Dunbar High School Scrapbook - Page 4
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Too Many Trophies
Dunbar Has Pleasant Problem
By David Widener
News Sports Editor
Dunbar has a problem, but it's
a pleasant one.
The Tigers have so many trophies
they don't know what to
do. If good fortune continues
to fall upon the Tigers, some
more trophy cases will have
to be built.
During the 1966-67 school year,
which will come to an end this
week, Dunbar won 29 trophies,
21 of them in track. Five were
won in tennis, two in football,
and one in basketball.
Dunbar would have added two
other trophies to its collection
but no awards were given for
the relay events at the state
track meet. The Tigers won
both the 440 and mile relay.
Success is all the Tigers have
known since Elmer Grant Redd
came to the school as head
coach in 1953. Under his
direction, Dunbar won two state
championships during the 1966-
67 school year - football and
track.
Redd's lifetime coaching record
for 7 football seasons is
134-37-1. Dunbar was also state
AAA football and track champion
in 1964.
The 1966 Tiger grid team
rolled over everything in sight
in marching to the state title.
During the regular season, Dunbar
shellacked Baytown 33-6,
Longview 47-8, Palestine 41-0
Jacksonville 40-6, Kilgore 60-0,
Henderson 43-0, Carthage 33-0,
Pittsburg 36-14, Nacogdoches 27-
3 and Jefferson 14-0.
In bi-district play, the Tigers
clawed Huntsville 19-9. Dunbar
then whipped Wichita Falls 14-
7 for a perfect 12-0 season and
the state championship.
Next on the agenda was basketball,
which had been Dunbar's
weakest sport in the past.
But coach James Hall guided
the Tigers to the District 3-AAA
championship with a 14-2 record
and into the state tournament.
The Tiger cagers lost to Fort
Worth Kirkpatrick, the eventual
state champ in opening action
at the state meet but finished
the year with a 19-8 record.
Track came onto the scene
and the Tigers went to work on
gathering some silver and gold.
Dunbar won the Texas Sourthern
University Relays and the District
3-AAA meet at Nacogdoches
in addition to the state meet.
The most trophies won by
Dunbar were at the TSU Relays
and District Meet, claiming four
at each. In addition the the TSU
meet trophy, the Tigers won the
half-mile medley and mile relays
and Curtis Mills was high
point man. Dunbar won the junior
high championship as well
as the senior title plus the 440
and mile relays at district.
Dunbar's win at the district
meet held at SFA in Nacogdoches,
marked the eighth straight
year the Tigers have been
league track champions.
Dunbar has won the 3-AAA football
crown five of the last seven
years, only losing three league
games in those seven seasons
while winning 46.
The Tigers had two thinclads
who ranked amove the best in
the state in their events -
Travis Hill and Curtis Mills.
Hill had a 23-9 3/4 broad jump
to his credit and Mills had a
440-yard dash time of 48.2.
Dunbar also had two speedy
relay units but Redd feels they
would have reached even greater
heights had they had the
opportunity to run on an all-
weather, grass-tex track.
The 440 unit of Mills, Robert
Marks, WIllie Olford and Willie
Walker Jr. had a best time of
42.0 while the mile team of Hill,
Olford, Mills and Walker was
clocked in 3:18:8.
Both times came on the SFA
track at the district meet. "That
was the best cinder track we
ran on all year," says Redd.
In tennis Dunbar won boys
and girls singles and doubles
at the district meet. Gary Sumlin
then won boys singles at
the state met.
What's the outlook for next
year? Redd lost 11 seniors from
his state championship football
team and four from his state
track champion, but the Tigers will always win.
ONE YEAR COLLECTION - Dunbar coach Elmer Redd looks over the trophies Tiger
athletic teams won during the 1966-67 school year. Pictures are 25 of the 29 trophies
claimed by the Tigers, who won state championships in football track and tennis.
Twenty-one of the trophies shown were won by the Dunbar track team.
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