Walker County High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (Jasper, AL)

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So iT was ThaT The name, Viking, came To be applied To a Walker CounTy High School Team, and so iT was ThaT The spiriT which led an unknown Team To The championship of The sTaTe came To be known as The Viking SpiriT. This same spiriT has imbued all Walker Teams and led Them a second Time To The same sTaTe championship. Though The presenT Viking squad ouTnumbers The earlier Teams, They have preserved inTacT The legacy oT spiriT passed on To Them. This year's Team includes many younger broThers and sons of older players. Four members of The l92l Team have sons who have played Tor Walker . . . William Lacy Brakeiield, Jr., son of Lacy Brakefield, P. L. Dodd, Jr., son of Pervie Dodd, Bobby Jcnes, son of Bruce Jones, and John Wilson, son of Coleman Wilson. We pass on To you who follow This Viking SpiriT To be cherished and perpeTuaTed Tor all Time To come. FIRST ROW: Gerald Kilgore, Bobby Jones, Jack BesT, Howard Wilson, George Pounds, Bill Williams, John Wilson, James Lum, Ralph Hamner. SECOND ROW: Jackie Morris, Ellis Tirey, Bill AllbriTTen, Jimmy Pounds, Harold Trigg, Lloyd Baker, Charley Long, George SmiTh Lindsey, Charles EarnesT, Bob Sherer, Neil Powell, Charley Sokol, Buddy Crew, Charles McKinney, James Mason, Frank Aldridge, Frank Borden, Gene Sanford, J. L. Hall, Billy Baird, Belfon Jones, Joe McGuire, MilTon Burson, Clayton McCoy, Hudson Nichols, Elvin Hagood, Gene Inman, Coach Harry Erwin. T ii' T, f H' ff . 1 'fi ' . .4 My f , ia ,A Q 7 his II ,M fy? xr? Mig' '1 if r ' T V-1 T.. 3' . wg X. . I ggi 'A . g M 4 . , N , 1 - 1- ,. , -we , . .. ..- - .-. Q. XT .1 1 T Z f - if ' cf if K f . ' A 1 2 5 E 21 3 ?

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FRONT ROW. Lacy Fllis, Charles Tweedy, Stanley Freeman, Sam Allison, John Whit Long, Earl Christenberry, Exers Plyler. SLCOND ROW: Coach Christaplic-r, Wendy Broom, Lee Hamilton, Jimmy Gallacher, John Lollar, Norman Woods, Roy Crow, lliinswl Biraslcry THIRD ROW: Capo Perry, Pcrvic Dodd, Moxie Brown, Joe Legg, Ralph Kitchens, Bruce Jones, Cliff Brown, Calviiiiiii Wilsoit, Liiry Bflllilmllfflfl, Jim Sparks, NOT PICTURED: Bankhoad Bates, William Gray. THE llllil Plllll' Anything as intangible as a spirit that is The representation of a school is no recent development, rather it is the outgrowth OT years at living. So it is with The Viking Spirit. Walker County High School, as an institution, had been in existence many years betore the term Viking was applied To any of its Teams. Prior to The Tall of i920 The one sport at Walker had been basketball. That Tall a Tew hardy souls dared The rigors of a new-Tangled game and football had its inception aT Walker County High School. The first session was comparatively uneventTul, but There were no serious casualties. lt was in The Tall of 'Qi that Tootball became a major sport. Under The tutelage of Coach Christopher The Team waded Through its opposition without creating much notice until iT met Central High at Birmingham. AT that Time iT was Birmingham's one high school and They definitely felt They were slumming by Taking on a Team made up oT coal miners and Tarrners. By a queer Twist of circumstance The Walker players were unusually tall, big, and blond. That fact, ioined to The viciousness and unexpectedness at Their attack in defeating Central 6-O, led the Birmingham sports writers To refer To Them as the Vikings. A later game in which they deteated Sidney Lanier won Tor them the envied title of State Champions. Page 4

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