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The Wildcat

A Tribute to the Football Rookies

To be awarded the letter "W" a football player must play in a certain number of quarters or be going good and get hurt and therefore have to miss a game.  If he does not play enough quarters, he can win a game that is lost, which means something in the conference race, and get a letter.  It is the custom to give a player a letter who has been out four years before he will be awarded the letter "W".  In case we have two men equally good we might give both a letter.  The last and important thing is that he must pass in ten hours work.

Rand Peeples and Thomas Humphrey were just a few points short of the qualifications for a letter.  Peeples, guard, and Humphrey, guard, were extremely close.  These freshmen lads have the stuff in them.  They only need another season to show to the sporting world what they can do.  They played in all of our major games a few minutes.  Half the season was gone when we found the position for which Mumphrey was best fitted.  He plays guard like a demon.  Watch him next season.

Samuel De Leon Franklin, Henry Milton, and Farley Lewis are the boys who some dope to give quarterback candidates plenty of competition.  Milton and Lewis both are accurate passers, good interferers, and can be taught to do the other things required of a back.  Franklin is the iron man of the three.  He should be the best of the crop.  He is stockily built, and is hard and fast.  His determination to win makes him an admirable general.

J. B. Taylor, Fred Wright, and Emile Labat are three men valuable to a football team anywhere.  We hope to do a lot in bringing these boys into their own.  They have the best natural and physical ability of any players who have reported to Coach Long - yet they have failed to produce.  Wright and Taylor are exceptionally good.  They can carry the ball, interfere, pass and tackle; that is all that anyone can require of a back.  Plenty will be heard from them the season of '31.  James L. Jones, and E. B. Cavil are two ends that any Coach would like to have
on his team when the air route is taken.  They are sure receivers and always hustling.  Their height and speed gives them an advantage over their usually shorter opponents.  We expect great things of them in '31.

Willie James Cavil, Harrold Willard, and Grady Williams will be valuable next to Caoch Long next season.  these lads showed great improvement when the season neared its close.  They have the making of a Wildcat.

Cecil Jones deserves to be mentioned for the service he rendered the team.  Although he could not play in the conference, he kept fighting and thereby offered the type of opposition that is needed to keep a team on edge.

Cleveland Cole, Percy Prothrow, Wilbur Sewell, and Malcolm Kirk should be good after another year of training.  They have the physical ability, but lack the most essential thing, experience.

Will Adam, tackle, entered school late, and therefore did not get started.  We wish him well next season.

George Turner and Xenophon Brooks are two boys who threw the best chance to make a letter of their lives away.  It was Brooks' last chance, as he is a senior.