The Wilmington morning star., 1947-08-30

high school football. More
athletics.
The T-formation, which has
uusnt the nation since Stanford
n.d. II famous in 1941, will again
Ne CHEZ offensive system.
W;lroirston is certain to depend
n With such fine T-quarter-
ct. as Yam Sewell of Fayette-
~. Alvin Hooks Of Rocky
aio,lnt. and Jimmy Lesaneof Ra-
!sisb, the popular system should
(. worked more efficiently than
ever.
~. far too early to predict how
Hs teams will come out in Nov
smber The coaches do not have
hair teams selected nor have
sven begun working on plays in
s.tail vet. Info. nation from Dur
~, wilson, Raleigh, Goldsboro,
Ta%vsttevile, and Rocky Mount
aiTas the impression that no high
,cbool bunch will run away with
&he flag. h;ah
school outfits shape up!
Raleigh
psre,x q team which lost six
.sg1lars at graduation, but with
.he first stringers returning ones
A. Invaluable talent, this Raleigh
Hiph aggregation will be no
happy afternoon for anyone.
Coach Lee Stone, who in four
,esrs At the Capital City has TAX
IN three Eastern Conference
Championships and one State title,
sepends on southpaw passer jim
NV Lesane and bull-dozing Sonny
rssery in his fifth stab at the
stone, however, has already
xated: wilmington and Fayette-
vile will be the two Eastern Con-
ference powers this season. You,
Of course, have to consider ROCKY
Mount with Emory Adkins back
hut not even a great skipper like
Adkins can perform miracles
with inexperienced material
Raleigh's returnees are ENDS
Cone Terrell and Charles Lloyd,
auard Billy Crocker, quarterback
1;snav Tesane. and left halfback
Sonny Ussery. The two boys VINO
sr. the likely replacements tor
John senter and Jimmy Cain OF
Me 1s46 squad are Dick Sommers
145) and Louis Poole d5O.
The caps have only one pre-
conference contest and it is with
4he ls46 Western Class AA Con-
ference champs, Greensboro, on
September u. Then comes Dur
ham.
Coach Stone has sounded the
sad note in predicting Ralelgh
Highs outcome this year. VAL
mington, however, knows only
enc thing about Raleigh football
teams. The Wildcats haven't beat
en- them since 1929 even though
MINIS outplayed the Caps in 1916.
This season the locals journey to
the State capital for a tussle with
their bitter rivals at probably N.
c. State Colleges Riddick Stadl-
YIN, It should be one of the best
games Of the year.
Fayetteville
Billy Dole, who transformed the
Fayetteville Bulldogs from a foot
ball doormat into a high-geared
grid machine last year, should
produce an even better club this
season with eight glittering first
stringers returning along with a
prize newcomer, Yam Sewell.
Sewell can pass, fake, and call
signals better than any other high
school gridder he has ever seen,
said Coach Dole during spring
football practice. And with Nub
Smith, the talk OF the Eastern
Conference in 1916, swift footed
Malcolm Yates, and a couple O.
dashmen blazing through the line
On Sewell's handouts from quar-
tefback, the Bulldogs will I'M
toubtsdly present the most
formidable offensives anywhere.
Wilson
At the Tobacco Capital Of the
sation and, incidentally, the 1916
nigh school football capital Of
North Carolina, spirit is high for
another victorious season. Coach
Hank Madden, in his THIRD season
with Wilson, is carrying the towel
around crying o. everyone's
moulder about his losses.
But Wilson is packed with the
touchdown punch. The Cyclones
VII unveil probably the most
wlde-open brand of ball in the
s.a'e during the next few weeks.
lney lost everything in the front
wan except the two best pass
,nassefs in Eastern North Caro-
MA Sturgeon Speight and Bul
seWsome. Speight was named or
N me- All'State eleven in 1916, while
S."sorne, an all-conference bas'
.''oal player, snatched the
seflai in Speight's remarkable
Lyle. Spinning the losses 10 these
endangered tlankmen will be the
ssssistable Dickey Davis,
sahd field general. His timely
Uses pulled Wilson out Of hole
c c.er hole in 1916, and were the
S.elohes main scoring weapon
Two bullet flips wrecked the Viii
nlngton Wildcats.
Athoipn r,. all,