Kenedy High School, 1920, on Fourth Street at School Street. The south end is boldly labeled "Girls," and the north end is engraved "Boys." The combination auditorium-gymnasium was added to the north end about 1936.
On the west side of the new stage, there was a dim dark dank basement dressing room for girls. On the east side of the stage, there was a dim dark dank basement dressing room for the football team.
There was a huge square made of 2 x 4's and strong angle brackets, and supplied with an abundance of hooks. It was hoisted by ropes above the east end of the stage by Football Manager Evert Baccus.
Sweaty jerseys, sweaty shoulder pads, sweaty football pants, sweaty socks and wet towels were then directly over the heads of the band's trombone section. Football-player Jim Holston and future-Postmaster Thomas Buddy Baker played trombone.
Jim's sister Mary Holston married football coach Carl Bage.
Supt. John Stamper and Principal Robert E. Stafford are well remembered. With offices, library-study-hall, and rest rooms all being downstairs, there were only three classrooms on the first floor. In 1943, the enrollment was 145, and we graduated 39 at this mid-year of the war.
The Fighting Kenedy Lions football field is immediately behind the building, to the east. Between the gym building and the football field, there was not much room. There was first the running track, and then immediately came two small wooden bleachers, and the football field was only a few feet beyond these bleachers.
We stepped out of the gym directly onto the track. You had to be careful. Track shoes had sharp spikes.
Coach Carl Bage and line coach Sam Hudspeth took us to District Championships in 1940 over Victoria, and again in 1941 over Cuero.
We did not do well at all in 1942 under Coach Tommy Marshall, because by that time linemen Jack Colvin, H. J. Kolinek, Preston Parsons, Charles Craddock, and Charles Little had graduated, as well as our "Earl Campbell" of 1940 and 1941, Curley Lopez, the crashing fullback of our single-wing formation.
On the west side of the new stage, there was a dim dark dank basement dressing room for girls. On the east side of the stage, there was a dim dark dank basement dressing room for the football team.
There was a huge square made of 2 x 4's and strong angle brackets, and supplied with an abundance of hooks. It was hoisted by ropes above the east end of the stage by Football Manager Evert Baccus.
Sweaty jerseys, sweaty shoulder pads, sweaty football pants, sweaty socks and wet towels were then directly over the heads of the band's trombone section. Football-player Jim Holston and future-Postmaster Thomas Buddy Baker played trombone.
Jim's sister Mary Holston married football coach Carl Bage.
Supt. John Stamper and Principal Robert E. Stafford are well remembered. With offices, library-study-hall, and rest rooms all being downstairs, there were only three classrooms on the first floor. In 1943, the enrollment was 145, and we graduated 39 at this mid-year of the war.
The Fighting Kenedy Lions football field is immediately behind the building, to the east. Between the gym building and the football field, there was not much room. There was first the running track, and then immediately came two small wooden bleachers, and the football field was only a few feet beyond these bleachers.
We stepped out of the gym directly onto the track. You had to be careful. Track shoes had sharp spikes.
Coach Carl Bage and line coach Sam Hudspeth took us to District Championships in 1940 over Victoria, and again in 1941 over Cuero.
We did not do well at all in 1942 under Coach Tommy Marshall, because by that time linemen Jack Colvin, H. J. Kolinek, Preston Parsons, Charles Craddock, and Charles Little had graduated, as well as our "Earl Campbell" of 1940 and 1941, Curley Lopez, the crashing fullback of our single-wing formation.