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4 BILLY FREEMAN Selected Freeman Named To Shrine Bowl Title Hopes At Stake Woodruff Clinton, Friday In Key Encounter End Billy Freeman, co- crptain ot the Clinton High School football team, has been named to the South Carolina Shrine Bowl team. 1940; tackle Alvin Trammell, 1939. Although Trammell was the first Clinton player to par ticipate in the Shrine Bowl, Freeman. and weighs 185 pounds, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Freeman of 707 Shands Ex tension. He is a brother of Marion Freeman who was a tackle at Clinton High School and also at Presbyterian Col lege. Billy’s mother works at Whitten Village where his father also worked until five years ago when he had to retire because of poor health. Billy works at a local groc ery store on Saturdays. Clinton Coach Claude Howe says Freeman “definitely is a college prospect. He could meet ACC scholastic stand ards and he has a lot of ability.” Freeman is the third Clin ton player to be named to the Shrine Bowl team in the last three years. Last year, Clinton was represented by guard Tommy Rhodes. In 19(’5. halfback Joel Whitsell, notv at Clemson, was on the SIrrine Bowl team. Counting Freeman, Clinton hAs 'been represented by at lepst 11 players in the Shrine Bywl game. According to available rec ords*. others are: back Kinard Littleton, 1951; end Danny Lewis 1959; tackle Joel Mc- Rlhannon. 1960; guard Charles Marler and back Bill Sease, 1955; tackle Ed Pitts, 1955; back Charles (Choc) Burnett, 6-3 i Hall King was invited to play in the 1938 game but declined because his team was involved in the state class B champion ship playoffs. Clinton High School’s Red Devils are all that stand between Woodruff’s Wolve rines and an undefeated sea son and a third straight Class AA Eastern Conference chara- rionship. A Clinton win would throw the race into a three-way tie for first place between Clin ton, Woodruff and Union. Clinton’s only conference loss was administered by Union, 21-7 and Woodruff beat Un ion 14-0. Clinton brings a 7-2-1 over all record into the Friday night game on the Clinton High School field. Woodruff is 9-0. It’s the final scheduled game for both teams. The stadium will seat 4,800 fans and the season’s largest crowd is expected for the game. Clinton warmed up for the encounter last week by brush ing off Laurens 27-7 while Woodruff dumped class AAA Dorman 13-0. Fullback Johnny Jacks scored three touchdowns for the Red Devils against Lau- i rens. i Gary Campbell scored Clin ton’s first touchdown in the first quarter as he vfent over from the one. Campbell set it up with a 30-yard run in a 70-yard march. Clinton got a safety in the second quarter as the snap from center on a punt sailed over the punter’s head and out of the end zone. Also in (he Second quarter. Jacks scored on a 12-yard run which capped a 47-yard drive. A 27-yard pass from Barry Mauldin to Campbell was a key play in the drive. Jacks scored standing up on a six-yard run in the third quarter, climaxing a 62-yard drive in which Mauldin passed to Ricky Lollis for 19 yards. Tackle A1 Webb and Lollis recovered; a Laurens fumble at the Tigers’ 10 in the fourth quarter. Jacks scored from five yards out. Laurens scored in the fourth quarter as Randy Godfrey passed eight yards to Bubba Crow. Clinton Coach Claude Howe commented after the game, “I didn’t think we played very well. We played pretty good defense but I didn’t think we were as quick as we have Clinton-Laurens Series In Doubt game may be least the next Host Union Tonight Clinton JV's Win Loop Title Clinton’s Junior Varsity football team, with the East ern Conference championship already tucked away, needs a victory tonight to finish the season undefeated. The Junior Red Devils are 8-0 going into tonight’s game against Union on the Clinton High School field./ The JV game will follow a junior high game which starts at 6 o’clock. Clinton defeated Union’s JVs earlier in the season 27-6. Union has a 6-2 record. Clinton wrapped up the conference JV title last Thurs day with a 32-0 win over Newberry. Wells Goss scored Clinton’s first touchdown on a five- yard end sweep. Fullback Lawrence Lee cracked up the middle and raced 60 yards for the second Kid Devils Host Union In Finale Clinton Junior High School’s football team plays host to Union tonight and has at least two major incentives to win: (1) revenge for an earlier defeat and (2) to keep its title hopes alive. The game is scheduled to start at 6 p.m. at Wilder Stadium on the Clinton High .School campus. It will be the first game of a football doubleheader. The Clinton Junior Varsity will play the Union J. V.’s in the second game. Union Junior High School handed the Clinton team a 14-12 loss in the first game of the season. Clin- fbn is now 6-2 going into the final game. Union is un beaten but must play Wood ruff next week. Losses to Clinton and Woodruff (which gave Clinton its other defeat) would throw the conference race into a three-way tie for first — Clinton, Union and Woodruff. Clinton rolled over J. L. Mann Junior High 42-7 last week, scoring 14 points in the first one minute and 55 sec onds of the game. On the third play from scrimmage, Doug Ward passed to Billy Young for a 47-yard scoring play and Ward ran the extra point. On the second play after the en suing kickoff, Ward inter cepted a oass and returned it to the Clinton 58. On the next play^_be skirted end for a 52- yard touchdown jaunt. David Mangum ran the extra point. Also in the first quarter, Mangum scooted 19 yards for a touchdown and Ward ran tlje extra point for a 21-0 first quarter score. Ward passed to Scott Ham- met on a 17-yard scoring play in the second quarter and Mike Cunningham ran the extra point to make it 28-0 at halftime. Hammet recovered a Mann fumble on the five-yard line , in the third quarter and, in two plays, fullback Lawrence Jones blasted over for the score. Jones also made the extra point. Playing against Clinton re serves, Mann scored on a 20-yard reverse play in the third quarter. In the fourth quarter, Ward scored on a 20-yard run and Cunningham ran the extra point. The team coaches were pleased with the play of the entire team and cited Man gum, a 98-pounder, as being particularly effective on both offense and defense. touchdown and later roared 30 yards for another touch down. Lee and Everett Rob bins replaced regular full back Bob Keller who missed the game because of illness. After leading 18-0 at half time, Clinton struck again in the third quarter as Bob Grube passed 15 yards to Matthew King for a touch down and Goss ran the extra point. Jack Hames scored Clinton’s final touchdown as he raced 35 yards on an off- tackle reverse play. Bobby Baughn scored the extra point. Guard Otis Patterson also was ill and unable to play but Wayne Jacks . and Larry Lollis filled in capably. Last Friday’s Clinton-Laurens the last one in that series for at year or so. Laurens is dropping down to Class A and will be playing in the WEBACH Conference next year. Clinton will continue in the AA Eastern Confer ence. Because of conference commitments, the two schools are having difficulties arranging a playing date for next year. Clinton Coach Claude Howe said, “We’ve been trying to work out a game for early in the season next year, but right now it doesn’t look like we’ll be able to do it. I don’t think there’ll be a game with Laurens next year. We may be able to get together in a year or two.” In recent years, Clinton has dominated the se ries which used to be a hotly contested clash of arch rivals. With last Friday’s 27-7 win, the Red Devils have won 12 of the last 13 meetings between the two schools. It was the fifth straight Clinton win over Laurens. W^■ MM More v Sports On Page been. The edge between be ing real quick and half quick Is a mental, thing.” As for Woodruff. Howe says, “They look like pros up front. They haye two extremely big tackles and a 220-pound cen ter and they’re just big all across the line.” The tackles are 270-pound Dewey Godfrey, who is 6-5 tall, and Mike Casey, 6-2, 265 pounds 1 . The team’s offense is paced by Deede Dunaway, a 165- pound quarterback who play ed American Legion baseball with the Clinton team last season. Pre-Game Supper Set Pancakes will go on sale early enough to get the crowd to the Clinton High- Woodruff game in plenty of time when the Clinton Kiwanis Club stages its Pancakes Supper this Friday night. Griddle action is scheduled to start before 5 p. m. and to continue until 7:15 p. m. in the Clinton High cafeteria. Persons attending are urged to arrive as early as possible. The ticket sales, at $1 per plate, are designed to raise funds for the high school athletic plant — to put con crete sidewalks in front of the football stands and to help maintain the tennis courts. They are being sold by members of the local Ki wanis Club and its affiliated Clinton High Key Club. iWE mUmcLt, mite#, xVt. % wtf . • ; f . _ i;L Jkk ^ •’ *■ * MUViNG ON—Ciintoii High’s Ggry Campbell (45) races for a long gain behind good blocking in the Red Devils’ 27^-7 win over Laurens. Thornwell Posts 4-5-1 Record Thornwell has completed its 1967 football season with a 4-5-1 record. The Wildcats were edged 20-14 last Friday night by Cowpens’ Red Raiders on the Thornwell field. Down 7-0 after the first quarter, Thornwell fought back to tie the score at 7-7 by halftime. Cowpens scored 13 points in the third quarter and fought off the Wildcats the rest of the way. Thorn well dominated the fourth quarter, driving 70 yards to the final touchdown. Fullback David Foster scored Thornwell’s first touchdown on a one-yard plunge and Jerry Chandler scored the first of his two extra points. ‘ Denny Dennis intercepted a Cowpens pass in the end zone and returned it to Thornwell’s 30 to put the Wildcats in motion on their 70-yard fourth quarter drive. Jerry Watts passed 20 yards to end Raymond Carlton to cap the drive. ITU*; OF JOANNA, S. C. TD Club Honors Jacks Clinton High School full back Johnny Jacks was hon ored as 1 the Greenville Pied mont player of the week Monday at the Greenville Touchdown Club’s weekly luncheon. Jacks was selected after he scored three times last Friday in Clinton’s 27-7 vic tory over Laurens. He has scored 21 touchdowns this season. Coach Claude Howe calls Jacks “probably the finest fullback Clinton has had since I’ve been here. He has .quickness, good balance and when he’s not carrying the ball, he blocks well.” Jacks has scored a touch down against each of Clin ton’s opponents this season. Defensive Tackle Floyd Peters of the Philadelphia Eagles was guest speaker at JOHNNY JACKS the luncheon. He substituted for End Mike Ditka of the Eagles who suffered a knee injury and was unable to at tend. 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