Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Enterprise High School Football Star!

Bill Gent (left)
Enterprise High School
"Outstanding Athlete of the Year"
1937 

"I always loved athletics, and I tried all of them while I attended high school.  Football was probably my favorite, but I still participated in basketball, baseball, and track & field.  In my senior year I was chosen the outstanding athlete of  the year.  This was the height of my glory, at least I thought it was.

"I had a football scholarship given to me by Oregon Stake College at Corvallis, Oregon and I attended my freshman year there. I never saw so many big men in my life as I did there.  My, I was homesick, and there is only one cure for that and that is home.  I went back the next year, 1939, and went the fall term, but I just didn't have the perseverance that was needed to stick it out.  I  have surely regretted this, although maybe this was my destiny."
                                                                                             Bid Gent
                                                                                             Personal History, written 1982 

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