The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-06
BLACK NAMED HEAD GRID COACH
IS ADDED
TO SCHOOL STAFF
New Hanover Varsity Foot
ball Team To Start Prac-
tice On August rs

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High school athletic department,
with R. l.. CBob) Black, director
of athletics in the county schools,
assuming the post of head football
coach and the addition of Rupert
Bryan, former All-State guard at
Wake Forest college, to the coach
ing staff was announced last night
by T. T. Hamilton, Jr., principal
of the school.
Under the new system, Relmon
Robinson, head football coach for
the past three years, will have
charge of all athletics in the Eighth
grades and Junior High school
units of the county.
Floyd Bumgarner, blackfield
coach, will have charge of fresh
man athletics, and will probably
continue as varsity baseball coach.
Either Bryan or Robinson will
coach varsity basketball, Hamilton
said.
Glenward Blomme will remain
as High school tennis coach, and
Howard Mcdonald still holds the
boxing coach position. Leo Burks,
a member of last years coaching
staff, has been moved to the Isaac
Bear school.
Miss Harriet Harrington Wan
namaker, of Cheraw, S. c., a grad
uate of Winthrop college, has been
selected as successor to Miss Doro-
thy Tyson, who had charge Of the
girls physical education and health
program last year.
Bryan, a native of Durham, has
been coach at Ahoskie high school
for the past two years and during
the summer he is recreation direc-
tor of the Town of Ahoskie. He
graduated from Central high school
in Durham in 1884, having played
football on the high school team.
He graduated from Wake Forest
in 1898 and played three years OF
varsity football, being named an
All-State guard in 1888. At Wake
Forest he worked under Coaches
Weaver and Peahead Walker and
also participated in freshman track
and intra-mural basketball.
At Ahoskie for the past two years
he produced the schools only two
winning football teams in e 6 h I
years.
Bryan will act as first assistant
to Black in coaching the varsity
football team and will also teach
United States history in the High
school.
Black said last night that he
plans to call the candidates for the
1910 eleven out for practice about
two weeks before school opens or
September 9. At the present time
he is contracting various boys who
plan to go out for football anc
said that he hopes to have severa
out for light practice within anoth,
er week or two.
Bryan will report here to star
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before school opens.
Robinson will work with the in
dividual coaches in the four Junior
high school units and will hav,
charge of setting up the six-mal
football program in all the schools
of the county. Equipment for tn,
teams has already been purchas
ed.
Hamilton said last night that
full health and physical education
program for the ninth and tent
J grade boys who are not member
of the ROTC will be set up thi
year. Under this program, which
will be similar to the girls program
first started last year, various in
tra-mural sports will be ~stresse,
over the entire school year.
He said that the school hope
to be able to open the basketball
season in the new gymnasium.
Work on the gymnasium i
scheduled to be started Thursda,
!, and is expected to be complete,
between four and six months.
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