Page 31 - 1968 VES Meteor

December, 1968
PROLOGUE
by Tony Norwood
This year VES has seen some of the most spirited varsity foot- ball action ever to be performed here, plus a winning season. Per- haps much of the blame can be placed on the team's head coach.
Robert I. Lee graduated from VES in Ht45, having served that year as head counselor, a senior class officer, and a member of the Honor Committee. He played all three major sports and was awarded the sportsmanship cup at the end of the year.
Lee went to Georgia Tech and N. C. State, where he majored in math and played baseball. After serving in the Navy, he came
back to VES to join the faculty in 1950.
He has since taught every phase of high·school math, and he
has coached football, baseball, and golf. In 1956, Lee was appointed athletic director, and in 1961 head of the math department.
Lee is now serving his eighteenth year on the VES faculty. He has nursed countless boys through high school math and has coached at least 800 athletes. Yet still he has time to pitch a pretty fair horseshoe with Herb Harper every year at the annual tourna-
ment.
Alumni Biographies and Historical Sketches says "that no school
can boast a finer man or a finer coach." He has shown a rare dedica- tion to a school he has based his life on.
THE METEOR Lynch Confident
es
With the close of the autumn sports season, the opening of a successful basketball campaign is
anticipated. Mr. Bobby Lynch, varsity coach, is confident not only of a highly talented squad, but of a more organized one; this being attributed to his first year of experience.
With four returning lettermen there is good reason for pre-sea- son confidence. Of those four, guard Wooty Peebles and for-
wards Lynch Christian and Bob Peterson are definitely in the line-up. Last year Peterson was
second on the squad in scoring and rebounding while Christian led the team in rebounding and
field-goal percentage, making al- most 50% of his shots. Peebles is an excellent ball-handler and has good speed and extreme poten- tial. Also returning from last year is Steve Shelton who saw plenty of action at guard posi-
tion. Shelton led the team in free throw percentage and has excep-
41-0;
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Takes 6-3
The Varsity football team com- pleted a 6-3 season on Novem- ber 16, garnering the school's most successful record in nine- teen years.
Entering this year's homecom- ing game, the football team faced two haunting memories.
First, more than a few years had passed since a Bishop eleven had overcome the Collegiate School Cougars. The second memory
that the Bishops had not won a homecoming game in two years; one of those losses being a 49-13
shellacking by the Cougars. Collegiate came into the game with only one victory, but the previous week had shown them battling Episcopal down to the
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tional moves.
Competition for the remaining
positions will be keen: Expected to move up from the junior var- sity are Frank Johnson, Jim Laird, Charles Green, Sherwood Hedgpeth, and 6'4" Parker Lumpkin. Green is highly re- garded for his defensive aggres- siveness. He also led the JV scor- ing last year. A touted newcomer is Bob File who is an excellent jumper. He and Lumpkin could see plenty of action alternating in the pivot. Other new-boys,
Carl Cheshire and Neal Partrick, have shown all-round ability in pre-season scrimmages.
As usual, the schedule before Christmas will be tough, includ- ing games with Woodberry Forest and Collegiate. The re- maining schedule includes two games with the Lynchburg Col- lege freshmen and an encounter with a strong Tidewater Acad- emy team. The Bishops' first con~ test was the traditional Alumni game on November 23.
wire before finally falling. I n
the same day, the Bishops had yard plunge.
suffered their most surprising de- feat of the year to an obviously inferior Christchurch t e a m ,
greatly aided by a hurricane named Gladys.
Pre-game Anxieties
Coach Lee was understand- ably worried as his men took the field. His worries seemed to be in order as Rice Matthews flunked on the first play from scrimmage and Collegiate drove
to the VES 30. But there the front four came alive and made Larry Wallace and other Col- legite backs wish they were back in Richmond. On a critical third
down situation Wallace spun off tackle and was smashed by· the right side of the line. Alert Dick Trotman fell on the ball, giving
the offense their chance.
From there it was VES all the
way. The Bishops went from the 31 yard line with Christian sweeping w i d e f o r t h e s c o r e . Collegiate received the kick-off and was taken alive by our de- fense. A punt from Collegiate
then fell into the end zone un-
touched to give VES a 14-0 lead.
Collegiate, after several unsuc-
good omens for next year's sea- son as well as wingback Gunner Murphy, who caught two passes. Some statistics that prove in- teresting are: VES - 1 9 first long Wallace run. But the next downs; Collegiate 4. VES also play saw Barker Dameron jolt gained a total of 269 yards on offense while Collegiate man-
HWlt Taylor (22) catches a pass while Clay Ferebee (60) and Edmund Brad- ham (61) block. ·
by Fielding ]ones
From their 1-6 record, it is ap- parent that Freshman Football had a rough season. Playing, for the most part, larger and more experienced teams, the Fresh- men had some difficulty getting organized and thinking as a win-
ning ball club.
Their first game, despite the
lopsided score, showed excellent potential, especially on the de- fense. This potential was re- leased in their next and best played game against Hargrave; a sustained drive was launched in the third quarter while the de- fense worked outstandingly to hold the opponents. Despite this fine effort, the game ended in a
very close 7-6 loss.
capsized the drive with a one Cougar Threat Fails
Second team heroics marked the final half as Macky Mc- Cleary and Cac Hoyle came through defensively. Both set up the touchdowns in the second
half. Hoyle intercepted two passes to give a field position from which a touchdown was made and McCleary fell on a fumble, setting up a score. The touchdowns came on a 15 yard
Christian pass to Shelton, a 1 yard Christian plunge, and a 40 yard pass from Neal Patrick to
Bill Alexander.
Linebacker Coach Fitz Elder,
commenting on the 41-0 victory said, "Our little boys put some mean shots on 'em today, I don't think they wanted to play much after we busted 'em a
couple of times."
Individual standouts were the
whole defense unit, who played
The Cougars came close for the first time before the half in a
the ball loose and Mahan fall on it to stop the drive. The team left the field with a 20-0 lead.
aged 114 yards total. Related stories on page 6
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cepted to give us field position at the 20. From there Christian
down. On offense all the regu- lars did well. Neal Parbick's amazing performance yielded
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Basketball
Bob Peterson and Charles Green come alive during basketball practice.
Frosh Finish Rough
Country Concludes With 3 - 6 Record
Cross
by Peter Daniels
The 1968 Cross Country team had a losing season with a 3-6 record, due partially to the fact that there were only three re- turning lettermen and also be- cause of a late start.
After the first three losses, hopes were bolstered by a win over Randolph-Macon Academy 20-36. With the next three meets the team's margin of defeat was
steadily narrowed, including a
hairbreadth loss to Christchurch,
Coaches Allen and DeHart hold an optimistic outlook for next year's team, which is suffer- ing only one loss, Co-Captain Chris McLendon. It has been decided that the team's season start before the opening of
school to compensate for this year's late beginning. Coach Al- len was quick to praise the team for the rapid improvement and the boys' efforts towards team-
27 - 28.
dealt a crushing defeat to Col-
At Homecoming they
legiate 16 - 46.
fell next by a score of 24-31.
The State meet at Richmond produced less than encouraging results. The Bishops' high placers were Robert Parsons and Lee Heath, coming in 29th and 32nd, respectively. JV honors went to
Braxton Gillam who earned 12th place and a blue ribbon.
Asheville
School
Season Throughout the next three
games, Liberty (26-0), Sandus- ky (34-0), and Randolph-Macon Academy ( 27-0), the smallest Bishops just could not seem to get a scoring drive going. How-
· ever, Coaches McGill and Moore ironed the wrinkles out for a 7-0 victory over Linkhorn Junior High, the high point of their sea- son. The final game with Blue Ridge, in spite of much opti- mism, concluded in a 12-6 de- feat; this was mainly .attributed to the loss of first string quarter- back, Collins Doughtie.
Coach Moore singled out FB
Bob Paisley, TB Dubbie Mac-
Millan, tackle and co-captain Bill
Pruett QB and co-captain Doug- Continued on page 6, column 5
work.
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