Great thread. Thanks op for putting it up. No disagreement. No animosity. Just pleasant memories for those of us old enough to remember those days.
OT: The old Parker HS vs Greenville HS rivelry still runs deep to this day!
- Thread starter Freddie.B.Cocky
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Greenville and Parker tied 7-7 in 1973 according to scfootballhistory.com.Great site if you enjoy high school football team records
I graduated from Parker High School in 1962 and was in the band from 8th grade through my senior year. I remember those wild days with Greenville HS. I remember Carolyn and Glenda. Carolyn was a friend and graduated with my senior class. Both were very beautiful and nice girls. There was a Freddy in the band and I wonder if Freddy B Cocky is that guy? I played basketball, football and baseball at Monaghan YMCA and loved it. I treasure those days more and more with the passing of time.
I graduated Woodmont in 1986 and we got in the biggest fight with Parker in the 1984 football season which was Parker's last year as a school closing with the class of 85. I was a junior that year and that was the only game I played in.Coaches, players, family members, parents where all fighting. It was insane. In 83, When I was on the Jv, my dad went to watch us play at Parker. He took his butterfly knife with him. After getting there he wished he would have took his pistol. They made us put our helmets on when we turned off white horse rd and we had to leave them on until we got back on white horse. Two guys meet us at the gate with pool sticks and our coaches thought the were gonna have to fight them before our sheriff deputy escort made them leave.Parkers field had no grass on it when we played them. They had a siren that played if they scored. We beat them pretty bad that night so we only heard the siren twice that night. When they came out before the game and came out after half. Seems from the stories Parker fought everyone
My brother played in the Parker High School Band as a drummer. He graduated Parker in 1969. Three years after me. I remember James Senn (?), a great Band Director. We had an awesome band for a number of years.
Sounds like the site for me. I'm going to have to check it out as soon as I have time.
No, I am not the Freddie that played in the Parker Band.
You graduated with some of my good friends, Barry Sears, Bob Echols and a number of other people that escape me at this minute.
BTW, did you know any Jefferson's that played in at the Monaghan YMCA? They were 7-9 years younger than you but you might have remembered them.
I remember Bob Echols, who passed away several years ago, but not Barry Sears. I remember the Jefferson family but du to the age difference I was not very acquainted with them. At one point I lived across the road from Bob in 1972.
Correct, but GHS had it share of lower income folks too.; me among them. All the Donaldson AFB kids, Overbrook, Eastover, Laurens Rd went to GHS. It was a college prep School and Parker was created to train the mill workers. So there was a large cultural divide. Greenville High students thought they were special and they were. But I looked down my nose at nobody. My mother made 36.00 a week working at Belks and my dad was deceased. GHS had some pretty impressive alums, though.
I didn't know Bob had passed until a friend told me about it several years ago. My friend also told me Bob's brother had also passed away, quite frankly I didn't know his brother. But, he had a very attractive sister, I met her once. She was a gorgeous young woman when I met her in the early 60s.
I'm surprised that you don't remember Barry. Barry was one of those people once you met him you would not have forgotten him.
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Funny, as we get older how some of the more simpler things that we experienced are our most fondest memories.
yer dad was a good one......side note: i must have played vs yer older bro while he was @ wh.....if i remember right he played 3rd?........ one thing i do know about those teams, u didn't wanna go up against don moore
We were the blue collar family on aNorth Main. My mom worked at Ivey's dad was a machinist
yer dad was a good one......side note: i must have played vs yer older bro while he was @ wh.....if i remember right he played 3rd?........ one thing i do know about those teams, u didn't wanna go up against don moore
Yes you are correct. My brother who is 9 years older played 3rd base. And I knew Don Moore well. I also played at WH but in the 80's.
Hey there I went to WH. I'm DP and my brother is SP who is 9 years older and he did go to the Gvl/Parker games. I was too young at the time. If I went I don't remember lol.
I graduated Hillcrest High in 1986 a year after Parker High closed and I remember playing them in a few sports. Never football but Basketball, Track, Baseball and Cross Country, and it never failed, the people from Parker was always ready to fight! I hated playing them, we would win but we had to watch our back afterwards.
I was one class behind your bro. We played 9th grade basketball together at League but played church league baseball and basketball together at White Oak many years
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white oak, knew u were a snake handler. LOL .maternal side has filled a few granite covered holes off bradley.
I graduated Parker in 1966. Worked a couple of years while attending Furman at night. Was in the Army from 1968 to 1970. Graduated USC in 1975.
I dated Miss Parker High who graduated in 63. Beautiful girl and her initials were BB. I dated a few other Parker girls and they were inexpensive dates cause all you had to do was take them to the Skyland.
Glenda was her younger sister, so I guess Carolyn must have finished in 62.
If I recall, Greenville fumbled on the Easley goal line. That Greenville team had quite a few college players on it. Larry Kohn, Pat Roderick, Bill Seal, Randy Harbor, Freddy Kelly and a few others. The Greenville qB was Hal Shaw and it was his first start against Easley.
lol.. I don’t know about all that, those Parker folks was ingrained in the art of fighting. We were just a bunch of country folks that would start a lil ruckus every now and then.wait a second! isn't this the pot callin' the kettle black?
My dad played for Greenville High in 1928. Speedy Speer's first year as Head Coach. "Slick" Moore was an End (Dad was a Tackle). Played their home games at Graham Field. Did not play Parker that year. The game was suspended several years because of a terrible knife fight following either the 1926 or 1927 game. Parker had just opened in 1924!! My mom was from Dunean & went to Parker in the very early '30's. She & Dad tried to remain civil to each other throughout Thanksgiving weekend!
My dad played for Greenville High in 1928. Speedy Speer's first year as Head Coach. "Slick" Moore was an End (Dad was a Tackle). Played their home games at Graham Field. Did not play Parker that year. The game was suspended several years because of a terrible knife fight following either the 1926 or 1927 game. Parker had just opened in 1924!! My mom was from Dunean & went to Parker in the very early '30's. She & Dad tried to remain civil to each other throughout Thanksgiving weekend!
I love the old GHS stories. Remember Double O Crowe? Red Carter was a legend too. Greenville was Camelot in those days. How could we have imagined it would change to what we see today. People in our most valued institutions trying to over throw a duly elected President, and breaking every law in our constitution to do it.
lol.. I don’t know about all that, those Parker folks was ingrained in the art of fighting. We were just a bunch of country folks that would start a lil ruckus every now and then.
This is a true statement about "being ingrained to fight". I grew up in City View, a great mill village and wonderful place to live during those days, and we seemed to fight all the time. It seemed to be a past time. We would fight over a marble game, a baseball game, a basketball game and any other excuse. We would fight with the guys who lived in Monaghan, River Side, Welcome or Summit View communities. We did not " take any jive from any white hokey, western union men' from the Greenville HS districts either. Great memories!!
I remember the name but I have slept too many nights since those days and I do not remember what he looked like.
