Southwest High School - Iliad Yearbook (Clemmons, NC)

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WRESTLING TEAM LEFT TO RIGHT: Danny Hauser, Gary Jones, Robert Tuttle, Mike Van Doeren, Bobby Whitlock, Junior Stewart, Leon Holton, Dick Cooksey, George Jones, Robert Boggs, Norman Craver, Henry Miller, Coahces--Mr. Gilmore Binkley, Mr. Dixon Roberts. NOT PICTURED: Willard Garrison, Went Cornatzer, Jim Buck. CO-CAPTAINS LEFT TO RIGHT: Dick Cooksey, Henry Miller, George Jones, Mike Van Doeren.

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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.

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Wrestling 1957 Tournament Standings Henry Miller defeated four opponents and lost only once in the tourament to take third place in the Wrestling Tournament held at Burlington on February 23 and 22. Danny Hauser wrestled one of the best matches in the tournament when he defeated his first opponent 11-10. Hauser placed Third in the 95 pound bracket. The fastest fall in the tournament came when Junior Stewart pinned H. Hawkins of Myers Park in fifteen seconds of the first period. Since this was our first year for wrestling we consider this a good record. Appalachian o2 Burlington 25 Greensboro 82 SOUTHWEST 18 Asheboro 58 Greenville 12 High Point D5 Cramerton 6 Goldsboro 49 Myers Park 5 INS Goo be 28 Salisbury I Team Wrestling Record Southwest 10 Beaver Creek 38 Southwest 10 High Point 40 Southwest 18 High Point 30 Southwest 5 Appalachian 3 Southwest 10 NetGis = De 36 Southwest 15 Myers Park 26 Southwest 5 Asheboro Al Southwest 1] Statesville 29 Southwest 13 Myers Park 27, SOUTHWEST 29 BEAVER CREEK 18 Southwest 15 Statesville Di, Southwest 7 Asheboro 31 Totals 148 Totals 396