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Thursday, September 22, I96fi KINGS MOUNTAIN HERALD. KINGS MOUNTAIN. N. C. Pag«3 ountaineers To Victory Over '■mi" CORNWELL KEEPS — Kings Mountain high school sophomore quarterback Joe Cornwell (IS) runs for yardage against Cherryville Friday night at City Stadium. Ready to block lor Cornwell is wingback Dennis Smith (22) as Cherryville's Darrell Pope (66) closes in lor the tockle. Kings Mcuntain won the conference match, 36-0. (Pho^o by Rodney Dodson). By GARY STEWART | Sophomore halfback Wayne Mullinax scored two touchdowns and gained 74 yards rushing in only nine carries to lead the Kings Mountain Mountaineers to a 36-0 victory over Cherryville here Friday night in Southwest Conference football action. With Mullinax, Steve Spencer and .fullback Sonny Moore lead ing the offensive charge, plus some good blocking by the Moun taineer offensive line, Kings Mountain gained a net total of 350 yards while the Mountie de fense held the visiting Ironmen to only 36 yards. Spencer also netted two touch downs for the M'ounties and junior fullback Paul Gaffney scored another. Senior Jerry Mitchem added a field goal and two extra point’s and junior Chip Crisp also kicked an extra point. Kings Mountain's first touch- dowm drive began on its own 30 yard line after Cherryville was forced to punt on its first serres of downs. Spencer picked up five yai’ds, and, on the sec ond play, center Sandy Mauney carried to the Cherryville 38 aft er Moore fumbled the balj. Spencer was thrown for a pne-1 yard loss. Finger picked up two : and Moore got a first down with . a nine-yard gallop. Moore then - carried to the 23 and Mullinax tallied a first down with a scv-1 en-yard rr>arch to the, 16. Kings Mountain was then charged with an offsides penalty | but it took Moore only four car-j ries to move the ball to the Iron -1 men goaline. A five-yard penalty i set the Mountaineers back to the 1 five but Spencer circled left-end j to make the score 6-0 wdth 2:22 I left in the first period. I Kings .Mountain's secon i ! touchdown drive began, mid-way 1 through the second period when ' Moore threw Cherryville punter A1 Knight down on the Cherrie 19 when he fumbled’ the" snap" I from center on fourth down. 1 After Moore was stopped for , na gain, Mullinax went off left; tackle 19 yards for the score and Jerry Mitchem kicked the j point after to make the count 13- |0 with 6:03 left in the half, j David Leftwich’s kick-off roll ed out of bounds, therefore, giv- Cherryville 19. Two hunning' ing cherryville a fii-st-and-lO on plays and a screen pass from the 40. An offensive penalty i Wade Beam to Moby Homesley I against the Mounties put the ball' netted the Irohmen only four ! on the 45 but two running playsiyards and again Pope had to j and an incom{)letcd pass netted j punt. ' ' “ . the Ironmen only one yard caus- Rocky Brown took the boot on j ing another punt situation. ! the K.M 45 and returned it to the | Eddie Bridges blocked Darrell | Cherryville 46 to set up the Moun Pope’s punt on Jlu' 35 yard line and KM defensive enrl Charles Carroll scooped up the loose ball and ran to the Cherrie four yard line before being hauled down from behind. Spencer went off right tackle on the first play fioin scrim mage and Mitchem again kicked the extra point to gi\-e the Moun taineers a 20-0 halftire lead. Kings Mountain kicked off to the Cherries to start tlu" second half but again thi> Mountie de fehsfe “halted the ■ vi.srt-rrs ' and Pope was again forced into punt taineers’-fourth touchdown drive Tommy Goforth, who near the end of the first half replaced the injured Tomary Finger, moved the ball yards but a backfield in motion call set the Mountaineers right hack on the 46. Moore car ried the pigskin to the 37 and .Mullinax picked up the first down with a three-yaid run to the 31. Dennis Smith picked up on yard and, .Mullinax again picked up the first dovyn v\'ith a 17 y.ard -gjdiop-to’the Chernie 46.Pjoforlh cairitxl to the 14 and Mullinax went to the 12 but a five-yard the Mounties back formation. His kick wa.s taken on the KM 25 by Mullinax who ; penalty .set was dropped on the ‘26. ion the 17. The Mountaineers then staged I .Spencer then carried to the another touchdown drive- hut |eight and Mullinax then went off were halted this time when Pope left tackle for the touchdown, recovered a .M.aore fumble on the Mitchem’s extra point attempt wide and the Mounties led On the first play from scrim mage after Crisp’s kickoff, Left- wich recovered a Beam fumble and set up the Moun ties''final touchdown on the Cherryville 31- Paul Gaffrtey picked up a first down to the 17 and another run by Gaffney and two by Joe Cornwell made it first-and-goal from the two. Gaffey then went for the score and Crisp kicked the conversion to make it 33-0 with 9:53 left in the game. Kings Mountain’s final score came on a IS yard field goal by -Mitchem with three seconds left after Cornwell quarterbacked a march which began on the KM 49. The Mountaineers had a fourth-/md-two situation from the four when Coach Bill Bates scnI v-Mrtchem-in-to attempt.the- fieki goal. While Mullinax was he big of fensive star for the Mountai neers. Bridges, Carroll and tac- ] kle Kenny Plonk led the KM de fensive charge which allowed the visitors only four first downs. 43 Mounties Host To Chase Friday 8:00 Mountaineer Gridgraph Plonk's Takes Over Ladies' Loop Lead Mounties Seek Second Straight Conference Win PLAYER OF THE WEEK — Kings Mountain high school Football Coach Bill Bates goes over Fri day night's statistics with senior center-guard Eddie Bridges who was chosen by Bates as the Movmtdlheer Player-of-the-Week following KM's 36-0 win over Cherryville. Bridges led the KM defensive charge which held the visiting Ironmen to only 38 yards. (Staff photo by Gary Ste wart). Herald Sports Eddie Bridges Player Of Week Plonk Brothers won four games ofif Minute Grill Tuesday , _ night to move into first place in , UOIUCIOIICC Will v um' v the ladies duckpin bowling | .'lullinax standings. In other action Oates-' -Mountains Mountain- .Moore Henderson Shell won three* games i ^ame Spencer off Griffin Drug, and Victory i ^ month Friday night wlien .Mauney Chevrolet took a 3-1 decision over Coach Bob Bush brings his Caffney- lieretofoi'e first • place Kin^^s Trojan.s to City Stadium for an ('onnvell .Mountain Drug. t °’^4ock game. ^ (-.-isp Lib Gault scored on a 122 line ' «P and a 335 set to lead the Plonk one-.sided wips last week.- Brothers charge and to claim The h o m o t o w n Mountaineers' liigh scoring honors for the night, breezed pa.st Cherryville .'46-0 High scorer for the losin;^ Minute ''dnle the Trojans were having Grill girls was team Captain ■‘^t'e trouble in healing Little Betty Fite who tallied a 106 line I ^‘-'ven opponent Dallas, 31-0. ' Goforth and a 293 set. j Mountaineers will take a Janet Parker rolled a 119 lineM'^ record into the game. Chase Player and a 329 set to lead the Vic- 1 currently sports a 2-1 mark, beat- Spencer tory Chevrolet teaim to its 3-1 Salem in the season opener win over KM Drug. Leading the losing to R-S Central by a scoring for the losers was cap- ' 25-7 fount two weeks ago. While Player tain Pat Panther with a 121 lineh'ie Trojans are 0-1 in conference Homosk'y and a 319 set. i play, the Mounlies take a 1-0 N. Beam I SWe mark into the contest. j Parker Ethel Tignor's 110 line and Jen-j Following this Friday’s game,: Jackson ny Oates’ 298 set led the Oates- | the Mountaineers play at East I Blackwood SCORE ‘ First Downs 21 i Yds. Rushing 336 i Yds. Passing 14 ! Total Yards 350 Passes Alt. 4 Passes Comp. 2 Passes Had Int. 1 Fumbles Lost 1 Punts Blocked By 1 Penalties 12—120 Punts, A\g. 2—33.0 I KINGS MOUNTAIN ' RUSHING T G L KM Cherry., 36 0 33 hi 1 9 74 15 73 14 73 1 28 4 24 7 24 2 10 3 10 2 .2 — 1 1 — PASSING Att. Comp. Int 2 1 0 1 10 1 0 1 RECEIVING Caught Yards 2 14 CHERRYVILLE RUSHING N Avg. 74 8.1 73 4.9 72 5.1 28 28.0 24 G.O 21 3.0 10 5.0 10 3.3 2 1.0 T 1.0 3' STANDOUTS — Wayne Mullinax (left) and Steve Spencer each scored two touchdowns Friday night in KM's 36-0 romp over Cherryville. Mullinax, sophomore wingback. led the Mountain< eer rushing column with 74 yards in nine carries while Spencer* a junior tailback, tallied 72 yards in 14 tries. After two games, Spencer leads the Mounties in scoring with 18 points and in the ground gaining department with 172 yards. TD Senior Eddie Bridges has been ® 3-1 I Rutherford, Bessemer City, Con-1 Randall tappe^d by Kings Mountain high school 'football coach Bill 'Bates as the “player of the week’’ for last week's game with Cherry ville, which KM won, 36-0. Bridges, an offensive center and defensive guard, played an outstanding game for the Moun ties ion defense. He blocked a Cherryville punt in the second quarter which set up the touch- By GARY STEWART Former SWC Stars Strenthen Wolfpack Three former Southwest Conference football stars will be big names as the North Carolina State Wolfpack down which gave KM a 20-0 haif- aims for the Atlantic Coast Conference title this year. |time lead. Charlie Noggle of Shelby and Dennis Byrd and Steve Bridge.s led the KM defense Warren of Lincointon will all be starting for the Pack which held the visiting IronmVn v/ho will be trying to edge out main foes North Carolina to only 38 total yards while the and Clemson for the ACjC title. j Mountaineer offense was rack- . 1 ing up 3.50 vards. This is Bridges’ After South Carolina was ordered to forfeit all of its^ fourth year out for 'football. He conference wins of last season^ N. C. State and Clemson lettered last year at tackle and were named as co-champs of the ’6o campaign. State Coach Earie Edwards has been at the helm of the Wolfpack for 13 years and he thinks that this year’s team is the best he’s had in a decade. was switched to center this year to give some needed deph to that position. As a rc.sult of being named rr.. • , 1 , c .Li- inn'- OIL. L L. ]“player of the week”. Bridges Thirty-one lettermen return front the 196d State team'vHu receive a pair of permanent win over Griffin Drug Co. The.cord and Shelby, in that order, win kept the O-H Shell team in : before returning home to host R- a third place tie with Victoiy Chevrolet, and, despite- losing three of four games, Griffin Drug pulled into a tie for fifth place with Minute Grill. Charity Tlgnor had a 107 line and Pat Herndon rolled a 289 set for the Griffin Drug team, STANDINGS Team Plonk Brothers Kings Mtn. Dpg O- H Shell ' Victory Chev. Griffin Dru,g Minute Grill Bennett W. B('am S Centra! in the annual home coming game. Following home- ■ Player coming, the Mountaineerii -play W. Beam their final two regular season N. Beam games away. . In other SWC games this week, Lincointon t3-0) is at Shelby (2- 01, East Rutherford (3-0) is at Cherryville (1-2), and R-S Central (2-1) is at Belmont (0-2). 'The current conference standings show Lincointon in first place T G L N Avg. 10 33 — 33 3.3 2 11 3 8 4.01 2 5 — "■.5' 2.5 1 2 5 — 5 2.5- 5 6 4 2 .4 1 2 ■2''-2.0 ] — 2 -2 -2.0 8 9 23 -16 -2.0, Player Homesley PASSING Att. Comp. Int. 8 2 0 2 0 0 RECEIVING Caught Yards 2 5 Former KM Star Cheshire Injured Former Kings Mountain, high .•-chodl football star Lyn Chesliirc, who is now a center - guard for The Citadel, had to .sit out the 1966 opening game with Van-, derbilt last Saturday because of a back injuiy sustained in prac tice a week ago. Cheshire hopes to begin prac ticing again this week in hopes of being ready for this Saturday’s game with Richmond. Wliile at K M H S, Cheshire made all-conference and all- state honorable mention h i s senior year when he helped lead the Mountaineers to the South west Conference championship. He is a sophomore at "The Cita del. CC Golf Tourney First Round , 750 ' ^ 2-0 conference mark witli =03 Kings Mountain and East Ruth- 5^3 ,('rford tied for second place with' WllljllCrS lialllCU •,3^3'1-0 records. R-S Central is 1-1, ^ing.s Mountain, .083 ercnce pay. j Country <'lub golf tournament is Cha.se will bring a talented I in fill! .swing now with players backfield and an inexperienced now broken into a championship I line into this week’s game witlijnnd three fliglits. the locals. Led by senior quar-| Three matches have already terback Doug Tate, the Trojansl been plaved in the championship move the ball well on offense but fight’s first round still scheduled ^ ^ , has an under-par defense. The to be plaved is the Darro;!] Aus-i CulbeiTson team's won four gaimos Ghase backfield is all-lettermen tin - Searr Morrison match with Two Teams Tied For Mixed Lead The Bill Mullinax and Ronnie which won its last five games to bring its record to 6-4. press slacks from Fulton's Dept, j Thiursday night to remain ,vith Tate calling the signaks,' the winn(*r playin.g Mike Ballard Eighteen men return to the offensive unit and 13 return store, which weekly honors ar j . ^ Stewart and Rog^erj Jn the second round, from the defensive squad. The Wolfpack will have lettei'-1 outstanding member of the| kague standings Emory at the halfback slots and men back to fill all but two of the 22 starting positions. I KMHS team. Byrd, a 250-pound tackle, has already been tapped as an all-America candidate this^jeftr* The big tackle, who was a Shrine Bowl performer from Lincointon high school in 1963, made all-ACC last year and was named to the, third learn NEA all-America squad. While at Lincointon Byrd was named to the SWC all- yp0||6If IJ'ld layvees Lose third place only two games be hind the pace-setters. conference team for two years and participated in the; annual East-West all-star game his senior year. At LHSI Kings Mountain’s junior var- Byrd was coached by current mentor Von Ray Harris. sity football team held a 12-0 Byrd is only .‘i junior and will be back again next sea- halftime lead on Lincointon here son to Uneaten A(Z1C offensive units. Thursday night but let the visi- "The QB That Runs Like A Fullback" two periods for a 13-12 win. State’s signal-caller Noggle has been described by The locaL, visit Lincointon to- many as “the quarterback who runs like a fullback.” night (Thursday) at 6:30 for the I t’s true. i second garric of the season, tor the past two seasons Noggle has gained 1224 The Little Mountaineers scored yards total offense. He should rank as one of the best early in the game with tailback quarterbacks in the ACC this. year. | philbert Smith scoring on a flve- The 6-1, 208-pounder ma’de all-conference, all-state Nrar the end of the and all-America under Gerald Allen at Shelby high school.! ^’^tth galloped to pay- His two years of experience at quarterback for State'^ 35-yard run to make should be a benefit to a balanced, veteran backfield. Mounties To Win Second Straight Friday Kings Mountain’s Mountaineers defeated Cherryville^”'^“i^^®'''" 36-0 last Fridav night in a game that was rated as a toss- another srare on a 60-yard up by many. But the Mounties shotved how much of a K LincTmn th^^illifaS t^s-up it was by racking up 3o0 yards total offense com- III secod TD to make thf final pared to only 08 by Cherryville. i outcome, 13-12. The Mounlatncers should make it two conference Exccot for tho two tonr.hao«,.n« after two weeks of action. senior Larry Barnes at fullback. The Lib Gault team — paced I the Chase line are junior by a 131 line and 374 set by ^ease and senior Doug Everhart — won four games off ® returning all-confer- Richard Culbertson to move into/'^^'^ player, at the ends; juniors Jimmy Jamerson and Chester Melton at the tackles; .seniors A1 Radford and Johnny Brittain at the guards, and senior Jerry Ruppe at center. Melton, the Tro jan place-kicker, booted a 30- yard field goal in the season opener against Salem. Mountaineer Coach Bill Bates i.s expected to use basically the same starting team. Senior quar- the score 12-0 at intert,Tission Lincointon made it 12-6 early ih the third period on a 70-yard Mullina.x combined lines of 111, 119 and 135 for a 355 set to lead his to a 4-0 victory over Bob Herndon. Herndon led his team in scoring with a 09 line and a 307 set. 'The winners out-bowled the losers by a total of 150 pins. John Dilling rolled a 114 line and a 328 set to lead the Ronnie Culbertson team to a 4-0 win over Ranny Blanton. Culbertson added a 320 set '(or the winners and Blant.m topped his teai.m with a 112 line and a 305 set. Lib Gault added a 345 set to go along with Everhart’s night high of 374 to lead her team to a4-0 win over Richard Culbertson. The loss left the Culbertson team in the league cellar with an 0-8 record. High scorer for the los ers was Richard Culbertson wi a 100 line and a 287 set. During first round play, Bal lard defeated defending champ ion Robert Plonk 4-2, Coman Falls defeated Tip Frances and John McGinnis defeated Charles Neisler. Falls and McGinnis are scheduled to meet on or before this Sunday with the winner playing the winner of the Bal lard vs. Austin - Morri.son match for the championship by next Sunday. All championship matches will, be 36 holes. The championship flight wasi made up of the winners of championsliip-first flight match- terback Tommy Finger will bej es last wedk. Those matches; back in action this week, report ed in good condition after suf-. fering a mild concussion in last week’s game with Cherryville. The Mountaineers will still be depending largely upon the run ning of halfbacks Wayne Mulli- r.ax and Steve Spencer and full back Sonny Moore. STANDINGS Blanton's 400 '>teads Keg Win ^ Randy BJanton combined lines 'of 156, 117 and 127 for a 400 saw Plonk defeat Jacob Cooper 2-1, Ballard defeat Richard Max- ey 1-up. Aii.stin defeat Abie Mc Ginnis l-up. Falls defeat Snooks McDaniol, Frances drew a bye. John McGinnis defeat Carroll Ledford H up in 19 holes, and Neisler draw a bye. In first flight action this week, Abie McGinnis defeated Maxey, Ledford whipped McDaniel and Cooper drew a bye. , In second third flight matches. Dick McGinnis won over Charles Alexander, Charles Mauney downed Draee Peeler, Henry Neisler defeated Jack Arnette, Team W L Ronnie Oulbortson 7 1 Bill Mullinax 7 1 Lib Gault 5 3 Bob Herndon 3 5 Ranny Blanton 1 7 Richard Culbertson 0 8 W L Pet. team into first | Woodrow Wilson drew a bye, Bob .875 in ibe local men's duckpin .875 bowling leagire standings Mon- 625 ^ny night with a 4-0 win over .375 Dilling Heatinig Co. .125 .000 season and 0-1 in conference play, losing their lone con- s've charge for the Mountie.s f'jrence match to R-S Central, 25-7. were guards Eddie Black and Kings Mountain should be at least a three touchdown Robinson and end Ross favorite although Chase Coach Bob Bush should have ’ boys fired up for the Mounlies, since Bush did his student East Rutherford is at Cherryville and Lincointon goes to _ coachin.g here back in the early oO s. Shelby. In those contests, R-S Central, East Rutherfordl tbird^piace in the six-team'stand lu oLiier gauius^ this week, R-S Central is at Belmont,! and Shelby should sweep to victory. ^ Continued On PaQe 4 Blantpn^s 1.56 line as well as 400 set are high marks for the season so far. The loss dropped Dilling Heating from first to 8mith defeated Clyde Whetstine, Carl Moss drew a bye. Bill Me-! Ginnis dcfeatcil Bob Lowe and| Walt Harmon drew a bye. j Winners of tliose matches ad-! vaneed to the second fUeht with* losers being dropped I0 UUI tlight. In second fliglit action thisj Continued On Page 4 DISTINCTIVE HINDSEWNS BY j on tlie campus % in a class by themselves! Every handsewn inch, classic perfection for casual wear cum laude ... superb craftsmanship, glove-likc fit and the very finest seasoned supple leatliers, specially tanned for handsewing. 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