John Hassell, Seadog's
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The Seadog of the Week for this
week is sophomore quarterback
Johnny Hassell.
In the Havelock game last Fri
day Seadog rooters didn’t have too
many occasions to cheer but when
they did it was more than likely
that it was a play that Johnny was
in on.
In the first quarter Johnny stop
ped Havelock’s deepest penetration
when he recovered a Ram fumble
on the Beaufort one-yard line.
' Then in the fourth quarter he en
gineered the most spectacular play
of the game when he intercepted
a Havelock aerial and ran the ball
back 65 yards before being brought
down on the 15-yard line.
Johnny moved up to the -varsity
this year after serving all of last
Injuries Hit Eagle Squad;
O'Neal, Nolon Termed 'Out'
Grid Poll Ranks
Beaufort Sixth
I ' The Beaufort Seadogs, 1959 state
Class A football champions, show
| ad a little loss of prestige in the
first weekly Schoolboy Ratings of
the Greensboro Daily News as the
result of their 0-0 tie with .Have
• lack last Friday.
The ratings, which appeared
Wednesday, have the Seadogs
ranked sixth among ihe top ten
teams. Eastern powerhouse War
saw tops the Cla9S A schools.
In ranking the teams, The Daily
News said that Beaufort, though
fot No. 1, continues to be a threat.
'Hie Seadogs had to settle for a
tie last week, slowing down after
. a terrific start.
The top ten is filled with some
familiar names from last year. Of
the ten teams, five of them, Beau
fort, Mt. dive, NCSD, Mebane,
and Allen Jay, were in the final
season as first unit quarterback
for Tom Hewitt’s junior varsity
team. With the varsity Johnny
has been used in a variety of ways,
running second unit quarterback
on offense behind Pud Hassell and
first unit halfback on defense. He
also handles most of the punting
chores for head coach Curt Lan
caster.
As his brother Butch, Johnny is
a three-sport letterman for Beau
fort high school. Besides football,
Johnny has earned monograms in
basketball and baseball. He was
a member of Beaufort’s state
champion basketball squad last
year and will be counted on heav
ily by coach Tom McQuaid this
year.
Johnny is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gray Hassell, Beaufort.
select .group last season. New
comers to the top ten t»is year are
Warsaw, North Duplin, West Yad
kin, Benvenue, and Robbinsville.
The top ten is as follows:
CLASS 1A
Pos. School W L T
1. Warsaw .3 0 0
2. Mehane _ 3 .0 ,0
3. Mt. Olive .,.2 0 1
4. NCSD ..~2 0 1
5. North Duplin ......3 0 0
«. Beaufort 2 0 1
7. West Yadkin .2 0 0
8. Benvenue .2 0 0
9. Allen Jay . 3 0 0
10. Robbinsville ..3 0 0
Hurricane repairs have been
completed at Thompson’s Steel
pier, Emerald Isle, and the pier is
now open for fishing, announces
George Thompson, owner.
Seadogs Hope to Regain Form
Aaainst Swansboro Pirates
Meet Pirates at Home
In Non-Conference Game
The Beaufort Seadogs will play host to the Swansboro
Pirates tonight at 8 in a game that is expected to draw a j
large crowd to the Seadog field.
Last week the Seadog* were held to a scoreless tie by
Havelock and a lot of attention will be focused on the
team tonight and their showing against the Pirates. Last
week the Beaufort attack was slug-<
gish. Fans are hoping that the
Seadogs will return to the form
that carried them to their two
opening wins.
Head coach Curt Lancaster and
his staff got the word this week
that they would have thb services
of starting halfback Ray Hassell
for tonight's tussle. Hassell, who
has had hi* right arm in a cast
for two weeks, wasn’t scheduled
to return to the lineup until next
Friday but doctors have released
him a week earlier, saying that the
cast will come off this afternoon.
Lancaster said that Ray’s elbow
will be taped in a flexed position
which will keep him from throwing
the ball but won’t hinder him oth
erwise.
Lancaster has come up with a
major change in his lineup for to
night that will be tried for the first
time. He has moved the left side
of his interior line, which consists
of Bill Harris and Robert Jones to
the right side.
This means that the strong side
of the line has been shifted from
left to right which is where most
of the Seadog power plays are aim
ed.
Lancaster said that 175-pound
Gray Simpson has earned the
starting nod at left guard for to
night. Simpson has showed real
well in practice this week, accord
ing to Lancaster.
For the first time in years
Swansboro has gotten off to a win
ning start with their football sea
son. In their opener this year they
won their first game in three years
by downing Dixon 20-0. They fol
lowed this up with a 32-6 win over
Burgaw the following week.
The new coach of the Pirates,
Frank Trotman, says that his boys
have showed a lot of spirit and en
I thusiasm in preparing for the
► Head coach Norman Clark will take an injury-riddled
squad of Eagles to Dunn for an important non-conference
clash at 8 tonight with the powerful stalwarts of the 3-A
Southeastern Conference, the Dunn high school Green
Wave.
No less than five players,
termed doubtfuls by Clark yesters
day.
Topping the list of injured grid
ders are quarterback David O’Neal
and halfback James Nolon. O’Neal,
who definitely won’t start, was laid
up in practice Monday with torn
muscles in his back.
Nolon has been hampered with a
badly bruised hip and will not see
action tonight. To replace his two
backfield starters, Clark will call
on sophomore quarterback Bernard
Leary and sophomore halfback
Danny McQueen.
Also injured and probably dated
to see only limited action are cen
ter Thomas Fish, bothered toy a
shoulder injury; fullback Ernest
Lewis, who has a sprained ankle
and second-unit center Bobby Ab
bott who is feared to have a crack
ed collar bone.
Should neither Fish nor Abbott he
able to start at center, Clark will
Beaufort contest and added that he
is looking for a close, hard-fought
game.
Trotman, who came to Swans
boro from Clayton, had a nucleus
of.,15 lettcrmen reporting for foot
ball this fall. Of these 15, seven
were starters last year. Trotman
has a veteran backfield headed by
quarterback Mike Miller and full
back Jim Corbett. Miller was the
player that kicked a 24-yard field
goal against the Seadogs last year
in Swansboro’s 26-3 loss to Beau
fort.
The starting lineups for the
game, which starts at 8, are as
follows:
8WAN8BORO
Name, pos. Weight
Ernie Wiggins, LE 170
Rufus Hatsell, LT 170
Ben Russell, LG 160
Frank Ledford, C 150
Frank Perry, RG 150
Carl Lilley, RT ... 200
Frank Gateini, RE 140
Mike Miller, QB 140
Jim Privett, HB 140
Harold Rouse, HB 150
Jim Corbett, FB 170
BEAUFORT
Name, pos. Weight
George Noe, LE . 150
Chuck Lewis, LT 155
Gray Simpson, LG . 175
Frank Sides, C . 165
Robert Jones, RG 165
Bill Harris, RT 170
David Jones, RE .... 157
Pud Hassell, QB 178
Eddie Taylor, HB 150
Ray Hassell, HB 155
Ernest House, FB 170
Armenian has become an inter
national language because of its
extensive use in business and com
merce.
four of them starters, were
probably go With Glenn Mason,
150-pound sophomore at the posi
tion.
The report Wednesday from
coach Whitley Bradham at Dunn
is that his Green Wave will be at
full strength when the two teams
take the field tonight. Bradham
has five starters back this year
from the team that, last year, com
piled a record identical to More
head City’s of five wins, three
losses and one tie. So far this year
the Green Wave has lost to 4-A
Fayetteville and tied Garner.
In the event that Ernest Lewis’s
sprained ankle isn’t strong enough
to allow him to play, Clark will
call on sophomore Mack Lockhart
to fill the fullback vacancy.
The game tonight marks the first
meeting of the two schools since
1955 when the Eagles scored a one
sided 41-6 win. Since that time
both schools have risen as powers
in Eastern Carolina football. The
game also marks the second time
in four starts that the Eagles have
taken on a 3-A foe.
Clark and his team will leave
Morehead City early this afternoon
by bus for Dunn.
Probable starting lineups for the
two teams are as follows:
DUNN
Name, pos. Weight
Ray Stevens, LE . 180
John Slocum, LT .200
Lloyd Byrd, LG ,.—„— 170
Danny Dixon, C -. MO
Donald Barefoot, RG ..180
.John Palmer, RT . 215
Billy Pope, RE . 150
David Dixon, QB . 160
Gail fffcrt, HB ..... 1«
Carmen Barefoot. HB .155
Jerry Barnes, FB . 180
MOREHEAD CITY
Name, pos. Weight
Ludvik Pospisil, LE — 175
Lonnie Boyd, LT . 200
BUI Wade, LG . 175
Thanes Fish. C ..- M0
Chuck Sledge, RG .. 185
Leslie Nelson, ItT... 280
.Harold Wbealton, RE ..185
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Danny McQueen, HB..145
Ted Garner, HB .155
Ernest Lewis, FB .— 155
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SpoaJa,
by
Larry McCoaab
Both the Morehead City Eagles and the Beaufort Sea
dogs have their work cut out for them tonight.
The Eagles, in their biggest game to date, go against
the always powerful Dunn eleven and the Seadogs will
try to rebound from their scoreless tie with Havelock,
meeting the Swansboro Pirates at home.
The Dunn contest this year marks the resumption of
a rivalry that has produced some,of the best games ever
played by the two schools. Not since 1955 have the two
Class A A schools met on the gridiron but few fans, from
either Dunn or Morehead City, will ever forget thaf
game of five years ago.
It was the game in which Norman Clark took a tre
mendously underdogged Eagle eleven to Dunn and came
back with a thumping 41-6 win that a lot of people still
call the best game they ever saw a Clark-coached team
play.
This year, Dunn has come up with another powerful
grid team. They have lost one game to date but that
loss came at the hands of a 4-A school. The Eagles
meanwhile, have won one, lost one, and tied one. A win
tonight would go a long way towards getting the Eagles
over a big hump in the rest of their schedule.
A lot of Coastal Conference teams and coaches will
be watching how the defending conference and state
champions, the Beaufort Seadogs, do in their non-con
ference clash with Swansboro.
The Seadogs were pre-season favorites to repeat as
conference champions but, at present, no less than four
teams have demonstrated that they have the equipment
necessary to go all the way. In the title race with the
Seadogs are Farmville, Robersonville, LaGrange and
Ayden. And it’s still too early to count out Havelock
although the Rams have yet to win a conference game
in two starts.
The Pirates had the opportunity to get a good scout
ing report on the Seadogs last Friday as they had an,
open date in their schedule. The Pirates have won two
straight since the opening of the season. They defeated
both Dixon and Burgaw by large scores.
Fearless Fraley’s Fractured Forecast
Fearless too, has his job cut out for him thisflweek.
He got only seven out of ten last week to drop hjs bat
ting average down to a miserable .625. So far this year
he’s missed nine of 24 picks.
In the three Big Four clashes this week Fearless says
he’s got to go with South Carolina over Duke, UNC over
NC State, and Wake Forest over Clemson. Rounding
out his collegiate picks, Fearless chooses Syracuse over
Boston University, Kansas over Kansas State, Georgia
Tech over Rice, Mississippi over Kentucky and Notre
Dame over California.
Here at home he picks the Seadogs to come back like
real champions against Swansboro and in the game of
the week he picks the Eagles and Dunn even.
Midget Gridders to Play
Afternoon Twin Tilt
The Morehead City Midget Foot
ball League will play its double
header Saturday afternoon this
week, according to Nick Galantis,
commissioner of the Morehead
City Football Boosters club.
The first game, to start at 1:30
will match the Jaycee Blue Devils
against the league-leading Fry
Eagles and the nitecap will pit the
Lion Cubs against the Little Elks.
The games will be played on the
high school gridiron.
The new uniforms for the league
have arrived and will be used in
the games.
Fishermen Report
Scattered Catches
There have been no spectacular
fishing reports during the week but
Bob Simpson, Fabulous Fishing
columnist, reports the following:
Morgan T. Lee, Richmond, Va.,
caught a 32%-inch sailfish from
Hubert Fulcher’s Blue Water Tues
day. Dolphin reports 27 amberjack
on one trip and as many as 10 king
mackerel in single catches.
On the sound side, fishermen
have been getting gray trout and
blues while blues and pompano are
dominant on the ocean side.
GO-KART
RACING
ATLANTIC BEACH
SUNDAY, SEPT. 25, 3 P.M.
GATE OPENS 2 P.M. FOR TRIALS
Admission: Adults — 76c Children — 38c
AH Drivers Interested in Entering Races Cell
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GO-KART RACE
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Single Engine — Any Class
Eagle of fhe Week
Ernest Lewis Emerges
As Top Ball Carrier
By scoring more touchdowns in
one game than the entire team had
been able to do all season, fullback
Ernest Lewis merits this week’s
selection for Eagle of the Week.
Last Friday against Wilmington
Ernest electrified the local fans
and humiliated the Wilmington de
fense by exploding for three
spectacular TD runs in leading the
Eagles to a 32-0 win over Wilming
ton. In two previous games the
Eagles had been able to manage
only one touchdown. They failed
Knights Edged
6-0 by Clinton
Sampson county high school of
Clinton pushed across a touchdown
in the last two minutes of the game
Wednesday to take a 6-0 win over
the Queen Street Knights of Beau
fort in a game played in Clinton.
Clinton, eastern AA runnerups
last year, were played on even
terms by the Knights throughout
most of the game as they were un
able to penetrate the stout Knight
defense. Penalties against the
Knights moved Clinton into scoring
position in the last quarter.
Veterans Godfrey Ellison, Alvin
West and William Becton were the
leading ground gainers for coach
S. H. (Shad) Barrow’s eleven.
To Make Debut
Morehead City’s newest football
team, the Camp Glenn seventh and
eighth graders, will make their
1960 debut tomorrow night when
they meet the Swansboro seventh
and eighth graders in a game un
der the lights at the Camp Glenn
field.
to cross the goal line in tying
Richlands 0-0 and scored only once
in bowing to New Bern 14-7.
Ernie’s performance against Wil
mington was something that a lot
of fans have been expecting. After
seeing him run against Richlands
and New Bern a lot of people knew
that the junior fullback could de
velop into the Eagles' finest ball
carrier. He established himself as
just that Friday.
This is Ernie’s second year on
the Eagle varsity. Last year he
was used mainly as a kicker by
Norman Clark. This year, be
sides running the first unit full
back slot, he still handles all of
the kicking chores. The Eagles
have adopted a new play, the
quick-kick, this year to utilize Er
nie’s kicking. Against New Bern
the play turned out to be a vital
weapon as Ernie got off several
long kicks that kept the Bears in
their own back yard most of the
night.
Ernest was born in Morehead
City 17 years ago and has spent
all his life here. Besides his school
activities, Ernest is a member of
the Free Will Baptist church where
he sings in the junior choir.
Donna's Assault Here
Hits Nation's Headlines
Pictures of the wreckage left by
Donna on the Beaufort-Morehead
1 City causeway were circulated na
tion-wide by the Associated Press
and evidently appeared in scores
of metropolitan papers.
Readers report that members of
their families have seen the pic
tures in papers of Los Angeles, Mi
ami and Detroit.
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