C H Friend High School - Chit Chat Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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Football Te-am Wilson Burgess.- ........................ 4 .... Captain Thomas Spencer ............................. Manager Kenneth Matze ......n.............. Assistant Manager John'P. Jones, coach MEMBERS VVilson Burgess ...H.. .End Rawley Fuller .... Halfback Allen Fuller. ..... Guard T. J..Glascock .... Halfback John Hubbard Quarterback Charlie Smith-Quarterback Billy Allen. ...... Fullback Robert Walton - .... - Guard Lowell Strickand--- Guard Sam Patterson ..?... Tackle Bruce Cole - ...-...- Tackle Wiley Umstead ..-.. Center Peter Staples ..... A End Jack Soears - .... -Halfback Watt Bantist-----I-Ialfback Cecil Sanders ........, End Frank Godbold ........ End Alan Berman- ...... . Sam Umstead-- End -----Guard Ned Allred - ....... - Guard John Boozer--- Dick Haymes ..... Irvin Vaden' ...... Owen Baynesn-- ----- Guard Halfback I-Ialfback Halfback Tommie Greer ...... Tackle Mauray Curtice ..... Center M ervin Matze - ...... . John Collins- .... William Bowen End Halfback .--T. Guard Billy Vaughan-Quarterback Billy Smith ....... Halfback l 1J

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1938 Basketball Season t After playing fairly good basketball the first half of the year, the Crimsons kind of dropped down to lose quite a few games in the last half of the year. Exhibit- ing a strong defensive team, the boys held their opponents to twenty points nearly every game. The Crimsons' offensive playing was their fault for the season. 'The boys ho.pe for a better season 'next year and are expecting Glascock, Burgess, Sanders, Boozer, Strickland, and Collins to be back. The Crimsonettes started their season with the best prospects C. H. Friend High School has ever seen. From the previous year they had lost only one player from the regular team. Their captain from last year, Helen Hope Walker, returned, and also three other regulars. The girls had their regular practice before Christmas, which showed fine results.. They practiced hard and long every clay. The season was opened on January 12 with one of their toughest teams, George Washington High from Danville. They got off to a fine start and really kept the George Washington girls stepping. Their teamwork and passing were beautiful. The score was 27-13. Their next team was easily defeated, and the score ran high. The Crimsonettes overcame Farmville by a 36-7 count. The next game on schedule was with Virginia Commercial College. The Crim- sonettes put up a fine fight and finally defeated them 21-20. They were up against marvelous competition and an almost professional team. The Martinsville team was overcome by a 29-12 score. The team breezed through the game with the ease of professionals. The next three games were easily won by big scores, and yet the Crimsonettes kept up their good work and didn't stop fighting a time. The chain was broken when the Crimsonettes journeyed to Lynchburg to play Virginia Commercial a return game. The team put up a grand iight, but just wasn't a match for the Lynchburg girls. After a hard fight they were overcome by a 45-35 score. ' The team really showed what it could do when Averett College was the oppon- ent. The guards were showing what fine defensive work they could do, while the for- wards were sinking snowbirds and cripes all over the court. They took that one with ease by a 33-7 score. Roxboro and Martinsville were two easy teams to take, and the Crimsonettes eased on through these to continue a winning streak which had been broken only once. The schedule next showed the big game of the year. As the whistle blew the team was off to a ine start against Fredericksburg. Orrock, Fredericksburg's ma-in forward, started sinking snowbirds, but the powerful guarding of Herbster and Walker was too much for her. The teamwork, the beautiful passing and shooting were superb, and the South Boston girls kept their opponents fighting through the whole game. The game was close and exciting all the way through, but the Fredericksburg girls emerged the winners by a 16-15 count. Farmville, George Washington, Roxboro, and Averett were added to the Crim- sonettes' listof winners. Their third loss was to Phillips' Secretarial School. The team fought the whole game, but just couldnit play basketball that night. Becky Williams emerged the high scorer for the year, and the whole team is to be complimented on its fine work. -1

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1937 Football Season C. H. Friend High .School had eleven letter men from last year's season, who kept high the spirit of the team. This spirit was due to the work of the seniors and the indomitable spiri-t of Captain Wilson Burgess. The Crimsons opened their 1937 season by meeting a powerful Glass High team in Lynchburg. The local boys succumbed to a 27-0 defeat after extending the Hill- toppers all the way. Outstanding was 'big Wiley Umstead's work in backing up the line, and also the ball carrying of little Charlie Smith and Rawley Fuller. The following week a battered C. H. Friend eleven moved to the capital city for a joust with Lou Onesty's 'Cadets from Benedictine. Handicapped with the loss of Co-captain T. J. 'Glascock and Allen Fuller, who received injuries in the Glass High game, the Crimsons were 'beaten 33-0 by the boys in green, although they outscored their opponents in first downs eight to seven. - Playing at home for the first time, the local boys smashed their way to an im- pressive win over the Schoolfield boys. The score was 20-0. Victoria came to town and emerged the winner by a 7-0 score when Tucker, Victoria's sensational quarterback, raced eighty yards for the only score of the game. The boys played a fine game and were three times stopped in the shadow of Victoria's goal. The C1-imsons showed what a fine team they had when they played Martinsville on their field. Martinsvilleis team outweighed our boys, but were held by our powerful line, and yet managed to beat the Crimsons 20-13. The South Boston boys really strutted around when Westhampton played them here. The complete team was playing like a machine, and their passing and blocking were superb. All of the football fans of the town turned out to see the Crimsons play real football, and they saw what they came for. The score was C. H. Friend, 135 Westhampton, 7. - In the following week in a deluge of rain, Farmville splashed its way to victory 22-0 over the local lads. In the next week against Blackstone, the Crimsons reached the climax of their season, when they succeeded in stopping Blackstone's heretofore unstopped Johnson. C-harlie Smith climaxed the season when he raced seventy-three yards behind superb blocking for the first score of the game. La-ter in the third quarter Charlie again stepped into the limelight to take a pass from Baptist, and raced eighty yards for the final score of the game. The score was 13-6. Seniors whose positions will be hard to fill next year are: Rawley Fuller, Allen Fuller, John Hubbard, Robert Walton, Wiley Umstead, and Mervin Matze, The entire list of boys who were awarded monograms for the 1937 season are: Wilson Burgess, T. J. Glascock, John Hubbard, Charlie Smith, Wiley Umstead, Robert Walton, Mervin Matze, Allen Fuller, Rawley Fuller, .Sam Patterson, and Bruce Cole.