Saturday, February 2, 2013
The outstanding athletes are Alf Anderson (1932 graduate), Frank Broyles (1942), Jimmy Southard (1946), Auburn Lambeth (1947) and Cornell Walker (1969).
Five former Decatur High athletes were added to the school's Wall of Honor Friday night between the boys and girls games. The athletes were Alf Anderson (1932 graduate), Frank Broyles (1942), Jimmy Southard (1946), Auburn Lambeth (1947) and Cornell Walker (1969). Broyles is widely considered Decatur’s greatest athlete ever. He was a star tailback, punter and safety on the football team, but his senior year he also averaged 18 points a game in a basketball era when most scores were in the 30s, and he hit .420 in baseball. He was later head coach at Arkansas from 1958 to 1976, winning a national championship in 1964, and is in the College Football Hall of Fame. Broyles, who’s 88 and lives in Fayetteville, Ark., was represented by classmate …
Friday, February 1, 2013
Alf Anderson, Frank Broyles, Jimmy Southard, Auburn Lambeth and Cornell Walker will be added to the Decatur High Wall of Honor on Friday.
Decatur High School will add five names to the athletic Wall of Honor on Friday night in a ceremony between the Decatur-Cross Keys girls and boys games. The girls game starts at 5:30 p.m. Friday in the Decatur High gym and the boys game is expected to start around 7 p.m. The athletes to be honored are: The latter three men are expected to attend. Broyles, now 88, lives in Fayetteville, Ark., but said this week he has a conflict and can’t make it. Among his many achievements, Broyles coached the University of Arkansas football team for 19 years and won 144 games, including a national championship in 1964. He was the school's athletic director for many years. Anderson, who played for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the early 1940s, is deceased. To…
Saturday, November 19, 2011
Both men starred at college, went on to long careers in the NFL.
In a moving ceremony before Friday night's basketball games, Decatur High School added retired football players Clarence Scott and Larry Morris, without question two of the best athletes raised within Decatur’s four square miles, to the school’s Wall of Honor. Scott, a 1966 graduate of Trinity High (before Decatur High was integrated) was later an All-American at Kansas State before playing 13 years (All-Pro three times) with the Cleveland Browns. Morris, a 1950 Decatur grad, was a four-time All-SEC performer at Georgia Tech before his 12 NFL seasons, which included an MVP performance in the 1963 league championship game. Morris could not attend. He lives at the Presbyterian Village in Austell where he gets around-the-clock care for …
Decatur girls romp 60-30 over Providence Christian.
Opening games are supposed to break you in gently, a warm-and-fuzzy 15- or 20-point win that leaves everybody smiling politely and asking about the in-laws. Friday night’s opener at the Decatur High School arena was not so gentle, was in fact more like a detonation. In the end, after 36 minutes of vivid, hang-wringing, occasionally flawed but always spirited basketball, the Decatur boys outlasted Providence Christian (ranked eighth in the preseason Single-A coaches poll) 62-59 in overtime. In the girls game, Decatur won 60-30. The Bulldogs withstood an absolute blizzard of an opening 10:15, when Providence erupted to a 22-13 lead. They also withstood one of the state’s most potent guard combinations in 6-1 senior Nate Bucher, whose 23 …
Ralph Ellis
7:38 am on Friday, February 1, 2013
Congrats to the five honorees, and thanks to the organizers of this great project. more ›