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that year and the next two, Brunswick either won or shared the State Championship. Around 1971 cross-country was discontinued as a interscholastic sport at BHS until 1978 when Lee Zumback became cross-country coach. By the following year he had organized a girls' cross-country team. In 1982 and 1983, the Brunswick girls' team captured State Championship titles. In the latter year they defeated Walkersville in state competition after having lost to that team in district competition. The girls' 1982 team included Kelly Bennett, Holly Gladhill, Kelly Watson, Billie Jo Hoffman, Mary Strine, Josette Votipka, Jackie Stull, Andrea Drayer, Wendy Bernard, and Theresa Drayer, with Managers Dawn Stull and Angie Weddle. The 1983 team included Bennett, Gladhill, Watson, Hoffman, Strine, Votipka, Stull, Drayer, and Laurie Renquist, with Dawn Stull as Manager. In 1988 and 1989 the BHS boys' cross-country team was unbeaten and won two Class I-A State Championships. Lori Price, in 1989 cross country, won the State Championship as an individual runner. In 1990 spring track, Price won the one-mile outdoor and the two-mile indoor runs for state championships.

Midget Football was begun in 1971 to provide a fall activity for youth and as a feeder team for the older group. Herb Daugherty, Bill Winn, Joe Gordon, Bob Ward, Carel Hauver, Wayne Mohler, and Donnie Wagner are among the life-giving forces of this organization. The Mountain Valley Youth Football League was formed as a blanket group within which games are played. The season ends with a play-off among the four best teams of the league, and Brunswick has earned several championships. A Superbowl is played in the fall. There is one team with three team levels: Pony, J.V. and Varsity. At present there 45, 20, and 20 members age eight to fourteen in the respective team levels. Carroll Jones has been a longstanding president of the local football league. S - Bob Ward and Carroll Jones

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CROSS-COUNTRY RACING - B.H.S.

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Ancient man had to run to escape beasts. Later, running became a competitive sport. As early as 776 BC names of winners in track and field events were recorded; the event: Olympic games in Greece. Cross-country running at BHS began in the early 1960's to condition athletes for other sports. Coach Delphey Gaither initiated running as an afterthought, thinking it would improve action in basketball and other sports. BHS competed only irregularly in cross-country running before moving to the present building in 1965. Gaither's Maryland State championship crosscountry racing team of 1965 included James Cole, Charles "Turkey King, Bobby Brooks, David Luman, Allen Edwards, Denny Dawson and Drew Orye; Eddie Hill was team manager. The 1966 winners included Bobby Brooks, Ray Gunter, Gordon Welch, Eddie Hill, John McMurry, Allen Edwards and David Luman. The latter team tied with Middletown in 1967. Bobby Brooks was one of the best runners to compete in Maryland high school racing. For three years he was the State Class B cross-country champion and was runner-up once. Jimmy Cole and Turkey King were two other top runners of the 1960's. Once they finished a race together ahead of the entire Middletown team. When cross-country meets began in Brunswick in 1965,

SPORTS (CLASS OF 1940) BHS Class of 1940 may have set a sports-winning record, according to Selden Darr, class president. They were county soccer champs in 1939 and 1940. (They won a game in the state playoff, beating Carroll County, but lost to Hagerstown.) In 1940 they not only won every game they played, but did not have a field goal scored against them the entire season until Maryland State School for the Deaf scored the first and only field goal against them. They were county baseball champions in 1940, defeating Liberty High School three times, Lovettsville once (the first game was rained out), and Frederick, Thurmont, Middletown, Harpers Ferry, and Hagerstown twice each. In both 1939 and 1940 they won softball championships- most of these players being also on the baseball team. Likewise, their track team had a fantastic record. The 440-yard relay team, consisting of Charles Webber (leadoff man), Hayes (Jim) Huffer, Chester Riland, and Dnug Mills, broke the county record in

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