Note the lack of trees around Grove Hill as the 1942 Grove High School football tean poses for its offical portrait, Part of Frank Smith’s (Class of 1942) photo collection. The team was flanked by Coach Bobby Jelks and on the right by manager Tommy Roe. Players are from left:
1st row: unknown, Vernon Waddy, George Hicks, Marion Atkins, Frank Smith, unknown, Earl Mann, unknown, Billy Hall Pucket, Carl Ross Veazey;
2nd row: Owens Humphreys, Joe Dudley Mann, Billy Caldwell, Billy Scholes, Bobby Vaughn, Jimmy Woodward, Joe Smith, Prince Blackwood, Charles Dungan, Eddie Hankins, Joe Davis, unknown;
3rd row:Orell Miller, Doris Seymour, Med Scholes, Fred Balch, Vayden Waddy, Rob Roy Riley, Barney Ross, Ben Pardue, David Bomar, John Maxwell and James Conger.
Ross, Mann and Balch, were killed in action during World War II.