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VOLUME 96
The Blab Slab
LOOKIN BACK OVER THE FOOTBALL SEASON
Now that the Newton County Ram football banquet is
here we would like to reminisce over the 1960 season and
flashback some of the highlights:
Rams’ best game — Against Monroe 27-26.
Most Disheartening play of the year — That intercepted
pass by Briarcliff that beat the Rams in the last 30 seconds
of the game, 13-6.
Best executed play of the year — Randall Meadows’ 66-
yard run for a TD in the Monroe game. Not a single Monroe
player touched Meadows on that run.
Most linghtning-like play of the year — Butch Shelton’s
block of a Forsyth County punt that helped the Rams score
a 21-0 victory.
Best team the Rams faced all year — Chamblee.'
Best pass play executed by the Rams — Terry Rutledge
to Charlie Childs in Madison County game (play covered
78 yards and TD)
Most determined run — Bob Wheeler against Henry
County (5-yards for a TD with two Henry Countians on
his back)
Most repetitious play — Dwight Rutledge blocked three
Hart County kicks for extra points.
“Outdoor Insane Asylum” is the dubious nickname penned
on the Baltimore Colts home field, Memorial Stadium . . .
The Atlanta newspapers named their All-State Class AA
football squad Sunday, and not a single Ram player was
even mentioned. It’ll be a different story next year! . . .
You can’t believe those football weights on the program.
Bill Rice of Alabama was listed at 195; says so himself that
he weighs 240 ... Suppose you are the quarterback of
Baltimore Colts and trailing 10-8 with 5 minutes left in the
game and you have the ball on the opponent’s 26 with fourth
down and one to go. Would you run, pass or attempt a field
goal? The Colts attempted a pass and failed and the other
team (Lions) went on to win the game in a wild finish
20-15 . . .
Now that the perennial powerhouses of football have
taken their lumps this past season (Oklahoma and Notre
Dame), the bug seems to be carrying over into basketball.
Kentucky was beaten Saturday night by Florida State at
Lexington 82-77.
Georgia Tech’s basketball team will play in the Gator
Bowl tournament at Jacksonville starting Thursday, De
cember 29.
Arkansas Coach Frank Broyles may be in for a bit of
trouble with the Southwest Conference over his open crit
icism of the officiating in the Miss-Arkansas game. Tuesday
the wire services announced that Arkansas was breaking
off gridiron relations with Miss after next year. Seems to
me a good idea to drop those teams from your schedule who
invariably pin your ears back!
Nolan Nesbit
Kilis Deer
In Colorado
Nolan Nesbit, the son of Dr.
and Mrs. F. C. Nesbit, is shown
with the 10-point deer he kill
ed on a hunting trip on Novem
ber 5, in Auiay County, Colo
rado. The deer weighed 139
pounds after being dressed.
Since killing the deer he kill
ed five pheasants while on a
hunting trip on the 17,000 acre
grounds of a friend. Nolan will
arrive home on December 18,
for two weeks vacation from
his schooling at Colorado School
of Mines at Golden, Colorado.
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rocsntly killed on a hunting trip in Colorado.
The Covington Enterprise, Established in 1864 — The Covington Star, Established in 1874 and The Citizen-Observer, Established in 1953
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SPORTS
808 GREEK, Editor
Scouters Attend
Seminar At Rock
Eagle Park
Over 100 men attended the
annual Seminar for the incom
ing leaders for 1961, for Boy
Scouts, held at Rock Eagle 4-H
Center Saturday night and
Sunday, conducted by the At
lanta Council of Boy Scouts of
America.
The 1961 leaders from the
Newton-Rockdale District at
tending were: E. G. Lassiter
Jr., District Chairman; S. J.
Morcock, vice-chairman; B. C.
Crowell, Commissioner; Ber
nys Shaw. Council Advance
ment Chairman; B. B. Snow,
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Local Cagers
Smash Baldwin
County Twice
Newton High Basketball
forces turned back the Bald
win County teams Friday night
on the Covington hardwood.
The score of the girls game was
38-16 and the Rams posted a
55-20 verdict.
The boys game was slated
to be a nip and tuck affair
with the seasoned, more-ex
perienced Baldwin quint. But
the charges of Coach Ronald
Bradley turned the game into
a rout after the first five min
utes of action. Newton led at
halftime 28-7.
Center Allan Rowe and for
ward Bob Mitchell combined
their efforts to lead the local
squad to their fifth straight
triumph of the season. Mitchell
had 23 rebounds and 15 points,
and Rowe netted 23 points and
brought down 18 rebounds.
There are now three teams
in the East section of Region
4AA who are unbeaten in the
young season to date. They are
Newton County (5-0), Hart
County (5-0) and Chamblee
(3-0). Both Forsyth County
and Baldwin have lost one
game each.
In the preliminary game Fri
day night the NCHS “B”
squad won their second game
of the season over the Milledge
ville team 32-15. Jimmy Jor
dan with 12 points and Tim
Evans with 10 led the NCHS
scoring.
Rose Bowl
Game Started
Classics in 1902
The Rose Bowl football game
. began as a supplement to the
Tournament of Roses in 1902.
Success of the California clas
sic brought about the many
“bowl” games that are played
today. Surprisingly, the Rose
Bowl football game did not
catch the immediate fancy of
the public. After the 1902 game,
in which Michigan defeated
Stanford, chariot races were
substituted and collegiate foot
ball was not a part of the Tour
nament of Roses again until
1916.
In the past quarter century
several other bowl games have
come into prominence. The
Orange Bowl in Miami, Fla.,
the Sugar Bowl in New Or
leans. La., and the Cotton Bowl
in Dallas, Texas, annually stage
a sports spectacle that takes in
about a week.
Some 25 years ago the Gator
Bowl game was staged in Jack
sonville, Fla. This year for the
first time the seating capacity
of the bowl will accommodate
some 50.000 fans.
One of the prime drawing
cards for the Gator Bowl is the
appearance of many high school
bands from several Southern
states including Florida, Geor
gia, Alabama. Tennessee. Mis
sissippi and South Carolina.
This year the Newton County
j band has been invited to t h e
I Gator classic.
1 Newton’s band will have a
I five-minute show on the field
I about noon on the day of the
I game. Saturday, December 31.
The bleacher seats at the North
' end of the bowl will be occu
| pied by the bands and they will
i alternate in rendering appro
priate music for the fans who
I arrive early.
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Finance Chairman: Howard
Brooks, Organization and Ex
tension Chairman; Spence
Ramsey, Activities Chairman
Spence Ramsey, Activities j
Chairman; Bill Hoffman, Boys
Life Chairman; Camping,
' Homer Sharp; Donald Ste
i phenson, Exploring Chairman
. and J. W. McElroy, Leadership
। Training Chairman.
COVINGTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1960
Newton Downs Rockdale In Twinbill
BY 808 GREER
(News Sports Editor)
Newton County High basketball teams added a feather to
their cap and another scalp to their victory belt Tuesday
night at Conyers when the NCHS girls scored a 47-40 win
and the boys a 59-40 triumph.
The Rams, sluggish and er
ratic in the first half of t h e
nightcap game, trailed the
home team 28-25 at the inter
mission point. However, Coach
Bradley’s boys found the range
in the last half and steadily
pulled away.
Guard Phillip Freeman and
Center Allan Rowe vanned the
second - half attack in t h e
scoring column. Freeman had
16 points as he dropped in bas
ket after basket from all over
the court. The rebounding of
Bob Mitchel! and Rowe con
trolled the boards in the final
half. In fact the Rockdale team
didn’t score a field in t h e
fourth quarter.
Rockdale’s floorman Toney
led the scoring in the game
with 18 points. Ronald Smith,
6’ 6’’ center, played an out
standing game for his team on
defense.
Coach Stone Cooper’s girls,
led by substitute forward Sher
ry Jeffries’ 15 points, hung up
their fourth victory in five
games this year. The point lead
er in the game was Conyers’
Fincher with 22.
A strong “B” school Clarks
ton High will visit Covington
Friday night for a twinbill with
the NCHS teams. Next Tues
day, December 13th the Cen
tral Gwinnett teams will come
to Covington.
A Belgian Ancestor of Football
By Louis Quievreux
(Printed in the Seydell
Quarterly)
’ In my old edition of Ency
• clopaedia Britannica, I read,
■ ■ under the title of Football that
■ few of the investigators who
tried to discover the origins of
the game of football have gone
very far, for they have soon
found that the sport of football
as enjoyed by ancient peoples
had no reletion to the organiz
ed game which is played in
modern times.
And yet, listen to the descrip
i tion of two very old Belgian
games, and you’ll be struck as
folk-lore scientists have been,
by the analogy with football,
I mean association football, of
. course, not rugby.
During former centuries.
, every year, on the 25th of
March, the people of Jodoigne,
a small Walloon city, used to
celebrate the Virgin of the
Lepers, in a chapel that has
now disappeared. In ’he after
i noon, the crowd attended a
game called running the souic.
The souic was a sort of leather
ba’,l, stuffed with horse hair,
thicker than a man’s head, and
which two teams tried to kick
into the opposite goal. Curious
ly enough, one of the teams
consisted of married men, the
other of bachelors. The win
ning team, headed by musi
cians, was led to the city-hall
to be complimented by the
civic authorities.
Now, why was this game
played on the very day of the
celebration of the Virgin of the
I Lepers? Because, it resembled
I a kind of physical exercise
which, during the middle-ages,
was practised by convalescent
lepers. The game was played
until 1780 according to old re
cords. Let’s now go over to an
other description translated
from a Flemish manuscript:
—At Tirlemont — Tirlemont
is a Flemish town of the pro
vince of Brabant — there ex
isted a game known as running
the Grijpen field. Grijpen,
spelt with a capital G is the
name of a place where a leper- j
house stood on the XlHth Cen- I
tury, and existed for several
hundred years.
Many spectators came, dress
ed in their best Sunday
clothes to see the mayor of
Tirlemont throwing in a field
a thick ball which players
kicked along until they ai
rived near a rivulet called
Mene. So eagerly did some peo
ple kick that they fell into the
water with the ball!
This game was played as
long a^o as in the beginning of
the XVlth century when
Charles Vth ruled over one
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GIRLS GAME
New!on 47 R'dale Co. 40
F—Moore 15 McCullough 18
F—Bryant 12 Fincher 22
F—Masten 5 Oxford 0
G—Jaynes Bohannon
G —George Whitlatch
G —King Reynolds
Scoring Subs: Newton —
Jeffries 15.
BOYS GAME
Newton 58 R'dale Co. 40
F—Mitchell 11 D. Smith 2
F—Evans 0 Miller 7
C—Rowe 16 R. Smith 10
G—Shaw 9 Pennington 3
G—Freeman 16 Toney 18
Seaborn Hardman
Promoted To
Cadet Sergeant
Seaborn Hardman, son of
Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Hardman of
1121 E. Conyers Street. Cov
ington, was among 29 Cadets
promoted to the rank of Cadet
Sergeant at the McCallie
of 1121 E. Conyers Street,
Covington, was among 29 Ca
dets promoted to the rank of
Cadet Sergeant at the McCallie
School in Chattanooga. Hard
man is a member of the school
band.
half of Europe. An anonymous
writer discussing about the
souic or Belgian ancestor of
football in the Folklore Review
of 1921, said that a similar
’ game was known in England,
where it was called soult. Was
’ the word a corruption of the
French verb sauter, to spring
: indicating that players had
J perhaps to dive after the ball?
One remarkable thing to
note in the Belgain accounts,
! one from a Walloon place, the
other from a Flemish one, is
that the game took place on
the very day when religion
1 ordered pilgrimages and pray
’ ers for the heavenly protectress
1 of lepers.
For my part, I think that the
Encyclopaedia Britannica has
not gone far enough in histori
i cal research to ascertain the
origin of football, association
' and rugby. Os course, present
rules have a modern origin,
but the facts that in olden
time there were two teams, two
goals, and feet kicking a rudi
mentary ball indicate that the
, Belgian souic can be considered
as an ancestor of football.
I do not know whether a
complete History of Football
(and I mean a volume of at
least 600 or 700 pages) has al
ready been published in some
part of the world, but surely
is must, if existing, mention
the Belgian games described
above. Funny enough that the
most popular sport in the
world, played in all countries,
should derive fro ma rehabili
tation exercise for lepers!
Giving Up?
Who says sis h1 n g's all
through for the year?
There’s hardly a spot in the
country where one can’t find
a place to wet a line —if he
boasts a strong love for the
out-of-doors and a sturdy con
stitution. In fact, it doesn’t take
much ingenuity to go fishing in
all but the most inclement
weather, says the Mercury out
board folks.
In most areas, the fish are
willing but fishermen reluctant
—a situation far different from
the traditional warm weather
f shing season. But the com
paratively few anglers (actual
ly hundreds of thousands) who
do brave the elements reap a
harvest. And the fishing fun’s
exceeded only by the warm
companionship which spreads
among winter bait dunkers.
If you have the desire and
the strength to don an over
coat, fishing thrills are yours
twelve months of the year.
ATTEND CHURCH SUNDAY
PHILLIP FREEMAN
Nets 16 points in win over
Rockdale County
Basketball Games In Covington Are Exciting
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NEWTON CHEERLEADERS help whip the yelling crowd into a frenxy for the basket
ball games at the NCHS gymnasium. Shown in the picture above at the Newton-Baldwin
County game Friday are two of the cheerleaders. Peggy Pannell (left) and Joann Childs
(right). The mascot cheerleader in the center is Brenda Bradley, daughter of Coach and
Mrs. Ronald Bradley of NCHS.
START OF THE GAME is always exciting as the photo above shows the opening tlpofi
of the Rams-Baldwin County boys game Friday. Allan Rowe (Number 15) la the center
for the Rams and he is shown controlling the tip.
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REBOUNDING NEAR THE GOAL is Billy Shaw (No. 22), Newton's crack guard-floor
man. Other NCHS players in the picture are Terry Evans (No. 24) and Bob Mitchell (No.
10). The Rams downed the Baldwin quint 55-22 for their fifth straight win without a
defeat in the season.
Tim Exley Is
Elected N-R
Explorer Chmn.
The Third National Conven
tion of Explorer Scouts of the
Atlanta Area Council was held
at Rock Eagle Friday and Sat
urday, December 2-3. Friday
night the group enjoyed a so
cial gathering renewing friend
ships and happenings since
their last meeting.
Saturday meetings were held
and officers elected for the
year 1961. Cabinet officers
elected were Jerry Helms,
Chairman; Scott Morrison,
vice-chairman and Larry
White, secretary
Elected to serve the Newton-
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Rockdale District as Chairman
was Tim Exley; Vice Chair
man, Gary Budd; Secretary,
Mason Stephenson. Willie
Campbell is the Advisor of the
Newton Explorers. Outgoing
officers of the N.-R. District
were Billy Skinner, Chairman;
Alva Spillers. vice-Chairman
and Marshall Ivey, secretary
of Conyers.
Those attending from Post
222, Covington were: Billy
Skinner, Lee Campbell, John
ny Chesnut, Alva Spillers, Tim
Exley, Gary Budd, Mason Ste
phenson, Terry Reed and Wil
lie Campbell, Advisor.
In Africa, snakes account for
more deaths than the combin
ed viciousness of the elephant,
lion, water buffalo, rhinoceros
and leopard.—Sorts Afield.
More than 50,000 American*
will come down with active TB
in 1961.