Winning Ways Return To Alabama High School

Alabama News Center | March 2, 2018 @ 5:00 am

By Wayne Hester

It was the 1960s and teenagers were rocking to the Beatles.

In the governor’s office, George Wallace was promising “segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”

And on the east side of Birmingham, head coach George O. “Shorty” White was winning the first of three state football championships at Banks High School. Jimmy Sidle, a tall, rangy fellow, was one of the first to earn a college scholarship. He chose Auburn and in 1963 became the first quarterback to lead the nation in rushing with 1,003 yards.

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