Evening star., 1951-10-20
-Four Wins in 5 Games
Make Fairfax Season
Already a Success
By Bill Fuchs

Although there are five games
remaining on it's schedule. Fair
fax High School already has had
q successful football season, so
far as Head Coach Bill Edmond
son is concerned.
Not that Edmondson doesn't
care about improving the record,
but the Rebels already have won
four games and that's better than
they've done since Edmondson
took over four years ago. In fact,
this probably is the strongest team
Fairfax ever f1elded.
Last nights 51-6 victory over
Falls Church gives the Rebels
Al record to date. The only loss
was a 1921 contest with Wash
ington-Lee, and in that game
Fairfax led in every department
except the score.
-Four years ago we were
scratching bottom" Edmondson
recalls. But three years ago we
put in an eight-grade program.
We were the first school in North
ern Virginia to do it, and its's
helped tremendously. We have
more depth now than we've ever
had"
Safer Sharks Attack.
A short, chunky red-head has
been the spark in the Fairfax
hackfield. John Skinny Safer,
a 5-foot-7. 175-pound triple-threat
star, probably will carry his talents
to the University of North Caro-
lima Coach Carl Snavely was
to talk to him today at College
Park, scene Of the Tar eel-Mary-
land game.
Safer figured in 49 of the Fair
fax points last night, scoring four
touchdowns, passing for the other
four and receiving a pass for an
extra point So far as his future
at North Carolina is concerned,
EdmondSon says he can't miss.
He'll make it on his passing
and kicking alone. if not his run
ming Edmondson says. I'm
prejudiced. perhaps. but I think
he could make North Carolina S
team right now. I know he can
pass better than anybody they've
got"
But despite .Saffer's all-around
ability, he is not the entire Fair
fax attack. That seems strange"
Edmondson points out, "but this
is a well-balanced club. / think
we'd do all right even without
Safer, and he is quite a ball
player"
73.Yard Drive Nets Score.
Other Standouts last night in
cluded Gene Frinks, Smokey"
Stover, Jimmy Dowell, Keith Dom
aid. Jimmy Watkins and Sonny
Reiter. to mention a few.
Fairfax went 73 yards for its
f1rst touchdown. Safer cracking
through from one foot out; a 90
yard Saffer-to-Tom Yarbrough
pass accounted for the second:
q Safford-to-Frinks pass play good
for As yards scored the third; a
30-yard Safford-to-Cecil Shelton
pass scored the fourth; Safer in
tercepted pass and went 40
yards for the fifth, went "a yards
yards for No. 6. passed eight yards
to Slower for No. and went Al
yards with another intercepted
pass for the last score in the
final seconds of play.
Falls Church scored its lone
touchdown in the second quarter
on a 16-yard pass from Dick Alley
to John Harper.
Elsewhere in Virginia George
Washington High beat Petersburg.
200, at CIV. Westinghouse lost
to Jefferson of Roanoke, 1918,
and Manassas edged Parker Gray,
e-6. at Parker Gray.
Chuck Motley took a 31-yard
pass from Bobby Slick for GW's
first touchdown and scored the
second on five-yard pass from
Dick Pope. Ralph Kneeland went
i've yards off tackle for the third.
WI trailed. 1870, at halftime,
but touchdowns by Dean Hillen-
brand and Al Howard deadlocked
the game. Late in the fourth
period, Jefferson scored on a four
yard buck by Charles Wilbourne.