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    Sports Stories: Roy B. Clogston (1905-1995)
    Sports Stories: Roy B. Clogston (1905-1995)
    Sports Stories: Roy B. Clogston (1905-1995)
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    Sports Stories: Roy B. Clogston (1905-1995)

    By Becky Garrison

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    In this collection of snippets and short stories, Roy B. Clogston recounts his lifelong love of sports beginning with his childhood in upstate New York and his college years at Springfield College, where he lettered in five sports. This passion led to his appointments as Athletic Directors for St. Lawrence, N.C. State and Appalachian State Universities. Among the athletes and other newsworthy individuals he encountered along the way include Jesse Owens, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Kirk Douglas, Jim Thorpe, Pop Warner, Sen. Jesse Helms, Sen. Terry Sanford, and Don Rickles.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBecky Garrison
    Release dateFeb 8, 2013
    ISBN9781301664344
    Sports Stories: Roy B. Clogston (1905-1995)
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    Becky Garrison

    Becky Garrison is a Contributing Editor for Sojourners. Her books include The New Atheist Crusaders and Their Unholy Grail, Rising from the Ashes: Rethinking Church, and Red and Blue God, Black and Blue Church. Her additional writing credits include work for The Wittenburg Door, Geez, Killing the Buddha, and Religion Dispatches, as well as various other odd and sundry publications.

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      Sports Stories - Becky Garrison

      SPORTS STORIES

      ROY. B. CLOGSTON (1905-1995)

      Athletic Director, St. Lawrence, NC State and Appalachian Universities

      Coach, Navy Ford Islanders, WWII

      As told to his granddaughter

      Becky Garrison

      Copyright 2012 Becky Garrison

      Published on Smashwords

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      You know, of all the guys that founded the ACC back in '53, I'm the only one left. I never got fired and that's saying a lot. Nowadays, they don't care how much or how little material you have. They just want to win.

      Roy Clogston, 1994

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      CONTENTS

      PLAYIN' SPORTS (1909-1912)

      THE MISSPENT POET (1912)

      TURPENTINED AN AIREDALE (1913)

      THE VET (1914)

      THE FIGHTINGEST KID YOU EVER SAW (1915-17)

      THE PRIEST AND THE PRIZEFIGHTERS (1920)

      SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE BMOC (1924-28)

      CAMP COUNSELOR AT KENNEBEC CAMPS (1927)

      YOUNGEST ATHLETIC DIRECTOR IN THE U.S. (1928)

      ATTENDING COACHING SCHOOLS (1930s and 40s)

      THE BERLIN OLYMPICS (1936)

      TRAVELING AROUND THE U.S.A. (Summer 1939)

      WORLD WAR II (1942-45)

      ROOMING WITH GENE TUNNEY (1943)

      FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE PACIFIC (1943)

      ATHLETIC DIRECTOR OF NC STATE (1948-69)

      FRANK HOWARD AND PEAHEAD (1940s)

      MARRIED RUBY HEAFNER GARRISON (1951)

      FOUNDING THE ACC (1953)

      LEAVING NC STATE (1969)

      UP IN THEM THAR HILLS (1980s)

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      PLAYIN' SPORTS (1909-1912)

      I've been told I looked like my dad. Big ol' guy. He worked down at the plant 'till he got electrocuted one day. His flesh just came off his hands like he was peeling a potato. Died soon thereafter. Didn't know him much 'cause I was only four or so at the time.

      I know I'm over six foot and built like a fullback but back then I was the youngest of six kids. Boy, they were rough on me. After school, we'd race home. I'd win once in a while, but my sister Miriam usually kicked my hiney. She was a few years older than me and could beat anyone.

      Our recreation was pitch and catch, horseshoes, and stuff like that. Went on toboggan rides in the winter. And I'd ski on handmade skis with a leather belt on them. Once, I went up on a big, big hill. Down at the bottom, there's barbed wire to keep the cows in. Goddang,

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