Best Players from the Old NIL (Nashville Interscholastic League)

[Bighurt]

Wayne Bush-Glencliff

Kenny Johnson-Donelson . . .

Bigchief

You are truly "Old School". Good list although there should be more than one Startford Spartan on there.

 

Wayne Bush was the most dominant high school player I ever saw. I would add Steve Shaw from Litton to your list.

[cbg]

IMO, the following players were the best ever in the old NIL:

 

Defense: E.J. Junior (Mapelwood) & Greg Gaines (DuPont) both of these guys had long careers in the NFL

 

Offense: Bill Wade (MBA), Mike Wright (Father Ryan), and Ingle Martin (MBA) all played professional football or professional baseball.

 

MVP: "Jefferson Street" Joe Gilliam (Pearl, Tennessee State & Pittsburgh Steelers)

Better than Terry Bradshaw and proved it but the NFL was not ready for a minority to play QB on a Super Bowl championship team.

[bigchief]

Bigchief

You are truly "Old School". Good list although there should be more than one Startford Spartan on there.

 

Wayne Bush was the most dominant high school player I ever saw. I would add Steve Shaw from Litton to your list.

Steve Shaw, Litton class of '59. Dead ringer for Burt Reynolds in the early days. Hope he doesn't look like him now. Give me a day or two and I will tweak my list to include some from EVERY school in the old NIL. Shadow, get ready.

[KWoodroof]

Steve Shaw, Litton class of '59. Dead ringer for Burt Reynolds in the early days. Hope he doesn't look like him now. Give me a day or two and I will tweak my list to include some from EVERY school in the old NIL. Shadow, get ready.

That's going to be a task. I'll insist that you have representatives from Haynes, Meigs, Howard,Duncan,and TIS/TPS, for it to be truly official.

 

Wasn't there a Jesse Mathers from North?

[bigchief]

Yes, Jesse Mathers was from North in, I believe, fall of 1973. Odell Binkley , tailback, from '50-'51 as well.

Edited October 26, 2006 by bigchief

[Bighurt]

That's going to be a task. I'll insist that you have representatives from Haynes, Meigs, Howard, Duncan,and TIS/TPS, for it to be truly official.

 

Wasn't there a Jesse Mathers from North?

Don't forget Bellevue, Howard, Two Rivers and West.

[Bighurt]

What about Jeff Peoples? Didn't he win the NIL MVP in football and baseball?

Jeff's most significant athletic achievement was sailing a record across the Cumberland River from the Sycamore Lodge in Shelby Park.

[bigchief]

45 or 33?

[Bighurt]

45 or 33?

45

[bigchief]

Impressive nonetheless. Must have been a good breeze.

[rollredroll]

Carl George was the first QB for Maplewood.

 

What year would he have played at Maplewood? I know a Carl George who is about 60 and had kids that played at FRA in the early-to-mid 80s; I wonder if it's the same Carl George.

[jimbo44]

What year would he have played at Maplewood? I know a Carl George who is about 60 and had kids that played at FRA in the early-to-mid 80s; I wonder if it's the same Carl George.

Maplewood Class of '62. Was the first grad class. Carl would be about 62 now. He had real good stats in basketball. Automatic turn and shoot post player. Lived on Meridian st.

The rest of the back field that year; HBs Gordon Gregory, Jim Bundy, and FB Steave Sprinkles.

At Center was Jimmy Cooper who had a sucessful HS coaching carrier in GA or AL.