THE PREPARADE - Funeral Arrangements For a Golden Dream

By Charlie Roberts

If Coach James Everett DeVaughn checks on facilities at the Grady Hospital emergency clinic this morning and then pays a business call to the director of some well-established funeral parlor, one can hardly blame him. J. E.'s Brown High boys are going to play Glynn Academy here Friday night.

If one is to believe what he hears about C. M. Page's Red Terrors, that means J. E.'s boys will bulge the corridors of the emergency clinic ere midnight Friday, and the philosophical mentor of the Johnny Rebs will be burying one golden dream - a dream of winning the State AA football championship. The game is the only thing that is coming to Atlanta.

They do say, with some justification, that the Brunswick boys will be the biggest thing to hit Atlanta since the "Gone With The Wind" premiere, and folks from the Coast say that will mean that Brown High's invincibility will be gone with the wind, too.

Roy Rowlett, assistant Brown grid mentor, may be named "Coach of the Year" because he is the only one who has been able to beat Glynn at anything since the season began. He wasn't so foolish as to try to beat the Typhoon from the Coast on a football field. He used the flip-a-coin method, one that always gives a fellow a 50-50 chance. When Coach Page flipped the coin, Rowlett said, "heads." It was, so Glynn will be forced to come to Atlanta to massacre Brown.

That will make the local hospitals right handy. Then, too, when one is sad, one likes to be at home with one's own friends and among one's own flowers. The marshes of "Glynn Academy" would be no place to recuperate from an illness, so the Brown boys are thankful that Rowlett is so lucky at the penny-pitching art.

Rowlett actually saw Glynn in action, and if that was a plugged nickel he used to do the flipping he would't give you it for Brown's chances to win a State title this season. The do say his last words before leaving Macon were those usually reserved for New York Giant fans and alumni of schools that have had a bad season: "Just wait until next year?"

They say the Battle of Bull Run was like two kids playing cowboy and Indian compared with Friday's "Macon Massacre." Many said cagy Selby Buck was so smart he'd pull Lanier through to another win, but a Buck, two mules and the Ringling elephant herd couldn't have pulled anyone through against the Glynn powerhouse.

Bob Christian covered the game for The Constitution, and although he is a great admirer of the Brown eleven, he says that even if he weren't already a Christian that Glynn team would have made one of him.

Everyone is raving about the Red Terrors great offense, but we believe their defense is even better. It's true that Lanier scored 27 points in the last half, but the 55 points the Pageboys scored in the first half was the greatest defense of which we've heard.

The maulers from the marshlands have left devastation and broken adding machines in their wake all year. They broke ours too, but if our adding by head is not faulty we figure they have scored 430 points in 11 games or between 39 and 40 points a game. Of course, opposing elevens have "snowballed" up a big 63 points or almost a touchdown per team, so you can see the Brunswickers aren't too hot on defense.

They'll be telling the Brown boys what all coaches do about other teams with good records: "They can only play 11 boys at a time just like we do, and each of those boys puts on his britches just like you do, one leg at a time."

That may be so, but we've heard the Glynn boys even put on their pants faster than a marijuana-smoking fireman at the sound of a bell. They are said to have tremendous team speed. They must have to score that many touchdowns before they run out of breath.

They scored eight touchdowns the first eight times they had their hands on the ball against Lanier. It took them 24 plays to get those 55 points in the first half though. We doubt the truth of the rumor that Coach Page bawled them out at halftime by saying: "What took you so long?"

Some say that Page wanted to hold the score down in the second half - to under 100 points, that is. Maybe that's so, but it seems more likely that the Terrors were too tired to run any more, even to try to catch Lanier halfbacks.

Could it be that Page takes unfair advantage of the befuddling substitution rule and that team speed to put too many players in the game? He must have. Fourteen players scored at least one touchdown for Glynn this year, and there should be only 11 on any football team. However, maybe he lets the boys on his defensive team score sometimes. We forgot for a moment that there was such a thing as the two platoon system.

There were three kinds of football teams in Georgia this year: 1. The smart, (those who dropped Glynn from their schedule). 2. The lucky, (those who didn't have an open date on which they could schedule Glynn). 3. The mangled.

Valdosta is the "Team of the Year." The South Georgians lost only 7-0 to the Terrors. That must have been before practice started in Brunswick. Savannah won a moral victory, losing only 19-0. BC's headache was a small one, 28-6. Glynn annihilated the others, scoring from 39 to 55 points against all of them.

Some fans like to go home early in Brunswick. They can go to a Glynn game, leave at halftime and sleep souldly and long, knowing the best the opposition can do is score four or five touchdowns and get within "hailing distance."

We just spent a half-minute figuring up our 1949 all-state team. Clip Glynn Academy's starting lineup out of next Friday's paper, and there you have it.

Mind you we're not selling a good Brown team short at Grady Stadium next Friday night. In fact, we like 'em - even money. Any takers? Okay, put up your money and give us 55 points. We're no piker. There's nothing chicken hearted about us.

By Charlie Roberts

Georgia Tech's eagle-eyed "talent scouts" came up with a winning, four-way parley over the weekend, signing to "grant-in-aids" Johnny Hunsinger, Charlie Brannon, Ed (Bulldog) Carithers and Norman (Pig) Campbell, who might be termed the "Big Four" of Brown High's North Georgia Class AA grid champions.

The four, who led Brown to three succesive City League titles, especially wanted to sign yesterday because it was the 19th birthday of the 175-pound Hunsinger, the Rebs' brilliant fullback.

Brannon, 160-pound scat back and captain of three sports teams at Brown last year, recently was named to The Constitution's Greater Atlanta All-Star blocking squad and along with the rest of the quartet is headed for many other all-star honors.

Carithers, stumpy 190-pound tackle, and Campbell, 180-pound guard, have been perhaps the two most outstanding linemen the Rebels have had all year, both being distinct standouts on defense for Coach J. E. DeVaughn's team in every game. Carithers is perhaps the equal of any lineman in Georgia when it comes to blocking, and also made our all-star blocking squad.

Brannon is also particularly topnotch as a basketball player and shortstop in baseball. The quartet will close out high school football careers in the State championship AA title game against Glynn Academy at Grady Stadium here Friday night.

Other Greater Atlanta stars previously signed by Tech include Billy Ralston and Pete Scogins, of West Fulton; Harry Goss, of Fulton; Henry Hair and Harry Perkerson, of Marist; Frank Givens of Decatur, and Bobby Drake, of Grady. The Jackets also have A. B. (Skin) Edge, LaGrange quarterback, in the fold.