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WSET-TV - Team of the Week
Thanks Dennis Carter - WSET-TV
9/19/01

Wednesday is our "High School Team of the Week" day on 13 Sports. Today's team is "not" a group of teenagers. Actually, far from it. But these "big kids", if you will, are very much a part of sports at Brookville High School.  You'd have to look far and wide to find a team that's stuck together longer than this bunch. These 10 men, along with eight other men and women, have
combined for more than 400 years of service to Brookville. They make it happen on "Football Friday". From taking the tickets...
"Thank you now, Thank you."

....
and
working the gates, to carrying the chains, keeping all the stats, operating the clock and public address. And they do it all as volunteers, no pay.
"And if you do an outstanding job, they double your pay every year, get two at-a-boys."

Tom Moore started the Chain Gang back in 1959 at the request of legendary coach Bunker Hill.
Tom Moore, 42 years with "Chain Gang"- "He said it's awful to start a game with three or four guys holding the chains and then halftime comes, they're gone. So I said well, you won't have to worry about that again, we'll take care of it. And we have, since then."

They have done that, so well in fact, they're like a human link. Nobody wants to break the chain.
Dennis - "How many more years do you think you'll do this?"

Garnett Marston - Brookville statistician (32 years) "As long as my eyesight will let me and my legs will let me move."

Bud Clowdis - 38 years on "Chain Gang" - "Every year for the last five years has been my last year. So it is kind of hard to quit."

But don't get the idea these guys are all business. They may be working, but they're having plenty of fun doing it.

Jim Lockhart - Clock operator (26 years) "I try not to associate with these guys too much. You know, that's why they're on the field and I'm up in the press box by myself with a couple of other guys. They're all a bunch of nuts."

And Brookville High School is mighty fortunate to have those "sports nuts."