Continued from previous posts: Our team was geared for a wild game & our fans were loving it! We were on an 18-game winning streak as we headed to Gainesville.

This is the third story on the '59 NCHS boys team. The guards were outstanding, as Billy Dean Rutledge averaged 21 ppg. & Gerald Autry averaged 11 ppg. (with a shot that had no "arch").

This is a continuation of the story on the 1959 NCHS boys basketball team. We have been giving readers a glimpse of the physical/mental requirements to be a part of our team.

Today we'll go back in time to when my 50-yr. HS coaching career began. My 1st year at Newton Co. HS I was the "B-team" coach.

I coached football for 19 years, but we never had another team like the '79 season produced. We had a great coaching staff. Coach Jay Milligan loved our George Walton Academy youngsters like they were his own, and they loved him back.

I'm a little late with my post today, but if you know the "BEAU" with all it's entertainment, you know why.If you have followed my comments lately you know how my granddaughter put together a FB page, I promised Jan I would do 3 weeks of stories to see if there is any interest.

Sometimes you have a youngster under your guidance and you have no idea how high that person might fly

I had a young student in my first period class named Seaborn Hardeman, who I recognized rather quickly that he was brilliant. When someone would ask a tough question trying to show up a young teacher like me, I would say ,"that is a great question, Seaborn would you answer that question."

We had a young guy on our '79 GWA championship football team. When you looked at this youngster, you wouldn't have seen a future in athletics.

One morning I was cleaning the gym floor and I heard sounds coming from our stadium. I looked out the window of the door and saw one of our most popular teachers and she was sobbing away.

This is the third in a series about Loganville High boys basketball, and unless you are a relative, or interested in LHS, or connected to Coach Bradley's 50 year career, you probably want to skip this story.

Everything was in place to give our Loganville youngsters a chance to be winners

I retired 3 times for Jan and me to travel, and each time someone or something beckoned me back to teaching and coaching.

If your Dad is still alive, let him know that you love him, I promise you that one day you will miss him.

Sometimes we seek shangri-la even though we may not understand what it is we want. Then when we travel thru life we are so intent on looking thru the front window to the future, that we don't notice thru the back window that we may have already been.there.

Every new year brings athletic teams and fans hopes for a great season. All the teams start out undefeated, but very few stay that way very long.

The 1966 Newton County seniors set a four year school basketball that is likely to stand for a long time. Wayne Hall, Bob Richardson, and Steve Smith's 4 year record of 131 wins and only 9 losses is amazing.

My world changed one Christmas when Santa brought me a bicycle. Boy, was it special with the white side wall tires, a light for night driving, and bell to warn anyone that got in the way.

It all started outside the Avondale theatre when I saw a 14 year old girl who had just moved in from Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Coach Billy B.C. Crowell was a giant of a man in Newton County where he influenced more young people than seemingly possible.