Milan High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Milan, TN)

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The Milan High School Bulldogs approached the 1937 season with a substantial frame-work of veterans on which to build a team. The prospects lookedivery good with five letter men returning from the 1936 team, namelya G. Jones, Lassiter, Rsmer, Leech, and R. Jones. These together with Dunevan, Williams, and Ross were expected to furnish e strong aggregation of griddere. The team had only three weeks of prictice before the first game becsuse of the lets opening of school. Under the skillful handling of couches, Pittman and Brewer, the boys were put in fair shepe in time for the first game. The gume wee n see-sew effeir with the home teem exhibiting ebility in the fundamentals of the game. After u tiresome, us well as boring struggle, the boys munuged to put ecross e touchdown to wih by e score of 6-0. This gems served e purpose, in thut it enubled Mr. Pittman to pick out the rough spots in the team. with en open dnte, the team seemed to get in final trim for the following geme. The teem journeyed to Mckenzie to teke L. very hotly' contested grime from McKenzie 18-7. Hed it not been for the whirlwind dashes of Dunsvsn there might have been u different stcry to tell. The teum wus weakened by the less of Coldwell end Lassiter. 3 Henderson ceme to town for the first time in quite u while end they went beck hoping not to come buck eguin soon. The Milen teem hed d glorious day while they were defeating them 40-O. This served us e breether for the Held grudge gemen, Humboldt. 'Phe Bulldogs, ugein this yeer entered the Strew- berry Bowl with greet umbitiens to be the first teim to lick the Rums.4 There ere severel reasons why the boys were defeeted 13-6 becsuee the njinx seems to hhve the 'Bulldog' by the teil.n The team played an in- and-out game with the puss defense rngged und block- ing very weak. They scored the first hmlf end were