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EAGLE HALFBACK LINN RECTOR puts a stop to Rossville’s
P 0 ^ 0) after a 45-yard gain. Flury was a spark in the
Bulldogs 28 to 6 win over North Clayton.
Wallin-Flury Led Bulldogs
Top State A A Championship
(Continued From Page 1)
as well. But he was only the
leader. When Rossville com
bined his legerdermain with the
artistry of Doug (Furious)
Flury, a powerhouse halfback,
and other talented halfbacks
like Eddie Wallin and Larry
Jones and fullback Nelson
Bowers—operating behind a
behemoth, earth-shaking line—
there were grounds for the re
mark made by the young
cherub-faced Bulldog rooter
who kept shouting—“bite size!”
Truly, in spite of the heroic
efforts made by hitherto un
beaten North Clayton Eagles,
the Rossville Bulldogs took them
in BITE SIZE gulps. North Clay- 1
ton started out moving the ball
on wide sweeps after receiving
the opening kickoff. Big Ross
ville defenders reacted slowly.
The Eagles swept from their 1
own 37 to within the Rossville
20 on wide plays and a 13-yard ;
run by Thurston Taylor and a ;
pitch-out pass, Taylor to Jen- ;
kins. Frank Oliver dropped a i
flat pass missing a third
straight first down, and on i
fourth down Sherold Walker in- ।
tercepted a hurried Taylor pass
at the Rossville 15, and that was '
the next to last serious offen- ।
sive threat the Eagles made :
until the closing seconds when,
trailing 28 to 0, they fought
furiously for their only touch
down.
“Furious” Flury was standing
on the sidelines, not having ■ ■
entered the game, when Wallin
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ran Rossville’s first play nine
yards to the 24. Bowers punched
the line for a first down.
Painter, usually more reliable,
fumbled and lost four yards—
and then he pulled a rabbit
out of the helmet.
Fiddling around and playing
good old mountain music while
halfback Larry Jones suddenly
burst behind the Eagle second
ary—so far away from the de
fenders that he looked like he
was in the wide open spaces of
Texas — Painter fired a left
handed pass into his eager arms
as he trotted along, a pass play
covering 56 yards by the time
flying Frank Olives had brought
Jor£s£oq®jfjfrom behind'. . , at
the North Clayton 15-yard line.
It was, in effect, the kind of
thing North Clayton had done
the week before to puncture the
dreams of Wayne County.
Rossville drew an offside pen
alty, back to the 20, but Wallin
and Painter picked up eight
yards between them, Flury came
bouncing into the game for the
first time and this diverting
action enabled Wallin to score
easily with only two seconds left
in the first period. “Furious”
Flury kicked the first of his four
extra points right through the
middle, and Rossville was out in
front for good.
All through the first half the
teams battled on fairly even
terms, excepting the Bulldogs’
touchdown. North Clayton fired
up and moved almost to the
1-yard line on an exciting drive
that Included a Taylor-Buddy
Moore first down pass, and con
sistent gains by Taylor, Millard
Brannon, Lynn Rector and Doug
Jenkins.
It was fourth down and three
yards to goal when Brannon
tried to bore his 178 pounds
through a 200-pound-plus for
ward wall of battling Bulldogs,
and he fell one yard short of
the tying touchdown. Oppor
tunity had knocked again, but
it would knock no more, in so
far as the game result was con
cerned. Rossville twice had
played for state championships
in the past two years, and
having twice lost, the Bulldogs
meant to make third time the
charm, and they did. Previously,
they had won two state cham
pionships.
They had the resources for
just such an effort—big, big
mountain boys in line and back
field—and a well-ordered of
fense and a stout defense. And
they, too, had desire—the desire
to win a state title after two
straight frustrating setbacks.
The beady-eyed Bulldogs
turned on the Eagles with their
finest offensive efforts in the
third period after Flury fum
bled the kickoff and was
clobbered by the mass of blue
and white Eagles back at the
eight-yard line.
Flury and Wallin did the
running, left-handed Painter
the passing, and Jones the re
ceiving on a 92-yard excursion
to the second touchdown.
Flury’s 43-yard run, stopped by
Oliver, was a big play. Unneces
sary roughness cost North Clay
ton half the distance to the goal
after the run, Flury ran once
more and then Painter snaked
into the end zone. Flury added
extra point from placement,
and it was 14 to 0.
Rossville got going again after
Brannon fumbled into the mid
dle at the Bulldog 47. Flury
promptly ran 43 yards like
Georgia Tech’s Stumpy Thom
ason of old and put the ball at
the 20. Wallin ran twice for a
first down. Flury was stopped
on a sweep, losing four yards as
the quarter ended. As play re
sumed. Painter sneaked to the
two, and on fourth down, Wallin
went over. Flury converted,
moving the Bulldogs out of
reach, 21 to 0.
North Clayton gave up the
ball after a few attempts at
offensive maneuvering against
the big Bulldog rush line, and
promptly Wallin burst into the
open and raced 65 yards, with
Rector butting him out of
bounds at the Eagle 10. Flury
found three yards running room
through the line, and then
punched over for the fourth
touchdown, and kicked extra
point, to make the margin, 28
to 0.
Rossville Coach Frank Fabris
poured reserves into the lineup.
North Clayton’s Taylor and
Oliver collaborated on a 24-yard
pass completion and Taylor
threw to Mike Osborn for six,
but on fourth down, the Eagles
fumbled. Rossville didn’t have
the ball for long after the re
covery. The Eagles rushed with
killer-instinct intent, and forced
a Rossvile punt.
Then, they finally jelled their
offensive into a touchdown
drive. Taylor threw to Brannon
for a 25-yard gain to the Bulldog
18. With less than a minute
left, Taylor connected with
Oliver, who was stopped at the
two. Buddy Moore, who had
been helped off the field in the
second period, returned to the
game and Taylor went over on
a quarterback sneak with 43
seconds remaining to be played,
but Huggins’ try for extra point
was unsuccessful.
But the Eagles had completed
a big year, their greatest; they
had won 12 straight, lost to a
superior force for their first
Cinderella-like rise to the
eminent point of playing for
the school’s first state football
championship. It took a great
Rossville team three times be
fore their efforts were re
warded. North Clayton has come
far, rewarded faithful sup
porters with thrilling perform
ances, one after another,
throughout the grid year. More
than 2,000 Clayton Countians
followed them to Rossville, and
they were really not disap
pointed. The Eagles did their
best against a superior force.
Rossville’s great combined
band had more drumers, almost
than North Clayton had football
players. 20 to 23.
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The Band Played On-Blues
How about those overconfi
dent people in the school sys
tem down in Wayne County,
Jesup, Ga! They had the choice
of sending their band to Col
lege Park for the North Clayton
game or, as they thought, to
Rossville, for the state cham
pionship.
They decided on Rossville.
So—the band kids are spend
ing a lot of time studying today
in Wayne County, and some
special examinations did not
have to be put off for them or
the Jackets. The Wayne County
band plays on, but they’re
playing the blues. They guessed
wrong, which is sometimes the
penalty you pay for overconfi
dence.
The capacity crowd at College
Park missed the Wayne County
band, and they may never have
an opportunity to see it, as
chances are remote Wayne
County and North Clayton will
meet again anytime soon in
post-season football.
★ ★★★★★
2,000 FOLLOW
THOSE MGLFS
Atlantans followed Murphy
to Valdosta for the AAA state
title game in the number of
about 1,000.
But in support of North
Clayton for their AA cham
pionship game at Rossville,
Clayton Countians overflowed
the stands along the south
side of the Memorial field. In
attendance were more than
2,000 supporters from Clayton
County to give the Eagles
moral support. Many of them
drove up, others went in
busses.
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1955 Olds 88 2-Dr. Hardtop
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1957 Chevy Sports Coupe OOP
1955 Chevy '2lo' SCOE
V-8. Auto. Tr. Was $695 NOW
1961 Ford Starliner Hardtop $1 QAC
Loaded! Was $2395 NOW £
1957 Ford Pick-Up
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1956 Chrysler New Yorker 4-Dr.
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