Holmes County herald., 1963-09-05
HOLMES COUNTY
Keen This Special Football Section For Schedules Of Your Favote Team
NOTE
BY WAYNE Rodgers

BY wayne Rodgers
l nthe following FOUR pages
you will find Information per-
tanning to the football teams
in our county and various
and sundry Information about
the conferences to which these
teams belong. This section Of
this weeks Herald has been
compiled through the co-ope-
ration of the coaches of the
county as we'll as the kindness
of the sponsors listed in the
following pages. 1t is this
writer's hope and desire that
this section will give the foot
ball fans of Holmes County
all the information they need
to follow the teams of their
choice this fall. There will
be a number of faults and
shortcomings of this paper
I'm sure, but it is our desire
that you will call our atten-
ton to these errors or fail
ureS SO that we will he able
to makt an Improvement next
fall.
ball is concerned. To review
the schools in alphabetical
order the 1862 season looked
Like this: Durant record
worst in several years, but
all games played by the Tig-
ers were very impressive;
|Goodman : Best season record
since we can't remember
prise, and uniqueness inso-
far as Holmes County foot
Last year was o year of
disappointment, pleasant sur
when, with the only loss by
the Bulldogs being to Benton
ia by one point; Lexington :
Season record was not i'm
pressive but team was strong
er than record indicated al
$50 defeated rival Durant in a
thrilling game; Tchula : I'm
impressive record with young
team but produced some
Thrilling moments for Panth-
Ter fans.
the first annual
Goodman lost to Mid-State
IohamD Walden in me first an
nual Jaycee
nual Mid-State Jaycee Boyl at
Holmes Junior by a score OF
al to IA. Goodman's team,
altough losing, played a much
better game than the score
would indicate.
The 1868 season indicates
some changes in the football
lpicture from last season, but
lone can never tell what will
happen in the grand old game
of football. This is the way
the picture looks to this writer
from here: Durant- Young
land inexperienced, but Durant
will probably come up with
another fine team which tiger.
LAND seems to always produce
Goodman good lepth and well
Experienced, with Is return.
ling letermen from the 1862
Mid-State Jaycee Bowl team;
Lexington : Lacking in depth.
but will probably have anoth'
Ter of the traitionally tough
teams produced at the county
seat; Tchula : Best prospects
in several years, with gooo
lepth and size along with
speed and experience. Let
me mention one thing here
This outlook and everything
said in this paper is not in
tended to harm any team OF
persons in the county, ano
lit is the extreme desire ane
,Ihope that none will be offend
by anything that is said IL
this countrywide football re
, view.
The season opens on tn.
, night of September 9Th, which
: lis tomorrow night an dWll
! end with the Jaycee Mid-Stat'
I Bowl game somewhere aroun'
Thanksgiving. During thi
time it would be extremel
helpful to each member 9
every team if everyone G
|you would see at least on
Igame. This writer would Xix
Ito urge you not only to Sc
lone, but to see several or a
lof your teams games. It take
la lot of hard work and Ion
hours to field a football tear
Ian dbelieve me, after visitin
every football camp in tn
county, these boys hav
shown that they deserve you
support by their enthusiasm
and hard work.
Please save this paper an
use it as a reference through
out the entire season. An
we would like very much t
know your opinion of our spe
cial football edition whethe
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