Mary Johnson

But the games were real nice after I learned what team I was hollering for, yeah.  But the boys was real good.  We traveled with some of them games.  I remember we went over to Roanoke and we had to fight to get away from over there.

Phylllis Leffler: You had to fight to do what?

Mary Johnson: Yeah, because after the game was over, then the other team, they want to fight.  So Coach Smith — he was the coach at the time — he told us to go ahead and leave early and get on the bus because they had Burley dead and in the casket when we got there.  Yeah.  And we knew back then that the team — because Burley beat them, you see, and then you’ve got to fight to get back over there.  So we went and got on the bus and Coach Smith, he came up on the bus.  A guy was trying to get on the bus.  You know them wooden crates that used to have Coca-Cola bottles in?  He took that Coca-Cola bottle and come up on that bus, and he was going to tear his head up with the thing, and we got away from all that without anybody getting hurt.