Mt Hope Faces Oak Hill In Coalfield Conference Tilt
The final scholastic football night features Mount Hope Mustangs at Oak Hill in a key Coalfield Conference game. Mount Hope seeks a win to stay in State AA playoff contention while Beckley plays Hinton in a nearby rivalry as Bluefield eyes victory at Princeton.
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Aleigh Register
Beckley
W. Va
F Flying Eagles
Hinton
CC Battle Tonight Mustangs
Oak Hill
Brown Jug
Fayetteville Romps Tigers To End Season
Fayetteville Pirates defeat Shady Spring Tigers 34 to 12 to close the season, leaving Fayetteville 6 4 overall and Shady Spring 1 9. Frank Spangler scored twice for Fayetteville, John Learmonth added a 75 yard kickoff return, Bill Rule sparked a third quarter interception return, while Frosty Mann and others contributed for Shady Spring.
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Fayetteville
Fayetteville Pirates
Shady
Tigers
Pirates
Frank Spangler
John Spangler
Shady Spring
Bill Rule
Frosty Mann
Smith
O'neal
Palmer
Harper
Kunkle
Wilcox
Cochran
Bragg
Pruett
Nixon
Deal
James
Nugen
Swanigan
G. Rhodes
Mathews
Campbell
Burnett
Rule
Learmonth
Spangler
Warwick Clings To Scoring Lead In Coalfield Conference Race
Mount Hope's Sammy Warwick scored twice and added an extra point to reach 83 points last Friday, as he eyes a rematch with Oak Hill and defends his lead in the Beckley area football scoring race. Nearby pursuers Dick Leftridge and Gene Baker of Hinton trail by four and 11 points respectively, with Mullens’ Butch Carte climbing to 80.
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Mount Hope
Sammy Warwick
Place
Stoco Indians
Mustangs
Oak Hill Red Devils
Fayette
Oak Hill
Warwick
Carter
Leftridge
Baker
Carte
Larry Bowman
Sophia
Stratton Bulldogs
Don Phillips
Stoco
Phillips
Mullens
Hinton
Bowman
Thomas
Basham
Milam
St *Wells
Meadow Bridge
Nicholas
Bentley
Stratton
Brown
Cook
Ocean
Lucas
Trap Hill
Pannell
Kerzie
Mark Twain
Porterfield
Schol
Ansted
Spangler
Fayetteville
Marsh Fork
Learmonth
Smailes
Lookout
Shifflet
Lacey
Blankenship
Hunter
Huffstuttler
Thompson
McCune
Gwinn
Burnett
Ross
Hall of Famers to be Inducted at WWHS Tonight
Hall of Famers will be inducted during a 5 15 p m ceremony on the Woodrow Wilson High School field as Beckley Hinton game night unfolds. Specified new members include John Buster Smith Jim Kuhn Clyde Underwood John Douglas Vic Peelish John Callaway plus the late Chester Lynch.
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Woodrow Wilson High School
Ross Irle
Jerome van Meter
Woodrow Wilson
Beckley Junior High
C. G. Peregoy
Tom Covey
Stan Huffman
Nelson Bragg
Don Hodson
Frank Huffman
Sam Tucker
McQuade
Cubby” Bair
Andy Bailey
Chester Lynch
Raymond Bair
Fred Hayes
J. R. van Meter
Flying Eagles
Kim Kuhn
Robert Douglas
Sophia High
John
Coral Gables
Fla
Paul Adamos
Lew
Area Schoolboy Grid Predictions by George McLaughlin
George McLaughlin predicts high school football outcomes for the final 1959 season games. Beckley over Hinton. Mount Hope over Oak Hill. Bluefield over Princeton. Logan over Williamson. Man over Chapmanville. Montgomery over Cedar Grove. Gauley Bridge over Ansted. Seth over Marsh Fork in a Saturday contest.
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Bobcats
Flying Eagles
Mount Hope
Beckley
Hinton
Nelson Bragg
Rod Harmon
Sam Icohn
Russell Walls
Ray Elmore
John Shumate
Richard Callaway
John Pennington
Charles Karbonit
Barry Huffstuttler
Robert Pruett
Jerry Turner
Ansted Highlanders
Gauley Bridge
Bluefield
Princeton
Logan
Williamson
Chapmanville
Man
Seth
Marsh Fork
Blufield
Hamilton
Oceana
Collier
Meadows
Stoco
Lovely
Oak Hil
Coleman
Oak Hill
Elliot
Mullens
Ansted
Ross
Byrd-Prillerman Fish
O'Dell
Lookout
Karbonit
Hairston
Stratton
A. C. Perkins
Casey
Mark Twain
Dodson
Baldwin
Stump
Raleigh Register Sports Department
Raleigh Register
Parkersburg
Mustangs
Montgomery
Cedar Grove
Greyhounds
Coalfield
Rat
Mt. Hope
Sophia
Shady Spring
NEW River Valley
Pet
Fayetteville
Webster Springs
Richwood
Clay
Summersville
Cowen
T Rat. Sophia
Trap Hill
Byrd-Prillerman
Clear Fork
Fayette County
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Tri-County Basketball League Discussion Sunday
A meeting to discuss forming an independent tri county basketball league will be Sunday at 1 p.m. in the Mark Twain High School gym. Teams must have at least eight interested. Contact Charles Moody at OV 3-5564. Moody and Glen Daniel are leading the effort.
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Mark Twain High School
Charles Moody
Moody
Glen Daniel
Watkins Leads College Ground Gainer For Iowa State
Fullback Tom Watkins tops college football in ground gained this fall with 707 yards in eight games for Iowa State. The 182-pound junior, recruited by former Cyclone coach Jim Myers, moved to fullback after early positions, sharing the backfield with Dwight Nichols as Iowa State sits 6-2 and tied for second in the Big Eight. Watkins began as a guard at Chicago Wonder High, then played halfback before joining Iowa State in 1957.
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Ames
Iowa
Tom Watkins
Iowa State
Chicago
Los Angeles
San Jose State
Watkins
Tom
Clay Stapleton
Cyclones
Dwight Nichols
Nichols
Arkansas
Chicago Wonder High
Jim Myers
Myers
UCLA
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Clay County
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Neville Street
Barton Distilling Company
Bardstown
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Second St
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Oak Hill, West Virginia
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