The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1922-12-08
IK ABBEvLLE HIGH SCHOOL
FOOTBALL TEAMS GOOD RECORD
TIE GAME THANKSGIVING AT FORT MILL CLOSES A SPLENDID
SEASON FOR THE TEAM-WIN SEVEN GAMES OUT OF NINE
pLAYED-MUCH CREDIT GIVEN TWO COACHES.
THE TRIP TO TO FORT MILL.

lv. soothe the bitter memories of a
few hours before when Fort Mill
ran rough shod over them. Various
reasons have been projected to war
rant this Waterloo, but none of them
are more than subterfuges lodging
the real issue. Fort Mill simply had
a better team than we had, and
fought like demons to win the game.
The end runs of the Fort Mill team
by Elms and Patterson were the
most perfect and fastest we have
seen in any season before in a high
school game. The boys expect Fort
Mill to surprise Gatfney when they
play in Spartanburg this afternoon.
Fort Mill has a well-balanced team,
the weight being equally distributed,
and the team working with machine
like precision. The Abbeville. boys
did not lay down, as the over-balanc-
ed score might indicate, but they
scored the only opportunity they
ever had. Some of the local stars did
not show up as they have been shin
ing in games earlier in the season,
but they have played NJ other team
this season that could match the
Fort Mill team in quality.
The boys were sumptuously en-
tertained in Fort Mill, turkey being
a composite part of every meal, and
after the game they revelled in
sweets and rich foods. The domestic
science class of the Fort Mill school
presented them with a huge box of
fudge to eat on the way back to Alb
beville.
Numerous complimentary remarks
were made to the school authorities
who accompanied the team to Fort
Mill, by the people in whose homes
the Abbeville boys stayed. One lady
said that she thought her sons were
nice looking high school boys, but
the Abbeville boys who were their
guests were of unusual gentlemanly
manners and were so well groomed.
Fine Example Of Swetenburg and
Hafner.
Already the Fort Mill boys are
planning to come to Abbeville next
Thanksgiving, and it may become
an annual affair with the two teams
to meet on this day.
Without question the excellence
with which the Abbeville team show
ed up in every game is due to the
untiring patience and energetic
work of Neil Swetenburg and Mr..
Hafner, both of whom have spent
every afternoon since September /
on the field with the squad and
whose loyal work is generously ap-
preciated by everyone interested in
the success of the team. Both of
these gentlemen have been the
source of the right kind of inspira.
ton and the desired example of gen,
tlemanly conduct both on and off
the field that fathers and mothers
wish set their sons. Fair. play has
been the motto of the coaches, and
the successful season proves that
the motto Of the coaches has be.
come the motto of the players.
The team loses this session by
graduation Ray Swetenburg, Cap
tain Claude Gambrell, Bill Bowie,
Bill Nickles, Spencer May and Joe
Crawford, but prospects for next
season r not 80 gloomy as condi-
tons may indicate. There is left a
splendid foundation upon which to
build another team that will rival
the one just passing, and no matter
what the outcome next fall, one
thing is assured-the boys in 1923
will play the same high type of
sportsmanlike game that their pre-
decessors have done.