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  • Collection: Sports and Recreation

TCWildcats 001.jpg
The 1950-51 Tuscaloosa County High School basketball team.

Front Row: Jimmy Simpson, Doyle Fleenor, Douglas Hale, Herman Boyd, Buddy Bush, Fred Jones.
Back Row: #10 Unknown, Tom Mason, Gene Lary, Owen White, Gene Thrasher, and unknown manager.

First TCHS football team 001.jpg
Northport High School, built in 1921 in Northport, Alabama, fielded its first football team in 1923 under Coach John Curry. The photo is of that team.

Front row, L-R, Clyde Utley, James Smith, Pearson White, Julius Atchison, Houston Montgomery,…

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The basketball team from Ettecca Junior High School won in their first Tuscaloosa County Junior High School Tournament in 1934. Members of the team are Troy Long, Dewrel Williamson, Paul Dyer, Cego Spencer, Wymon Oswalt, Dutch Dyer, Robert Kemp,…

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Photo shows the starting offense for the Gorgas High School Generals football team in 1947. It was the first football team for the school located in the Samantha area of Tuscaloosa County (Ala.) that opened in 1918. The school was closed in 1959 when…

YMCA Basketball 001.jpg
The Tuscaloosa YMCA Basketball Champions of 1957
Front row: Wilbur Manderson, Robert Shamblin, Tommy Kendall and Mike Ward. Back row: Bill Patton, Gaius Whitfield, Al Kincaid and Skip Laney

shooting gallery 001.jpg
According to information on the back of the photo, probably written by Fred Maxwell, this shooting gallery was located on 7th Street between 23rd Avenue and Greensboro Avenue. The gallery was owned by W.J. (Bill) Townsend, shown on the left, and…

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TusCo Hi Basketball team 1951 001.jpg
This photo was published in The Tuscaloosa News on Jan 8, 1951. The Tuscaloosa County Junior High team was seeking to even its season record in league play when they met Alberta on Jan. 10 in Northport. The County High Juniors had won 1 and lost 2 in…

Northport Bulldogs Softball team 001.jpg
This photograph was taken around Aug. 14, 1948, at the Salvation Army Softball Field and was published in the Salvation Army War Cry publication.

Front row left to right are Wick Patton, Jimmy Patton, Frank Christian, John Bell, Harold…

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The 1926 Tuscaloosa High School Black Bears became national champions when they played Senns High School from Chicago for the Silver Football Trophy.

On the team, Row 1: Claude Taylor, Sam Coley, Joe Craig, Bruce McEachin, M.L. Ward, Luther…

Baseball72 001 (213x300).jpg
Cousins Sammy Hayes and James Carl Hayes pose in front of H&W Drug Store located in the Alston Building on Greensboro Avenue in Tuscaloosa. The boys are wearing their American Legion baseball uniforms. The boys played for the Farley W. Moody Post of…
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