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

Schedule


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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SCHEDULE

             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    Lawrence Whidden

 

 

 

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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.

Mama Gets Into The Game...

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.

Football Incidentals

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 Pahokee.

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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 Lair
Field here tonight, appeared in a local paper.

 

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1943


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

SCHEDULE

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

TEAM MEMBERS:

            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

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SCHEDULE

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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