South coach Rick Vanhoy in 2005. Photo by Brett Clark

East’s Randy Fowler. Player of the Year in 1974.

Salsibury’s Leonard Atkins (44).

North’s Mark Sturgis

By Mike London

Salisbury Post

SALISBURY — Fifty years is a long time, half a century, so the talented teens who were trampling defenders for Rowan County football teams in 1975 — if they’re still with us — are now 67 or 68 and collecting social security checks.

Memories fade, but legends never die, and 1975 is still remembered as the Year of the Running Back. Rowan football fans wouldn’t see anything quite like 1975 again until KP Parks, Bush Warren, Romar Morris and Thomas Lowe came on the scene at roughly the same time in the late 2000s.

The backs in 1975 had one thing in common with the backs of 2009. They couldn’t wait for

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