Chattanooga Central High School
Purple Pounders 1957
Selected Images From Football Programs

1957 State Football Champions
10 - 0 Regular Season Play
Outscored Regular Season Opponents 235-32
Only 2 Teams Scored On Central

Program Central vs Knoxville Fulton 
Oct. 18, 1957
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Newton, Seaton, Farmer, Etter


Knoxville Lineup

20 Ripley - Home 0
7 Memphis South - Home 0
7 Memphis Central - Away 0
26 Kingsport - Away 20
35 Bradley - Away 0
41 Knoxville Fulton - Home 0
21 Woodlawn - Home 0
29 Scottsboro - Away 12
41 Knoxville South - Home 0
8 Oak Ridge - Home 0
0 Robert E. Lee - Meninak Bowl 14
235 46

FEARLESS LEADERS
Jimmy Cheek - Captain, Chink Brown - Co-Captain
Eddie lance - Alternate Captain

FAST HALFBACKS - TOP
Front -Bobby Myers, Happy Mallet, Norman Womack, Johnny Mallet, David Camp, James Brandon. 
Back - Jimmy Cheek, Charles McLaughlin, Terrel Dye, Eddie Hoback, Ted Carson, Ossie Blaylock, 
Charles Preston


FASTER FULLBACKS - BOTTOM
Richard Mansfield, Jimmy Keene, Terrell Wallen, Chester Thompson, Gilbert Trusley

TOP - HARD NOSED GUARDS
Front - Robert Kelly, Steve Jackson, Larry Fitzpatrcik, 
Ted Baskette; Back - Norlee Reece, Tommy Nowell,
Eugene McNeill, Buddy Hale

BOTTOM - Front - TOUGH CENTERS - Eddie Lance, 
George Shuford, Haven Thompson, Sonny Culpepper,
Barney Ottinger. 
Rear - Great Quarterbacks - Chink Brown, Wayne Huling,
Mike O'Brien, Jerry Summers, Monty Stewart, 
James Hutcheson

MEAN TACKLES
Front - Russell Heffner, Paul Chapman, Steve Robinson
Ronnie Tapp; Rear - Bobby Locke, Carol Coffey
Eddie Baker, Jimmy Kendricks

ELUSIVE ENDS
Grady Wade, Paul Askew, Buddy Newton,
 Bill Sachse, Bill Pack, Jack Dixon, Jerry Ritchey, 
Jimmy Webb, Milton Cuplepper

 


CHEERLEADERS

Tommy Morgan, Peggy Oldham, Nancy Miller, Judy Phillips
Jack Long, Rosemary Dickson (not pictured)

MAJORETTES

Brenda LaFerry, Pat Wilbanks, Donna Reed
Janie Francisco, Brenda Belk, Myrna Manning,
Linda Powell,  Linda Scruggs, Carolyn Ball

Band in the Meninak Bowl - 1956 Formations


TOP NOTCH MANAGERS
Terrell Garrison, Tommy Acklin, Paul Monroe, Kackie Pritchard Trainer and Grounds Keeper Ruben Smith

Morgan Silver Dollars

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