Football memories

Football Memories

Many thanks to David L. Boggs for sending us this article, called "Football As I Remember It, Spencer High School, Spencer, West Virginia, 1947, 1948, 1949".

Here's an excerpt:

My most embarrassing moment in playing was in practice one afternoon and we were running plays with the upright crossties and blocking dummies (which all of you who played for Coach remember). The quarterback handed off to me on just a simple dive play, straight ahead. It was not a good exchange and I put my head down to gain control of the ball, and I hit one of those crossties head on. Coach was standing back of the one I hit. He didn’t say anything, but you could see it was all he could do to keep from laughing. I’m glad he didn’t make me a lineman after that. You know what they say, the way to decide whether your players are backs or linemen is to run them through the woods, and those who run around the trees are backs and those who try to run over the trees are linemen. That was very embarrassing.

You can read the entire article here.