39 YEARS AGO
MARCH 30, 1978
Aggie nine opens season with
two wins: The Evergreen Aggies opened up their 1978 baseball campaign with
impressive wins over J.F. Shields and Southern Normal.
In the opener Tuesday of last
week, Evergreen rode the pitching of Ernest Williams and a balanced hitting
attack to defeat J.F. Shields, 15-0. The game was delayed for rain, the
forfeited by Shields after three innings.
Williams struck out eight.
Wendell Parker belted a two-run homer in the second for Evergreen.
Friday night, the Aggies
traveled to Brewton to take on Southern Normal, and came away with an 8-2
victory. Darnell Spears got the win for Evergreen. Turner Murphy pitched two
innings of relief.
Tony Rogers had two homers
while Wendell Parker had one round tripper for the Aggies.
The Aggies played T.R. Miller
Tuesday night.
All American honors go to
Wylie Tucker: Wylie Tucker, the dynamic little point guard for the University
of Montevallo basketball team, added another honor to his growing list of
accolades Thursday when word was received from the NAIA National Office in
Kansas City, Mo. that he had gotten honorable mention in the voting for the
NAIA All-American.
Only one other player in
Montevallo cage history has ever received such laurels, that being Gerald
Douglass, a second team All-American in 1975.
The 5-8 Tucker, a resident of
Tuscaloosa who was born in Evergreen, completed an outstanding four-year career
at Montevallo with his best season ever in his senior campaign.
The Falcon sparkplug paced
the team in scoring with 410 points for a 13.3 average, hit 45.1 percent from
the floor and 75.3 percent on free throws, handed out 163 assists (5.3 per
game) and picked up 82 steals.
He was named MVP of both the
Montevallo Tip-Off Tournament and the Capital City Classic and was
All-Tournament in the Blue-Gray Tournament.
Tucker earned Southern States
Conference and District 27 Player of the Week honors for Feb. 19-25, and at the
end of the year was named to the All-Southern States Conference Team and the
All-District 27 Team.
His ability and leadership
were prime factors in the Falcons’ fine 20-12 record, the second-most wins in
the school’s history.
In his career, Tucker scored
1,253 points, placing him third on the all-time scoring list at Montevallo. He
is the all-time leader in games played (118) and assists (487).
During his four years at UM,
the Falcons won the conference tournament twice, won the UM Tip-Off Tournament
twice, won the Magic City Classic and the Blue-Grey tournament once each, and
participated in the District 27 playoffs twice. In fact, Tucker sank the shot
that beat Jacksonville State University in the 1975 District 27 championship
game and sent the Falcons to the National Tournament.
Montevallo’s record during the
Wylie Tucker era was a fine 76-43.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Tucker of Tuscaloosa. Tucker is a physical education major. An all-around
student, he was selected as a senior class favorite by his classmates.
Wylie Tucker is an excellent
example in pointing out that one doesn’t necessarily have to be big or score
lots of points to be deserving of All-American status.
64 YEARS AGO
MARCH 26, 1953
From “This Week’s Wash” by
Bob Bozeman: I turned down a cup of coffee bribe to get the chance to tell this
one on Sam Granade, hope you appreciate it enough to make this great sacrifice
worthwhile.
Sam is a turkey hunter of the
first water. He’s killed plenty of turkeys in his time (born and reared in
Washington County where wild turkeys roost on yard fences, you know) but not so
many that he isn’t proud of every one he gets. Of course, he’s no different
from other hunters (and fishermen and golfers) and doesn’t have much to say
about the ones that he missed.
Tuesday morning before it was
good daylight Sam got his first turkey of this season… and jumped into his car
and hurried to town before the bird’s body had time to cool. Sam showed that
bird to everybody he could find and those he couldn’t find when he got to town
he waited for – in fact, he stayed downtown so long showing off the turkey that
I’m told it spoiled.
After all that you’d think
that it was really some Tom, but it was a mere little bird weighing around 19
pounds. E.B. Horton killed the biggest turkey of this season and probably as
big as has ever been killed in this neck of the woods. E.B. got this king of
the gobblers on the first day of the season last Friday, and it weighed in at
over 22 pounds.
89 YEARS AGO
MARCH 29, 1928
NOTICE TO AUBURN ALUMNI:
There will be a meeting of the Auburn Alumni of Evergreen and Conecuh County at
the courthouse in Evergreen on the night of April 3 at eight o’clock. J.V.
Brown, Athletic Director of Auburn, and R.B. Brown, freshman coach, will be
present at this meeting to discuss important matters with reference to the
future plans of the institution and it is earnestly hoped that all old Auburn
students in this vicinity will be present. – G.O. Dickey, R.F. Croom.
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