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Daily Trivia: Class AAA lineman of the year on Richmond Academy's 1956 championship team

By Todd Holcomb
Oct 21, 2014

Richmond Academy's 1956 state championship team will be honored on Thursday in Augusta at the school's third-annual hall-of-fame induction. The team's most famous player was the Atlanta Journal's Class AAA lineman of the year. Who was he? (Answer Wednesday)

Answer to Monday's question: Bill Chappell was the head coach for Dalton during 33 years of its streak of 52 consecutive winning seasons.

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