1967 Fulton High Falcons

The Undefeated “Might mites”
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FACT SHEET
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Record: Undefeated (10-0-1)

Championships: AA KFL Champions

Coaches: Lon Herzbrun (1963-1968); Buddy Beam (1959-1968);Bobby Black (1963-2007)

 

Trainer: Jack Berry

Lon Herzbrum was named KFL Coach of the Year

Jackie Walker was named KFL Defensive Player of the Year

1967 Falcon Team Awards
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Skipper Bean, co-captain and best offensive back

  Steve Sparks, co-captain

Herb Newton, winner of the 110% award

 David Mize, best defensive lineman

Doug Young, best offensive lineman.

1967 Reason Games and Records
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1967 Fulton High Falcons Football Team

The Only
UNDEFEATED
Football Team in School History

1967 Optimist Bowl
Fulton High School vs. Morristown High School
Thanksgiving Day, November 23, 1967
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Coach Herbrun’s Fulton Coaching Record
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 1963              3-6-1              Lon Herzbrun   

 1964              8-2-1              Lon Herzbrun                   Burley Tobacco Bowl

 1965              8-3                 Lon Herzbrun                   KFL Champs/Optimist Bowl

 1966              8-3                 Lon Herzbrun                   Rockwood Jaycee Bowl

 1967            10-0-1              Lon Herzbrun                   KFL Champs/Optimist Bowl

 1968              7-2-2              Lon Herzbrun                   Strawberry Bowl

1967 Facts and Stories of Interest
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Fulton lost 19 seniors from the 8-3 1966 team and the 1967 was to be a rebuilding year.

Fulton cruised in it’s season opener with Rule 45-7 scoring 25 points in the 4^th quarter.

Then Fulton shutout Sevier County and Powell before matching up with undefeated and #3 ranked Central.

Fulton beat Central 7-0 with a 10 yard 4^th quarter run by quarterback Larry Brock to score the games only TD.

In the Central game Jackie Walker made 33 tackles, 17 solo, to be named KFL defensive player of the week.

Fulton was the only team to beat Powell during regular season. Powel finished the regular season 9-1 (Larry Stephens, who would later coach at Powell played for Powell that year).

Only 77 points was scored against Fulton in 11 games for an average of less than a touchdown per game.

No team ever scored on the right ride of the 1967 Falcon defense the entire year. Randy Wood was the cornerback and Gary Raley was the safety

Fulton averaged 19.6 points a game on offense.

Fulton prevented 4 teams from scoring with 4 defensive shutouts. Sevier County (6-0), Powell (19-0), Central (7-0), Oliver Springs (28-0).

Against Bearden Butch Sprain blocked 4 punts and caused a safety, to be named KFL defensive player of the week.

Fullback Ed Taylor scampered 82 yards for the winning touchdown in the 14-13 Fulton victory over Oak Ridge.

Captain Skipper Bean blocked an Oak Ridge extra point attempt giving Fulton a 14-13 victory over Oak Ridge.

Jackie Walker put at least 2 players in the “hospital” in 1967 with brutal hits.

• In the Rule game Jim Brannam was sweeping wide when Walker caught him alone at the line of scrimmage knocking him out cold. Their was a collective gasp of a large crowd at Fulton’s home field because the hit was so hard. Brannam lay motionless until he was help off the field. Brannam was taken to the hospital and could not finish the game.
• In addition, Jackie Walker made “the hit” on Sutton which sounded like a gunshot knocking Sutton out and putting him in the hospital for a couple of days.

Steve Sparks ate a light bulb at half time during a game to motivate team.

Butch Sprain use to do back flips over the ball in full game equipment during games. Coach Herzbrun took him out of the game to tell him not to do that until their was a lead.

In a preseason scrimmage with Maryville, Butch Sprain was so quick into the backfield of Maryville that he actually got the ball from the Maryville quarterback twice as he was attempting to hand it off and returned it for 2 Fulton TDs. After that Maryville did not run any more offensive plays because they wanted to figure out how Sprain was getting into their backfield so quick.

Fulton beat 9^th rated Morristown in the Optimist Bowl 27-6.

In the 1967 Optimist Bowl Fulton had 354 yard total offense with 2 touchdown passes by Larry Brock to David Holt.

Morristown was held to a net rushing yardage of “0.”

The 1967 Falcons broke a 58 game non-conference and 8 game regular season winning streak by Morristown with a 27-6 victory over Morristown in the Optimist Bowl.

Jackie Walker was selected to first team All-state and went on to become an All-American linebacker at UT setting the all time NCAA career interception for touchdown record at 5 and had two others called back in one game.

David Mize, Skipper Bean and Butch Spain were honorable mention All-State.

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