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    Four players on this team would go on to play college football at Florida A&M University and were inducted into the school’s Sports Hall of Fame. They were Captain Emory Collier (2002), Willie Clarington (2003), Owen (Butch) McKay (1985), and Harvey Cooper (2024). Co-Captain Curtis Armstrong played college football at Tennessee State. Carl Woodard went on to play college football at Texas Southern and became an All American. Another player, Ransom Hill played college football at Albany State University and was inducted in the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame in 2011. He was a member of the 1960 Albany State Undefeated, Unscored Upon Football Team. Curtis Young and Ransom Hill, both had sons (Duane Young and Randal Thrill Hill) who would play professional football in the National Football League (NFL). Both stars starred at Mays, Fla., High. From there, Young went to Lane, Hill to Albany State. Another team member was Ernest Coney. He played college football for the Lane College, Jackson TN. Jimmie Miller, another team member, played college football at FAMU.

    1957 Mays High School Football Team
    Under the able coaching of Rufus Tribble, the Rams won 9 games and lost 1. The team was runner-up in the Big 9 South Football Conference.
    MEMORIES- 1957 Mays High School Rams football team co-captains and coaches. From left: Mays High Athletic Director Carl Hanna, HB Frankie Glenn, C Curtis Armstrong (Co-Captain), QB Emory Collier (Captain), Head Football Coach Rufus Tribble. Shown kneeling is Coach Jimmy Anders. Photo courtesy of Kathryne Armstrong Wilson
    The 1957 Mays High School Rams football team poses for a team photo. In the front row, from left, are: Harry Jones, Charlie Marshall, James McFadden, Leon Conley, Dennis Bohler, Curtis Young, Willie Spencer, Victor Jones, Johnny Fletcher and Eddie Willis; second row: John Bennett, Richard Johnson, Ernest Coney, Co-Captain Curtis Armstrong, Captain Emory Collier, Roy Harris, Johnny Jefferson, Richard Coleman, unknown (14) and Clifton Jackson; third row: Leroy Axem, Frankie Glenn, Willie Clarington, Harvey Langston, Jimmie Miller, Harvey Cooper, Frank Woods, Milton Robinson, Ulysses Harris, Carl Woodard, Ransom Hill, Eugene Bryant and Eddie Davis.  Linton Haywood, James Delancy, Roosevelt Carson, and Owen McKay was not present when the picture was taken
    Photo courtesy of Kathryn Armstrong Wilson.
    The 1960 undefeated, unscored upon football team from Albany State. Ransom Hill (front row, second from left) wearing jersey number 28.

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