Austin East High School - Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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With eleven track events and tive field events to master before and during the season, both Austin and East track teams had to hustle at each and every practice. Even if one is a miler, doing twenty 440's one minute apart and then running two miles in distance is hard work. It takes equal amounts of muscle and drive to practice the high hurdles, shot put, discus throw, or pole vault consistently, also. But with steady determination the teams conditioned, conditioned, and re- conditioned until winded puffs gave way to happy victory sighs. When the season was over, both Austin and East, then operating as separate schools, could look back on outstanding individual and team efforts. As East drew laurels for its fourth district and its third consecutive Knoxville lnterscholastic League wins, Austin proudly praised the efforts of its 880 and 440 relay teams. Members of both teams earned much publicity for themselves and their schools by scorin record numbers of points in inter-school meets. Athletes can never be content with past performances, however, and the approaching 1969 season should be a constant conversational topic. With the combined efforts of boys from both Austin and East, the season promises to be an electrifying one. And In Meets -r-----W f-- - .,.- -,...-.......,,,,,,n Fwy E .A K . Spurting ahead to an early lead, trackster Witt Hodson clearly set the pace for a lap in the 440 yard relay race, his best event. Split seconds consumed in passing a baton can lose a race, so Larry Johnson and Joe Cobb practiced the handoff until it worked perfectly.

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vow With the finish line ju st a few strides ahead of him, Eddie Johnson of all tive speedsters, is the result of their coaches' loud and frequent really tums it on. That last stretch effort, reflected in the strained faces admonitions to really bum those cindersf' Earning additional points for his team, big Rupert Breedlove participates in the discus event. Charles Davis gets in a crouched starting position His form is the result of much concentrated practice. f01' Hf10the1' Of those timed Practice WHS- , .' ,.-.-....,, , . 447 if

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3. s R ,he-0 BASEBALL LETTERMEN-First row: Clarence Jackson, J. C. Mc- Kinney. Second row: Rodney Wilson, Walter Jackson, Carl Torbush. BASKETBALL SENIORS - Walter Jackson, J. C. McKinney. Bethel Hendricks, Tyrone Moore, Doug Ragland. A 5 in I : - Qs f sea , t TRACK LETTERMEN - First row: Witt Hodson, Van McKnight, Joe Cobb. Second row: Wilbert Solomon, Wayne McKinney, William Faulkner. Third row: Earl Watson, Kenneth McClellan, Sherman Bess, Jerry l-lowerton, not pictured. BASKETBALL SENIOR LETTERMEN - John Tinsley, - vi!Pfr