08-11-08 Looking back

Published 12:00 am Monday, August 11, 2008

TWENTY YEARS AGO — Gus Watson and Walter Myers, two Sicily Island assistant coaches who planned on getting out of coaching after the 1987 season, are named the co-head coaches of the Tigers’ football team.

TEN YEARS AGO — Ole Miss sophomore Romaro Miller, the only one of four scholarship quarterbacks with any game experience, playing in limited action in three games in 2002, is named the Rebels’ starting QB.

FIVE YEARS AGO — Mary Edwards of Jonesville, La. shoots a final-round 78 to finish at 157 and makes history by becoming the fourth woman to win three straight Natchez Ladies titles and the first to win four of them.

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