Rickards High School - Anumpa Yearbook (Tallahassee, FL)

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Lake Cify Tigers Bear' Rickards Twice Captain Larry Strickaland and Co-captain Burgess Owens are on The field for The coin Toss preceding The Rutherford Game. Lake Cify The Skins IosT Their second game in six ouTings as The Lake CiTy Tigers Took a QO-T4 win. The Tigers W Turned Redskin misTakes inTo Touchdowns Twice in The Tirsf half as They Took a T4 noThing halTTime lead. Rickards Touchdowns came when MilTon VVaT- son picked up a Lake CiTy Tumble and raced 40 yards Tor The TirsT score. Then Rodney MonTgomery con- necTed wiTh Burgess Owens on a 30 yard pass To wind up The scoring. Once more, aT The sTaTe game, The La ke CiTy Tigers downed The Redskins T3-O To win The quarTer Tinals of The class A STaTe Championship. Lake CiTy Took a 7-O lead The TirsT half, increasing iT To T3-O in The second halfr The Redskins were unable To cross The Tigers goal line, aIThough Rickards had more ToTaI yards gained Than Lake CiTy. re captain Larry Sirickland and co-captain Burgess Owens are shown h king hands with the Rutherford captains after The coin Toss.

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Beal Quincy Cn Their Home Ground Moon Kelly and Eric Nelson irc! to the sidelines for a break during a rough game. Varsity line coach Mike Hochsfien looks on in dispair as the Redskins baffle ihrough one of the greatest seasons ever . ' s,r, ' I 'Q .ive Y s E. W,

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To Win Stale Class A Championship Above: Billy Stephens, RHS defensive back, brings down the Woodham quarterback as he desperately tries to break loose around the end. Right: In one year of varsity football Burgess Owens, shown here, has be- come one of Rickards most outstanding backs. Owens broke the school record for most yards gained in a single game. Rutherford Charles Hall led RHS to a victory over class AA Rutherford l7-7. The Redskins took a lO-O first half lead as Eric Nelson kicked a 25 yard field goal and Charles Hall ran a 76 yard touchdown. The last Redskin TD came when Rodney Montgomery re- turned an interception. Woodham The Redskin defense proved to be too tough for Woodham to handle as the Redskins took a 33-20 win. Standouts in the game were Rodney Montgom- ery who set a school record by returning a kickoff 85 yards for a touchdown, and Milton Watson who covered two Titan fumbles. Below: Larry Strickland is preparing to tackle a Woodham back as Jeff Reeves and David Stoutmire move in to help. 117 ...lf.S' A '4 JI 11127