Jonesboro star to play at the next level

[WacoTrib.com staff]

Feature on Spencer Lord in today's Waco Trib (hope the admins don't mind the promotion). Coaches say he may be the first Eagle to ever land a college football scholarship.

http://www.wacotrib.com/sports/high...cle_52b3b57a-ec4d-5aa5-a454-671150547f8c.html

 

[Leman Saunders]

Congrats! (but pretty sure there have been a few Jonesboro players to play college football some great players in the 1950s-1970s era and willing to bet a few of them played college ball)...Larry Pruitt maybe..?

 

[Garrett2810]

I thought Pruitt played at Turnersville

 

[Leman Saunders]

I have a roster for the All-Star game he played in and it lists him as being from Jonesboro...looking into it...

 

[Leman Saunders]

OK Garrett2810 I got if figured out...

Larry Pruitt did go to Turnesville, but the school closed after the 1966-67 school year and Pruitt went to Jonesboro for his senior year which was the 1967-68 school year and playing on the East 6-man All-Star Football team for Jonesboro, East won 42-30, James Nichols also played in the game for Jonesboro. On the West team was one Jack Shely from Marathon and one Rickey Perry from Paint Creek.

 

[Garrett2810]

Ok and didn't Jack Shely coach with Pruitt for a little bit in Jonesboro? I remember his wife was one of our English teachers in Oglesby.

 

[Hound_99]

Yes they coached together in Jonesboro in the early 2000s.
And I think the article was more about Lord being the first player from Jonesboro to receive a football scholarship not just play in college.