Thursday, January 30, 2014

The Evergreen Courant's Sports Flashback for Jan. 30, 2014

Wendell Hart
42 YEARS AGO
JAN. 27, 1972


From “Front Page, Upper Left Corner” by Bob Bozeman – “One of Alabama’s longest coaching careers has ended. Head Coach Wendell Hart of Evergreen High School has resigned and will leave the coaching field, although he will continue as a classroom teacher. His career as a high school coach spanned 26 years, most of them at Evergreen High School with a few years at Luverne and Elba.
“Wendell, who started with the Aggies in 1946, might well have been the state’s senior prep coach. Certainly, he is one of the few who logged over 150 wins in his career. He started out with a winning team his first year and had only a few losing seasons in his long career.
“Although he was a winner, Coach Hart was perhaps best known as a molder of character and firm disciplinarian. His boys always behaved. He had only one undefeated team, the 1949 club that went 8-0-2 with only ties with powerful Andalusia and Greenville marring the record. Over a three-year stretch, 1948-49 and 1950, his Aggies won 24, lost four and tied two.
“A number of his boys went to play college ball. Sam Hanks was the first, playing tackle at Auburn. Wayne Frazier, center and linebacker, starred at Auburn and went on to an outstanding pro career. Once he had two grads playing side by side at Alabama as starters at tackle and guard, Doug Potts and Jeff Moorer. Ward Alexander Jr. earned four letters at Louisiana College. And there were others.
“I’m sure Wendell will miss football, and I know football will miss him, but 26 years of tension and agony on the sidelines is enough for one man, I would imagine. Best of everything, coach.”

57 YEARS AGO
JAN. 31, 1957

“Castleberry Five Tops Flomaton Quint 57-31: Brothers Robert and Gene Warr led the Castleberry Blue Devils to their eighth cage win of the season last Friday night as they walloped Flomaton, 57-31, on the Castleberry court.
“Gene Warr hit for 11 points followed closely by brother Robert with 10, Ryals and Castleberry with nine each and Heaton with seven. Sub Uptagraph for the Blue Devils also had nine points.”

“Aggies Top Lyeffion 80 to 42 Tues., Night: The Evergreen Aggies rolled to an easy win over the Lyeffion Yellowjackets 80 to 42 in the Lyeffion gym Tuesday night.
“Big Wayne Frazier almost equaled the entire output of the Lyeffion team as he ripped the cords for 31 points to gain scoring honors for the evening. Jimmy Moorer netted 12 for runner-up honors, followed by Bill Ivey with nine, Mickey Joyner, Paul Pace and Billy Grace with eight each and Buddy Zukowski with four.
“For the Yellowjackets, Riley and Booker had 15 each followed by Salter and Williams with six each to round out the scoring.
“The Aggie B’s notched a 44-19 win over the Lyeffion B’s in the preliminary battle with Robert Ellington and Cleveland Brown leading the scoring with eight points each. Others Aggie scoring was Bell and Pate, six each, Mitchell, Boykin and McKenzie, four each, and Tucker and English, two each.”

72 YEARS AGO
JAN. 29, 1942

“Aggies Defeat Lyeffion; Drop One To Greenville: The Evergreen High School cage squad won one and lost one to split this week’s encounters. Thursday night the Aggies defeated Lyeffion here in a tight battle, 23 to 21. Jumping into the lead the Aggies were in front all the way, gaining a 15 to 8 lead at the half. Hanks led the local’s attack with 10, while E. Sanders was the key man in the visitor’s attack. This game ran the local’s win streak to 10 games without a loss.
“The first defeat of the year was handed to the Aggies by a smart Greenville aggregation, 22 to 17. D. Moorer and Johnson led the Aggie’s offensive effort with 9 to 7 points respectively.
“This game hurt, but it won’t be forgotten. It ruined the perfect record of the locals, but it did not down their spirit. They only promise revenge when they meet the Tigers Thursday afternoon. Both games at Greenville.
“Friday night the locals take on Red Level on the local court at 7:30 p.m. The visitors are still smarting from two defeats handed them by last year’s team. So, if you want to see a good game, drop around to the E.H.S. auditorium tomorrow night and see the Aggies go out in an all out effort to get back on the right track again with a win over Red Level.”

87 YEARS AGO
JAN. 27, 1927

“CITY SCHOOL CAGERS TO MEET CASTLEBERRY: The boys basketball team of the Evergreen City School is scheduled to meet the Castleberry team on the local court Friday afternoon at three o’clock. Both teams are primed for a real fracas and each hopes to get away with a victory.
“The locals have had a fairly successful season, taking into consideration that this is their first year to play match games. The boys are anxious to have the support of the local people and urge as many as can and will to come up and root for them Friday afternoon.”

“EVERGREEN SPORTSMAN ATTENDS CONFERENCE: Dr. H.C. Fountain has been appointed by Col. E.F. Allison, president of Alabama Wild Life Conservation League, as member of a committee of sportsmen, which will confer with the committee from the legislature on game and fish to ascertain what legislation is needed to further the propagation and conservation of game and fish in Alabama. Dr. Fountain left Tuesday morning for Montgomery to attend this conference.”

“The (Ivey School) girls and boys won the victory over Repton’s junior team. The score being 23 to 9.
“The girls did splendid playing with Repton’s junior team, with two first team players playing. At the close of the first half the game was called off, at that time the score was 22 to 3 in favor of Ivey.
“On Thursday, the boys played basketball with Lenox’s second team. The score was 13 to 3.”

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