| Summary: | This image is a photograph used in the book Auburn, a Pictorial History of the Loveliest Village by Mickey Logue and Jack Simms, 3rd edition, 2013, depicting the history of the city and the university. From page 248: Three members of Drake High School's last football team receive instructions from coach Frank Tolbert in 1969. The next year black and white players all played for Auburn High School ... [Tolbert's] Auburn High basketball teams have reached the state Final Four seven times, have twice finished second in the state tournament, and won it all in 2005 over a previously unbeaten Leflore team ranked second nationally by USA Today. Shown assisting Tolbert at Drake was John Dunn, an Auburn police officer for about twenty-five years. ... The players are Chris Neloms (21), Joe Devance (34), and Cody Blackmon (43). Photo source: Auburn University Archives.
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