Sewanee Military Academy - Saber Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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4 Q. - , T 1 Firsf Row: Marzullo, Six, Johnson, Shannon, WebsTer, Larguier, Ewing, Pirref, Hughes. Second Row: Brooks, Prafher, Hamilton, W. G., Gossage, Caplain Bill SmiTh, Broadwell, Williams, Page, WaTson. Third Row: Banks, Tilson, Adams, A., ArmsTrong, Hardison, Fasick, DeFrance, Urquhart Fourth Row: Baird, Gonzales, Rose, C. A., Denf, Trezevanf, King, Young, Ridley, Whife. Fifth Row: Taylor, Conklin, Kimbrough, Fitcheff, Thacksion, Ingram, Cochran, McCown. The season was highlighTed by The Homecom- ing game wiTh NoTre Dame oT ChaTTanooga. Playing beTore a crowd oT I,2OO people The FighTing Tigers played spiriTed ball only To Tall beTore The visiTors I2-7. Time aTTer Time The Tigers drove deep inTo The Irish TerriTory only To lose The ball. This perhaps, was one oT The besT games of The season. The baclcTield was composed oT Brooks, Shannon, HamilTon and King while SmiTh, Gossage and Hardison sTood ouT in The line. The Tigers ended Their season by scoring Their TiTTh vicTory in Toppling Morgan 39-I4. The Tinal lT's anybody's game now game showed Tine running in The TirsT halT by HamilTon, Kimbrough, and Broolcs. The second halT Turned inTo a slip and slide affair as a down- pour oT rain conTinued Through The whole second halT. T-lamilTon made The TinesT run oT The season as he galloped 88 yards Tor a Touchdown. SmiTh, Gossage and l-Tagedorn sTood ouT in The line, Tommy ArmsTrong and Bob Ridley ThroughouT The season provided The exTra poinTs and be- Tween Them had a ToTal oT l2. When The all Mid-SouTh selecTions came ouT we Tound ThaT Ed Gossage and John Hagedorn, boTh oT whom were ouTsTanding in The line The CAPT. BILL SMITH ,..Q...1 L... ' :Hai -T I

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UHRSITV FO0TBFlll COACHES BARR, URBAN, AND DAVISSON The Sewanee Tigers began iTs TirsT year oT rebuilding under Maior WhiTey Urban and ended wiTh one oT The TinesT records seen here in many a year. AlThough no championship was won, The record shows The vasT irnprovemenT made by The Team Through The eTTorTs OT Major Urban and his assisTanTs, CapTain T-lugh Davisson and John Barr. The Tive vicTories showed ThaT Sewanee was well on The road baclc To Top-TlighT TooTball. The Tigers opened The season by clipping The . si X56-. . - --- Befween The TirsT kick-off and The finish pre-season Mid-SouTh power, DarlingTon, 7-6. IT was a hardToughT game The whole way wiTh The Tiger line loolcing especially good. lT was Arm- sTrong's exTra poinT ThaT puT us ahead oT Darling- Ton. Conklin, Gossage, SmiTh, T-lagedorn, King, Shannon, and ArmsTrong were The sTandouTs oT The game. The Tigers Then Tools on McCallie, T.lv1.l., BaxTer, B.G.A. and ST. Andrews and showed Tine oTTense as They capTured Three wins ouT oT Those Tive games. IT was Through much hard worlc oT every person on The squad ThaT The Team show- ed such vasT improvement Acfion on The gridiron

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Coach Urban sends in The signals whole season, made The Tirsr and second Teams respeclively, These Two, fogelher wilh Smifh, Hardison and Page were 'rhe slandoufs in +he line while Broolcs, Shannon, King and Hamilion led The Tiger allaclc in The backlield. The season was climaxed wilh a banquel in early February wilh Bobby Dodd, head coach of Siop fha? man I s,- , Lei go of my leg Georgia Tech as The guesl spealcer. An enioyable lime was had by all as Coach Dodd and his as- sislanls supplied an inferesling evening, Ed Gos- sage received The mosl valuable player award while similar awards wenl To Bill Srnifh for be- ing The besl Jraclcler, Bealcy King, 'rhe besl block- er and Larry Brooks, as +he mosf improved play- The cap+ains shalre hands 25. so is Rise s .