1945 & 1946 Baseball Teams

1945 & 1946 Baseball Teams

The photo of the 1945 baseball team in the main image states that they made the sixth out of eleven years that the team has entered the county prep playoff. The really tall person in the middle of the back row is Herb Griffin who we spoke with in Episode 6. He is also...
1926 & 1927 Baseball Teams

1926 & 1927 Baseball Teams

Every year a baseball team was chosen, they had not started the season due to the time it took to get the yearbook printed and bound to be distributed by the end of the school year. In the 1926 book it said that the team was the division champions and the whole team...
1923 Girls Basketball Team

1923 Girls Basketball Team

In the previous post we showed the boy’s basketball team so we can’t leave out the girl’s team. Here is a photo of the 1923. Unfortunately I did not capture the write-up in the yearbook. I do know that one of the girls in this photo is Helen...
1923 Boys Basketball Team

1923 Boys Basketball Team

Or Basket Ball as it was spelled in the Owl yearbook. Here is Coach Sump Clarke and his only basketball team, during his only year to coach at Shades Cahaba. From the yearbook: “Great interest in basket ball was shown this year. We are glad to report that there was...
Fighting Patriots Book Available Now

Fighting Patriots Book Available Now

I spoke with former Homewood football player Wade Kirkpatrick about the 1974 Championship team and the book he was writing about it under the pseudonym of Patrick Kirk. You can listen to the episode at...
The Mountaineer – Final Edition

The Mountaineer – Final Edition

During Shades Cahaba’s 100th Celebration party in the fall of 2019, I met many former Shades Cahaba students, including some who attended school when it was a high school. One of those was Denny Pappas, who brought along his family. In the photo below, Dr....