1954-1972

East Central Hosting Delta In Clash For The Marbles By BO KING 1 be chump.:; or champs." · For the loser an end to its ''There's no doubt about it, DECATUR _ You can l5et Ea~l . Centra~ presently leads se.ason next week against South they 've g~t a~ good a ballc:~b b h' the d1v1s;on with its unblcmish- Div1s10n team - East Central as any we ve faced all year. you:.. ~ot.s "on ~ne t 111 g · ; · c

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Randall gives East Central cey chuckled, "but I can assure lhe nod as fa r as any game ad- you one thing, we 'll need all the vantage goes, mainly because, advm1tage we can get."

as he puts it. ''They've played tougher competition than we have . I mean. they 've already tangled with Pearl River ar:d they've already tangled with Perk (Gulf Coast) and we haven 't pl ayed anybody with a winning record yet. " I don't. mean anything detri- mental to those teams we've played. but facts are facts ," dra~vled the straight - forward mentor. "They've also got a 6-6 re– ceiver and a 6-3 receiver and all we've got is a couple of fresh– men b ack there to cover them ." Another thing that worries the veteran coach. is the ability of Freddy Bagley, East Central's sophomore q u art e r b a ck . "They've got a quarterback who knows what he's doing back there. After all he was doing the j .iob when tJhey won • the North 1 last year." I Pouncey Wary I But Coach Randall isn't the only one that has worries. Coach Pouncey is also contemp13ting J a few of the finer points about I the Delta team. . "They 're probably the biggest :team in the state on both their I line and their running backs," P ouncey stated. "Thry like to keep it on the ground when they can, but ihey'll go to the air if they have to." Pouncey also is aware of the playing experience of many of the Trojans. "I think they're starting 11 sophomores on of– fense and seven or eight on de– fense.

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