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Alabama High School Football Players

 
 Shorty Norton
 Awards
 Year   Award   Position   Class  Source 
 1955  All-Star Game HB Sr.  
  
   
  Born: 
  High School: Cleburne County
  Position: Halfback
  Height/Weight: 6'1" / 200
  Senior Season: 1955
  College: Auburn
 
 

 High School Bio:

            Norton earned five football letters and five baseball letters. 1954- 55 scored 18 touchdowns, ran 8 extra points; outstanding football player of school 1955- 56. ether sports; baseball (pitcher), won four games, and lost one 1955; won one lost none 1,956. He played five years of varsity football. Captain of squad in 1954-55 and 1955-56. His specialty was up the middle. Grid statistics - averaged 6 yards per rush 1954- 55 - 116 points. 87 yards per game; averaged 4 yards per rush 1955- 56. 69 points - 72 yards per game.




Great Moments in Alabama High School Football History

Morris Higginbotham coached three different teams to divisional state championships in the 1950s. He won titles at Walnut Grove in 1952, West Blocton in 1955 and Enterprise in 1960.