McClellan High School - Lion Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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A Sporting Tradition This Football Season Was A Year Of Ups And Downs t wasn't the most important game of the year, nor did it determine the conference championship. But the game against Little Rock Hall was the last game of the season, and hopefully would determine the tone of next year's sea- son. The game was the second conference game of the year to end in overtime. On a eight-yard run by senior quarterback Reginald Dil- lard, Junior tailback Shawn Olive scored on the first play of overtime. Then the Lions defense stopped the Warriors on four downs. The Lions came from be- hind to defeat the Warriors. The second game to end in overtime was the tradi- tional rivalry with the Mills High Comets. Late in the overtime period, the Comets managed to get off a field goal which won the game 14-17 for Mills. We loss the game because of costly penalities and mis- takes, said head coach Ted Yotter. Junior Shawn Olive's first half exploits and a stubborn defense led the Lions to an easy 34-0 non- conference triumph over the North Little Rock Ole Main Wildcats. Every play of the game was a big play. said coach Yotter. In the Homecoming game, the Lions rendered their second loss to the Jacksonville Red Devils in a withering 33-18 loss. The Democrat's accessment of the game was that McClel- lan looked nothing like it had the two previous weeks. On a second effort the Lions managed to slip by the Northeast Chargers with a 14-13 victory. After losing a yard on first down, senior quarterback Regi- nald Dillard found junior halfback Shawn Olive open a few yards down field. Ol- ive caught the pass and dodged several Charger de- fenders for a 26-yard touch- down. Perhaps the greatest challenge of the season was the game against number one ranked Little Rock Parkview. The Lions were the only team that kept the AAAA- Central Conference Champs under 30 points. For The Record Scoreboard 4-4-2 Q-I2 MHS Conway 13 16 l Northeast 13 14 Sylan Hills 17 7 Ole Main 0 34 Jacksonville 33 18 ' Catholic 23 0 I Parkview 21 6 Pine Bluff 27 0 5 o is so Mills 17 14 Hall 14 21 5 A ss- tiiiiiacf -nl 735351.tif-,k?msfH3Rif5'ii.i-as sf? il-'fi-i1'E's'kii xt - Back-up quarterback Brent Rose Running with the ball against the v junior, pitches out the ball as he is tack- Conway Wampus Cats is senior led by junior Buzzy Sawyer. Roma Williams. A Sporting Traditionf105

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-' ' ' A Sporting Tradition '- Traditionally Intense Battle he halls were emp- ty. The shadows lengthened, and night crept over the campus. The tedious vigil had begun. Students were camped out, determined to guard the school from the at- tacks of their arch rival- Mills. For fourteen years, the ri- valry between our school and Mills grew into an intense struggle on the football field and an intense battle on the school grounds. This game and the Home- coming game are the only games where students come up to us and say, 'Man, I hope you win this game, ' said senior punter Brian Powell, It,s hard to hear the signals because the crowd is so loud at this game,', he con- tinued. Each year, the rivalry seems to become more vi- cious or intense, depending on the point of view. The rivalry has gone from fun to QR? S... l. Trying to top the rivaling schools spirit, Lion fans shout their team on during the Mills and McClel- lan game. After a McClellan fumble, both Comet and Lion players scramble to recover the ball. dirty, said senior linebacker Mitch James. It Cthis factj makes the game tougher, more physicalf' he contin- ued. Part of the student body's participation in this rivalry was to get them better than they did us, according to senior David Short. Part of the fun is doing it without getting caught, he said. Doing it this year con- sisted of dumping cow ma- nure mixed with styrofoam beads on the front grounds at Mills. Mills attempted to drop green and gold popcorn from a plane during our pep rally, but Allendale received most of this. Even though the rivalry was intense, most students of these two schools allowed the rivalry to end at the end of the Friday night game. Our church fGeyer Springs Baptist Churchj invites both teams for fellowship and piz- za after this game, said sen- ior linebacker Tommy John- son. Getting his point across to the varsi- ty football players is head coach Ted Yotter. i.,flf'5 A Sporting Trad1t1onf1O'7 I