W F Dykes High School - Equites Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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The I969 TooTball season spoTlighTed Dykes in sTaTe sporTs news..Dykes surprised everyone buT ourselves by ending The season as The sevenTh ranked AAA Team in Georgia. When head coach James Bud Theodocian began The informal pracTices in July, he seT ouT To show ThaT This year's ColT Team was The besT Dykes Team ever assembled. The suc- cess oT The Team was accounTed Tor by iTs quickness and individual abiliTy, coupled wiTh superb coaching. Aided by deTensive coach R. L. Lamb and line coach John PresTon, Coach Theodocian guided an experienced Team To a record breaking Dykes season oT I I wins againsT only 2 losses. The Two deTeaTs came aT The hands oT AA sTaTe champ NorTh Springs and AAA sTaTe co-champ AThens. On SepTember 5Th, Dykes opened iTs season againsT a sTrong Therrell Team aT Grady STadium. Impressive running by Bobby Reeves and junior Sheffy lvlcArThur, along wiTh The excellenT passing oT Wayne Wilson, igniTed The Team To The Tune of a 48 To I3 rouT over Therrell. Hank Foldberg and co-capTain JeTT Bachman scored wiTh The college scouTs in The nexT Two games as we preceded To roll over BriarcliTT and Woodward Academy by The scores of 43 To 3 and I7 To O respecTively. Bachman was devasTaTing in The Briarcliff game as he rushed Tor l83 yards in The TirsT halT alone. Colis Win Milk Bowl Fm FEV YS ' f I Numa 1 NQQf

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f 'ff ' V JM? iw. , . A A ri A W . L L - k ...mc sea, A ..,,,S, - ' V, QW W, Dffensive Machine Posis 4 I 9 PoinT Season However, on SepTember 26, The evenTual AA sTaTe champ NorTh Springs deTeaTecl an overeconTidenT Dykes 2742l. Coming inTo The game The ColTs were ranked number 7 in The sTaTe. DeTermined noT To be kepT down, Dykes roared back To crush NorTh FulTon, 63-I3. The Bullclog's homecoming deTeaT was due in large parT To The passing aTTack oT Wayne Wilson To Hank Foldberg and David Somerville. OTher excepTional perTormances were Turned in by John Boggs and middle guard Duane Cannon. Boggs booTed nine exTra poinTs and Cannon made numerous Tackles in addiTion To blocking a punT. Fired up by The rouT OT NorTh FulTon, The ColTs sTreaked Through Their TirsT Three region games. Turner Tell by The score oT 46 To 8 and was Tollowed by Archer l52 To bl and Douglass l28 To Ol. ExcellenT play by The whole Team accounTed Tor These impressive vicTories. Jimmy Thompson, Though. sTood above all in The Turner game and was selecTed Lineman-oT-The-Week Tor The enTire sTaTe. Thompson blocked Two punTs, one oT which was recovered and re- Turned Tor a Touchdown by Bucky Harris. ' 40.1 Jus., 'W A A li