Southside High School - Southerner Yearbook (Fort Smith, AR)

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All-Slate Football players Larry Fulford and Mark Moore place the State Championship trophy in the trophy case. Melissa Satterfield, junior, boosted the Confederette track team to a championship 1983 season. Spring sports prove promising. s W mill !Q 'hx Yebex 1 - L1 X3- .Ns Southside truly is a School of Champs as Championship golfer shown by the many championship trophies Larry Randall practices won during 1983 and 1984. his strokes in Gymnast Laura Faust, being spotted on the beam by Coach Patti Wingfield, gets ready for the spring meets. preparation for the spring matches.

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All Conference football Additional All Area football players are Danny Antell and Richard Shewmaker. Additional All Conference are Jerry Bridges and Steve Goodrum. Looking for the rebound Rebels David Plunkett and Mark Van Herpen try to ward off Fayetteville defenders. players Larry Fulford, Jeff Gable, Mark Moore, Steve Goodrum, Bobby Martin, Honorable Mention, Jerry Bridges, Brett Alberty, David Plunkett and Jeff Boyett stand with All Area players Henry Belue, Steve Litzinger and Bret Hood. Q, .5 'Qu-nn chool Cham Southside Re s Got the Gold W hen a local TV sports announcer said, prior to the Rebels' annual battle with Northside, Southside was known for its athletics, little did he know that the SHS football team would end up as state champions. But football was not the only area where title contenders were pro- duced onthe Southside campus. Two starters from the Rebel basketball team, Marty Hamilton and Kenny Irwin, seniors, helped the Rebels to a winning season. For instance, during the spring of 1983, championship trophies were brought back to Southside trophy case by the gymnastics team, the girls' track squad, and the golf team. Probably no other school in Arkan- sas could claim four state champion- ships in one year. Truly, Southside was a School of Champs.

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TDP DOGS Rebs finish season with 8-2 record C ries of We're No. 1! arose soon after the Rebel football team's record-breaking season. Southside whipped through four highly-ranked opponents, all on the road, to cap- ture the state's most coveted award, the AAAA state crown. Among the teams the Rebels slip- ped past were the three leaders from the AAAA-Central division, con- sidered by many to have been the state's toughest league. Before the season, I knew we would be good but not exactly how good, Gatling said commenting on the Rebels' achievement. Gatling went on to say that the big- gest regular season victory came in a conference game against Rogers. During this season of great suc- cess, many players helped contribute to the victories. Seniors Bobby Mar- tin, quarterback, and Mark Moore, fullback, led the offense, while seniors Larry Fulford and Brett Alberty as well as junior Bret Hood spearheaded the stingy Rebel defense. The whole year wasn't all pleasure though. The most disappointing mo- ment of the year was placing third in the AAAA-West conference, accor- ding to Gatling. i --M While the summer was ending the Rebels Coach-of-the-Year Bob Gatling decides on were beginning. Push-Ups were done dur- the play as junior Wayne Williams ing the summer practices. discusses his view. X -Ml' Mem..