Battle Ground Academy - Cannon Ball Yearbook (Franklin, TN)

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Httraitg Ellnnthall g Bottom Row, Left to Right: Mgr. Stephens, Duke, B. Ross, Harrison, Goodman, Cowan, Phipps, Thomason, R. Ross Hudson, Duncan, Fuqua, Moran. Middle Row: Coach Ko lodziej, Billington, McDaniel, Moench, Hall, Anderson, Doak, Swann, Armistead, Snodgrass, Kinnard, Shannon, On August 12, thirty of BGA7s students arrived on campus to begin practicing football. We spent the first morning finding out who had followed the summer training program. The vast majority of us had. The first week was pure hell. Practices were two and a half hours long and were held twice a day. We found out we weren't in as good shape as we thought we were. This year we did something we had never done before. The third week of practice, we took part in a jamboree held at Hendersonville. We played one quarter against Ryan and lost 7-O. Page 14 s I i i E Z i f X X 1 i i Gentry, McMillen, Hoover, Coach Cherry. Top R0 Coach Oxley, Coach B. Gentry, Lawrence, McGinnis, Pl pot, Greene, Warfield, C. Ross, Morrison, Thompson, Smith, S. Smith, Simonton, Rader, Harwell, Coach F12 Coach J. Gentry.

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. . . A 'inw fur inning nnh n time fur inning . . . Winning and losing, though they seem unrelated at first glance, are really very similar in the development of a man. One must learn to accept both graciously to be a success. Page 13

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, A week later, we opened the season against Hendersonville on the same field. Although we were a 27 point underdog, we entered the game with every intention of ending our l9 game losing streak. For a while it looked as if we might ac- complish this feat, but two fumbles deep in our own territory led to two Hendersonville touch- downs and that's how it ended, 13-0. The game was also costly in another respect. Both defen- sive ends, senior Jerry McGinnis and sophomore Bill Moench, were lost for the better part of the year with knee injuries. Page 15