Central High School - Champion Yearbook (Chattanooga, TN)

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COACH E. B. RED ETTER A keen sense OT humor, a kindly undersTanding, and an inTeresT in each player as an individual are a Tew OT The leading characTerisTics OT Coach E. B. Red ETTer, which have made OuTsTanding his leadership OT CenTral's Team This year. When he assumed The pOsiTion OT head coach lasT sp:ing, in spire OT The loss OT many leading players To The Army, Coach ETTer organized and Trained a remarkable Team under exTreme diTTiculTies. He has noT only endeared himself To The players, buT, by becoming one OT Them, he has raised Their ideals To higher levels and has encouraged iniTiaTive. A l93O alumnus OT CenTral, ETTer received his B.A. degree Trom The UniversiTy OT Charranooga and has coached aT Morgan School, aT Hendersonville, NorTh Carolina, and aT Brainerd Junior High. While aT CenTral, he played under Dean PeTersOri, and Through The years has cor Tinued To hold a sincere inTeresT in The school's aThleTic acTiviTies. COACH JAMES LESTER NEWTON Serving as line coach This year was James L. NewTon, who resigned his posiTiOn as principal OT Falling WaTer Grammar School To come To CenTral in The Tall OT l94l To loin The coaching sTaTT and To Teach General Science. Coach NewTon has proved To be one OT' The besl line coaches in The hisTOry ol CenTral. He has puT nis hearT and soul inTo his work and developed a ragged and Tangled line which neiTher asked nor gave any quarTer of any game. Whie aT college, Mr. NewTon received Twelve leTTers in aThleTics, This TacT, along wiTh 'vis renowned enThusiasm shown aT The TooTball games, speaks Tor his deep inTeresT in sporTs, Mr, NewTon has aTTended bO'h Carson Newman and SouTh Georgia Teachers College. COACH E. B. RED ETTER COACH JAMES LESTER NEWTON lllllllillll The ouTlook Tor The l943 ediTion OT The Purple Pounders was Tar Trom brighT aT The beginning OT The season. WiTh The loss OT The coach and several boys Trom The Team OT lasT year, The siTuaTiOn looked hopeless. WiTh Coach E. B. Red ETTer Tilling Coach Dean PeTersen's shoes and Coach LesTer NewTon Taking over The assisTanT's pOsiTiOn, The Pounders began The building OT a Team. WiTh only nine leTTermen reTurning, This was a diTTiculT iob. Cap- Tain Prank SmiTh proved To be OT greaT assisTance in These early sTages. Billy CarTer, Tlash Tailback. was selecTed as AlTernaTe CapTain To Till The vacancy creaTed by Howard Derrick's inducTion inTo The Marines. The coaches looked To LeTTy George Harvey TO handle The passing Tor The Pounders. l-larvey. CarTer, Lawson, and O. SmiTh were To be The mainsTays OT The backTield. Payne, SmiTh, William- son, lrwin, and Love were The reTurning leTTermen Tor The line. Lamb, Levi, and Park were expecTed To carry much OT The heavy work. ATTer weeks OT hard Training The Pounders looked Torward To The TirsT game OT The season wiTh The much-heralded Red Bank Lions. The Purple Pounders led by CapT. Frank SrniTh opened The season On SepTember IO aT Frawley Field wiTh a I3 To O Triumph Over a scrappy Red Bank Team. The game was played beTore an OverTlow crowd OT 4,000. OTis SmiTh plunged Over Trom The one-TOOT line Tor The TirsT score. The oTher Touchdown was made by Basil lrwin on an end-around. The Purple Torward wall, led by CapT. Frank SmiTh and l-lal Williamson, was One OT The Tew To halT Red Bank's All-CiTy, Bobby Jumper. On SepTember I6 The Purples nexT rolled over a lighT and inexperienced Team Trom Tyner High wiTh a Tinal score OT 47 To O in Tavor OT The Purples. Jack Robinson paced The Pounders by scoring 1741 T

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lllllllll Three markers. George Harvey passed To Basil Irwin aTTer scoring Two on The ground. Cenfral shaTTered The FighTing Irish of Nofre Dame on Friday, Sepfember 24, by a score of 68 To 0. This is The highesf score ever made by a prep school of Chaffanooga. Billy Carfer was The sTandouT for The Purples scoring Three Touch- downs. The Twin sfripes of The Founders sfill remained uncrossed. Ofis SmiTh, rangy fullback, kicked nine ouT of Ten exTra poinTs, Thus making anofher prep record for The Founders. CenTral Traveled To KingsporT Ocfober I where she defeaTed a Tough aggregaTion, 28 To 7. Ofis Smifh scored Twice for The Founders. Gene Payne versafile cenfer, passed To Basil Irwin who ran 50 yards for The second Touchdown of The evening. Capfain Frank Smifh and Hal Williamson led The line in iTs defense. Bob McCoy, freshman sfar, furnished The Thrill of The evening by refurning a punT 70 yards for a score in The lasT few seconds. Refurning To Frawley Field on Ocfober 8 The Founders downed Gadsden I9 To 6. Billy Carfer, Ofis Smifh, and George Harvey were The offensive sTandouTs. Paf Roberson, all- sTaTe fullback, was dangerous aT all Times To The Founders. Accompanying The Gadsden Team was The school band who gave a fine show. Cenrral suffered her firsf defeaf aT The hands of C.M.A. in Columbia, Tennessee. The Cadefs played very good ball To beaf The Founders 26 To l9. Billy Carfer made a beaufiful 65-yard punT reTurn for a Touchdown. The game was played under adverse weafher condifions, on a rainsoaked C.M.A. gridiron. Gish, Capfain of C.M.A., led The defense. A layouf pass from Gene Fayne To Junior Love was good for 60 yards and The second Cenfral Tally. The Furples defeafed The Rome Hillfoppers aT Frawley Field on Ocfober 22 by a score of 46 To 0. Many enfhusiasfic fans from Rome supporfed Their Team. Billy Carfer scored Three Touchdowns Tor The Founders, Harvey also gained consisTenTly lf5l 5 To The Le'fT, Le'fT To Righfz Ralph Brown, Tackle: John Bryan, End: Charles Burf, Back: Bill Carier, AlTernaTe Capiain, Back: Ray Coleman, Cen+erg Roy Crowe, Tackle: Ed Fulks, Back: George Gilbreaih, Endg George Harvey, Back: Ted Hays, Tackle: Basil Irwin, End: Dan I . Lamb, Guard: David Lawson, Back. COACH CHARLES MILLSAPS From Easf Side Junior High School in SepTember, I943, came Coach Charles Millsaps To work wiTh CenTral's Toofball heroes of Tomorrow-The B Team. Besides his work wiTh The Baby Pounders, Coach Millsaps has proved his worTh in his fine leadership in infra-mural acTiviTies-boxing, wresTIing, ping-pong, and weighT lifling, AfTer receiving his degree from Murfreesboro STaTe Teachers College, Mr. Millsaps TaughT aT Dickinson Junior High, ChaTTanooga VocaTional School, and EasT Side Junior High School. His many years in working with boys and his well balanced afhleric background have rnade Coach Millsaps a valuable addiTion To CenTral's coaching sTaT T. COACH ERNEST A. OWENS One of The new addiTions To The Teaching sTaTT of Cenfral, and yeT not a sTranger This year, is alumnus oT The class of '32, ErnesT A. Owens, who came To Cenfral from Chaffanooga VocaTional High. In keeping wiTh The True CenTraI spiriT, Mr. Owens volunteered To give his Time in helping To coach The Baby Founders. He undersTands The game Thoroughly, having played halTback on ins-' fooTbalI Team while aTTending Cenlral. His success in coachinq The Baby Founders was demonsTraTed by The TacT Thal They losT only one game This year. Mr. Owens alfended The STaTe Teachers College al Murfreesboro and received his coaching experience aT Easf Lake Junior High. COACH CHARLES MILLSAPS COACH ERNEST A. OWENS