Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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After physical fitness exams, the three classes of boys' physical education barely had time to catch their breaths. Units on touch football, dodgeball, trampoline, hunting safety, basketball, weight-training and conditioning, volleyball, track and field, and softball, and the skills tests kept the boys in tip-top shape. Although lifetime sports is strictly a classroom subject, students learned the rules and regulations of twenty-eight different sports and activities, including field-hockey, self-defense, wrestling, archery, soccer, rhythm and dance, and swimming. Girls' P.E. operated on a less hectic schedule than did the boys. Cleaning the gym before basketball games, playing cards, basketball, volleyball, tennis, table tennis, running laps, and exercising filled the year. Second period class received an added thrill when Coach Segrest taught them the basics on the trampoline. Physical Fitness Shapes Students ABOVE- Classmates Marc Thomas, Wayne Banks, Jimmy Kent, Carl Mathias, Ronnie Barnett, Coach Mike Walker, David Brown, Bobby Parker, and David Riggs keep in position as Billy Bennett spikes the ball and Bobby Simmons awaits its return in fourth period P.E. class. LEFT AND BELOW- Step by step Coach Gary Segrest demonstrates the art of self defense to his lifetime sports class. Jerry Harwell pays CLOSE attention while participating in this in-class training session. Student interest runs high in this the largest class on campus. 26

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Inexperienced With only six returning starters, the 1977 Scrapper football team could easily have had a long season. This was not the case as the Scrappers finished with a 6-3 record and surprised many pre-season speculators. Of course, 1977 was not a championship season but there were some highlights: a victory over a state playoff semi-finalist, three victories over larger triple AAA schools and a victory over the eventual district 7-AAA co-champs. The young and inexperienced Scrappers opened the 1977 season against the Ashdown Panthers. A large crowd gathered at Scrapper Stadium to watch this renewal of an old rivalry. That crowd saw the Scrappers attack the Panthers with a small, quick defense and a balanced offense. The Scrappers won 10-8, but the score was much closer than the game. The Scrappers' offense moved the ball well on the much larger Panthers but fumbled away several opportunities. Brian Howard's five yard touchdown, run just before the first half ended, and Kenneth Carrigan's 27 yard field goal in the fourth quarter proved to be enough. A late Panther 28 TOP- With David Chalker clearing a path, Brian Howard (11) heads for the endzone against the Smack-over Buckaroos. Howard was stopped shy of the goal, but two plays later the Scrappers score to go out in front 21-0. ABOVE- In the DeQueen backfield, Nate Coulter and Terry Ray drag down a Leopard. Unfortunately, for the Scrappers, this did not occur often enough as they bowed to the Leopards, 21-7. RIGHT- During a time-out. Coach Gary Segrest gives instructions to defensive captain Gary Gills to relay to the Scrapper defense.