes of the 3rd quarter. With approximately 7:30 minutes left in the game Sim mons was thrown for a los deep In Ram territory. On the next play eijdNate Harris Intercepted a pas; fr<^m Sim mon to Beckham arW re turned it for a 26 yard TD. Extra point no good and the Chargers led 18 to 7. After receiving the kick -off the Rams got a 1st down and elected to punt on 4th and short yardage. On 1st down on the Weldon 22 yard line Frazier fumbled and the Rams recovered and Cliff Wil liam carried for TD. Collins kicked extra point and with 3 minutes left in game the Hams trailed 18 to 14. The Rams proved that they could play with the beat in Class A. As they gave the Chargers aH they could handle and through their ef fort proved that they are a sound team and never gave IT'S COMING up. Donnie Beckham again led the team in individual tacles as he made 13 and inter cepted a pass which eventual ly led to the Rams first TD. Stuart Eakes and Bobby Ays cue were outstanding as de fense with 8 and 7 tackles respectively. Cliff William made 6 tackles. The Chargers rushed for 133 yards and passed for 61 yards. While the Rams rushed for 64 yards and passed for 127 yards Total 188. The Rams record is now 6-3 and they return home for the last game against Oak Ridge Military Institute on November 7. mm fgmm* mm I U Owv Oporto* I By CLINT FULLER ED (BOO-BOO) PERGERSON, Bulldog defensive star made Back of the Week in the Conference as picked by the Durham Herald for his performance against Littleton Friday night. It was the umpteenth time this season and well deserved. RANDY SEIDEL was chosen Back of the Week by The Herald for his two-touchdown effort. He has been a Bulldog asset all year. NEIL MCDONALD, steady fullback hasn't scored since the Norlina game although he has been an important factor in a number of Louisburg tallies. He deserves some sort of award for dedication. Suffering from a bad case of asthma, Neill has hung in every game doing a workhorse job. PARKER LUMPKIN, who played as a freshman for Louisburg, is a mainstay in the line for Virginia Episcopal School in Lynchburg, Va. Parker's squad is 6-0 after downing Randolph-Macon Saturday. KIRK HOUSE, also a former Bulldog is playing for Oak Ridge Military and he and MIKE JOHNSON, a former Ram, will see action at Franklinton Friday night. CHARLIE HOBGOOD has gone much of the year un noticed as a defensive standout for Louisburg but his key pass interceptions and saves have contributed as much as anything else to the Bulldog success. JOHNNY PERNELL, STEVE ROBERSON, DAN HAYES, STEVE PERDUE, JOHN KORNEGAY AND BOO BOO PERGERSON were strong defensive standouts against Little ton Friday night. They've been doing this all year. I ROBB E MCDONALD with five and JIMMY WRENN with two continue to be favored receivers of LARRY FULLER passes. FULLER has broken all school passing records this year, throwing for nine TD's thus far. The Franklinton Rams almost unseated No. 1 Wetdon Friday night. The Chargers managed a four-point win, but not before they were given a real scare by the powerful Rams. COACH JIMMY O'NEAL had nothing but praise for his squad. He has done a fine job with the Rams in bringing them along so fast this year. What a meeting it would have been If preseason efforts to stage a season finale between Franklinton and Louisburg had been successful. It couldn't be arranged and the Rams will host Oak Ridge and the Bulldogs will host Davie Friday night. Robbinsville of the Smokey Mountain Conference defeated Mars Hill of the Appalachian Conference Friday night, 20-8 to gain a playoff berth against the'' Mid-Carolina Conference champs. The game will be played at Boone on November 14. Lillington had the MCC crown almost fitted until they fell 15-14 to Apex Friday. Now they must beat Angier this week or Angier will go to Boone. St. Pauls and Red Springs meet Friday to decide the Cape Fear entry which will meet North Duplin, which has already clinched the Tri-County title. All these make up the West or lower bracket teams in the post season playoffs. In the East, Louisburg will meet Weldon, both having already won their respective conference titles. Manteo, Tide water Conference champs will play the champion of the Tobacco Belt. Right now this seems to be a scrap between Grifton, Robersonville, Belhaven and Vanceboro. All these teem records are not in but available information shows: Grifton with a 4-2 conference record and 2 games not reported; Robersonville, all games in holds a 4-2; Belhaven has a 5-2 with one not reported and Belhaven has a 2-1 with four games still out. The winner of the Louisburg-Weldon game will play the winner of the Manteo-Tobacco Belt game on November 21 in the state semi-finals. Incidentally, the championship game this year will be played on the home field of the West teem. If this happens to be Robbinsville, the other team will have quite a distance to travel, regardless of which team this might be. Naturally. Manteo would have the longest distance to go. 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