also played in the Great Lakes with Marion Motley and Bud Grant … member of Lookout Mountain Sports Hall of Fame. 7) the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor they all went off to war … two-time All-City and captain of All-City squad as senior (1942) …2nd team All-SEC at Vandy … also played at Tulane with a pair of 80 plus touchdown runs …also called "Choo Choo" Robinson after the hit song The Chattanooga Choo Choo was released in 1942. Boles Academy scored four touchdowns and two extra points to win the title by two points over Cecil Duffee of Baylor … two days later (Sun. Harry “Wig” Robinson … 1941 city scoring champ with 74 points … in last game of season (Fri. The Long Blue Line of Champions Includes the Following: Where They Are Now: Successful on and off the field, the city champs have gone on to important careers as teachers (two at McCallie), as well as in construction, law, real estate and more. Robinson’s son, Dan, and teammate Ward Nelson teamed to score four touchdowns to beat Baylor 29-7 in a 1974 playoff game for the first McCallie win in the series since the modern era rivalry began in 1971 … This fall, Alex Trotter was a key player in McCallie’s home victory against Baylor with three touchdowns to snap that six-game losing streak. 7) the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and those fresh-faced teenagers on that 1941 McCallie football team (along with thousands across our nation) became men and went off to war to help save the free world.Ĭommon Threads: Mr. McCallie won the game, 32-0 as McCallie's Jimmy Adams scored the other Big Blue points on a 112 yard interception for a touchdown. The writer noted his missed prediction in his next column. “Every time our offense crossed the 50 yard line, we gave the ball to Wig so he would have a chance to score,” the late Pete Branton once recalled before his death in 2004.Īnd score he did with four touchdowns and two extra points for 26 and the city title. But Robinson’s teammates had other ideas. 5), sophomore running back Harry “Wig” Robinson had the daunting task of scoring at least 25 points to win the city rushing title.īe Careful What One Writes: One sportswriter wrote Robinson could not catch Baylor’s Cecil Duffee in the scoring race. To face Boles Academy in its final game of the 1941 season (Fri.
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