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

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Sporting Tradi ion Life After November or 12 weeks you can see them sweating, running, stretching, hitting, watching films, and living on salt tab- lets. But what happens after all this agony has ended? What happens after November? November is the end of football sea- son, but some it's the beginning. After football season is very important be- Running for short yardage over Ole Main's defense is senior Roma Williams. H f ms i2 - 'af yr.. NM e r ? . di .gas ise. 2 108fA Sporting Tradition Y 2 cause you are getting prepared for the upcoming season said head coach Ted Yotter. After football season the players find that they have a variety of activities to keep them physically fit: playing bas- ketball, or going into off-season track. The junior and sophomore players can participate in off-season football. Sen- iors that don't participate in track or basketball do their own thing. Sever- al seniors placed themselves on a weight program, in order to prepare for college football. Others went hunting or did the things they didn't have time for during the season. ,.i-- si A

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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

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.JW Mm? ff Senior Tommy Johnson helps Weight lifting takes much con fellow senior Patrick Hill in the centration and effort on senior Pat- weight room. rick Hill's part. '-,gp--in in ll., T -1 rl iA H 1 Coaching Staff: kneeling: Martha Cothreng Back row, Ted Yotter, Da- vid Booth, Keith Browning, Tom McKinney, Charles Terry, Bob Bowman, Sonny Bull. Q. Y ,,.,,.,, , ,, , g V , . ' ' ,, A ,, , 1 ' Y g Y, ,l,,, tczizfz Z V r ,, V 'f'il' -i E4 Vvz. V,.,, 'Y Cm- ,,,,. ,. gl. W ul I N A y V .rll Ilvl I ' . it L 1 -, IAAA V ,,i' V , W V 7 -KA V KA' . ,, ull- Senior Football Players: Front Row, Dickey Staggs, Harley Welch, Paul Sebastian, Roma Williams, Reginald Dillard, Row 2: Rodney Johnson, Tommy Johnson, Han Choi, Brett Carroll, Alan Nesbitt, Joe Hinson, Row 3: Patrick Hill, Richard Styers, Doug Spear, An- toine Gordon, Jerry Trotter, Brent Dickson, Back row: Manager Brian Hill, Dwain Collins, Eddie Matlock, Kelly Pucek, Mark Akins, Mitch James, Manager Justin McClelland. A Sporting Traditionf109