Fordsville was never known as a ball astounding force to be reckoned with. Every so often it would have a charming get-together, yet in the best circumstances it was seldom more than .500. There were, two or three experts who played for the Trojans at various times. Wear Coppage, who wedded my cousin Lavonne Farmer and later ready at the school, was hair-raising in the last piece of the 1950’s. Jim Foreman showed up after Don and was a power with which to be figured. Glenn Floyd followed Jim and had two or three totally astounding games. In one express game which Fordsville won 49-39, Glenn scored 39 center interests. During the 1980’s Billy Turner who could dunk the ball with two hands drove a get-together of good Fordsville players to a last yahoo, yet it still barely broke .500 and neglected to appear at the provincial challenge.
One close by of the Fordsville locale who accomplished more reputation than any of the as of late referred to players never played a game for the Trojans. He was a person of decent birth of sorts. His dad was a conspicuous financial informed authority, rancher, and especially regarded individual from the area; mother was a sister to Drexel Phillips who showed a near internment organization parlor for more than 20 years and served a couple of terms on the Ohio County Board of Education. I’m talking about George Durwood “Woody” Neel.
I don’t have even the remotest clue when Woody quit going to Fordsville and sought after Owensboro Senior High School, however it was most likely the tenth grade. I have a yearbook that shows him at Fordsville in the seventh grade, and I have seen paper articles which display he broke into the Owensboro beginning plan as a sophomore. It isn’t known why he chose to take his gifts somewhere else, yet it is perceived that Owensboro did a noteworthy extent of picking back then. In the event that they didn’t have an overall extraordinary get-together, they would go out and view as one. Anything the explanation, it ended up ideal for Woody.
During Woody’s lesser and senior seasons he was the headliner and driving scorer for the Owensboro Red Devils. Most ball experts of that period thought of him as one of the better players in the Third Region. The part of his helper school days came in 1956 during his lesser season when the Red Devils were ordinary sprinter up to Henderson City. Henderson kept on completing as sprinter up in the State Tournament to Carr Creek. He had the catastrophe during his senior time of being darkened by Daviess County, Owensboro’s central foe, which had one of the better social affairs in the whole state. The Panthers (Daviess County) had 6-8 Don Crosley and All-Stater Bobby Rascoe. Both would lead Daviess County to a state second place title in 1958. Rascoe would keep on being a headliner for noticed Coach Ed Diddle at Western Kentucky State College and long term be enlisted into the Western Hall of Fame.