LOOKING BACK

 It should be very interesting that schools are now fielding a fishing team to represent their school as part of the athletic program.

I think this will be an opportunity for even more students to participate in extra curricular activities.

I have never been a fisherman, but many of my friends love to fish. If they were looking for a coach, my recommendation would be Rossi Farmer. I have known Rossi all my life and he has always been the best fisherman around. Of course there are other fishermen, who are very good as well,

Richard “Pup” Giles and his brother, Phillip are excellent fishermen and then of course, Robert Ballot is a fisherman of some renown.

Rex and David Huff are a couple of guys who are certainly among the best anywhere.

All I know about fishing you can put in a thimble and you would still have plenty room for your thumb. I did win a gold fish at NIBROC in about 1953.

The summers when I was a kid seemed to be warm, but nothing like this year. The temperature hovers close to 100, which makes playing golf somewhat of a torture, at least the way I play.

On October 5^th and 6^th there’s going to be a Corbin High School reunion for the classes of 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1962.

A five-year period when the Redhounds football program was at its peak. Actually if you add the 1955, 1956 and 1957 it was an era of great teams coached by outstanding coaches. It was at that time the Redhounds had two of the three undefeated teams in the program.

During the summer, high school basketball players get playing time on AAU teams to hone their skills for the basketball season of 2012-2013. A few of those kids are young and they get the opportunity to show their skills. One of those kids is Andrew Taylor. He has terrific court awareness and of course, Trevor Hill, who has shown he will be a factor in the Redhound program over the next few years.

This past Sunday, the Lexington Herald-Leader focused on the All-American Redheads. The Redheads are a barnstorming women’s basketball team, which would travel the country playing independent men’s teams. It was sometime in the mid 60’s that someone put together a team and they were playing the Redhounds in Edwards Gym. Paul Pietrowski, the late Jim Brock, and myself were among the players that were assembled with others that I can’t recall were local players as well.

The coach of the Redheads spoke with us briefly, asking us to go along with some of their antics much like teams playing the Globetrotters. We did as they asked the first half and everything was going quite well. The Redheads answer to the Globetrotters Meadowlark Lemon was a talented young lady named “Twinkles” Ledbetter and she could play.

Someone, and I do not remember who made a very poor decision that our local boys should turn it on in the second half and show them how good our local boys could be.

As soon as the Redheads realized we were serious, they very quickly showed our team just how good they could be by beating us by over 25 points.

The Redheads were inducted into the Naismith Hall of Fame recently.

Another game of some renown was played in old Edwards Gym in the fifties was an NBA game between the then Minnesota Lakers and the then St. Louis Hawks in an exhibition game. Frank Selvy was playing for the Hawks at that time.