Radcliff High School - Torch Yearbook (Columbus, GA)

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THE JUNIOR RED CROSS The junior Red Cross, under the leadership of Miss R. L. Eberhadt, has done some outstanding work at Radcliff. Two of the many activities that they completed were the collection of comic books and preparing and mailing boxes for children overseas. The group enjoyed reading letters of appreciation from the children who re- ceived them. --'Et 46 li'- I

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ATHLETICS AT RADCLIFF-1947-48 Athletics at Radcliff for the school year was limited to football. This policy was adopted by our principal at mid-term, however, in spite of this curtail- ment, we did have a most successful season. Beginning in mid-September our squad worked hard for the opening game with the strong and powerful Wash- ington High, of Atlanta. There was not enough time and not enough of our first-string players retumed in time for conflict. We bowed to a superior team, the score being Washington High 19, Radcliff High 6. The big factors in our defeat at this game were lack of conditioning and team work. This will be understandable when it is known that we had only two weeks to prepare for what was the hardest game on the entire schedule. Of course, we knew beforehand that this would be our hardest game of the season, but we couldn't do any better under the circumstances. Washington High just had a better team at the time. We do believe if we had met this team at a later date we might conceivably have won from them, as in most of our games for the season. Homer Ages was our shining star. Our second game was with Thomaston High of Thomaston, Ca. We had two weeks of rest and just that much more training before this game, and we really showed signs of the training, the final score was 56-0 in our favor. Against the weak opposition our backfield scintillated on almost every play. Our forward wall was not pierced all evening long. We were never in danger of being scored upon. Every man in uniform had a chance to try his ability in this game. At this point it looked as if we had worked ourselves into a well-oiled piece of machinery. Future games bore out this idea. Here we discovered wealths of reserve material, much to the delight of the coaching staff. We were three deep at most positions. Even though the third man was not as good as the first. He was in most instances as capable as the iirst of our average opponents. Game number three came along on October 10th, and we went over to Augusta, Ga., to meet the strong and highly touted johnson High. We were very sluggish after the long ride by bus. Having arrived only a few minutes before game time. During the first half we had no trouble in offense or defense. On the second play we had no trouble also for Homer Ages broke off tackle and zig-zagged forty-five yards for a touchdown. The blocking and tackling was good for most of the first quarter, but fatigue, due to the long ride, soon began to take its toll. We plugged out another touchdown to lead 12-0 at the end of the quarter and lapsed into an uncomfortable grudge of not being quite able to click. In the second half we were on the defensive most of the time. Our energy had gone, leaving us only our nerves to give us the spirit to play on to the finish. Then johnson began to move and before we awoke she had a touchdown by air route. Still we could not mount an offensive that would last long enough to pay off. johnson came thundering -asf 48 fav- Q i