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By Frank Martin III Sports EditorMONROE, Go.—-The surprisingly accurate passing of quarterback Anthony Bush combined with the superb catching of ends Henry Childs and L.W. Williams, supported by the bruising running of Edress Dawson, John Darring Steve Brown, Kirk Mitchell and Jake Hollis, handed the Douglass High School Lions of Thomas-ville, Ga. a smashing of 33-7 win over the previously undefeated, untied Carver High Tigers here Saturday night, with the So, Ga. class 1-A foptball Crown on the line.This was the second consecutive meeting of the Lions and Carver Tigers for the coveted South Georgia championship berth, last year's battle being staged in Thomasvillewith the Lions c oming out on top 35-0.Head football coach James Bryant made a brilliant change in strategy that caught the North Ga. Class 1-A champion Tigers knapping. Douglass used a Pro Set type offense last season when the team went all the way to the finals, deploying a flanker and two setbacks (behind the quarterback).Last season, Timothy Everett passed at will against every opponent from the Pro Set, but this reason coach Bryant abandoned the Pro Set and used the Split T formation (With all three backs in tight).Carver expected Douglass to run off tackle and up the center from the Split T formation. They also thought that the Lions had a very weak passing attack because the Douglassonians had not passed too much this sea-son.That’s where coach Bryant out-foxed Carver. For thefirst time this season, the Liras* •used the Pro set and passed from the very beginning. The Tigers were shocked to see Anthony Bush drop back on the first play of the game and unload a long bomb to endHenry Childs to the Carver 251* . •yard stripe.Bush came out in the Pro Set om the next play and rifled a 25 yard bullet pass to left end L. W. Williams for a touchdown. John Darring booted the point and the Lions had drawn first blood and seized a 7-0 lead in the first quarter.- TIGERS FOUGHT BACKAlthough shocked over Douglass' massive pass attack, the Carver offense came battling back, and in a very convincing way. Operating on their own 10 yard line, the Tigers got fired up.QB Harold Culbreath handed off to scatback Osiar Thompson on a trap play that sent the Carver back bursting through the Douglass right tackle post, past the Lion safety, and withblazing speed, Thompson raced 90 yards for a Tiger touchdown. The point was kicked perfectly and the score was knotted 7-7 in the initial period.In the second quarter, Bush pitched the pigskin to halfback Edress Dawson who plowed between Carver’s end and tackle, and broke away for a 23 yard touchdown and a 13-7 Douglass High lead. Dar-r tag’s point attempt was wide.Bruising tackling by Velver (Brutalizer) Anderson, DavidBanks, Steve Brown, Henry Childs, Dawson Leo (The Lion) Elzy, terrorizing Ray Ford,- Robert Stringer, Larry (The Mummy)son with a pitchout that sent the big halfback sprinting over for still another Lion tally, and a 25-7 lead. Darring’s educated toe split the uprights with the point after and the Lions were well on their way to victory in the third period with a convincing 26-7 lead.As the third quarter ended, the Lions and coach James Bryant were had the situation weU in hand. Peter Lawson, Sidney Baldwin, Donald Revels, Seneca Springle, Robert Smith and others were blocking weU at the point in the game.In the fourth quarter, theLions were determined to cross■ .the goals to the land of ‘milk and honey’ race nhore. So, Bush called on Dawson again ho drove 10 yards for his thirdtouchdown of the evening, and the final for the Lions. 'With the score 32-7 via Dawson’s TD, Darring booted the point and the Lions won the game and the South Georgia Championship in Class 1-A, 33-7 over Carver of Monroe.Coaches Morris Williams and Charles hrmster have beenpraised by many football fansthroughout the state for doing an remarkable job of defensive coaching to stop the potent Carver offense.Carver has lost two games in the last two years, both at the hands of Douglass of Thomasville, The Lions wiU carrya 11-1-0 record into the State^ r ^ ■vClass 1-A Championship game at Thomasville’s Veterans Memorial Stadium, Friday night against the Ethel W. Right High School, of LaGrange, Ga.Jones and Melvin (The Beast) Johnson, kept the Tigers with their backs to the wall throughout the entire first half, with the exception of Thompson’s TD run.Elbert (Big Man) Morris, Dennis (Brother of the Beast) Johnson, big, powerful Joseph Adams, Larry Washington, Thomas Mitchell, and Larry Johnson were also strong defensively in the initial half. —THE SECOND HALFAfter a sustained drive with Kirk Mitchell, Steve Brown, Dawson, John Darring, Jake Hollis and all-star Anthony Bush at quarterback that carried to the Carver 10, Bushelected to go to the air onceCDWho is Friendliest1967 at 6:30 p. m, to announce the win!:; er and award first, second and third place Men and' women alik,e are urged to support your candidateARE YOU REALLYAWARECOMINGagain and flipped a pass into the arms of left end L. W. Williams in the end zone for another TD.Darring missed the point after but the Lions were ahead 19-7, and had begun to pull away from the determined, but faltering Tigers. Passes to Brown, and runs by Mitchell, Hollis and Darring placed sheball on the Carver 11 yard line a few minutes later with afirst down.MRight has a well-rounded team, having lost only one game this season, that being to Fair- mont High of Griffin, Ga., a 1-AA school.Score by Quarters:Douglas—7—6—13—7—33Monroe 7—0—0—0--7* * *YARDSTICKDouglass Monroe13 First Downs 4196 Yds. Rushing 153 283 Yds. Passing 45 23 Passes Att. 2013 , Passes Comp. 54 Passes Int. by 20 Fu mbles Lost 35-33-0 Punting Ave. 7-32-86-50 Penalties 220ARE YOU AWARE4 “ ‘ ■ , * *• • • I • •Mr, Bodenhamer to delegates from forty-seven states; this conference took place at Jack son Lake, Georgia, October 10-12, 1967.It was stated that Georgia’s growing network of technical schools will offe training inf ' * . 'every major technical and skilled occupation now existing in the state by 1970, To handle the anticipated 15,000 longterm students and 40,000 shortterm students who will be enrolled in these courses, the state will need 650 full-time teachers and 2,400 part-time teachers. The present enrollment in the state’s vocational - technical schools is about 10,000 and the teaching cadrenumbers about 450.Bodenhamer told the dele-■ • ■ * * * '■ r . ■ ■* ■■ .igates that there were; five (5) factors that have contributed to the phenomenal expansion of Georgia's technical schoolnet~ work. There are: The population’ , . r 4 , *shift from rural to urban areas;
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Thomasville, Georgia, US
Thu, Nov 30, 1967
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