Halifax County High School - Haliscope Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Stalking a terrified Liberty runner, Earl (Tank) Royster prepares to add another tackle to his statistics column. Squeezing through a hole in the James Wood line behind a block by Micky Puryear, Donald Testerman breaks into the open on a night that didn ' t find the Comets doing that very often. They lost 7-6. 16 Varsity Football Varsity Football 1971 HCSHS 27 Person County 0 HCSHS 8 E. C. Glass 13 HCSHS 6 George Washington 23 HCSHS 20 Cave Springs 0 HCSHS 6 James Wood 7 HCSHS 46 Liberty 0 HCSHS 39 Martinsville 12 HCSHS 14 William Fleming 12 HCSHS 40 Amherst 6 HCSHS 21 Armstrong 0

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The Christmas tree ' s height is no obstacle to Reporter Sam Wilson as he decorates it for school enjoyment in the lobby. Another Sadie Hawkin ' s Day victim Junior Boxley Llewellyn attempts escape from the grasp of Sophomore Courtney Peace. A basketball game intermission finds Treasurer William Carr manning his post at the popcorn machine. SCA goals are mapped for the year by President Lavonia Simon while various representatives compare notes. SCA 15

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Dragging down a Roxboro tight end, Dean Coates and Moses Foster stall a passing attack which was the Rockets only offense. The Comets won the game 27-0. Riding a Cave Springs ballcarrier to the ground, Kenny Benassi makes the final tackle in a goal line stand that marked the deepest penetration the Springers made the entire night. DREAM ESCAPES MIGHTY COMETS Fate thwarts Comet hopes It was a good year and it was a bad year. It ' s fourth and goal for the Comets on the one yard line! To have done so much and not to have reached the ultimate goal. Ready! Hopes, aspirations, and dreams of many years were to either be, or never to have been at all. Slant tight! Everything said go. Set! A corps of able veterans. Bingo! Bingo! A big, husky line. Hut one! Large, speedy backs. Hut two! Coaches who knew how to win. Hut three! An excellent building year behind them. It ' s a power play up the middle! Everything said go. There ' s a big pileup on the goal line! The word was out—they wanted it all. The state. It ' s going to be a close call! But fate heard the word. No! They didn ' t make it! The ball goes over! blocker Billy Burton as both dare the defense in the early going of the Fleming game