By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) scored three more TDs (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Do not worry about the Clinton Red Devils. They’re doing fine. Do not worry that that Class 4A Daniel won, 41-33, on Friday night in front of about 3,400 at Wilder Stadium. Last year the Lions won, 37-12. Don’t worry …
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Taming Lions is Clinton’s task
By MONTE DUTTON Zy Butler (18), Owen Glenn (10) and Angelo Cromer (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Before this season, Jeff Fruster stepped down after 10 seasons as head football coach at Daniel High School. He won three state championships (2020, ’21, ‘’22) and six straight region titles (2019-24). The new head man is Chris …
Life is but a Zoom, sh’boom, sh’boom
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. Mother’s Finest is a funk rock band whose fame spread rapidly in the 1970s. I saw the Atlanta-based band play the Clinton Family YMCA. A couple years later, it played with Styx and Foghat at Greenville Memorial Auditorium. Dis go dis way / Dis go …
SoCon race is wide-open
Evan James (Furman photo) Click here. Last week Clay Hendrix said he thinks Furman has as good a chance as any of winning the Southern Conference football championship. It’s true. No school has emerged as a favorite. All appear to have chinks in their armor. The Paladins have defeated two Coastal Athletic Association schools, William …
It’s a grumpy week for Clemson, Carolina fans
By MONTE DUTTON Click here. I have a generally positive view of the football programs at both Clemson and South Carolina. I like to watch the games on TV. I watched Georgia Tech edge the Tigers before I drove over to Bailey Memorial Stadium on Saturday to watch PC beat Erskine. I had Vanderbilt’s victory …
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The Blue Hose beat goes on
By MONTE DUTTON Collin Hurst tosses a strike (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Collin Hurst puts a little extra on his throws the same way a pitcher does in baseball. Hurst is a redshirt sophomore from Davie, Fla. He’s from Davie, Davie, Fla., and he’s king of the wild frontier. In Saturday night’s 42-14 victory …
Clinton wins a wild one, 40-34
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) rushed for 215 yards and three touchdowns (Monte Dutton photos). Some of the 3,800 or thereabouts who filed into Wilder Stadium looked forward to a leisurely Clinton High football victory over Chapman. They figured they’d sneak out after three quarters and be home in time to see the end …
Furman hopes to regain footing versus caravan of Camels
By MONTE DUTTON (Furman photo) Click here. A football season is just an old song. Up this hill and down / And up this hill again / It’s a might, mighty long road / What ain’t got no end. Furman has thus far played two games, the former decided by two points and the latter …
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Chapman has some catching up to do
By MONTE DUTTON Owen Glenn (10) fakes to Javen Cook (3) as Zy Butler looks for someone to block (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. A team begins its season and, despite the best of intentions, isn’t as good as expected. It’s a nightmarish realization for coaches. The atmosphere accelerates. Already obsessed with preparing for each …
The little team that can
By MONTE DUTTON Dominic Kibby (PC photo) Click here. What is the anatomy of an upset? What is the anatomy of two? How has Presbyterian College, which doesn’t award football scholarships, managed to begin the season with consecutive victories over Mercer and Furman, both of which do? Steve Englehart says he’s just an old-fashioned kind …
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