PEEK, GRIFFIN, POPE, WOODRUFF GRID AIDES
Tech Boys At Sylvan And Brown
By Charlie Roberts
Graduates of Georgia Tech figure prominently in the picture today as Sid Scarborough, city schools athletic director, announces addition of four assistant football coaches to the staffs at Brown, Roosevelt and Sylvan Hills for 1950.
Jack Peek, former Tech High and Georgia Tech scatback, has been named backfield coach at Brown, where he replaces Jimmy Green, recently appointed head mentor at Sylvan Hills, which will come into existence next Fall.
Ewell Pope, Jr., stellar guard on Boys High and Tech grid elevens of recent vintage, will become the new Brown line tutor, replacing Carl Fletcher, who was named head grid coach at Smith when Cecil Moon was elevated to the post of assistant athletic director of city schools.
Jack Griffin, top-flight end at Boys High and Tech in recent seasons, will become either line or end coach at Sylvan Hills under Green.
Bill Woodruff, brother of Georgia Tech Freshman Coach Lewis Woodruff, is to be the new line mentor at Roosevelt under O. V. Bruner. Woodruff, who takes over from Spec Landrum, newly appointed football coach at Grady, is a Griffin boy who got his schooling and played tackle for Spalding High, Gordon Military Academy, at Barnesville, and Erskine College in Due West, S.C.
All four either recently have received or shortly will receive BS degrees. Griffin is 21, Pope 22, Peek 23 and Woodruff 26 years of age.
Peek, one of the greatest and fastest backs in Tech High history, ran 70 yards for Georgia Tech's only touchdown against Navy in a losing cause, 20-6, at Baltimore Stadium in 1945, his Freshman year at the Flats. The long jaunt, on which Buck Doyal threw the key downfield block, accounted for the first touchdown against Navy that year, and it was near mid-year then (Oct.21). That was the Navy team that had two All-Americans, End Dick Durden and Back Hunchy Hoernschemeyer.
The black-thached Peek, a left-hander in most things, also was a baseball star in Smithieville through the Sring of 1945, but didn't compete on the diamond at Tech.
Woodruff, who stands five-eleven and weighs 230 pounds, was graduated from Spalding in 1941 and then came three years in the Ninety-Seventh Division Infantry of the U.S. Army before he finished his schooling at Barnesville and Due West. He played football under Coach John McMillian at Erskine and was graduated only last month.
The jovial, over-sized Woodruff served in Europe for 11 months and the South Pacific for six more as a staff sergeant, starting in 1943. He received the Purple Heart after being woulded in Czechoslovakia in 1944.