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By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. It was a tiring weekend. I’m glad I’m tired. On Friday, I drove to Blacksburg for a high-school football game in which there was no doubt which team, Clinton, was going to win. It was a fair jump up the interstate for 48-7. I got back home, …
Continue reading The exhibition was a fleeting thing, but the venue is here to stay
By MONTE DUTTON Jayquan Smith (28) scored two TDs (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. The Citadel is coming! The Citadel is coming! The Citadel must be stopped. It’s easy to say it’s just another football game. It’s easy to say, oh, the rival is Wofford now. Well, Wofford won last week. When Furman plays The …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. The magic took a Saturday off in Dayton, Ohio, where the Flyers stopped Presbyterian in a variety of ways. The University of Dayton (6-2, 4-1 PFL) stopped the Blue Hose’ seven-game win streak this season, 11-game stretch dating back to last and rampage through the Pioneer Football …
By MONTE DUTTON (Monte Dutton photos) Click here. BLACKSBURG -- Clinton’s 48-7 victory on Friday night was impressive but not as explosive as the previous week’s 56-14 win at home against Landrum. Nitro glycerine is not as explosive as the Landrum game. Five hundred thirty-three yards rushing, in a game in which the clock ran …
By MONTE DUTTON Gavin Hall rushed for 101 yards against East Tennessee State (Monte Dutton photo). Click here. As Furman prepares for homecoming and the annual invasion of The Citadel, it would be helpful to develop some of that old-fashioned distaste for the combatants of Charleston. Forty years ago, The Citadel was the last game …
By MONTE DUTTON Boyce Bankhead (22) leads the Blue Hose in tackles (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. For Presbyterian College football, the pressure never lets up. For every Saturday that the Blue Hose win a game, the need for another multiplies. Seven weeks in, Presbyterian still has its perfect season intact. The Blue Hose goal …
By MONTE DUTTON Red Devil offense is getting better with every game (Monte Dutton photos). Corey Fountain and his Clinton High School football staff have been working on a building. It’s not much different from the old gospel, bluegrass tune penned by A.P Carter. I’m working on a building / I’m working on a building …
(Wofford photo) Click here. Lord have mercy. I wasn’t there. Gibbs Stadium isn’t currently a happy place for a Furman grad. In each of the previous two football meetings, Wofford won, 19-13. This time the score was 31-13. I was watching unbeaten Presbyterian crush Stetson, 42-7. The story in Clinton is extraordinary. Spartanburg is to …
By MONTE DUTTON Collin Hurst cocks and fires (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. It should go without saying. When a college football team wins its seventh game in a row, it’s not a miracle anymore. Presbyterian College is just good. The Blue Hose took the crease out of Stetson on a homecoming Saturday in front …
By MONTE DUTTON Javen Cook (3) is off to the races with Zy Butler (18) and Tre Aiken (70) leading the way (Monte Dutton photos). Click here. Okay, it wasn’t even a full game. The clock ran the entire second half. Javen Cook, in particular, and the Clinton Red Devils, in general, made the best …
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