McComb High School - Camellian Yearbook (McComb, MS)

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There are football games in the fall

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McComb's T959 Tiger football team open- ed its schedule at McComb Tiger stadium on the night of September ll, against an always tough Bogalusa, Louisiana team that returned to the McComb schedule after a two year's absence. Head Coach Calvin Triplett, assistant Coaches Brooks Tisdale and Harry Thompson, and forty players had spent four weeks in hard pre-season practice. Recollection of the defeat the Bogalusa Lumberiacks had handed McComb in their last encounter, and untried newcomers at several McComb positions made the first game a question mark and height- ened suspense as playing time drew near. McComb Highcheerleaders and students added to the spirit of the game with their enthusiastic cheer- ing-and everyone cheered as the Tigers presented their hundreds of supporters a T3 to 0 victory in this non-conference game, and a pro- mise of thrill a-plenty in the 9-game Big 8 schedule ahead, Another football season gets underway as captains meet in the center of the field for the toss of the Coin A tense moment tor McComb coaches and players patch Cheerleaders keep pep at a hgh