Southwest High School - Iliad Yearbook (Clemmons, NC)

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BOYS’ VARSITY BASKETBALL LEFT TO RIGHT: Ed Vitek, Co-Captain; Alton Jones, Harold Sheets, Mike Kite, Gene Hoots, Howard Sheets, Co-Captain; Richard Collins, Joe Brewer, Jerry Pilcher, Richard Vitek, Walter Taylor, David Caudle, Joby Poteat, Bill Brewer.

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ieee HAROLD SHEETS oer” Guard GENE HOOTS JOE BREWER Forward Forward HO WARD SHEETS Forward % ALTON JONES Guard

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GIRLS’ BASKETBALL COACH-OF-YEA Miss Frances Cook, girls' basketball coach, was named county coach of the year by the county coaches. Miss Cook, whose hobby is sports, did an outstanding job combining the three schools, South Fork, Clemmons, and Lewis- ville, into Southwest's first team. Since the gym was not finish- ed at the beginning of the year, the Trojans practiced at Clemmons. A native of Mebane, Miss Cook played high school basket- ball four years. She worked in the hosiery mill for a year be- fore going to Appalachian State Teachers College. However, she was not certain as to what she wanted to major in at that time. After her graduation from college, she coached basketball at Clemmons and remained there until coming to Southwest this year. CONGRATULATIONS MISS COOK! JOE POPP SELECTED COUNTY'S TOP COACH | Joe Popp, Coach of the Southwest High Trojans, was select- ed Forsyth County Coach of the y ear by vote of his football coaching colleagues. Popp came to Southwest from Jonesville High this fall. He took six-man football players from Clemmons, South Fork and Lewisville, and his team won the Class AA-C county title by tying Walkertown and beating Glenn. On a won-lost basis the team record wasn't too impressive but as one of the coaches who voted for Popp put it, Joe did an outstanding job to take boys who had never played 1l-man football, who had never worked together and teach them that complicated multiple offense. They ran it very well considering. Popp gives all the credit to the boys. They came along much faster than | ever thought they would, he said. He pointed out that learning 11-man football was almost like learn- inga brand new game to these six-man players. For instance, said Popp, “we had to train guards and tackles. None of the boys had ever played these positions for there's no such thing in six-man ball. Popp is looking forward to even brighter things next year. We'll have agood nucleus returning and we won't have to be- gin asfar back as we did this year. The boys will at least know what I'm talking about next fall. Popp's a hard worker, a solid enthusiast for football. He drives his players hard but he drives himself as hard. He is so intense that he's likely to blow his top one minute and then pat the same player on theback the next minute. But, as Joe reasons, if the boy messes it up one play and does it right the next, why not? I think one of the greatest things hedid, said Walkertown's - Coach Joe Floyd, was to instill that desire to play football in the Southwest boys.