Henry Clay High School - Slashes Yearbook (Ashland, VA)

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With most of the mainstays of Henry Clay High School’s football team graduating last year, Coach Chick Pollock had quite a job rebuilding a football team around six lettermen and only a few inexperienced junior varsity mem- bers. A new coach and a green” team encountered further difficultie s as they changed offensively from the single wing to the T”. As can be easily seen, the team did not start scoring until the latter half of the season, and then managed to win two of the last four games. Defensively, the team suffered from mis- takes due to inexperience; lack of big aggressive linemen and of reserves also hurt us — many of our opponents just overpowered us. ASHLAND-0 SEPTEMBER 16 VARINA-6 Ashland’s lineup, laden with inexperienced boys, played Varina on even terms un- til the 3rd quarter when Varina pushed across their only score when they recovered a fumble inside Ashland’s ten yard line. ASHLAND-Q SEPTEMBER 23 FALMOUTH-U Ourw ' eighed but not outplayed Ashland held Falmouth for the first quarter but ex- perience and reserves paid off for Falmouth. ASHLAND-0 OCTOBER 14 MANCHESTER- ! Manchester had too many big, experienced players for the light Ashland team. Re- serves were too many for Ashland as Manchester scored at will. ASHLAND-6 OCTOBER 21 CHESTER-52 Attkisson scored Ashland’s first touchdown of the season on a handoff from Wickam, the quarterback, but prevailed to a superior Chester team. ASHLAND-0 OCTOBER 28 HIGHLAND SPRINGS-50 The game played on a rainsoaked field was a nightmare for Ashland as Highland Springs scored at will. ASHLAND-19 NOVEMBER 4 POWHATAN-6 Ashland scored their first win of the season when they met an evenly matched foe. Sawyer scored twice for Ashland. ASHLAND-28 NOVEMBER 11 LOUISA-6 Five players took part in the scoring as Ashland romped to its second straight vic- tory. Every member of the squad played a bang-up game against Louisa. It was Home- coming for Louisa. ASHLAND-15 NOVEMBER 18 BEAUMONT-52 Injuries to some key players in the Louisa game plus loss of Sawyer who transfer- red to another school, was the downfall of Ashland. Beaumont ou tplayed the Eagles from start to finish of the game. ASHLAND-6 NOVEMBER 25 VARINA-19 Ashland’s Blue Eagles, who for two years straight had victories in Homecoming games, was dealt a defeat by Varina on Homecoming. Varina previously had beaten Henry Clay in its first game of the season. 40