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Mumbles
Dupont Strong called Friday. He had just read the story in the Bobcat tribute about the 1932 game in Columbia. "I was a 130-pound center in that game, playing against a kid over 6'5", 250," he stated. "... snapping the ball to quarterback Grady Holman." Dupont, now in Enterprise, was kin, sort of. His mother married my grandfather in the 1920s and they lived in the Fleming home on South Church. Dupont said Daddy helped coach in those days and refereed some, too. Dupont remembers the crowd began getting so rowdy in Columbia during the game that Coach Hammock loaded the team up on Model A's and headed back to Blakely, still in their uniforms. "I remember I had to hang on and ride a running board back to Blakely." When they went through the main intersection in Columbia, "I remember wondering where Hoyle was. Turned out he ended up over there on main street by himself and was in the middle of a big brawl. He was all beat up when he got back home later that night." "I wore the old sweat shirt Hoyle wore on that first team during our practices," Dupont said. He also remembered skipping school as a young student and picking up dove for Hoyle. When asked, he remembered Daddy shooting a 16 gauge Model 12 Winchester - the same shotgun I shot quail with recently at Quail Country. He also remembered an old double barrel shotgun I have that belonged to Uncle Earl. It was Uncle Earl who brought the old cannon back from a prince's castle in Haiti. But, that's another story, one that Mr. Charlie Yarbrough remembers. ************
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.
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