East Forsyth High School - Aquila Yearbook (Kernersville, NC)

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Coach Morton tells it like it is. Reach for the sky! Seemingly the motto for the 69 Baby Eagles. JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL J.V.’s—Got What It Takes! Maybe a coincidence or maybe a good omen, during the. nineteen sixty nine season, it seemed that every junior varsity football victory was a forerunner of an upcoming varsity win. But is was evident that there was nothing mysterious about why the J.V.’s won. They simply played good, hard football, however, this is not so simple, as any J.V. can tell you. The junior varsity practiced during the late summer months along side the varsity. They played with determination to prove themselves worthy of being varsity material in the following years. Coaches Alan Morton and Robert Hicks instructed their playersin | the mechanics of fine football playing and the Baby Eagles : indicated by their many victories | that they had learned their lesson well. Sparked by admirable | performances by such players as Richard Warren, David Marshall, Joe Bleckley, and Allen Sloan, the | East J.V.’s leave the impression that nineteen seventy will hold a tough varsity squad for East Forsyth. The East J.V.’s have earned an honorable spot in junior varsity football for East Forsyth by their Group II title.

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VARSITY FOOTBALL Compulsion to Conquer Fires Team Forward Influential people in all phases comes with the knowledge that of football are the coaches and your team is one of the best. spectators. East’s fine coaches, Evidently, this also was the Carl Clarke, Ben Hunnicutt, and feeling of the hundreds of Charles Morton, dedicated many spectators who came to cheer hours to the training, improvement, their Eagles on to victory. and support of the players. Along Nineteen sixty nine was an event- with the boys, they braved the ful year in football, for Eagle cold and rain, felt the anxieties, players and spectators alike. and experienced the ecstacy that Richard Sides demonstrating how to become a hero. East’s defense proves hard to lick!

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FRONT ROW Steve Sawyer, Steve Joyce, Mike Moore, Rick Oakley, Steve Swaim, Carl Chambers, SECOND ROW Fred Reed, Vernell Miles, Richard Warren, Mike Young, David Marshall, Chris Ferguson, Ronnie Jones, THIRD ROW Richard Grant, Jerry McKee, Allen Sloan, Joe Taylor, Mike Long, Alfred Fulp, Mike Grubbs, FOURTH ROW Charles Gladden, Pete Tilley, Lewis Davis, Barry McGee, Neal Jordon, Derek Perry, FIFTH ROW Leon Baker, David Norton, Bill Bauguess, Bill Walker, Steve Speer, Joe Bleckley, BACK ROW Dave Cameron, Steve Gravely, Lee Ellis, Bugs Turner, Alton Goode The anguish of the wait... Happiness is an Eagle touchdown... or so Mr. Hicks thinks!