The Monroe journal., 1922-12-15
STATE CHAMPIONSHIP
FIGHT SATURDAY
4 Review Of High School Football for
Past Several Years In Which
Monroe Figures
Especial TO the JournaD


Chapel Hill. Dec. 1.-The stage IS
set in Chapel Hill for the ninth an
nual State championship game IN
high school football. when the New
Bern high school. eastern champions,
and the Asheville high school, ives
tern champions, meet on Emerson
field tomorrow afternoon, a; 2:30
o'clock. Great interest mas been
aroused locally and in all sections of
the State m the annual high school
classic. and all indications point, il
Is said. To a record-breaking atten-
dance. with many visitors present TO
cheer on their favorites in The race
for State Laurels.
The New Bern high school elimi-
mated from the competition in the
eastern championship series Wash
lngton. Wilmington. Rocky Mount,
ana Sanford h gh schools. In the ives
tern championship series. the Ashe-
vile high school eliminated Sails
bury, Charlotte and Monroe high
schools. Thirty-two high schools en-
tered the race this year for state
honors. The contest has been hard
fought and, according TO the view
held by members of the central COM
mittee here, has been characterized
throughout by a high degree of
craftsmanship on the part of the
schools concerned.
High school football in North Caro-
lima has assumed vast proportions
over the status ten years ago, when
the annual high school contests were
inaugurated by the University COM
mittee on high school athletics. the
development of high school football
is everywhere regarded as quite de-
cisive factor in the excellent rating
of teams representing the higher in
stitutions of North Carolina. Many
star players on the various college
teams of the state have come up
through the mill' of the high school
football championship contest.
The Raleigh high school won the
first annual contest in 1913, defeat
ing the Wilmington and Washington
high schools in triangular elimi-
nation series. No western high school
entered the competition in 1913. In
1911, the Raleigh high school won
state honors for the second time, de-
feating the Asheville high school in
the final game, Again in 1915, the
Raleigh high school took state honors,
but only after a desperate struggle
with Charlotte high school, which was
that year Just beginning football, So
close was the final competition in
1915 that the two teams played to
tie on Saturday and played the tie
off on Monday.
The Charlotte high school won the
state title in 1915 and again in 1917
both times defeating the Chapel Hill
high school, eastern champions. In
1919 and 1920, Chapel Hill high school
won state honors, winning in 1919
over Greensboro highs, western
champions. In 1921, the Fayetteville
high school won the state champion
ship, defeating Winston-Salem, wes-
tern champions.
Guy Phillips coached the Raleigh
teams to victory, Marvin Ritch the
Charlotte teams, Fred Morrison the
Chapel Hill teams, and Robert o.
Burns the Fayetteville teams, The
heavy Asheville team is handled by
Frye, who has developed a powerful
football machine that has brooked no
delay in its forward march to wes-
tern honors. The New Bern team.
handled by Barden, Harrell, and
Hardy. has taken the measure of all
its opponents this season and is
fast moving, quick thinking aggrega-
ton of young football artists.
The encounter between New Bern
and Asheville on Saturday will be
well worth the seeing, not alone from
the color and the glamor that always
attend the annual renewal for the
State high school championship, but
also and especially from the fact
that without doubt a corking good
football game will be staged by the
young athletes who are fighting for
the glory of their schools and their
sections.