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for a brighter season on tho footAH QuietOn LebanonGrid Frontpfcwrvirthj1*i r]ioThere’s a football quietness !nLebanon.The Lebanon High Warriors were not whooping it up last week while all Middletown area schools that will field football teams this fall were getting in trim for their mid-Septcfhber opening games.OlrrTHE WARRIORS by-passed the ± Augul! 20 opening date for prepfootbfil drills. ; dlt;T'n«f will try to catch up Wed- t al nesdaf when they report to Head | slt; Coach Tay Baker and try to wipe. h r-it a two-year victory starvation flt;I ehanon hasn’t won a football fame In two years. And there were 18 fames played tn the two seasons.But while the Warriors wero home in their tents last week the Franklin Wildcats and the Monroe Horret* were off to a fast start.Dafb Daniels, setting out on his first eason as head coach at F. ankiin. has his squad grindingout two-a-day drills Daniels, who served as Franklin's line coach! g last year, took over the drivers nlt; sea* from Jim Smithcfihslt;fi• • •SMITH, who resigned last j h Spring, has taken a grade school lbs teaching post in Hamilton. j stDaniels will seek to mold a J^ 35-man squad around 15 re- w turning lettermen. Headlining s the veteran crop are Co-Cap- |^e tains John Powell and lt;irne J Hollingsworth. jPowell was named to an end post sf»n last season’s All-Little I j “ Six Leaeut while Hollingsworth Iv on al’-fea# honori a* a tackle. j Monroe's Head Coach Rudy Oak* li.lets ha* been running a 35-man squad through twice-a-day workouts. He is grooming *he squad Mum! a seasoned back field and veterans Tom McGill a: Center and Monty Barnes at guard.CO.bathetherhroaFRFTCRMNG to fill backfieldslots Io- Monroe sre QuarterbackBob He 1 ginger and Halfbacks DonBashind Jerry Johnson. |ag,‘tlie Hornets xs ill he out to I.tide un the record they stitch- Ied !a*t 'ear when their lone win in nine games was a 12-8 *1°‘homecoming victory over Lebanon. ai*Sevan Mile High, reoeated Cla«sB football power in Butler Co :n- J if. hits its sights set on another winning season under Marvin! ® McCollum 1MeCOtXt’M, who has guided t e Sgven Mile Panthers to four *;t of ♦heir five successive South- , v-es’orn league championships, is v.nrktrg with a 45-man squad. jlaTwaive of the players are letter winnars McCollum lost nine of er: last | year’s first-string stars throiigh graduation. 1But this year’s crop Is the ”largest turn out for opening : midrills in three years. Twentv Daof the players In the crop are sophomores. j BrMcCollum will send his crew 1 tai through two-a-day drills until D: schodf opens September 8. IMIDDLETOWN’S Da’e Lindsey Sc has taken over the head football I CoacWfig job at Germantown Kr when more than 40 players re- I j ored for opening drills last week. H ;Lindsey, who joined the school’s Os toasliJng staff last year as an a.'- Da si.Mant. replaces Jim Hughe* who Sci his resigned to fill in a a? si''.ant Scl rogch at Kiser High in Davion va
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Middletown Sunday News Journal
Middletown, Ohio, US
Sun, Aug 23, 1953
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