Sports
THE BLUE STREAKS
Basketball
1925-26 Basketball Team
L-R: Ray Synder, Clyde Jones, Ernest Brewer, John Craver, Marion “Bud” Harper, Dennis Brewer. The team played its games on an outdoor dirt court.
1927-28 Basketball Team
L-R: Dennis Brewer. Back Row: John Craver, Cecil Essex, Coach J.C Killinger, Clifton Brewer, Marion “Bud” Harper. With just five uniforms, the team fielded only five players—and even had to go without socks.
1934-35 Girls Basketball Team
1st Row: Treva Nifong. 2nd Row: Ruth Miller, Dorothy Robertson. 3rd Row: Virginia Grubs, Helen Sides, Irene Sides. 4th Row: Annie Hill Alspaugh, Unidentified, Hazel Pegram
1950 Basketball Team
Class B Forsyth County Champions
1st Row: Jim Furches, Thurmond Templeton, Clarence Tedder, Bobby Cheek, Jimmy Brewer, Herbert Doty. 2nd Row: Richard Vogler, Raymond Vogler, Charlie Giles (Coach), Pete Moorefield, Donald “Rusty” Craver.
Not Shown: Joe Lowder
The Two-Day County Champs
The “Blues” basketball team had a spirited win on a Friday evening to capture the County Championship. However, on the bus ride home, one of the players mentioned that he had played in a varsity game as an 8th Grader. Coach Giles realized that this not only made the player ineligible for his senior year but also forfeited the entire season for the team. Principal Gibbs informed the NCHSAA the following Monday and relinquished the title.
1949 Basketball Team
1st Row: Pete Moorefield, Raymond Vogler, Marvin Butcher, Tommy Howard, Richard Vogler, Donald “Rusty” Craver. 2nd Row: Bobby Nelson (Manager), Ronald “Tub” Mechum, Norman “Buster” Miller, Joe Lowder, Bobby Warner, Clarence Tedder, Charlie Giles (Coach). Not Shown: Bobby Cheek
1954 Girls Basketball Team
1st Row: Coach Frances Cook, Manager Judy Ellingham. 2nd Row: Nancy Vaught, Arlene Lutz, Ada Lou Boyer, Diane Sheek, Nancy Setliff, Shirley Craver, Jean Tise, Carol Tise, Jane Lowder, Betty Reed, Betty Scott, Jeanette Lineback, Barbara Craver, Shirley Wooten, Jackie Matlock
Come let us one and all our voices raise, To Clemmons School in loyalty and praise. Within her walls both Joy and sorrow known Have made her seem to us our very, very own. Her colors blue and white will always be an emblem of faith, truth and victory. She has the rep, the pep, the dignity, dignity. Rah! Rah! Rah! Stand up and fight her battles to the end. Upon her strong support the future bends. Let’s lead her own through years of sure success, Her colors blue and white spell nobleness. She has the rep, the pep, the dignity. She has the everlasting loyalty. So, here’s three cheers for dear Old Clemmons School. Clemmons School Rah! Rah! Rah!
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Come let us one and all our voices raise, To Clemmons School in loyalty and praise. Within her walls both Joy and sorrow known Have made her seem to us our very, very own. Her colors blue and white will always be an emblem of faith, truth and victory. She has the rep, the pep, the dignity, dignity. Rah! Rah! Rah! Stand up and fight her battles to the end. Upon her strong support the future bends. Let’s lead her own through years of sure success, Her colors blue and white spell nobleness. She has the rep, the pep, the dignity. She has the everlasting loyalty. So, here’s three cheers for dear Old Clemmons School. Clemmons School Rah! Rah! Rah! 🎵
Shirley Craver
1954 MVP and All County
Baseball
1928 Baseball Team
Dennis Brewer (1st Player, Front Row)
Marion “Bud” Harper (3rd Player, 1st Row)
1928 Baseball
Marion “Bud” Harper & Dennis Brewer
The baseball team won the Class C Western State Championship against End Bend in George Moody’s first year of coaching. However, they were not allowed to travel across the state to play the Eastern State Champions due to gas rationing during WWII. Mr. Moody did not originally intend to coach the team that year; however, the position was “offered” to him when the current coach entered into WWII prior to the school year.
Players: Eben Alspaugh, Henry Beck, Thad Bingham, Dale Bodenhamer, Clint Bodford, Frank Foster, George Furches, John Earl Harpe, Jesse Head, Gilmer Holton, Jim Ogburn, Ray Phelps. (No photo available)
1944 Baseball Team
This team went 20-1 and won their district group but experienced a heartbreaking loss to Jamestown in the District playoff. They played twice the number of regular season games that year than the succeeding seasons due to the “Fall Diamond Program”. Since Class B did not have Six-man Football in the Fall of 1946, this allowed the baseball team play 10 regular season games in the Fall and then another 10 games in the Spring.
Players: Rusty Craver, Tommy Howard, Charles Martin, Buster Miller, Tub Mechum, Ray Phelps, Raymond Vogler, Richard Vogler. (No photo available) (List not complete)
1947 Baseball Team
1948 Baseball Team - Class B State Champions
1st Row: Marvin Butcher, Richard Vogler, Pete Morefield, Joe Lowder, Raymond Vogler, Donald “Rusty” Craver, Ronald “Tub” Mechum. 2nd Row: Jim Furches, Bobby Cheek, Jimmy Brewer, Jim Hall, Norman “Buster” Miller, John Wells (Manager), Coach George Moody. Not Shown: Tommy Brewer, Norman Bullard, Thurmond Chappell, Darrell Everhart, Perry Grant, Tommy Howard, Don Reid, Carl “Bub” Spaugh
1949 Baseball Team - Class B State Champions
Clemmons wins 2nd consecutive the Class B State Championship against Southern Pines with another undefeated season (18-0).
1st Row: Raymond Vogler, Thurmond Chappell, Marvin Butcher, Richard Vogler, Carl “Bub” Spaugh, Ronald “Tub” Mechum, Pete Morefield, Tommy Howard, Darrell Everhart, Coach George Moody. 2nd Row: Jim Furches, Jim Hall, Norman “Buster” Miller, Tommy Brewer, Eugene Bowles, Don Reid, Leroy Harpe, Norman Bullard, Donald “Rusty” Craver, Bobby Cheek, Jimmy Brewer
1950 Baseball Team - Class B State Champions
1st Row: Coach George Moody, Jim Hall, Richard Vogler, Bobby Cheek, Jimmy Brewer, Don Reid, Raymond Vogler. 2nd Row: Thurmond Chappell, Frank Ellis, Larry Hart, Max Kimel, Lorenza Clinard, Alfonzo Hendrix, Joe Butcher, Bill Thomas, Clarence Tedder (Manager).
3rd Row: Jim Furches, Jimmy Stewart, Howard Hickman, Pete Morefield, Bobby Russell, Teddy Lowe, Bobby Miller. Not Shown: Donald “Rusty” Craver, Darrell Everhart, Tommy Brewer,
Walter Craver, Perry Grant
Championship Trophies: Salvaging the Past
Sadly, most of the trophies for the championship teams mentioned in this section were discarded when West Forsyth High School moved its trophy display case from the original gymnasium to the new Harold B. Simpson Gymnasium. Fortunately, the 1948 football and 1949 baseball State Championship trophies were rescued by Bobby Cheek and are displayed in the cabinet.
Football
1948 Six-man Football Team - Class B State Champions
1st Row: Carl “Bub” Spaugh, Ronald “Tub” Mechum, Elmer Allen, Norman
“Buster” Miller, Donald “Rusty” Craver, Raymond Vogler. 2nd Row: John Wells (Manager), Jim Hall, Richard Vogler, Fred Welfare, Pete Moorefield, Marvin Butcher, Bobby Warner, Bobby Nelson (Manager) 3rd Row: Charlie Giles (Coach),
Bill Barney, Bobby Cheek, Ken Staley, Clarence Tedder, Jim Furches,
Don Reid, T. Ray Gibbs (Coach)
1947 Six-man Football Team
1st Row - Unidentified, Marvin Butcher, Fred Welfare, Elmer Allen, Unidentified, Bobby Nelson, Jim Brewer, Norman “Buster” Miller 2nd Row – Unidentified, Unidentified, Raymond Vogler, Richard Vogler, Donald “Rusty” Craver, Unidentified, Ronald “Tub” Mechum, Tommy Brewer 3rd Row – Unidentified, Roy Tesh, Elbert Gray Cook, Carl “Bub” Spaugh.
1955 Six-man Football Team -
Class B State Championship Runner-up
1st Row (L-R): Tony Lutz, Ivan Williamson, George Jones, James Britt, James Hutchins, Thomas Tate, Sam Marshall. 2nd Row: Coach Arlis Denny, Went Cornatzer, Alvin Shore, George Ed Wilson, Mack Henson, Jack Jones, Asst. Coach Charle Leith. 3rd Row: Manager Bill Harless, Doug Gobble, Jimmie Fant, Bill Smith, Kenneth Harpe, Leon Holton, Bill Brewer. Not Shown: Tom Mahannah
Golf
1954 Golf Team
L-R: Wilson Wise, Tom Isley, Grady Brewer, Joe Bullins (Swinging), Richard Jones, Stanley Dunn