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

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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..

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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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,6'g,'A:A4:5 xyjnfb Aan: t.t'Mv',. Q R Bobby Martin runs with the looking for a receiver at the Nor- Southside game. as 3,5 Pug .Ag ' AM, ,AAA MAA MA NAM AAA hgh' afaefi A MM , new Football player of the year is senior Larry Fulford as he attempts to do what he does best. - How 'bout It? S' . ' 4 . .. - . , Eric Billings, senior As we went through the playoff games, our confidence grew and our desire to be number one in the state. We came all this way and we were determined not to fall short. The one word that sums up the Championship game and the whole season is 'UN- FORGETABLE'! Memories of this season will live in my heart forever. 5 ' .,,, X vie.. -.1 . Jeff Boyett, senior The season couldn't have ended better. For three years most of us seniors had strived for this goal and we finally reached it. l've got great friends on the team and I will miss them next year. But we can all have the same thing in our hearts, the first State Champions at Southside! Richard Shewmaker, junior The Rebels possessed the killer in- stinct and used it, with superb coaching and tremendous effort we became the best team in the state. We are number one when it counts and no one will ever take that away from us. The feeling is indescribable! 'al- Ready for Northside, the Southside Rebels run through their pre-game tunnel, excited to play. Packing up for the Ole Main game is junior Bret Hood in the locker room before the trip.