West Memphis High School - Cotton Boll Yearbook (West Memphis, AR)

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Martin stopped hy Rice-birds. TIGERS SHOW THEIR CLAWS The Devils were beaten on their second start by a good Whitehaven heam. The 'gBig Blue Teamw played good ball and led at halftime 14--13. Whitehaven dominated the second half as their superior bench strength showed up. Billy Holmes and Robert Murphy scored for the Co-Captains 'me' NJ ,, F 'lt Jxri v:---v'v-:.7 t,. ,fi fr... . :.,,.- .ga Mt! MW 1 my 1,-,,. In as . ,A ll FZ. H l a- . I 1 A' - .mu ZLQW- li i' 7 ' A.. .,t, NVE, ? ti. INDIANS EDGE DEVILS A highly favored Helena team came to West Memphis and they were happy to leave with a 20-14 victory. West Memphis outplayed the Indians throughout th e game, but superior bench strength paid off for Helena as they scored with less than two minutes remaining to pull out a 20-14 victory over the hard fighting Blue Devils. HURRICANES STOP DEVILS The '6Big Blue Team fought violently in their sec- ond conference game of the year, but were beaten 12-7 at Jonesboro. West Memphis scored first, but couldnlt quite hold to the lead. RICEBIRDS STORM DEVILS The WMHS Blue Devils opened their season against the highly touted Stuttgart Ricehirds and were beaten 37-13. Billy Slaughter plunged for one TD, and Billy Holmes connected with James Price on a 30-yard losers, bus it was not enough ii . ,J 1 ' P E t pass for the other. to overcome the Tigers, who my ' A won 27-14. V 1 'll' i t ,W , . 'Ti BILLY SLAUGHTER J. T. HOLMES ALBERT SHARP DAVID LAMBERT WALTER CARPENTER PARKER EUBANKS GARY HARCROVE Two letters Two letters One letter One letter One letter 4 Qgaigglifha L g by Dk A . . V... ' , . 1 ' A f , '-'... If - f.,, HK .,,. , I ,V i, 5. A .. f I 5---ff 5 L V, Vkgq I .. f f' 'll Q ef e F ., Eff' X- 1 . . .. I 3- , , ,.,11M:l is fs we fg .-,' f 4.54 My , , ,-,- ,z l L. 2

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Y? WM WM WM WM WM e y .X,,, .,:,,A, A M,1. , WM WM WM WM WM WM ALBERT SHARP All-district DAVID DODD, All-district Honorable Mention, All-state BILLY HOLMES, All-district Honorable Mention, All-state SCHEDULE Stuttgart Whitehaven Osceola ..... Corning .,,.. Jonesboro . Wynne ....... Newport ..,,. Brinkley ,,,.t Helena ....... Forrest City Harrisburg at , 'is . o o ' . 1 W 11529: :FI , 1: 4 'K ,,, wg .. 'UNM First row: Davidson, Dodd, Lambert, Alshrook, Martin. Second row: Ray, Reece, Beason, Hargrove, Abraham, Coach Paschal. Third row: Scott, Weaver, McCarley, Eubanks, Murphy.

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