Re: Speaking of Morris Higginbotham(As Chubby was)
Hmmmmm, I was making trips to Enterprise in those days to visit females I had met at the Hangout at PC Beach. Used to stay at Averrite's(sp) Motel. Barbara Day, Linda Ellis, and a few more that escape my mind at this time...the town had some beauties, as Sylacauga did...
Morris was sumthin' else as a football coach. We ran the Notre Dame box offense the only season he was at BBC. If he had stayed another year, I believe we would have been 9 and 1. I don't believe we would have beaten Valley that next year, no matter what.
The final game of the season we dressed out 19 players for the SHS game, as everyone else had quit or been run off. Heck, he ran the Captain off that we elected after the previous spring traingin. Proud to say I was one of the 19. I met him later on in life and we had some decent conversations. I felt a little odd as he was saying, "Yes Sir and No Sir." to me. I was thinking that I would never have thought that I would hear those words from him to me... If I remember correctly, he won a State Championship at Enterprise.
Re: Speaking of Morris Higginbotham(As Chubby was)
WIRB Radio did a remote broadact from Neal Logue Dept. store in Enterprise. They had a swimsuit sale and had the Enterprise Majorettes as models...Day and Judah and others made the job fun!
Re: Speaking of Morris Higginbotham(As Chubby was)
I was at the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame event one year and somehow struck up a conversation with Gaylon McCullogh, from Enterprise, who played center for Bear Bryant when Joe Namath was the quarterback.
Jokingly, I asked him to compare Morris and Bear Bryant. He said, "Football Practices at Alabama were easier than the ones I had under Morris Higginbotham.'
That made me feel better about some of the practices I had under him. I know my basic training was not as tough as some of his and Coker Barton's practices. That made basic a little easier for me as opposed to some of the other recruits...I truly think I am a better man in life because of playing football at BBC. Those guys on that 1955 season team - Ed Cleveland, Ted Price, Bobby Fitzimmons, Coot King - and others, were my idols...
Re: Speaking of Morris Higginbotham(As Chubby was)
Chubby,while in Enterprise,I remember a song that I played on the radio about a space ship landing on the moon..they had women that were 20 feet tall..the guy said,"TAKE ME TO YOUR LADDER,I'LL SEE YOUR LEADER LATER". I am somewhat sure that you wrote that song,right?
Re: Speaking of Morris Higginbotham(As Chubby was)
Why yes, of course.
I took the words and genre from Bill Hayley's "See you later Aligator" - as in, take me to your leader later, and, "I'll take the latter with the ladder"...and "I'll climb the ladder to...uhh, I mean, of success." And who could forget "Up Yours, lady"
I got the idea for the song from the movie 'Revenge of the 50 foot Woman'....