Camden Military Academy - Excalibur Yearbook (Camden, SC)

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Football began m the heat of the August sun and ended on a hot day much the same as we started, in-between there were more downs than ups. Sometimes the Spartans played harder, and better than was expected of them, sometimes not, but they always had the right attitude and spirit of a well-coached team. The players had respect for their coaches and worked hard for them and any of the 1967 football players will tell you that this is what led them to a 6-3 season. The sticker patch . . . sock it to me . . . hot water during games is good for you . . . take five and twenty-five after practice . . . if ever in trouble, drop back 15 and punt . . . black-eye peas and hominy grits . . . night train . . . running briskfully behind the bus . . . five lettermen and 15 newcomers . . . hamburger steaks . . . tape it up and jog-it out . . . now let’s see what they can do with the ball! 27

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Football CMA Wins Opener, 21 To U Camden Military Academy opened its 1967 football season last Friday, Sept. 15, with a thrilling 21 to 13 victory over Spartanburg Day School. The CMA Spartans took the opening kickoff and drove 75 yards for. the game’s first TD. Jimmy Johnston scampered the final 25 yards on an end sweep for the touchdown. Billy Owens added the extra point. CMA controlled the ball most of the first half but didn’t get their second TD until late in the second quarter. Billy Owens burst through the line and shook off four would - be tacklers and sprinted 51 yards for the score. Fullback Kenny Smith added the point. Spartanburg dominated the third quarter and scored on a Ufeary Academy rolled to their fourth consecutive victory Fri- day when they crushed Lewis- ville High, 48 to 6. •'Lewisville jumped to an early lead when Les Thomas went 7|j yards on an end sweep on the ff|st play from scrimmage. The extra point attempt was smoth- ered by Walt Isenburg and Joe Sfifealy. ■ Shocked, the powerful offense o| the Spartans, which has aver- aged 32 points per game, got tiling as Jimmy Johnston pick- ed up 10 yards on CMA’s first offensive play. After Joe Kella- hln picked up eight, Johnston inbred on a 15-yard scamper, tfie try for the extra point fail- Land it was 6-6. ing yards, non uwihjmih scored both TDs and one extra point for the Day Schoolers. CMA came back in the final period to ice the game when Owens scampered 43 yards to the Spartanburg 4. He scored on the next play and Joe Kellehan added the point. Turning in outstanding per- formances for the Spartans were Owens, who amassed 196 yards rushing; Kenny Smith, Jimmy Johnston, Bobby Ebener, Phil Coleman, John Peeples, Joe Shealy, Mike Witmore and Ronnie Evans. CMA meets Bishopville Fri- day night. CMA Tops Lockhart, 35 To 26 Kellahan put CMA on the scoreboard again when he plucked a Lewisville pass, which has been deflected, out of the air and raced 25 yards un- touched across the double strip- es. Kenny Smith added the ex- tra point and it was 13-6, CMA, at halftime. Fullback Smith wasted no time in making it 19-6 when he bulled his way into the end zone from the Lewisville 25 early in the third quarter. Johnston add- ed the point after, and it was 20-6. Johnston sprinted 70 yards for a TD the next time CMA gained possession, and the route was underway. CMA’s Roland Smith snared a Lewisville pass on the third play after the kickoff and returned it to the Lewisville 2 CMA Backs Led Spartans To 6-3 Season Two of the top running backs in the area led the Camden Mi- litary Academy Spartans in the 1967 Statistics. Kenny Smith, the big 220 pound fullback from Chester- field, lead the team in rushing and tackles. Smith is still con- sidering different offers he has received from some of the large Southern schools. Jimmy John- ston, this years co-eapt. from Columbia, is headed for the Air Force Academy. Johnston was second to Smith in rushing and tackles, while leading the team in pass receptions. Junior quar- terback Steve Skidmore (Char- lotte, N. C.) completed a total of 34 passes, good for 511 yards. Kenny Smith lead in the scor- ing department with 74 points. The Spartans posted the best season in the school’s history - winning six while lossing 3 (two being top ranked teams in the state). 19, Sophomore Ronnie Baucom blasted in for the score behind the blocking of 286 - pound Walt Isenburg. Stumpy Jackson added the point, and it was 34-6. Quarterback Steve- Skidmore rolled out and scored from 10 yards out to make it 41-6, and Kenny Smith intercepted a Le- wisville pass on the CMA 10 and rambled 90 yards for the Spartans’ final score. Camden Military is now sport- ing a fine 5-1 record. Spartans Spartans Defeat Carlisle The Spartans of Camden Mi litary Academy ended then most successful season last Fri- day by blasting arch - riva! Carlisle Military School, 25 to 7 CMA’s offensive unit was sluggish in the first quarter, al- though Bobby Ebener moved the Spartans for three first downs Kenny Smith and Jimmy John- ston carried the rushing load but the Cadets could not get or the scoreboard. The Spartans’ defensive unit held the visitors to one first down during the first period, Hard defense was displayed by End John Peeples and Tackle Joe Shealy. Carlisle got on the scoreboard first with only two second left in the half as Robert Buck ram- med over from the two and John Kershaw kicked the extra point. CMA came back an inspirited team in the second half, taking the kickoff and marching the length of the field, with Skid- more passing to Jimmy John- ston for the TD. The extra point was no good, and it was 7-6, Car- lisle. The Spartans’ go-ahead score came in the fourth quarter on a 10-yard pass play from Skid- more to Bobby Ebener. John- ston added the extra point and it was 13-7, CMA. CMA Rapt Dreher By 53-0 Headed For Best Season CMA Tops Lewisville, 48-6, For Fourth Straight Win - The Spartans of Camden Mi- 26

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KEITH JACKSON Fullback With only three and a half weeks to go before the first game, the coaches set to work to try and mold a football team out of five returning lettermen and eighteen new ball players. The boys worked desperately trying to make a comeback from the 2-7 season the year before; but nobody really knew what combination we had. With only a day to go and a 135-mile ride ahead of us, the team felt ready to test their skills against Spartanburg Day School. A cold sweat was felt by all the players as they awaited the starting whistle at Spartanburg for they all knew that this game would tell whether or not they had a winning team. With few players having the proper experience that their positions required, the Spartans set to work as a team and grabbed an early lead, Bobby Ebener, a first year senior, played an outstanding first half at quarterback and led the team into the dressing room with the scoreboard showing the cadets ahead 12 to 0. The cadets scored once again in the second half to win the ball game 21-13. BOBBY EBENER Quarterback The cadets, suffering from the pride of winning, fell prey to the strong, fast Bishopville team. Before the final whistle blew, the cadets lost five starting players. Although the Spartans put on an outstanding defensive show the first half, they were unable to contain the running attack which lead Bishopville to a 30-0 win. All the players walked off the field that night with the pain of their first loss, but Coaches Dukes, Webber, and Johnson and the five returning letter- men, Johnston, Coleman, Emerick, Smith, and Jackson re- membered the night a year ago as now they fell victims to Bishopville two years in a row. DAVE MAREE 28