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ALL-DECADE ALL DECA 2 THE 1920s Pos. Player Year QB Skimp Stowe 1926 RB Zeb Plonk 1925 RB Coman Falls 1927 RB Clyde Scates 1926 E Rob McDaniel 1926 L Bill Mason 1925 L Jake Hord 1925 L Joe Lee Woodward 1922 L Tom Fulton 1922 L Fred Plonk 1922 Player of the Decade: Coman Falls ALL DECADE OF THE 1930s Pos. Player Year QB Jake Early x 1935 RB Paul Neisler 1938 RB Hilliard Black 1930 RB Billy Kezziah 1938 E Red Layton 1933 E Ray Barber 1935 E Tom Harper 1938 L Carodine Moss 1934 BE Jack Fortune 1935 b Mickey Mode 1935 L Pride Rattarree 1938 - Player of the Decade: Jake Early ALL DECADE OF THE 1940s Pos. Player Year QB Jack Ruth 1947 RB Jim Gibson 1940 RB Bill Cashion 1946 RB George Allen 1940 E Bill Dettmar 1946 E Bob Jackson 1949 L Floyd Smith 1942 Li Bob Neill 1946 L Bud Medlin 1946 L William Harmon 1946 L Jim Dickey 1940 Player of the Decade: Bill Cashion ALL DECADE OF THE 1950s Pos. Player Year QB George Harris 1955 QB Don Fisher 1959 RB Ken Baity 1957 RB John McGinnis 1956 RB Don Gladden 1958 E Ron Layton 1953 E Keith Layton 1957 L Joe Ormand 1955 I Guy Fisher 1951 Ls Ken Cloninger 1954 L David Marlowe 1956 I; Mike Ware 1959 ATH. Jimmy Kimmell 1952 Player of the Decade: George Harris DECADE OF THE 1960s Pos. Player Year, QB Pat Murphy 1964 RB Punch Parker 1960 RB Mike Huffstickler 1963 RB Steve Baker 1964 E Richard Gold 1964 E Jim Cloninger 1964 L Dale Hollifield 1960 L Jerry Adams 1960 L Hubert McGinnis 1964 L Fred Dixon 1964 L Bert Smith 1967 Player of the Decade: Pat Murphy ALL D E OF THE 1970s Pos. Player Sr. Year QB Mike Bumgarner 1977 RB Kenny Bell 1977 RB Kevin Mack 1979 RB Avery Smith 1979 E Tim Leach 1979 E Chris Johnson 1975 LE Mark George 1972 L Kelly Land 1978 L Chuck Gordon 1978 L Bruce Valentine 1978 E Daryl Strong 1979 Player of the Decade: Kevin Mack ALL DECADE OF THE 1980s Pos. Player Year QB Ryan Hollifield 1989 RB Jerry Jordan 1985 RB Tracy Johnson 1983 RB Curtis Pressley 1983 Bit Edwin Sherer 1985 E Otis Brooks 1985 KE Shawn Rainey 1983 L Calvin Stephens 1985 L Aubrey Hollifield 1986 L Rusty Bumgardner 1986 L Brent Bagwell 1987 ATH Daniel Honeycutt 1989 Player of the Decade: Calvin Stephens D F THE 1990s Pos. Player Year QB Lance McClain 1996 QB Anthony Ash 1998 RB Anthony Hillman 1999 RB Shane Logan 1995 RB Joseph Bell 1997 RB Diron Bell 1991 RB Corey Jones 1996 Rec. Marcus Smith 1996 Rec. Kendrick Bell 1998 L Kareem Marshall 1998 L Julius Curry 1998 L Frank Hopper 1998 L Rico Feemster 1998 L Johnny Surratt 1995 E Joey Patrick 1995 L Kel ee Thompson 1998 L Shon Byers 1994 Player of the Decade: Anthony Hillman Player of the Century Kevin Mack 1979 A 3 ‘SPORTS SENET Herald/Times January 6, 2000 Section B, Page 1 ~ All-Century KM'’s best football players excelled from high school to the NFL ‘By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald In three different eras of Kings Mountain football Ken Baity, Kevin Mack and Anthony Hillman combined for over 10,000 yards rushing and made every fall Friday night the most exciting times of a lot of peo- ple’s lives. While they were just three of a host of exciting running backs in Kings Mountain High's sto- ried 77-year football history, they certainly hold the creden- tials to be named the starting running backs on The Herald's All-Century football team. Hillman, a current KMHS se- nior, just completed the most re- markable prep career of anyone in Cleveland County history. In three seasons he gained 5,618 yards and scored 396 points - both Cleveland County records - while leading the Mountaineers to two Southwestern 3A Conference championships and one Western N.C. crown. Hillman amazed his coaches and fans with his running strength, often bowling over defenders or car- rying them along for the ride as he picked up huge chunks of re- al estate. And, just when it seemed the defense was pack- ing the middle to stop him, he’d swing to the outside for a long touchdown run. Mack, although he played just two years of high school ball and started on offense only during his senior year, played tailback at 170 pounds and wasn’t a power runner like Hillman, but he was probably the most electrifying open field KEVIN MACK runner in KMHS history. It wasn’t until he got to Clemson University when he bulked up and moved from tailback to fullback. Hillman was a three-time All- Southwestern 3A Conference choice, a two-time SWC Player of the Year, and was preseason All-State his senior year. While he was passed over for the re- cent Shrine Bowl game, Kings Mountain fans are hopeful he'll be chosen for July’s East-West All-Star game that showcases the best senior talent in North Carolina. Mack was also passed over by the Shrine Bowl selection committee, but he was the lead- ing rusher for the West in the East-West game. In his senior season of 1979, Mack gained 1,585 yards to lead Dan Brooks’ Mountaineers to an 8-2 overall - GEORGE ADAMS The most dif- * ficult team to pick in a list of All-Century sports teams is a women’s basket- ball team. In its long his- tory of sports, KMHS has only Gary had one wom- Stewart Editor en’s basketball team to win a conference champibnship and we haven't had that many women to go on to play college sports. There are several reasons for that - probably the greatest reason being that for many years basketball was the only sport offered women and through the years the sport has seen a vast number of rule changes that, until recent years, prevented some female athletes from really showing their stuff. For instance, prior to the mid- 1960s women's basketball consisted of six players - three guards who stayed on one end of the court and record. The Mountaineers lost the Southwestern 3A Conference championship game to South Point 15-12. The Raiders went on to win the state championship. Mack didn’t play high school football until his junior year, when he started at linebacker and gained 450 yards rushing as a back-up tailback. He was “recruited” for football after Coach Brooks saw him run track the previous spring. Mack, who had just turned 17 years old his senior year here, didn’t hit his peak until years later. He was a back-up tailback and kick return specialist his freshman year at Clemson, and alternated as the starting full- back on the Tigers’ 1981 nation- al championship team. His senior year with the Tigers he set a school record for most yards rushing as a full- back, was Honorable Mention All-American, and MVP in the annual Blue-Gray all-star game in Montgomery, AL. He played one season with the L.A. Express in the defunct World Football League, then signed on with the Cleveland Browns where he played eight seasons and was a two-time Pro Bowl selection. His rookie year he broke all of Jim Brown's rookie rushing records, gaining .over 1,100 yards. Baity had a little of Mack and Hillman in him. He could run over the defense or he could use his great speed to get outside and outrun everyone to the end zone. He established all of the See Football, 2B Pos. Player Sr. Year QB Pat Murphy 1964 FB Anthony Hillman 1999 HB Kevin Mack 1979 HB Ken Baity 1957 E/R Kendrick Bell | 1998 - E/R Edwin Sherer 1985 E Calvin Stephens 1985 L L ‘Aubrey Hollifield 1986 iL I ALL-CENTURY FOOTBALL FIRST TEAM Chuck Gordon 1978 Julius Curry 1998 Hubert McGinnis 1964 ALL-CENTURY FOOTBALL SECOND TEAM Pos. Player Sr. Year QB George Harris 1955 FB Bill Cashion 1946 HB Tracy Johnson 1983 HB Joseph Bell 1997 E/R Jimmy Cloninger 1964 E/R Keith Layton 1957 L Kareem Marshall ~~ 1998 L Rico Feemster 1998 L Guy Fisher 1951 L Rusty Bumgardner 1986 L Robert Neill 1946 ALL-CENTURY FOOTBALL THIRD TEAM Pos. Player Sr. Year QB Lance McClain = .. 199% FB ‘Shane Logan 1995 HB Don Gladden 1958 HB Curtis Pressley 1983 E/R Tom Harper 1938 E/R Ray Barber / 1935 L Frank Hopper 1998 LE Fred Dixon 1963 L Jim Dickey 1940 L Johnny Surratt 1995 L JemyAdams = 1960 George & Co. Adams heads list of all-time basketball greats By GARY STEWART Editor of The Herald They were the best of times and the worst of times. Consolidation and integra- tion of the 1960s brought about a lot of changes that many folks were wary of, and students, parents and faculty alike experi- enced some years of adjustment and growing pains But, as far as sports were con- cerned, consolidation in 1961 and integration in 1965 brought Kings Mountain High School some of its greatest and bright- est stars. Basketball, especially, benefit- ted. : Consolidation brought to KMHS some outstanding play- ers from Grover and Bethware See George, 2B ’ (Second Team) (First Team) George Adams Richard Gold Otis Cole Ken Mitchem Lavar Curry Keith Layton Butch Blalock Daniel Honeycutt. Carl Smith Charles Barnes Player of the Century: George Adams ALL-CENTURY WOMEN'S TEAM (First Team) (Second Team) Judy Medlin Susan Mitchem Linda Eaker Tameka Anderson ‘Marlene Weir Regina Brown Sharon Gold Priscilla Rickenbacker Trina Hamrick Cheryl Goode i Player of the Century: Judy Medlin three forwards who stayed on the other end. Only forwards were al- lowed to shoot, and you could bounce the ball only twice. In the 1960s the rules were re- laxed a little bit to allow for a “rover.” One player could play both ends of the court and you could dribble the ball as often as you liked. That lasted only a year or two, and then the women’s basketball rules became the same as men’s with five players all going up and down the court. Three of the five women on the first All-Century team are from the “double dribble” era, one is from the “rover” era, and the fifth is from the current era. But, regardless of the rules of their time, all five were spectacular high school basketball players. : Heading the list is one of the tallest players in school history, and also one of the top scorers and re- bounders of all-time. Judy Medlin was a scoring machine in 1957-59, topping off her three-year varsity career in 1958-59 with 501 points and a school single game high of 55 points. Over her three-year career she av- eraged 18.4 points per game in 56 games. One of Medlin’s teammates in 1958-59 was Marlene Weir who went on to average 18 points per game during her three-year career which ended in 1961. Perhaps the lady who could have been Kings Mountain's best wom- en’s basketball player ever was Linda Eaker, who averaged 20.8 points per game in her senior season of 1962. That was Eaker’s only year at KMHS as she was brought to the school through consolidation. She played her first three years of high school basketball at Grover. Sharon Gold, who played at KMHS from 1965-68, got a taste of two different eras of girls rules. When she first came on the scene girls were still playing the old rules of forwards on one end and guards on the other; but midway through her career the “rover” system came ~ All-Century women’s basketball and more into being and she was KM's rover. She made All-Conference four straight years and was the SWC leading scorer her sophomore through senior seasons. Gold was, without a doubt, Kings Mountain's best female athlete, but at that time basketball was the only sport for women. Rounding out the top five is Trina Hamrick, the leading scorer and re- bounder on Kings Mountain's only SWC championship team in 1983. The second All-Century team con- sists of five more scoring machines and all from the current era - the school’s all-time leading scorer Tameka Anderson, Regina Brown, Cheryl Goode, Priscilla Rickenbacker and Susan Mitchem. At some point in Mountaineer history Medlin, Gold, Mitchem, Hamrick and Anderson all held the KMHS scoring record. See Women, 2B
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