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

Column November 14, 2010

RICHARDSON HIGH WOLVES. STATE CHAMPS

One of the almost forgotten huge sport’s successes of local black
history is that the Richardson High School (RHS) Wolves won the
state basketball championship in 1968.

The players on that superb team were Herman Murphy, Leonard
Johnson, Tommie Simmons, Earl Brooks, Danny Sanders, Alvin
Merricks, Bernard Zinnerman, and Lemmie Campbell. Their coach
was Glynnell Presley.

Here are some highlights of that championship season:

*Zinnerman and Murphy combined for 61 points in a 96-81 win over
Jacksonville Butler.

*The Wolves set a season high one-game scoring record with a 114­
86 win over Starke’s RJE High with RHS getting 50 rebounds.

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*Macclenny’s Keller High ‘froze’ the ball in the fourth quarter to keep
RHS from scoring 100 points in a 93-50 RHS win.

*RHS got 44 rebounds and shot 48% from the floor in a win against
Pine Forest.

*RHS defeated Lincoln 58-49 to win the Fessenden Invitational
Tourney even though Lincoln out-rebounded RHS and had more field
goals but RHS had 20 free throws to Lincoln’s five.

* In that same tournament, RHS landed three players on the all
tourney team: Zinnerman, Brooks, and Merricks.

*RHS’s Zinnerman and Murphy again combined for 61 points in a 96-
SI win against Butler High.

*Zinnerman set a conference scoring record with 50 points against
Clermont Lincoln Park including 22 field goals. He also hit an actually

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