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Publicity from local newspaper and radio media helped immensely in raising the balance of funds needed. Jim Bryan, newspaper editor, and "Country Frank" Manthos, part owner and DJ at radio WTRI, were personally generous in free services and contributions. By May 27, 1968, Football Booster president, Paul Orrison, presented a check for the required amount to the high school. For Coach Herb Daugherty, the achievement was a "dream come true." After serving in the U.S. military, Herb Daugherty graduated from Shepherd College, and ultimately returned to Brunswick, where he spearheaded the football drive. He was head coach when the first practices began in August 1968, with assistants Gene Foltz, Jim Frazer, and Butch Gaither. Throughout this long struggle, Judge William Wenner donated his expertise in handling corporate papers and other legal matters for the Boosters Club. Before Brunswick's entry into county football, there were teams only in Frederick. The Monocacy Valley Athletic League (MY AL) had its beginning with the start of football at Brunswick High. After their success, the local boosters helped other schools set up football programs. At Catoctin, Williamsport, Middletown, Linganore, and Walkersville, the Brunswick blueprint was used. On game days at Brunswick, the Boosters directed the complete operation. Bruce Porter, Bob Halley, Benny Harsh, Jeff Cauley, Jesse Thompson, Charles Smith, Joe Gordon, and other Booster members, as well as their wives, sold tickets and programs, managed the crowds, and handled endless details that do not always seem important, but are. Football is an expensive sport to maintain, so during home games admission tickets, game programs, and a concession stand helped support the program. At first, Ronald "Philco" Phillips and others prepared a makeshift concession stand. The Boosters borrowed portable Coca Cola stands, hauling them over from Frederick for every home game. "Philco" and his wife, Dot, Red-and Teeny Phillips, Benny Harsh, Bruce Porter, Harvey Moore, Kenny Griffin, Floyd Smith, Robert Humerick and several others contributed to this successful money-raiser. Junior Moler, from whom supplies were obtained, always donated the ice necessary for the stand.

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FOOTBALL AT B.H.S. The coming of football to B.H.S. was the fulfillment of a long-standing dream, realized through dedication, determination, and generosity of goodhearted small town folks. In October 1966, PTA President Charles Smith appointed coach and teacher Herb Daugherty to chair a committee to determine the feasibility of adding football as a Brunswick High School sport. County school administrators Superintendent John A. Carnochan and Frederick High School principal Warren Smith presented a bleak picture and set up conditions and guidelines by which to work. The determined Brunswick group incorporated as a non-profit organization, then secured approval of the organizational structure of the group, the group's purpose, and its method of operation. Not only would money-raising activities need the approval of Dr. Carnochan and then-principal James Hess, but also all monies would be turned over to the school for disbursement. Financial assistance would be the limit of the local group's role; all other phases of the football program, including scheduling, coaching, and management of the games, would be out of their hands. For a school as small as Brunswick, football would be a very poor financial risk. By January 1967, the initial committee reorganized into the Brunswick Football Boosters. The new group's first officers included Paul Orrison, president, Herb Daugherty, vice president, Bob Halley, secretary, and Bruce Porter, treasurer. Directors were Benny Harsh, Allen Phillips, Ronald Phillips, Marvin Metzgar, Charles C. Smith, Eugene Bowers, and Jim Bryan. A majority of parents gave their approval, as did the school faculty. The Boosters needed to raise $8500 to organize a team of 40 and maintain them for two years. (This would equal over $40,500 today- 24 years later). Money earned from football those two beginning years allowed operations to continue. A feeler was thrown out to the public for a test try for $2000 to ascertain community interest. Soon 112 persons donated $2400, assuring the leaders of community interest. Candy sales, special basketball games, and professional wrestling matches earned another $2000.

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