50 Years Ago
Sunday, Sept. 27, 1970
Enrollment at Berry 1,044 for quarter
Berry College continues is over 1,000 enrollment with 1,044 students for the fall quarter, according to registrar G.D. Wilson.
The total compares with 1,046 for the last spring quarter, though down 130 from the 1969 fall quarter.
The student body is almost equally divided between men and women. About 53 percent of the current total reside on the campus, and the remainder are commuting students.
Tuesday, Sept. 29, 1970
Coosa midgets roll to victory
Coosa piled up a 24-6 lead in the first half and went on to defeat Alto Park, 30-6, Monday afternoon in a senior midget game at Legion Field.
In the junior midgets, Armuchee scored in the fourth quarter to whip Model, 8-0.
In the meantime, three games were played in the Boys’ Club Football program. Garden Lakes’ pee-wees rolled over Elm Street, 40-14, while in mite play Elm Street shut out Garden Lakes, 32-0, and Alto Park trounced McHenry, 32-6.
Doug Raglin got the Coosa midgets on the scoreboard when he scored from 10 yards out in the first period. Raglin and David Gresham added two more touchdowns in the second quarter and then Conway ended the scoring for the winners on a 30yard pass for the fourth period.
Jeff Johnston scored Alto Park’s only touchdown.
In Armuchee’s victory, W.C. Dunaway got into the end zone in the final minutes to break a scoreless tie.
Garden Lakes’ pee-wees tallied 22 points in the first quarter and 16 more in the second to easily win its game from Elm Street.
Gary Doegg got three touchdowns and Mike White scored twice for the winners. Gary Mull and Clarence Smith tallied for Elm Street.
The Elm Street mites returned the favor against Garden Lakes, leading 24-0 at halftime and rolling on to victory. Mark Phillips scored twice and Lance Wiseman and Steve Brandon got in to the end zone once apiece in the victory.
Mike Henry scored two touchdowns and Jerry Polland and Jim Owen one to fire Alto Park to its mile triumph. The victors scored eight points in each period, while McHenry got its only six points in the fourth period on a run by Danny Barton.