October 27, 2013

One time in Greenup

 

Old Greenup High School had only one football team back in 1952

 

G. Sam Piatt

For The Independent

GREENUP — When McKell, Wurtland and Greenup high schools merged in 1973 to form the new Greenup County High School Musketeers, both the Wurtland Warriors and the McKell Bulldogs fielded football teams. The Greenup Tigers did not, and most people assume Greenup has never had a football team.

 

But, ah, there was that fall of 1952, when coach Carl Terry, who played at Ohio State, called for volunteers for a Greenup football team.

 

Greenup was a very small school. Jim Archey, who was a junior on that team, said his class had but 16 people, and half of them were girls.

 

“Coach Terry had to recruit some 7th and 8th graders to pull in enough numbers for a team,” he said. “We wound up with 21 players, most of them, of course, from the basketball and baseball teams.

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Good article — you guys have always had a good paper in the ADI.

 

Loved this quote:

 

“I came in and Rock Hill wasn’t expecting me to carry the ball. Neither was I. But linemen Jim Doran and Don Meadows said if I'd carry the ball they'd make a hole for me. They did, and I ran 88 yards to score. It was a night game, and the huge, long shadows cast by the players pursuing me scared me enough to help me keep it in high gear. Then I lugged it in behind the same two guys for the two-point conversion and we led 8-0.”

Good article — you guys have always had a good paper in the ADI.

 

Loved this quote:

They do a great job. I do love the "walks down memory lane" articles they do from time to time. I would say 90% of the people in the area never knew Greenup High School ever played a football game. Nice story.

They do a great job. I do love the "walks down memory lane" articles they do from time to time. I would say 90% of the people in the area never knew Greenup High School ever played a football game. Nice story.

 

In the 30's Greenup had a HS and they were called the Tigers. I found an old track article in the Greenup News (1935) where the Raceland "Orange Ramblers" (as they were called) upset them to win their first EKC Track title.

Love these kind of articles, nothing like getting a little "history" lesson........great job Ram. :thumb:

Love these kind of articles, nothing like getting a little "history" lesson........great job Ram. :thumb:

I just posted it, Sam Piatt, who is an independent writer wrote the article. He did a good job with the article.

 

I too like to have a history lesson on the sport and the area. It has been posted before, but that is how Greenup County High School received the mascot name "Musketeers" Greenup County was a consolidation of McKell High School, Wurtland High School, and Greenup High School. Musketeers came from a play on the "Three Musketeers" Three schools, three musketeers.

 

And, as Cerebral Assasian posted, Raceland was the "Ramblers" because Raceland did not have a gym or football field, or as in the article's case a track, so they had to "ramble" to compete without a home to host contests. Later after Raceland built a gym, football field, and track, the Ramblers became known as the "Rams".