Ensley High School - Jacket Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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22 THE GLEAM Jackets Win Opener After putting up a gallant fight throughout the game the Yellow Jackets finally nosed out the Gadsden High School by the score of 7 to 0. The game was played on a rain-soaked field and was marred by constant fumbling by both teams, neither team being able to take advantage of the breaks. The Jackets score was the result of a pass, Lowery to Manley, who sprinted the remaining distance for the score. Captain Hardy added the extra point. For the Jackets, Captain Hardy and McGonegle were the main stays of the line while the backs were not able to gain consistently, because of the wet ball. Walker and Lowery turned in some neat gains. -----------o---------- Jefferson County Falls, 10 to 0 The Wildcats of Jefferson County came to Rick wood determined to be the first team to trim the former “State Champs,” but after an hours hard clawing had to be contented with a 10 to 0 defeat. Lowery crashed over center for the touchdown and Captain Hardy added the extra point and later added three points to the total with a beautiful field goal. The Jacket forward wall played a great defensive game, throwing back every thrust at it and keeping their goal line uncrossed. ---------o---------- Poets Bow to Ensley Bringing with them one of the largest bands that ever invaded the Magic City, the Poets of Sidney Lanier came to Birmingham ready to reap revenge for the drubbing received the year before. After putting up a hard fight the Poets went back to the Capitol City on the short end of a 12 to 0 score. Country Lowery and Bub Walker proved the undoing of the Poets by their line smashes and long end runs. McGonegle and Hardy showed up well. o---------- . Jackets Meet Waterloo For the first time since Coach “Cannonball” White took over the reins, the Jackets lost an engagement on the gridiron when their old jinx, the Tigers from Bessemer, trimmed them 19 to 0. The game was featured by a 105 yard sprint for a touchdown by “Chink” Cooper, fleet Tiger back. The Ensleyites put up a gallant battle but the heavier Bessemer team was not to be downed and the Jackets were stopped for the first time in two years.

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THE GLEAM 21 Athletics To Those Who Have Played the Game “Yet once more, 0 ye laurels And once more ye myrtles brown With ivy never sere ' What can we say which will express the feeling we have toward our fellow class-mates, the football players, who have played their last game under the dear Yellow and Black banner of Ensley High School! We have worked together, played together, tasted glory and defeat together and now when our roads are split we value more highly than ever the intangible thing we call “friendship ' that has woven us so closely in its silvery web. Woven? Nay, moulded in the mould of a common existence of certain things essential to the pilgrimage of life in a world new and unknown to us, but a world that is constantly unfolding novel experiences, adventures, successes and disappointments. Friendship of the true enduring fiber, is like a river that must conform to rapids, shallow places and pools often thwarted in its course to the sea and from time to time leaves small streams on the wayside. Even so in the battle of life it is necessary to show the spirit which our boys have shown on the football field, that of a determined fighter and a fair foe. We can not fear the outcome. Some one has said that in order to be great one must first be small, so, we are striving with each other as comrades to be small enough to be great and we are confident that in the future we can glory in our friendship with such men as: Captain Robert Hardy Charles Manley Louie Zeigler William Whorton Custis Lowery Howard Calloway Jack Nagley Lawrence Richards Boys of the Honor Roll, vanishing high school football players, accept our gratitude for your work and know that to us it is always a pleasure to remember you. VICTORIA DAVIS, ’26.

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THE GLEAM 23 Ensley-Woodlawn The Jackets trimmed Woodlawn 10 to 0, in the first game between the “Big Three” title aspirants. The Junior Colonels put up a great fight and held the Jackets to a scoreless first half. But they had extended themselves too far and the Jackets had little trouble in putting over two touch downs in the second half. Bub Walker was the shining light of the game while “Hog” Manley made several nice gains. ---------o Colbert Swamped, 48 to 0 The Colbert High School furnished the Jackets little opposition who easily ran up a 48 to 0 victory. The Ensleyites began scoring early and from then on the game was never in doubt. The entire scrub team was sent in in the latter part of the game and they continued the onslaught. The feature of the trip, besides the great victory, was a visit to Muscle Shoals sponsored by the Alabama Power Company. ---------o--------- Ensley Trims Invaders, 13 to 0 Little Rock High School came to Birmingham primed to trim the Jackets rather easily, but when the final whistle blew the Jackets were riding on the long end of a 13 to 0 score. The Ensleyites scored their first touchdown when Country Lowery sped 55 yards for a counter and later Bub Walker carried over the last six-pointer. The Jacket line was in rare form and stopped the visitors when they began to threaten their goal. ---------o--------- “City Champs” Ensley High School won the Big Three title for the second straight year when they trimmed the Philips Crimsons in their annual Thanksgiving battle by the score of 14 to 10. The Jackets got the jump on the Crimsons by scoring early in the first quarter, but the down-towners put over a counter late in the second quarter and tied up the score at the half. The Crimsons came back strong and worked the ball down to the Jackets’ one-yard line, but the Jackets braced and they had to be content