Topic: Football

A look at Asheville High's first football title follows, taken from the 1922 Yearbook. (Asheville later won the state men's basketball championship the same year). Click on the pictures to enlarge.    The football team of 1922 will always be remembered and will go down in the High School’s history as the best team that ever represented the school. This year fully fifty men reported at the beginning of the season, and three teams were selected from this squad. At times it was very difficult to determine the first and second teams, but finally the squad was narrowed down to seventeen first-string men.

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 Asheville -- "BMW" Performance continues to impress as Crezdon Butler, Kadeem Morgan, and Johnny White, signed letters of intent to play football at the collegiate level.

Butler will play at Clemson, Morgan will play at Western Carolina University, and White will play at UNC-Chapel Hill.

The three seniors were part of Asheville's 3A State Championship team, who won the school's first NCHSAA Football Championship since 1922.

Citizen-Times Article

Photo Credit: Ewart Ball, Asheville Citizen-Times

Congratulations to Asheville football coach Danny Wilkins for being named NC Coach of the Year by the Associated Press.  Wilkins led the Cougars to a perfect 15-0 season and State 3A Championship this year and has a 40-3 record over the last three years. Coach Wilkins was also named the WNC Coach of the Year and will coach in the East-West All Star Game in July.  These are well-deserved honors for a fine man and a fine coach!! 

(No Coach, this is not a dream!)

Asheville's Crezdon Butler continues to add to his impressive collection of post-season awards which already include:  MAC Co-Player-of-the-Year (with Johnny White); State 3A Championship MVP; Shrine Bowl selection (contributed to victory over SC team); and AP All-State Team (defensive back).  Butler recently finished tied for second place in the AP voting for NC Player-of-the-Year and has been named WNC Player-of-the-Year.  He was also the first to break the career rushing record of Asheville High's Charlie "Choo Choo" Justice this season and is 112 yards short of teammate White's school record career mark with 5,011 rushing yards. 

When asked what he was going to do with all the hardware he modestly stated "I guess I'll just stack it up."   Indeed!

Asheville -- The Cougar football team was honored at a school assembly on Wednesday, December 21 for their State Championship win.  Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy and City Council members presented a proclamation honoring the team.   Special thanks to Tom Williams for these photos!

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