Floyd County High School - Bison Yearbook (Floyd, VA)

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Stopping short, Bruce Mannon seeks an opening inside. The Whistle Sounds, The Season Starts Demon No. 22 moves to intercept a Mannon to Weeks pass. “Inexperience caused by last year’s graduation led to a disappointing early season.” David Kelly A bounce pass under the arms of Demon No. 34 seems to be in order for Glenn Whitsett. 27

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Baby Buffs End Season 2-3-2 “I am proud to be a coach at Floyd County High SchooL” Coach Harmon After getting off to a slow start at home against Giles, the Baby Buffs came back strong to hand a stunning defeat to Radford. Th is victo- ry may have lulled the eighth graders to sleep against Galax as they trailed the Maroon Tide at half-time 14-0. But the young men realized their tal- ents the second half and roared back to tie the game. They kept their momentum against Christiansburg. The team turned the Baby Demons aback in a well played game by a score of 20- 12. Due to a two week span without a game and the loss of players to injuries, the Babv Buffs were not ready for a good Blacksburg team. The last two games were on the road and the Buffs tied Wytheville and lost to a fired up Narrows Green Wave. The Baby Buffs showed a great deal of the winning spirit and enthusiasm which it takes to be a winner, and FCHS W ill h ear a lot more of it from these young men in the near future. Floyd Opponents 2 Giles 8 6 Radford 2 14 Galax 14 20 Christiansburg 12 0 Blacksburg 45 0 Wytheville 0 0 Narrows 36 Baby Buffs work under Wimmer. watchful eye of Coach Lyle Baby Buffs gain good yardage in hard fought Galax game. Row One: Bill Boyd, Johnnie Turner, Jeff Phillips, Jeff Conner, Timothy Vest, David Carr. Row Two: Mike Hodge, Bobby Shelor, Gerald Gardner, Kevin Simpkins, Jeff Reed. Bobby Martin, Danny Bain. Row Three: Jeff Link, Alan Belcher, Andy Atkins, Johnny Rad- ford, Mike Hylton. Row Four: Coach Chris Harmon, Jessie Sutphin, Gary Caveness, Jimmy Vest, Doug Dunbar, Terry Thompson, Buddy Poff, Coach Lyle Wimmer. 26

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Kneeling: Stewart Shank, Bruce Mannon, Homer Smith, Gerald Cox, Lewis Stuart, Roger Hollandsworth, Lawrence Kidd. Standing: Scott Sur- baugh, Glenn Whitsett, James Weeks, Coach Skip Bishop, Jim Casteel, Coby Farmer, William Via, Joel Shank, Not Pictured: David Kelly. David Kelly “stops and pops” from the top of the key. Meanwhile Coby Farm- er moves in to rebound if necessary. A team with 9 seniors out of thirteen players would not nor- mally be thought of as inexperi- enced. But that was the case this year. Several of the players had little or no previous experience. There were some bright spots however, as several players showed great improvement over the season and a few, including Coby Farmer, played consis- tently good ball. Coach Bishop admitted that there had not been as much improvement as he had hoped for but a new game plan late in the season helped keep us in several ball games. 28