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the scoreless tie as a victory. Hundreds of people bought cheap, plastic raincoats just outside the

stadium and the high winds blew the raincoats to tatters.
LAKE CITY VS MULBERRY, 1935... The Florida High School Athletic Association had

cancelled the second half of the football season for both teams for using ineligible players. Then,
incredibly, after punishing the two teams for rules’ violations, the FHSAA agreed to let the two

teams play each other. The game was played in Lake City and our Tigers won 13-0. Since both
teams had been ‘kicked out’ of the FHSAA, the players on both teams jokingly referred to the game

as “The Kickout Bowl.”
LAKE CITY VS. LIVE OAK, 1951... Broughton Williams was our Tigers head football

coach. The day before the game he had one of the CHS classes set up a display downtown in the
window of the DeSoto Drug Store. The display depicted a swami peering into a crystal ball and

predicting a 33-0 Lake City victory over Live Oak. The next night Lake City beat Live Oak 33-0.
LAKE CITY VS. LIVE OAK, SEPT. 9, 1994 . . . Everyone remembers this one as

“Bargain Night” at the brand new CHS stadium. For just $5, fans got to see part of a football game,
a spectacular lightning show, a monsoon, a mud bogging and wrecker-pulling exhibition, and wet

T-shirt contest.

Some Past CHS Alumni

Association Presidents

December 13,1994

HERE AND THERE... Four of the best people I have ever known all just happen to be past

presidents of the CHS Alumni Association: Robert Louis Green, Debra Wright, Delton Turbeville
and Sylvia Lynch . . . Karl Wolfe has a salvage business in Wellborn. He found an old bottle
marked Bamboo Bottling Company, 1926, Lake City, and wonders if anybody remembers the

company ... CHS graduate O’Neal Hill was head coach at CHS in 1947 and 1948, coaching such
outstanding players as Pat Summerall, Sam Oosterhoudt, Bill Page and Joe Ferguson. When O’Neal

was a football player at the University of Florida, he was named team captain in 1941 and also voted

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