Football in Claiborne County
The First Three Years
Two events that I remember particularly influencing my desire to play football was my brother Eddie giving me a football signed by the Washington Redskin team, but on a white Balitimore Colt, Johnny Unitas football in 1962. The other being introduced to his brother-in-law "Chuck" MIGYANKA who played for Michigan State University 1962-64. "Breaking the Plane": Integration and Black Protest in Michigan State University Football during the 1960s
 1966 Trophy for No. 1 Independent League |
 Leon Barnard and Vietnam Memorial, Washington, D.C. |
 1966 Claiborne County Football Team |
|  |   1965 Blue Devils |
 |  |  Top row L->R: Randall Carter, Steve Rutherford, Danny Beeler, Roger Whitaker, Craig Dyer, Coach Bill Boggs, Coach Don Howard, Larry Minton, Kelly Anders, Robert Heatherly, Larry Proctor Second row: Larry Epperson, Bill Hamlin, Faye Dean Milley, Jerry Sowder, Randall Parks, Arnold Massengile, Gary Lynch, H.B. Rowe, Bill Smith, Jackie Muncey Third row: James Heatherly, Leon Barnard, Dean Neal, Joe Payne, Johnny Kyle, Doyle Whitaker, Davis Reece, Mike Reece, Alan Collier, Gary Hamilton, David Hill |
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We actually played a short season in 1964-1965 but played only teams such as Cumberland Ky's B, Middlesboro's B, Bones Creek and Rogersville.
 |  CCHS's first football team 1927; Standing, left to right; Aiken Robinson, Paris Harmon, P.N Albright (coach), Kenneth Morris, Claude Bailey; front row, Lee Daniel Stone Jr., Howard Nevils, Divine Sharp, Heman Edmondson, J.C. Seal, Carl Cawood, and Neil Walker.
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 Bill Majors presented me with my first of two Outstanding Offensive Lineman trophies. (1965-1966) |  |  |
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