Dothan High School - Gargoyle Yearbook (Dothan, AL)

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Football Team of 1925 Runner 11p Team of South East Alabama W. B. Lee - - - - Captain Leonard Speake Student Manager T. H. Williams - Coach Wallace Brown-End 1 Horace Byrd-End . Roscoe Woodward-End Leslie Ivey-Tackle Q Frank Bennett-Tackle Joe Deck Sanders--Guard Arthur Sanders-Guard Thomas Melton-Guard Roland Whiddon-Guard John Rushing-Center Clarence McQuagge-Center W. B. Lee-Back Carey Doster-Back Oscar Saliba-Back Ben Dempsey-Back b Whit Harris-3-Back The Squad was assembled on September the first for the first prac- tice. The familiar faces of Tolbert Brown, John Linch, Adam Grant, George Pilcher, Ray Carswell, and Howard Owens were not present. These men had played their last year for their Alma Mater and it was the task of Coach Williams to find men to fill their places. After a careful checking up the following men were found present who had won letters from Dothan High: Captain W. B. Lee, Oscar Saliba, Ben Demp- sey, Wallace Brown, Horace Byrd, Frank Bennett, and Leslie Ivey. With these men as a nucleus, the work was started of building the 1924 foot- ball machine. Out of the above line up Wallace Brown, Ben Dempsey, Frank Ben- nett, and Leslie Ivey were elected to berths on the mythical All-South- east Alabama eleven. The work of these men coupled with that of Ar- thur Sanders, Joe Deck Sanders, Horace Byrd, John Rushing, Clarence McQuagge, Captain W. B. Lee and Carey Doster will be remembered a long time by the followers of the Red and Black as true Dothan High School type gridders. The latter named men who have played their last season assured Captain-elect Ivey that with them Went a covenant of their moral support, for the best team ever to don Dothan High School .togs would be his to lead in the season of 1925. e The season had its high and low spots. The defensive work of the team stood out on several occasions. The 0 to 0 draw with the heavy Troy Normal gridders was the feature of the season, while the 12 to 12 draw

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with Enterprise was somewhat of a surprise to the fans of Southeast Alabama. With these as high spots the 19 to 0 defeat administered by the Andalusia High gridders was the low water mark of the season and the only defeat handed the locals during the campaign. While a week later the locals trounced the Dale County lads 59 ,to 0 and showed their real merit as a seaS0n'C10Ser.. A post season game was played against the Alumni of the institution in which the youngsters showed the old timers that they were playing as good football as in the days of yore, and took the old-timers into camp by the score of 7 to 0. The Scrubs had only one game on its schedulejbut trounced the Abbeville Aggies to the tune of 25 to 9. ' ' - i A Schedule , Dothan High 18 Blakely High School 0 Dothan High 12 Chipley High School 0 Dothan High ' 0 Troy Normal O Dothan High .6 Newton College 0 Dothan High 12 Covington County High 0 Dothan High 0 Eufaula High 0 Dothan High 0 Geneva County High School 0 Dothan High 123 25 Abbeville Aggies 9 Dothan High 12 Coffee County High School 12 Dothan High - 0 Andalusia High School 19 Dothan High 59 Dale County High School 0 Dothan High 7 Alumni 0 151 ' 40 CLARENCE MCQUAGGE