1938-44
TEAM MEMBERS:
1938
W. A. Stevens Mack
Murphy E. G.
Kilpatrick
Osborn Belyeau Tommy
Parker Calvin
Peacock
Jack Fowler
Leroy Alspaugh Roy Kautz
H. B. Baxter Walter
Cross Marion
Spooner
Kermit Dell
Clarence Pate Harold Wilkinson
John Kautz
Walker Fears Dan Beardsley
I. J. Frasure Pete Bardin
Elmo Hancock
Joe Tom Boynton Marvin
Unwin Bob Beardsley
Vance Denton
Pahokee 31
Avon Park 0
Pahokee 0 Ft. Lauderdale
0
Pahokee 12 Ponce
de Leon 6
Pahokee 7 Ft. Pierce
6
Pahokee 25 Dania 7
Pahokee 44 Stuart
0
Pahokee 0 Miami
Beach 6 Pahokee
34 Lake Worth 7
Pahokee 40 Vero Beach 0 Pahokee 14
Palm Beach 6
Pahokee total points 207
Head Coach Frank Hobson
Opponents total points 38
Line Coach
Robert Benton
Won 8, lost 1, tied 1
Manager
Billy McKinstry
CHEERLEADERS:
Mary Jamerson
Annie Doman
Roy
Majors Ona
Fay Padgett
The team of 1938 was a memorable
one and perhaps one of the greatest. The
Blue Devils had a good offense
and one of the
finest defensive teams in the
history of the school. They gave up
less than 4 points per game.
They rolled over three straight
opponents and then Pahokee met powerful Miami Beach. This game was a rock and
sock game. Miami Beach scored a
touchdown and was leading 6-0. In
the fourth quarter Pahokee lateraled a pass
to a back and he went for an apparent touchdown.
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1939
Pahokee 0 Lawrenceburg,Tn
19
Pahokee 7 Tavares
0
Pahokee 13 Ft.
Lauderdale 0
Pahokee 13 Ft. Pierce 13
Pahokee 7 Lake Worth 13
Pahokee 32 Plant City 0
Pahokee 0 Lawrenceburg,Tn
0
Pahokee 7 Stuart 13
Pahokee 19 Punta Gorda 13
Pahokee 13 Palm Beach 7
Pahokee total points 78
Won 5., tied 2, lost 3
Opponent's total points 111
1940
TEAM MEMBERS:
David Unwin
Harold Henry
Vance Denton
Earl
Wilson
Roy Kautz
Richard
Howell
C.
R. Wetherington Clarence Kidder
Walker Fears
Henry Kilpatrick
W. A. Stevens
Bill Stone
Mike Sanders
Don Ogle
Reed Collins
Jordan Parker
W. L. Cunningham Claude
Jones
Joe Murphy
Jim Allen
Calvin Peacock
J. F. Bridges
Ross Bleech
Carl Cowan
SCHEDULE
Pahokee
6 Mulberry 6
Pahokee 13 Ft
Lauderdale 18
Pahokee
13 Punta Gorda 19
Pahokee 6 Ft
Pierce 14
Pahokee
54 Dania 7
Pahokee 33 Lake
Worth 13
Pahokee
39 Okeechobee 12
Pahokee 19 Stuart
0
Pahokee
47 Delray Beach 0
Pahokee 13 West
Palm Beach 14
Pahokee total points 245
Head Coach Frank Hobson
Opponents total points 103
Line Coach Raymond Cagni
Won 5, tied 1 lost 4 550% Manager
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CHEERLEADERS:
Mae Groover
Dot Tucker
Jane Allen
Louise
Hollingsworth
Melvin Spooner
Doris Jordan
After 16 days of preliminary conditioning at Camp Flaming Arrow, located four
miles north of Auburndale, Florida, the Pahokee High Blue Devils returned home to enter into
a successful if not spectacular season. Led
by the swivel hipped bolt of greased lightning, Calvin Peacock, the Pahokee team
drove and battered their way through a tough season, totaling four losses one
tie, and losing the four games by a very small margin.
The
three best-played games of the season were all defeats for the Blue Devils but
their opponents only nosed them out from a victory. These games were with Ft Lauderdale, Ft Pierce, and West Palm
Beach.
On
Friday, November 1, 1940, Ft Lauderdale’s pride the “Flying L’s” came to
Pahokee. After a hard-fought three
quarters, with the score 13-12 in favor of Pahokee, a Lauderdale player slipped
by Pahokee’s secondary defense to complete a 50 yard pass which resulted in
the winning touchdown for Ft Lauderdale.
With
revenge in their blood, Pahokee invaded Ft. Pierce, only to be turned back by a
stronger team to the tune of 14-6. It
was an exceptional game but the Blue Devils were beaten by an 8-point margin.
The
annual Pahokee vs. West Palm Beach gridiron battle was played on Lair Field in
Pahokee on December 5, 1940. With
both teams giving their best, Palm Beach edged out Pahokee by one point to win
the game and the championship of the County.
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NOTES OF THE WEEK (1940)
You’ve all heard of
point-a-minute football teams, but now Pahokee has given us a point a pound
star.
Yes sir, those seven points Calvin Peacock scored against Palm Beach made
his season total 170 -
just exactly what he weighs.
Back in the 1930’s, Pahokee
played their afternoon games on the site where the elementary school is now
located. There were no bleachers
and the farmers would come to the game and lean on their pitchforks to watch the
game. The stray dogs of the town
would run all over the field and bark and get in the way as usual.
When a visiting team came to
town they usually got a $25.00 guarantee. It
was not uncommon for the coach at half time to pass the hat to pay the visiting
team when he should have been inspiring the Blue Devils with a pep talk to go
out and win for Pahokee.
Pahokee had a great player in
Carl Sapp. However, the referees
were giving the Pahokee team a hard time. Mrs.
Sapp, not liking an official’s decision, charged out on the field with murder
in her eyes. Being a defenseless
woman., she used the only weapon available her pocketbook.
She repeatedly beat the official over the head with her pocketbook until
some of the townspeople were able to pull her off of the official who was only
trying to do his job.
Calvin Peacock’s longest run
in high school was a punt return against Ft.
Pierce. He returned the punt
94 yards for a touchdown. He is the only player to ever score five touch-
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downs a game for four games in a
season.
Frank Hobson, his school coach
said “Finest back I ever coached.”
His college coach said, “ A
better back than Frankie Sinkwich.” Mr Caudill his high school principal said,
“ Calvin Peacock was an A student
in school. The kids respected him, the football fans loved him and he gave the
football game everything he had.”
Pahokee 54-South Broward – 7
Calvin Peacock scored five touchdowns. Had
runs of 55 yards, 42 yards, 34 yards, 27 yards and 14 yards.)
Pahokee whips Lake Worth 33-13
(Calvin Peacock scores 32 of his team’s 33 points. He actually made seven touchdowns and only five
of them counted. Peacock made touch
down runs of 17 yards, 60 yards,
4 yards, 34 yards and 20 yards. Caught one pass for extra point and threw
another pass for extra point.)
Pahokee 19-Stuart 0 (Peacock ran
a 14 yard touchdown, ran for 84 yards and touchdown. Passed for another touchdown.) Pahokee beats Delray 47-0
(Calvin Peacock scored seven touchdowns with only five counting. Peacock passed to Bleech 27yards for a touchdown.
Peacock ran 4 yards for a touchdown.
Ran 10 yards for a touchdown. Scored
again from 33 yards out. Intercepted
a pass and two plays later ran around left
end for 25 yards and a touchdown.
Pahokee 39 - Okeechobee 12
(Calvin Peacock ran wild and scored five touchdowns against Okeechobee.
Peacock had runs of 80 yards, 60 yards, 65 yards, 8 yards, and 20 yards
for touchdowns. When did Pahokee
win a football game 1-0? On October 27, 1944, Vero Beach forfeited a game to
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1941
TEAM MEMBERS:
David Unwin
Reed Collins Harold
Henry
David Chancey Jimmy
Allen Henry
Kilpatrick
James Weeks
Earl Wilson
Harold Fletcher
Ross Bleech
Billy Stone
Gene Hardy
Charles McQuaig Claude
Jones Mack
Murphy
Carl Cowan
SCHEDULE:
Pahokee 26 Delray 0 Pahokee 7
Ft Pierce 32
Pahokee 7
Stuart 13 Pahokee
21 Dania
0
Pahokee 0
Ft Laud 44 Pahokee
0 Vero
0
Pahokee 12 Okeechobee 0 Pahokee 8
Palm Beach B Team 33
Pahokee 0 Lake Worth
28
Starting Lineup:
LE
Wilson
155 lbs
RT Ogle
158 lbs
LT
Jones 155 lbs
RE Murphy
155 lbs
LG
Kilpatrick 155 lbs
QB Unwin 138
lbs
C Fletcher
185 lbs
LH Stone 150
lbs
RG Hardy 155 lbs
RH Bleech
140 lbs
FB Collins 170 lbs
Pahokee
total points 74
Cheerleaders:
Opponent’s
total points 150
Iona Padgett
Won
3, tied 1, lost 5
Dorothy Tucker
Head
Coach: Frank Hobson
Melvin Spooner
Asst
Coach: Ray Cagni
Pahokee
defeated Delray 26-0 but Coach Hobson attributed two of the Blue Devils
touchdowns to breaks of the game. Coach
Frank Hobson will use mostly second string
men in the start of the Pahokee Blue Devil game with Delray Beach Seahawks o
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TEAM MEMBERS:
Donald
Harrington
Gene
Funderburk
Billy
Bridges
Charles
Singletary
Billy
DeLoach
Wilbur
Geiger
Gerald
Wade
Thomas
Dickson
Hugh Branch
Jack Danson
Tom
Boland
Frank Handley
Charles
Wilkinson
Walter Kautz
“Punk”
Batchelor
Jack Bush
Dennis
Wilson
Sam Lovell
Milton
Salvatore
James McCall
John
Carr
Lynn Walker
Potter
Howell
James
Smith
Pahokee
39 Belle Glade
0 Pahokee 0 Ft Pierce 19
Pahokee
0 Delray Beach 13 Pahokee 39 Belle Glade 0
Pahokee
54 Okeechobee 0 Pahokee
0 Palm Beach 18
Pahokee
13 Delray 6
Won 4, lost 4
Pahokee
total points 157 Head
Coach: Frank Osteen
Opponents total points 77
Managers: Billy
DeLoach
Donald
Hitchcock
The
Pahokee Blue Devils started their pre-season practice on Lair Field
Wednesday afternoon with 26 boys reporting for practice under Coach Osteen.
Osteen
was encouraged by the team material and the team showed good spirit in practice.
Pahokee
started off the season with a bang by trouncing Belle Glade 39-0.
Stokes Smith made the first touchdown for Pahokee.
He scored
on a 1 yard run. Belle Glade
fumbled in the second quarter and Pahokee
took advantage of the opportunity to score three touchdowns.
“Punk” Batchelor made the first, Bridges made one touchdown and Walter
Kautz passed to Hugh Branch for the third.
Later on in the game Kautz recovered
a fumble and scored for Pahokee.
Pahokee
was upset by Delray Beach and roared back to beat Okeechobee 54-0.
In
the second game with Delray, Stokes made a 50-yard run and when he was
bottled up lateraled to Charles Wilkinson who ran over for a score.
Hugh
Branch did some excellent passing to help his team win several games.
Stokes Smith Walter Kautz, and “Punk” Batchelor made exciting runs
for Pahokee
in 1943.
Pahokee
had a game schedule with Ft Lauderdale. However,
it was cancelled.
Pahokee
lost a heartbreaker to Lake Worth 20-12.
1944
Dennis
Wilson Frank
Gillis Otis
Boland
Bobby Baker
Donald Harrington Thomas
Dickson
Kyle Hatfield
Billy Bridges
Irving Maloy
Wilbur Geiger
Tom Boland
Donald Smith
Charles Phillips Harry
Fremd
Sam Lovell
Dickie Johnson Seaborn Burns
Potter Howell
Milton Salvatore Frank
Handley Wilton
Giddens
James Scott
Pahokee
27 Delray Beach 6
Pahokee 35 Stuart 0
Pahokee
20 Okeechobee 0
Pahokee 19 Dania 6
Pahokee
33 Cocoa 25
Pahokee 13 Palm Beach 33
Pahokee
1
Vero Beach 0
Pahokee 6
Ft Pierce 25
Pahokee 7 Belle Glade 7
Pahokee 6 Lake Worth 32
CHEERLEADERS
Imogene Hough, Margie Adams, Marie
Johnson, Ann O'Connell, Betty Wetherington
Won 6. Lost 3., tied 1
Head Coach: Frank Osteen, Manager: Roy Pope
On
October 27 Pahokee had an open date due to Vero Beach forfeiting the game 1-0.
Pahokee accepted a game with Miami
Edison. Pahokee was beaten
in this game 20-0.
The
Delray game was the first of the year and after only four weeks of practice
Pahokee won 27-6. One of the
Pahokee players broke his leg in the last quarter of the game.
Pahokee played the best game of the season against Miami
Edison although they lost 20-0 against a big school.
The
most satisfying game of the season was the final game when Pahokee played a 7-7
tie with Belle Glade. Pahokee
retained the cup because they won it the previous year and if you are tied you
retain possession.
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