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WinstonCountyGrad
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 Posted - 02/12/2010 : 10:06:24
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I am not sure how we should list this game based on the article below. It was 13-7 at the half but apparantly the Coaches agreed to not count it as a game at all? Thoughts?
10/10/58 Home vs Cherokee HS
From the Times Daily in Florence:
FOLLOWS TD, COLLAPSES, DIES SHORTLY by Billy Joe Camp Staff Correspondent
DOUBLE SPRINGS - A fatal heart attack on the playing field to Field Judge Bill Pickett, Jasper, forced cancellation of the second half of the Cherokee-Double Springs game in Double Springs last night.
The heart failure occurred with one minute remaining in the first half of play. Pickett collapsed at the goal line after following Marlin Townsend, Double Springs halfback, all the way on an 85 yard punt return.
Cherokee's James Hamm punted the ball from his own 33 to the Double Springs 15 where Townsend took the punt and weaved his way down the field behind beautiful blocking. The score put Double Springs ahead of the Cherokee Tribe 13-7.
As Townsend crossed the goal line, Pickett fell face down on the two. He was rushed to Dr. T.M. Blake's office in Double Springs and pronounced dead some three minutes after arrival.
Pickett, 30, made his home in Jasper where he was an employee of the Alabama Power Company. He had been working on the Lewis Smith Dam this week and had been officiating high school football games for some six years.
Double Springs marched 60 yards for a touchdown the first time they set hands on the ball and went ahead as Billy Crittenden slid off tackle from the five for the touchdown. An attempt to run the extra point failed and Double Springs led 6-0.
Townsend again was the big gun in the Double Springs march as he reeled off a 43-yard gallop to the Cherokee 18 to set things up for Crittenden to tally.
The Indians of Bud Mills were not to be denied however and came back in the second quarter to go ahead 7-6. Chester Williams climaxed a 68-yard march as he plunged five for the tally. Olen Bishop's placement was good to put the Tribe out front 7-6.
Shortly thereafter, Hamm made the punt that Townsend returned for the 85-yard gallop and which brought Pickett's fatal run.
An agreement among Coaches Bill Doty, Double Springs; Bud Mills, Cherokee and Referee Bobby McMillian called off the second half of the game. Both coaches agreed to score the game as no game. It will not be recorded as a win or loss by either team. Today they are checking with Cliff Harper.
Other officials in the game were as follows: Umpire Lenard Snow; and Head Llinesman, John Gray.
Williams and Olen Bishop had turned outstanding in the Cherokee backfiled as the Indians were going after their second win of the year.
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svmounties
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Posted - 02/12/2010 : 10:46:44
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If it was determined to be a 'no game', basically meaning the game didn't count, then it wouldn't be a win or a loss for either team. However, since the game did start and there was a score, I'd list the opponent for both teams, the score when it ended, and just put a note in the side entry as to the game being declared a 'no game'. Since it did happen and there was a score, it's part of the history of both teams and should be noted.
Springville and St.Clair played a game about 15 years ago where a played collapsed on the opening kickoff. He was carried to a hospital where he died around the time the game got to the half. When they found out, they called off the last half of the game, yet the game still counted.
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1958 Winston County
