Emory and Henry College - Sphinx Yearbook (Emory, VA)

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Kovach Guard FOOTBALL Macon the following Saturday, and again succumbed 18 to 0. Emory broke into the winning column against Presbyterian College of North Carolina. The rejuvenated Wasps reached their season's peak with £ JS Pierce Center Mullins Guard a 26 to 6 v in. Roanoke College avenged itself for last season's setback by taking the measure of the Wasps by a score of 19 to 6. A crippled and disheartened band of warriors traveled south to Alabama for the season's finale. The powerful Howard team rode rough-shod over Mellons End Eaton Tacklo

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WASPS On October the first the local qridstors journeyed to Newport Nows and engaged the Shipbuilders in a nocturnal contest. The luckless Emoryites were subjected to their third straight defeat by the count of seven to nothing. The Newberry Indians were the next foe of the local eleven. Literally playing in a sea of mud the Wasps turned in a six to nothing victory. The King Tornado, Emory's traditional rival, was met October 16th in Bristol. To the great dis- appointment of its supporters the Emory team was swept from the path of the Tornado, 26 to 0. A battered and bruised great team faced Randolph- Barker Back RtCKMAN Back Johnson Back Honeycutt Tacklo Dotson Back Adams End Hymes Back

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Burchette End the Emory boys to the tune of 38 to 0. Thus the curtain fell on the 1937 edition of the Football Wasps. Although the 1937 record of our football team is not an enviable one, we take our hats off to the members of this small but valiant squad who fought every minute of the game with true Wasp spirit. We will all miss Coach Billy Laval next year and wish for him every success in his new position. And to our oncoming Coach may we say, You can't find a better eleven than our stinging Wasps.” Solomon Back Hedrick Tackle Hibbitts Guard Bays Back Swann Manager Brockman Guard