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Some Stuff I Wrote and Some Stuff I Didn't (2011) H. Morris Williams

“Don Brown (Columbia High head football coach) donated some B team
stuff to us and then we had annual magazine sales to raise money,”
Rawleigh said. “Those dam things were successful.”

Rawleigh has trick plays long before Steve Spurrier immortalized Emory

& Henry.

One such play had the center in the middle of the field with all the other
linemen lined up near one sideline and the three backs at the other. The

trick was the center became an eligible receiver and the quarterback

threw to him.

Rawleigh also coordinated the school side of the annual Pop Warner
Timberwolf game where the Lake City Jaycees invited an out-of-state

team to town for a game. Players on both teams had a 115 pound weight
limit.

Rawleigh, Hart and Bradley formed the Falcon troika of coaches for
years.

“We drove our own bus and we swept them out afterward,” Rawleigh
said.

DEATH’S DOOR

Rawleigh suffered a massive heart attack in 1997, for which he takes the

blame. He talked himself into writing off chest pains as indigestion.

“I taught health for years and I knew how to react to something like

that,” Rawleigh said. “But I was in denial. I had never been sick and I
wasn’t overweight, so I denied what was happening.

“Things weren’t too good. The doctor told my wife to get our affairs in
order.”

Rawleigh didn’t realize he had two major risk factors-high cholesterol

and diabetes. After sucking down Pepto-Bismal and Maalox for two

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