Corning Bobcats

Corning Bobcats, 1915

Baseball Nine, 1925

"Corning Bobcats had arrived in 1913 when Harvey Haley became superintendent of the new four-year High School and put a football 11 in the field.  Decreased enrollment during World War One reduced football material to the point of extinction and the sport was not resurrected until E. P. Ennis became superintendent in 1929 in an enlarged building with room for High School students.

"During the Alfred Maddux years in the twenties, baseball was the official athletic activity and he is posed with the team he coached, on the North side of the old school house.  Standing, back row, left to right, Sammie Graber, Letcher Smith, Gaylord Wisner, Elton Glockengeiser.  Second row, Julian Hoffar, Jordan Lindsey, Coach Maddux.  First row, Gerald Newkirk, Eugene Grayson, and French Ratcliffe."

Basketball team, Corning, AR.  Corning Bobcats of 1934.  (Daniel E. Moore).

Bobcats, 1934

"The rough and ready 1934 Corning Bobcat football squad is pictured, as follows:  First row, left to right:  Don Vernon Thomason, Johnny Gallegly, Troy Porter, Darby Wright, Harold Allensworth, Norman Knowlton, Teddy Drove, Elmer Wilcoxson.  Second row, left to right:  Ed Penter, Ernest Jernigan, Cleo Stafford, Jimmy Phelan, Roy Cochran, Leo Dahmus, Frank Dahmus, Carlos Lester, Robert Ezell, Thomas George.  Third row, from left:  Assistant Coach Ferguson, Shelton Futrell, Clendon Wilson, Bunk Boyd, Jesse Riggs, Orbin Little, Vernon Parrish, Devell Button, Paul Webber, Bill Box, Gordon Lamb, Coach and superintendent."

Submitted by Jan Porterfield, who writes:

"Here's a picture of the Corning Bobcats taken in the late thirties.  My dad's brother, Thomas Grover Bridges, Jr. is No. 20.  He was injured in a diving accident when he was 15 the summer of 1940 and died at age 16 in March 1941.  So I'm thinking this picture was about 1939."

Submitted by Danny Moore