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Pearl River to honor legendary football coach
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POPLARVILLE - On Aug. 18, 1948, they buried a sports legend in New York City. His name: Babe Ruth. The first truly great home-run hitter of all time.
One month later, on Sept. 18, 1948, another soon-to-be sports legend was getting started at Pearl River Junior College, Thomas Dobie Holden. On that day, his Pearl River Wildcats went on the road and defeated the Goodman Bulldogs 25-19.
The following week, the Wildcats whipped Southwest Junior College 26-0 in their home opener. This with a team that returned only four starters. Holden's first team went on to finish 6-4. The foundation was now laid. His niche in the history of football in Mississippi was underway.
Check the numbers: From 1948 to 1966 the Pearl River Wildcats under Holden won 140 games, lost 43, tied 7 and were state champions seven times. His 1961 team finished the season ranked No. 1 in the country. They beat arch-rival Gulf Coast 17 straight times (1949-65).
"We played for a legend when he was a legend," said Tommy Walters, an all-state end (1960-61) from Petal. "He was the kind of guy everybody tried to impersonate. He would sit down on the sidelines in a folding chair and call the plays from there. His practices were something.
"We would run the same play over and over again for the entire two hours of practice. His famous saying was, 'we are going to run this play a thousand times until we get it right.' Everybody who ever played for him will remember that saying."
John Russell was the head football coach at PRCC from 1967-73. He won two state championships and five of his seven teams won nine games. He first came to Pearl River in 1960 as an assistant coach under Dobie Holden.
"I learned how to coach football under Coach Holden," said Russell. "He was one of the greatest football coaches to ever coach the game."
Saturday morning at 8:30, on Homecoming Day at PRCC, Walters, Russell and more than 150 former players and assistant coaches from as far away as Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee will gather at Dobie Holden Stadium on the Pearl River Community College campus.
Following induction ceremonies for the 2008 Sports Hall of Fame class, which features two of Holden's former players (Alvin Doyle and Fred Runte) and one of his assistant coaches (Fred Henley), a life-size bronze statue of Coach Holden will be unveiled at the stadium.
Holden's former players, many of whom went on to be very successful in life, raised the money for the statue.
His wife, Earlora Holden, who turns 100 years old next April, and members of the Holden family will pull the rope on this statue of a man who became known as an innovator and a coach far ahead of his time.
He was one of the first coaches to recognize the potential of the forward pass, even as early as his high school days, and his experimentation with the pro-set at Pearl River in the 1950s came long before that formation became standard procedure for college and pro teams.
"Senior college coaches used to come to Poplarville and he would give them one heckuva football clinic," said Russell. "They would have all-day sessions with him on the chalkboard."
Former players tell stories about Holden that have nothing to do with football. They sing the praises of this psychological motivator. Why not? Holden majored in psychology and later taught it at the school.
Others say he was the most tireless worker they had ever been around. A lot of his work was duplicated and reduplicated. He was a believer in that old saying - repetition is the father of perfection. Indeed, many of his players talk of entire practices spent running a single play until they got it right.
"Coach Holden was a master psychologist," said Mike Waits (1963-64) . "He would absolutely get 150 percent out of a kid. He knew how to get inside people's heads. You would either take it or go home. In practice, he would run a play and run a play and run a play. The same play.
"We would run the same play in practice all week so it would be absolutely perfect when we ran it in the game."
Born July 5, 1905, Holden played football at Picayune High, signed with LSU as a fullback and scored the only touchdown in LSU's 6-0 win over Ole Miss in 1930.
He did not arrive at Pearl River overnight. He coached the LSU freshman one year, coached at Hattiesburg High for a year and then became head coach at Picayune where at one time, the Maroon Tide won 37 straight games. He also had success coaching at Pascagoula before coming to PRC in 1948.
Once a reporter asked Holden about his football philosophy.
On common sense: "One thing you don't go by is common sense. I wish somebody would define it for me. It's the unpredictable, the surprise that wins football games."
On new ideas: "I'd go anywhere for an idea. You've heard the definition of research haven't you? If you steal from one person, that's plagiarism. If you steal from two people, that's comparative analysis. If you steal from three or more people, that's research."
Holden's influence on his players will be evident by the number of them who will attend Saturday's ceremony. One of them will be Dr. Thomas J. Malone, retired executive vice chairman of Millikin and Company, who was chosen to speak at the unveiling.
In a 1985 address, just a year before Holden's death on Jan. 12, 1986, to the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Malone paid tribute to Holden.
"I never met a truly successful individual who did not feel and act a little bit inferior from time to time. He taught me to believe that I had to work a little harder to excel and to outperform my peers."
One month later, on Sept. 18, 1948, another soon-to-be sports legend was getting started at Pearl River Junior College, Thomas Dobie Holden. On that day, his Pearl River Wildcats went on the road and defeated the Goodman Bulldogs 25-19.
The following week, the Wildcats whipped Southwest Junior College 26-0 in their home opener. This with a team that returned only four starters. Holden's first team went on to finish 6-4. The foundation was now laid. His niche in the history of football in Mississippi was underway.
Check the numbers: From 1948 to 1966 the Pearl River Wildcats under Holden won 140 games, lost 43, tied 7 and were state champions seven times. His 1961 team finished the season ranked No. 1 in the country. They beat arch-rival Gulf Coast 17 straight times (1949-65).
"We played for a legend when he was a legend," said Tommy Walters, an all-state end (1960-61) from Petal. "He was the kind of guy everybody tried to impersonate. He would sit down on the sidelines in a folding chair and call the plays from there. His practices were something.
"We would run the same play over and over again for the entire two hours of practice. His famous saying was, 'we are going to run this play a thousand times until we get it right.' Everybody who ever played for him will remember that saying."
John Russell was the head football coach at PRCC from 1967-73. He won two state championships and five of his seven teams won nine games. He first came to Pearl River in 1960 as an assistant coach under Dobie Holden.
"I learned how to coach football under Coach Holden," said Russell. "He was one of the greatest football coaches to ever coach the game."
Saturday morning at 8:30, on Homecoming Day at PRCC, Walters, Russell and more than 150 former players and assistant coaches from as far away as Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee will gather at Dobie Holden Stadium on the Pearl River Community College campus.
Following induction ceremonies for the 2008 Sports Hall of Fame class, which features two of Holden's former players (Alvin Doyle and Fred Runte) and one of his assistant coaches (Fred Henley), a life-size bronze statue of Coach Holden will be unveiled at the stadium.
Holden's former players, many of whom went on to be very successful in life, raised the money for the statue.
His wife, Earlora Holden, who turns 100 years old next April, and members of the Holden family will pull the rope on this statue of a man who became known as an innovator and a coach far ahead of his time.
He was one of the first coaches to recognize the potential of the forward pass, even as early as his high school days, and his experimentation with the pro-set at Pearl River in the 1950s came long before that formation became standard procedure for college and pro teams.
"Senior college coaches used to come to Poplarville and he would give them one heckuva football clinic," said Russell. "They would have all-day sessions with him on the chalkboard."
Former players tell stories about Holden that have nothing to do with football. They sing the praises of this psychological motivator. Why not? Holden majored in psychology and later taught it at the school.
Others say he was the most tireless worker they had ever been around. A lot of his work was duplicated and reduplicated. He was a believer in that old saying - repetition is the father of perfection. Indeed, many of his players talk of entire practices spent running a single play until they got it right.
"Coach Holden was a master psychologist," said Mike Waits (1963-64) . "He would absolutely get 150 percent out of a kid. He knew how to get inside people's heads. You would either take it or go home. In practice, he would run a play and run a play and run a play. The same play.
"We would run the same play in practice all week so it would be absolutely perfect when we ran it in the game."
Born July 5, 1905, Holden played football at Picayune High, signed with LSU as a fullback and scored the only touchdown in LSU's 6-0 win over Ole Miss in 1930.
He did not arrive at Pearl River overnight. He coached the LSU freshman one year, coached at Hattiesburg High for a year and then became head coach at Picayune where at one time, the Maroon Tide won 37 straight games. He also had success coaching at Pascagoula before coming to PRC in 1948.
Once a reporter asked Holden about his football philosophy.
On common sense: "One thing you don't go by is common sense. I wish somebody would define it for me. It's the unpredictable, the surprise that wins football games."
On new ideas: "I'd go anywhere for an idea. You've heard the definition of research haven't you? If you steal from one person, that's plagiarism. If you steal from two people, that's comparative analysis. If you steal from three or more people, that's research."
Holden's influence on his players will be evident by the number of them who will attend Saturday's ceremony. One of them will be Dr. Thomas J. Malone, retired executive vice chairman of Millikin and Company, who was chosen to speak at the unveiling.
In a 1985 address, just a year before Holden's death on Jan. 12, 1986, to the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Malone paid tribute to Holden.
"I never met a truly successful individual who did not feel and act a little bit inferior from time to time. He taught me to believe that I had to work a little harder to excel and to outperform my peers."
POPLARVILLE - On Aug. 18, 1948, they buried a sports legend in New York City. His name: Babe Ruth. The first truly great home-run hitter of all time.
One month later, on Sept. 18, 1948, another soon-to-be sports legend was getting started at Pearl River Junior College, Thomas Dobie Holden. On that day, his Pearl River Wildcats went on the road and defeated the Goodman Bulldogs 25-19.
The following week, the Wildcats whipped Southwest Junior College 26-0 in their home opener. This with a team that returned only four starters. Holden's first team went on to finish 6-4. The foundation was now laid. His niche in the history of football in Mississippi was underway.
Check the numbers: From 1948 to 1966 the Pearl River Wildcats under Holden won 140 games, lost 43, tied 7 and were state champions seven times. His 1961 team finished the season ranked No. 1 in the country. They beat arch-rival Gulf Coast 17 straight times (1949-65).
"We played for a legend when he was a legend," said Tommy Walters, an all-state end (1960-61) from Petal. "He was the kind of guy everybody tried to impersonate. He would sit down on the sidelines in a folding chair and call the plays from there. His practices were something.
"We would run the same play over and over again for the entire two hours of practice. His famous saying was, 'we are going to run this play a thousand times until we get it right.' Everybody who ever played for him will remember that saying."
John Russell was the head football coach at PRCC from 1967-73. He won two state championships and five of his seven teams won nine games. He first came to Pearl River in 1960 as an assistant coach under Dobie Holden.
"I learned how to coach football under Coach Holden," said Russell. "He was one of the greatest football coaches to ever coach the game."
Saturday morning at 8:30, on Homecoming Day at PRCC, Walters, Russell and more than 150 former players and assistant coaches from as far away as Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee will gather at Dobie Holden Stadium on the Pearl River Community College campus.
Following induction ceremonies for the 2008 Sports Hall of Fame class, which features two of Holden's former players (Alvin Doyle and Fred Runte) and one of his assistant coaches (Fred Henley), a life-size bronze statue of Coach Holden will be unveiled at the stadium.
Holden's former players, many of whom went on to be very successful in life, raised the money for the statue.
His wife, Earlora Holden, who turns 100 years old next April, and members of the Holden family will pull the rope on this statue of a man who became known as an innovator and a coach far ahead of his time.
He was one of the first coaches to recognize the potential of the forward pass, even as early as his high school days, and his experimentation with the pro-set at Pearl River in the 1950s came long before that formation became standard procedure for college and pro teams.
"Senior college coaches used to come to Poplarville and he would give them one heckuva football clinic," said Russell. "They would have all-day sessions with him on the chalkboard."
Former players tell stories about Holden that have nothing to do with football. They sing the praises of this psychological motivator. Why not? Holden majored in psychology and later taught it at the school.
Others say he was the most tireless worker they had ever been around. A lot of his work was duplicated and reduplicated. He was a believer in that old saying - repetition is the father of perfection. Indeed, many of his players talk of entire practices spent running a single play until they got it right.
"Coach Holden was a master psychologist," said Mike Waits (1963-64) . "He would absolutely get 150 percent out of a kid. He knew how to get inside people's heads. You would either take it or go home. In practice, he would run a play and run a play and run a play. The same play.
"We would run the same play in practice all week so it would be absolutely perfect when we ran it in the game."
Born July 5, 1905, Holden played football at Picayune High, signed with LSU as a fullback and scored the only touchdown in LSU's 6-0 win over Ole Miss in 1930.
He did not arrive at Pearl River overnight. He coached the LSU freshman one year, coached at Hattiesburg High for a year and then became head coach at Picayune where at one time, the Maroon Tide won 37 straight games. He also had success coaching at Pascagoula before coming to PRC in 1948.
Once a reporter asked Holden about his football philosophy.
On common sense: "One thing you don't go by is common sense. I wish somebody would define it for me. It's the unpredictable, the surprise that wins football games."
On new ideas: "I'd go anywhere for an idea. You've heard the definition of research haven't you? If you steal from one person, that's plagiarism. If you steal from two people, that's comparative analysis. If you steal from three or more people, that's research."
Holden's influence on his players will be evident by the number of them who will attend Saturday's ceremony. One of them will be Dr. Thomas J. Malone, retired executive vice chairman of Millikin and Company, who was chosen to speak at the unveiling.
In a 1985 address, just a year before Holden's death on Jan. 12, 1986, to the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Malone paid tribute to Holden.
"I never met a truly successful individual who did not feel and act a little bit inferior from time to time. He taught me to believe that I had to work a little harder to excel and to outperform my peers."
One month later, on Sept. 18, 1948, another soon-to-be sports legend was getting started at Pearl River Junior College, Thomas Dobie Holden. On that day, his Pearl River Wildcats went on the road and defeated the Goodman Bulldogs 25-19.
The following week, the Wildcats whipped Southwest Junior College 26-0 in their home opener. This with a team that returned only four starters. Holden's first team went on to finish 6-4. The foundation was now laid. His niche in the history of football in Mississippi was underway.
Check the numbers: From 1948 to 1966 the Pearl River Wildcats under Holden won 140 games, lost 43, tied 7 and were state champions seven times. His 1961 team finished the season ranked No. 1 in the country. They beat arch-rival Gulf Coast 17 straight times (1949-65).
"We played for a legend when he was a legend," said Tommy Walters, an all-state end (1960-61) from Petal. "He was the kind of guy everybody tried to impersonate. He would sit down on the sidelines in a folding chair and call the plays from there. His practices were something.
"We would run the same play over and over again for the entire two hours of practice. His famous saying was, 'we are going to run this play a thousand times until we get it right.' Everybody who ever played for him will remember that saying."
John Russell was the head football coach at PRCC from 1967-73. He won two state championships and five of his seven teams won nine games. He first came to Pearl River in 1960 as an assistant coach under Dobie Holden.
"I learned how to coach football under Coach Holden," said Russell. "He was one of the greatest football coaches to ever coach the game."
Saturday morning at 8:30, on Homecoming Day at PRCC, Walters, Russell and more than 150 former players and assistant coaches from as far away as Colorado, Texas, North Carolina, Florida and Tennessee will gather at Dobie Holden Stadium on the Pearl River Community College campus.
Following induction ceremonies for the 2008 Sports Hall of Fame class, which features two of Holden's former players (Alvin Doyle and Fred Runte) and one of his assistant coaches (Fred Henley), a life-size bronze statue of Coach Holden will be unveiled at the stadium.
Holden's former players, many of whom went on to be very successful in life, raised the money for the statue.
His wife, Earlora Holden, who turns 100 years old next April, and members of the Holden family will pull the rope on this statue of a man who became known as an innovator and a coach far ahead of his time.
He was one of the first coaches to recognize the potential of the forward pass, even as early as his high school days, and his experimentation with the pro-set at Pearl River in the 1950s came long before that formation became standard procedure for college and pro teams.
"Senior college coaches used to come to Poplarville and he would give them one heckuva football clinic," said Russell. "They would have all-day sessions with him on the chalkboard."
Former players tell stories about Holden that have nothing to do with football. They sing the praises of this psychological motivator. Why not? Holden majored in psychology and later taught it at the school.
Others say he was the most tireless worker they had ever been around. A lot of his work was duplicated and reduplicated. He was a believer in that old saying - repetition is the father of perfection. Indeed, many of his players talk of entire practices spent running a single play until they got it right.
"Coach Holden was a master psychologist," said Mike Waits (1963-64) . "He would absolutely get 150 percent out of a kid. He knew how to get inside people's heads. You would either take it or go home. In practice, he would run a play and run a play and run a play. The same play.
"We would run the same play in practice all week so it would be absolutely perfect when we ran it in the game."
Born July 5, 1905, Holden played football at Picayune High, signed with LSU as a fullback and scored the only touchdown in LSU's 6-0 win over Ole Miss in 1930.
He did not arrive at Pearl River overnight. He coached the LSU freshman one year, coached at Hattiesburg High for a year and then became head coach at Picayune where at one time, the Maroon Tide won 37 straight games. He also had success coaching at Pascagoula before coming to PRC in 1948.
Once a reporter asked Holden about his football philosophy.
On common sense: "One thing you don't go by is common sense. I wish somebody would define it for me. It's the unpredictable, the surprise that wins football games."
On new ideas: "I'd go anywhere for an idea. You've heard the definition of research haven't you? If you steal from one person, that's plagiarism. If you steal from two people, that's comparative analysis. If you steal from three or more people, that's research."
Holden's influence on his players will be evident by the number of them who will attend Saturday's ceremony. One of them will be Dr. Thomas J. Malone, retired executive vice chairman of Millikin and Company, who was chosen to speak at the unveiling.
In a 1985 address, just a year before Holden's death on Jan. 12, 1986, to the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, Malone paid tribute to Holden.
"I never met a truly successful individual who did not feel and act a little bit inferior from time to time. He taught me to believe that I had to work a little harder to excel and to outperform my peers."
Pearl River holds off stubborn Co-Lin team
Pearl River holds off stubborn Co-Lin team
Pearl River holds off stubborn Co-Lin team
Pearl River holds off stubborn Co-Lin team
Pearl River holds off stubborn Co-Lin team
Re: Pearl River holds off stubborn Co-Lin team
From Hattiesburg American:
POPLARVILLE - Kiln native Summer Carrington might have been named Pearl River's homecoming queen Saturday at Dobie Holden Stadium, but it was the Wildcats' timely offense that stole the show in their 21-16 win over Copiah Lincoln.
The Wildcats advanced to 6-1 overall and 3-1 in the South Division and remain in control of their own destiny.
In a game where the Wildcats sputtered on 13 of their 17 drives and turned the ball over on another, points were hard to come by. But they scored when they needed to in the fourth quarter, and weathered a storm of Co-Lin's spread offense that finally stalled at midfield as time expired.
With a 14-9 lead in the fourth quarter, quarterback Emil Jones and the Pearl River offense drove 66 yards in four plays to score their final touchdown. The drive featured a huge 42-yard pass play from Jones to Jerry Duncan and was capped by a 1-yard dive by Jones, his second rushing touchdown of the game.
"We knew we had to put one in the end zone," Jones said. "We hadn't been able to move the ball much, and we knew their offense was going to come out swinging. We just did what we had to do to score."
The Co-Lin version of the spread offense provided the rest of the fireworks in the fourth quarter, compiling 150 yards and two touchdowns and putting the heat on Pearl River.
Co-Lin quarterback Micah Davis, the son of fourth-year Co-Lin coach Glenn Davis, was almost a non-factor in the first half, but heated up in the fourth quarter to give the Wolves a shot. Davis completed 12 of 16 attempts in the fourth quarter for 138 yards and two touchdowns, with most of his passes going to tailback Ronnie McNulty out of the backfield.
"They were doing a great job of getting him space," linebacker Hendrick Leverette said. "He was quick, we just had to adjust and follow our assignments."
Leverette led the Wildcat defense with six solo tackles, three assists and two tackles for loss.
The Co-Lin defense forced a Wildcat punt with just 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter, but the offense ran out of time at the Pearl River 30-yard line when receiver Quo Vadis Lindsey failed to get out of bounds after catching a pass.
After the game, Pearl River coach Tim Hatten praised his team for doing what they needed to do to get the win.
"We won the turnover battle and had a chance to put it away by scoring again or stopping them in the fourth quarter and we didn't," Hatten said. "Luckily we scored when we had to and held them when we had to to get the win.
"There's about six teams in the South (Division) that would make the playoffs if they were in the North (Division), so we'll take a win against a South (Division) team anyway we can get it."
The Pearl River offense was sporadic in the first half, exploding for 120 yards in the first quarter, then falling flat in the second with just 17 yards of total offense. The Wildcats managed just 83 yards rushing without the services of tailback Rashod Henry, who had a big game against Jones County a week ago before injuring his ankle in the fourth quarter.
"We couldn't get into a rhythm out there," said Jones, who finished with 206 yards passing. "It hurt not having (Henry), but Ike Bowden came out and had a good game and we did what we had to do to get the win."
From Hattiesburg American:
POPLARVILLE - Kiln native Summer Carrington might have been named Pearl River's homecoming queen Saturday at Dobie Holden Stadium, but it was the Wildcats' timely offense that stole the show in their 21-16 win over Copiah Lincoln.
The Wildcats advanced to 6-1 overall and 3-1 in the South Division and remain in control of their own destiny.
In a game where the Wildcats sputtered on 13 of their 17 drives and turned the ball over on another, points were hard to come by. But they scored when they needed to in the fourth quarter, and weathered a storm of Co-Lin's spread offense that finally stalled at midfield as time expired.
With a 14-9 lead in the fourth quarter, quarterback Emil Jones and the Pearl River offense drove 66 yards in four plays to score their final touchdown. The drive featured a huge 42-yard pass play from Jones to Jerry Duncan and was capped by a 1-yard dive by Jones, his second rushing touchdown of the game.
"We knew we had to put one in the end zone," Jones said. "We hadn't been able to move the ball much, and we knew their offense was going to come out swinging. We just did what we had to do to score."
The Co-Lin version of the spread offense provided the rest of the fireworks in the fourth quarter, compiling 150 yards and two touchdowns and putting the heat on Pearl River.
Co-Lin quarterback Micah Davis, the son of fourth-year Co-Lin coach Glenn Davis, was almost a non-factor in the first half, but heated up in the fourth quarter to give the Wolves a shot. Davis completed 12 of 16 attempts in the fourth quarter for 138 yards and two touchdowns, with most of his passes going to tailback Ronnie McNulty out of the backfield.
"They were doing a great job of getting him space," linebacker Hendrick Leverette said. "He was quick, we just had to adjust and follow our assignments."
Leverette led the Wildcat defense with six solo tackles, three assists and two tackles for loss.
The Co-Lin defense forced a Wildcat punt with just 30 seconds left in the fourth quarter, but the offense ran out of time at the Pearl River 30-yard line when receiver Quo Vadis Lindsey failed to get out of bounds after catching a pass.
After the game, Pearl River coach Tim Hatten praised his team for doing what they needed to do to get the win.
"We won the turnover battle and had a chance to put it away by scoring again or stopping them in the fourth quarter and we didn't," Hatten said. "Luckily we scored when we had to and held them when we had to to get the win.
"There's about six teams in the South (Division) that would make the playoffs if they were in the North (Division), so we'll take a win against a South (Division) team anyway we can get it."
The Pearl River offense was sporadic in the first half, exploding for 120 yards in the first quarter, then falling flat in the second with just 17 yards of total offense. The Wildcats managed just 83 yards rushing without the services of tailback Rashod Henry, who had a big game against Jones County a week ago before injuring his ankle in the fourth quarter.
"We couldn't get into a rhythm out there," said Jones, who finished with 206 yards passing. "It hurt not having (Henry), but Ike Bowden came out and had a good game and we did what we had to do to get the win."
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