football

=Football=

African-American high school football began at R.L. Cousins High School in 1966, under coach Gilbert N. Turman and assistant coaches Randolph Smith and Walter Underwood. Some of the players on that team were Charles Brown, Johnny Brown, Rufus Clark, Lamar Floyd, Winston Kelly, Johnny Cobb, Larry Camp, Terry Griffin,Jessie Mullin ,Henry Howard ,Ulyssey Reid Leon Goggins, Billy Harris, Bobby Harris, Larry Harris, Willie Head, Nichlas Jackson, Joseph Lightfoot, Charles Malone, Walter Marks, Charles Norrington, James Russell, Forrest Sawyer, Wilson Price, John Smith, Bobby Weaver, Larry White, Thomas Woods, Arthur L. Johnson,Justine Malone, Walter Collins, James A. Collins ,Richard Jefferies, J.R. Cook, Harold Hudson, James Thomas, Bubba Lee Thomas, Lester Carr, Lester Cooksey, Nehmiah (Duke) Durden, Justine Malone.Puncho Durden.

At the Homecoming game in November 1967 the team achieved a victory of 102-0, an un-rivaled victory in Georgia high school football history.READ FULL PAGE Newton County High School Football program (All White Players ) had its first black player in1967 John Robert (Ricky) Hammond became the Schools first black player,he later went on to become the first black student to enroll at Oxford College of Emory University located in the city of Oxford (Ga.) the County of Newton.


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