A Long Day in Oxford

OXFORD-----The Wild Bunch gathered for their final Grove Tail Gate of 2007. Missing were All American Fullback Charlie Flowers and Dr. Shed Hill Roberson. Shed was in Florida with his children and grandchildren. Charlie was battling a seizure of Influenza suffered on a vacation trip in Italy.
Beaux Ball, the best dancing football player in the Johnny Vaught Regime, was there with his bride, Bea, and son, Warren Jr. They are already planning their ski trip in Colorado next winter. Kent Jr. Lovelace and his bride Cheri were there. They are looking forward to a Thanksgiving dinner prepared by their son-in-law Emeril LeGasse in New Orleans. They will also join Emeril and their daughter Alden in Pasadena for the Tournament of Roses Parade. Emeril is the Grand Marshal.
We asked Cheri how did she happen to marry Kent Jr. She said she was 10 years younger and when he called the Family home she answered and told him he must want to talk to her older sister. Kent Jr., who refused a Happy 70th birthday party suggested by Alden,said no, he wanted to talk to her.
At Wellington Mara's funeral Perian Conerly, Lulu Malvezzi Manness, and I had lunch at Jimmie Neary's with Frank and Kathie Lee Gifford. I told Frank that my pal Beaux Ball told me they had bought a house next to them in Colorado and were looking forward to being neighbors. Frank said this would be impossible since they sold their house shortly thereafter.
The All-American Football Foundation wants to honor and remember John Jewell Ball, hopefully at the Deep South Banquet of Champions in Jackson February ll. Beaux is checking to see if he can be there to represent his deceased brother. J.J. always looked forward to the LSU-Ole Miss game in Baton Rouge. He usually bought a new suit before the game and said that there were 60,000 fans observing him in his new suit.
Ed Wilburn Hooker and his family will again view the State-Ole Miss game in Destin. He is glad Ole Miss will allow cooking in the Grove next season so he can again prepare his delicious Brie Burgers, which Emeril had said that they were outstanding.
At this year's LSU-Ole Miss game the Rebels played well for a while against the nation's top-ranked football team going into Thanksgiving weekend. BenJarvis Green Ellis got his 1000 career yards but could not get vital yards from the one, fumbling and LSU recovering which hurt the Red and considerably.Later Ole Miss was on the Tiger three, first down, and got a delay in game penalty followed by a 1-yard penalty.
Next spring management of the clock should be stressed. I know some of the players had academic problems, but how tough is it to read a clock?
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While some 20 players were involved in swiping motel towels this is nothing new in college athletics. When I was working at Mississippi Southern a huge married tackle came home from a road trip and his bride unpacked his bag and found two motel towels. She chewed the husky out and told him she did not marry a towel thief. Several weeks later on another road trip in Louisiana the players carrying their baggage were sorry to see the hotel manager racing out to the bus and telling Coach Pie Vann that his players had borrowed some towels. Pie told his gridders to unpack their bags and sure enough there were motel towels therein. Only one bag did not have a towel, the big husky whose wife had threatened to leave him. Pie said he was glad that he had at least one honest player while giving the hotel manager back his towels.
There was no suspension , however, just laps to run when the team got back to Hattiesburg.
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