Pennington High School - Yearbook (Blountsville, AL)

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F ' 1907 FOOTBALL TEAM 1st row, left to right 2nd row, left to right 3rd row Crit Chumley Unidentified N. B. Grayson John Hines Felix Self Will Sizemore Ed Murphry Tom Miller E. A. Miller T. C. McKay Judson McKay W. D. Self Conner Chumley Lawrence Nation Frances Tidwell M. P. GiPS0n Jerome Dillard Football: Then And Now ByW.D.Self For the past fifty years football has been the fas- test growing sport in America. It is about to displace baseball as America's greatest sport. Many of you will hardly believe me when I tell you that I played in the first football game played in Blount County. Thsi team was organized at ninth District Agricultural School at Blountsville in 1907. We played our first game against Athens Agricultural School in October of that year. Not a player on the team had ever seen a football game. I doubt if there was a spectator there who had seen a game, outside a few of the teachers. The game has not changed much in most of its aspects, but here are a few changes, There were three downs in a series necessary to make 10 yards, and a first down. Now, of course, we have four dovms. The game was much rougher-most anything was allowed. The plays were mostly plays straight into the line. Pushing, shoving, dragging-in fact almost any way to get your man through was legal. A touch- down counted 5 points instead of 6 as today. The equipment was very inadequate. No shoulder pads, no kidney pads. Believe it or not though, we had a hard rubber mouthpiece that went up over the nose. Also, we wore shin guards something like a baseball catcher uses today. l2l

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Senior Trip Of 1965 The Senior Class of 1965 was the first class to make a senior trip to Montgomery. Pictured other than Seniors, Governor George C. Wallaceg Representative Carl D. NeSmithg Dr. Ira B. Pattong Senator L. D. Bentley, Jr.g Miss Amilea Porter, teacherg Mrs. Jack Cornelius and Mrs. W. R. Sutton, Chaperones

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1st row seated-Eugene Wilson, Herman Keith, Conner Chumley, Mack Cowden, Lonnie Reid, George Cowden. Second row on Knees-John Wilson, George Hallman, Percy South, John South Lonnie Roberts, Arthur Moses. Third row standing-Coach B. L. Noojin, Levi Knapp, Ed Murphree, Hugh Fowler, Oliver Brantley, E. A. Miller. 1909 STATE CHAMPIONS 1926 SQUAD 1 .. an -r an 1927 TEAM 122