Thursday, March 14, 2013

Leesburg Negro Team Opens Slate Tonight, September 26, 19501950



LEESBURG, Sept. 26 - Coach Hubert Dabney, of the Leesburg colored training school announced here today that the Leesburg Trojans would open their 1950 football season here tomorrow night at 8 P. M. in the Venetian Gardens against a strong team from Sanford.

Coaches Dabney and Wilburn Gary, reported that they have 28 boys out for the team and have been practicing for about three weeks.

The Trojans' schedule calls for the following games: Sept. 27-Sanford here; Oct. 5-Orland here 12 - Lake City here, New Smyrna Beach away; 26-Live Oak away; Nov. 2-Cocoa here; 10-Palmetto here (homecoming); 17-Melbourne away; 23-Madison here.

The following boys are out for the team: Eugene Chapman, Leon Warren, Ned Mosley, Sam Chissolm, Willie Carr, Vasco Rimes, Levon Roundtree, Thomas Farrior, Clifford Smalley, Lacey Hollinsworth, Wilbert Williams, David Brown, Albert Dixon, Arthur House, C. Williams, Albert O'Neal, Earl Inman, Ezell Hearn, Freddie Commoder, Ernest Bailey, Freddie Lynum, Johnnie Jackson, Hamie Gillard, Jessie Smith, Charles Williams, Walter Wiggins, Thomas Chapman and Henry Borges.

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