Winfield High School - General Yearbook (Winfield, WV)

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GENERALS COMPILE NINE AND ONE RECORD The Winfield Generals began one of their most sucessful football seasons on record September 5 1952. In their first game they met a Buffalo Valley team that had beaten them 6-O last season. It was sweet revenge when the nGenerals' came out victorious by a score of Ml-7. The win was a team victory with all four backfleld boys scoring at least one touchdown The second game found the Generals traveling to Hannon to play their favor ite cousins. Although Hannon was an improved ball club from last year the Gen erals proved to be too much for them in winning 26-O In their first home game the Generals played their county rivals Buffalo Altnough Buffalo put up a good fight they were obviously out gunned. In this game the Generals' line was air tight, they held Buffalo to a net gain of 31 yards While the Buffalo offense was completly stopped, the Generals scored two touchdowns to register a 12 to O victory Touchdowns were scored by Fewell and Payne On September 26, the Generals traveled to Fort Gay to play the first game between the two schools In this game the Generals' ground attack proved stronger than Fort Gay's aerial attack The Generals scored in every quarter and twice in the second to ring up a 32 7 victory On October 3, Winfield played a very tough Duval team which dominated play in the first half and had three good scoring opportunities to score but did not take advantage of them In the second half the game was a complete reverse After short time in the third period Kip Payne passed to Duffield over center for a score that covered 50 yards In the final quarter Kip scored on a quarter back sneak for the Generals' final score, to give them a 12 to 0 victory On Friday, October 10, one of the most exciting games between the Winfield Generals and the Hurricane Red Skins was pla ed on the Winfield home field this game the Red Skins got off to an early to O lead and never relinquished it until late in the final quarter, when, with but 2 minutes left in the game, Kip Payne scored from the nine yard line on the fourth down to give the Generals a 15 to 12 victory The other touchdown was scored by Calvin Escue. The Gen erals also caught Cook behind the goal line to score a safety in the second period. On October 15, 'An Poca team which first score came in line Poca's final The final score was On October 2h, to be a tough game, the Winfield Generals winning streak was snapped by a Class out weighed the Generals' team by several pounds. Poca's the second period when Rhumbels scored from the one yard score came in the th period when Jividen passed to Goff 13 to O Winfield traveled to Chapmanville to play what was expected but when the final gun sounded Ross Burke' long runs every time he got his hand on the ball proved to be too much for the Chapmanville team He scored four times in the game to aid in the 32 to 7 viciory On October 31, the Generals played a Van team which they had beaten very few times in the history of the get together between the two schools. This year proved to be the one the Generals had been looking for The Generals had too much for the Van team and scored a 32 to 7 victory in their last home game of the year. In their final game The Generals traveled to Sharples on November 7, to play a team which possessed one of the best Class WBN backfield boys in the state in Doug Stover Although they were bothered plenty by his plowing through center and around end, the Generals' team play was much better than Sharples When the final whistle blew to end the 1952 football regular season action the Generals brought home a 12 to 0 victory The fine record the Generals compiled earned them the right to meet Monon gah in the state HBH playoff at Parkersburg 'M 4742297 I - - O e . D e e I e ' e U I O e Z . In e ' J . A . D .- e 3 - .. I r O O e - I if J f Z ff

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