Jefferson High School - Echo Yearbook (Jefferson City, TN)

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.IEFFERSUII IIIGII ELKS By Ioe Holt Stanley Crawford Th1s fourth ed1t1on of the Elk Echo would not be complete w1thout rev1ew1ng play by play the games of the 1955 Elk team But before we QIVG th1s account let us pause to pay trlbute to another trne team and our semor boys who played thelr hearts out to brtng vxctory to our Alma Mater Ole Iefferson Hlgh and to keep her colors flytng To our coaches Coach lack Wade and Coach Vernon Caldwell who have worked hard w1th us th1s season we wlsh to express our apprec1at1on Thelr road was a rough one but they stayed wrth us through thlck and th1n Agam we would l1ke to say to our coaches Well done And now to ment1or1 the sen1or boys who have played then' last game for leffer son I-hgh We would l1ke to pralse our capta1ns Gene Greene and Ioe Graham for the excellent Job they dld Our extra pornt heart out B111 Doby Holt who has lettered three years d1d a good Job as rlght tackle Iames Hammer who came through and played rlght end for the Elks Stanley Craw ford who played fullback for us d1d a great Job Gordon W1tt who played good defenslve ball for us Ioe Holt who played quarterback for the mrghty Elks The boys who worked hard durmq practlce and made Edward Beaver KHBJ hmmy Moyer CED our team what 1t was but d1dnt get to play all the t1me Kenneth Arnold Arthur Arnold R G Lowery and Edd1e Carathers These boys have fought hard for Iefferson Hlgh but must move on and let others play now We were honored to have three boys on the All East Tennessee Honorable Mentlon Team We would l1ke to hand them our congratulatlons they are G1lbert Waggoner Vernon Klllxon and Roy Bayless Now that we hate revrewed the team we w1ll go on and revlew the games Iefferson Downs Newport letferson started 1lS season Wlth a hlgh powered offense as they downed Newport Gamecocks 33 to 13 leffersons ace back Vernon Ktlllon returned the open1ng k1ck off for 88 yards lefterson held Newport for touchdown wrth Graham runnlng around left end Newport scored only one touch down the f1rst half aga1nst Iefferson s green but aggresswe defense Late 1n the second quarter K1ll1on scored on a forty yard pass from quarterback Ioe Holt As the second half began lefferson scored twxce more Once wlth a 7 yard plunge by Graham and by a forty SIX yard dash by Vernon Klllron Newport managed to push the ball across once more ln the second half before the ballgame ended Betsy Defects Ieiferson lefferson held powerful Betsy scoreless the f1rst quarter but then the hlghly pollshed Betsy offense began to cl1ck Iefferson fought back Wllh the sp1r1t to w1n and ln the last minutes Vernon K1ll1on scored on a 25 yard sprtnt Sure toe Waggoner put the ball between the uprlghts for the extra polnt Waggoner was also a defenslve standout The bxg man for Betsy was McCall one of the better backs 1n the state Last year Iefferson eased by Betsy 12 7 but thts year xt was a drfferent story Betsy out powered Iefferson for a 31 7 w1n lCon'1nued on next pagel 'What we ve done we leave before you I 3 , I 1 I I ll I n I u . . . , . . ll ll 'H - ll ll ' I Il ll kicker' Gilbert WGqgOner,'WhO played his four downs and then marched for another . I ll ll I I . . I I I I I I A u n 1 ' A I ll - ll l X D ' , 61