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The first Portal Panthers
PHS to honor 1974, 1975 teams
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This photo, taken from the 1975 Portal High School yearbook, shows the first-ever Portal football team, assembled in 1974. Seated, left to right: Lavern Reese, Jimmy Chavers, Thomas Reese, Darrell Mixon, Stanley Brown, J.L. Barners, Joey Lowery, Eric Thompson, Larry Mosley. Kneeling, left to right: Mac Arthur Jones, Eugene Allen, Larry Davis, Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Beasley, Mickey NeSmith, John Wiggins, Harvey Williams, Willie Allen, Abraham Williams, Daniel Parrish, James Williams. Standing left to right: Assistant coach John Butler, Ray Mosley, Joey Carter, Elwood Thompson, Lannie Lanier, , Stevie Bowen, Timmy Beasley, Calvin McCray, Tony Mosley, Steven Hendrix, head coach Donald Williams. - photo by Special to the Herald
PORTAL — The Portal Panthers celebrated their homecoming two weeks ago, but a few more alums will get an encore performance when Jenkins County comes to town on Friday night. Members of the 1974 and 1975 Portal teams — the first in the school’s history — will reunite during the game, walking the Panthers’ lush green field that is a far cry from where the program began. Lannie Lanier, who spends each Portal home game up in the press box as the Panthers’ P.A. announcer, has helped to coordinate Friday’s event and will step aside from his normal post to join his former teammates to be recognized.