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Cycs subdue stubborn Cougs
In the eighth game of the 1969 varsity football season, Fike High was finally tested for the for the first time by a stubborn Goldsboro squad on Halloween night. The Cyclones resorted to its two …
Marker celebrates champion Cyclones, Coach Trevathan
A Wilson County Historical Association marker recognizing the Fike High School Cyclone football teams for their three state championships was unveiled Tuesday. Under coach Henry Trevathan’s …
A community institution
Five decades after it first opened, the Fike High football stadium remains as a monument to community spirit than anything else. The first game was played in the concrete structure on Friday, Oct. …
Cyclones 'Crumpler' Rocky Mount
Carlester Crumpler, the player synonymous with Fike High’s three straight state 4-A football championships in the late 1960s, had a coming out party in the Cyclones’ 14-0 win at archrival Rocky …
Trevathan’s Cyclones still relevant today
Trevathan. The name inspired both awe and dread in me as an eighth-grader playing tackle football for the first time at Charles L. Coon Middle School in the fall of 1979. Sure, I had heard …
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