Subject: Sports in Lakeland

Image from Lakeland High School yearbook

Track and Field gold medal awarded to Carl Cager 100 yard dash

George "Pete" Walls

Awarded to Carl "Flash" Cager Silver

Clippings about the Parkdale sports teams, especially the football one.

Coach Estee B. Wells and co-captains Robert Moore and Elijah Norris led the Lakeland High School football squad to a second undefeated season and the state football championship in 1946. Pictured on the field at Lakeland High School are the coach and members of the football team.

Fourth-generation Lakelander Lisa Hollomand started learning to skate at the Wells Rink in College Park. Her teacher recognized her talent and her parents invested in years of private lessons. Between high school and college, from 1985 to 1987, Hollomand performed for two tours with Disney on Ice. This photograph was taken during a performance in 1985. After her tours, she taught skating at a number of area skating rinks. (Courtesy of Mary Day Hollomand.)

A class history and a humorous class will.

Baseball was an important summer pastime among the African-American communities in Prince George’s County. Most of the communities had their own teams, which played each other. The baseball season was capped with a day of games and picnicking in Laurel, Maryland, to celebrate Emancipation Day, when Abraham Lincoln granted freedom to about 3,100 enslaved people in the District of Columbia, nine months before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. Norwood Walls was one of the young pitchers who participated in these events during the 1940s and 1950s. He is shown here circa 1947. (Courtesy of Diane Weems Ligon.)

In Mickey Corbin's comeback game, the team goes into overtime and wins. The score was 64-60. The team had many remarkable highlights by many different players on the Parkdale team.

Yearbook page

Basketball team sponsored by Embry AME Church with their coaches Earl Hawkins rear left in white shirt, Dwight Brooks right in white shirt and in front of him Reginald Gaskins

Officer took part in the Lakeland Stars basketball program including games on Friday night of Heritage Weekend

Jeffrey Briscoe, Douglas Few, James Gray, and George Randall were Lakeland’s favorite sons in 1971, when they led Parkdale High School’s Panthers to a state basketball title. Briscoe, Gray, and Randall were members of the first class of Lakeland students to attend the new high school. They had sharpened their skills in Lakeland’s schoolyard and as teammates at Greenbelt Junior High School.

Navahoe Street, 48th Ave & Melbourne Pl William A. Albaugh Block 18 Lots 14 thru 21 Project Parcel 22-1

With the leadership of their coaches, Ambrose Green and Spenser Briscoe Sr., the Lakeland Stars baseball team won their league championship in 1986. This was one of the last years the community fielded a team. Team members are, left to right (first row) George Johnson, Eugene Briscoe, Spenser Briscoe Jr., and Louis Briscoe; (second row) Guy Weems, Abby Pennell, Francis Smith, Hubert Nickerson, George Tyrone Mondel, Warren Hill, George Smith, Sherman Campbell, and Herbert Hill.

Two of the three clippings on the Parkdale games with details from the games. Parkdale won both games and seemed to be on a winning streak. Also, the third clipping is a game schedule for the Maryland area.

Young Woman with Bicycle

The Athletic Banquet, featuring the players and coaches of all the teams coming together to celebrate and regroup at the end of the season. Michael Parker was presented the Athlete of the Year Award, presented by William Hall. Opposite is the Senior Activities section header.

Lakeland Elementary School with basketball players on the school's court.

Lakeland baseball player

Duckpin bowling was a popular pastime, enjoyed by the people of Lakeland. The awarding of trophies and annual banquets were eagerly anticipated by the bowlers. This photo was taken circa 1969-1970 at College Park's Fairlanes Bowling Center. The bowlers pictured are, left to right, James Hill, Helen Swan Hill, Lois GIlbert, and Thomas Randall.

Awarded to Carl Cager South Atlantic Association AAU 880 REL '53

South Atlantic Association ,50,55 Bronze

The Basketball and Baseball Teams, neither of which have a list of players. Each has various photos from games throughout the season.

School girls, from left to right, (first row) Pamela Sharps, Pearl Lee Campbell; (second row) Mary Ann Campbell, and Pamela Randall wave their Fairmont Heights Hornets pennant as they prepare to leave Lakeland to support their team during the school’s 1960 homecoming game. Lakeland High School was replaced by Fairmont Heights Junior-Senior High School in 1950. The new school served the African-American students from widely scattered areas of Prince George's County. As a result of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the school board abandoned its earlier, race-based school assignment plan and instituted a system based on residential boundaries. At the time, housing in Prince George’s County was segregated. African Americans resided in single-race communities, many out of custom and by choice, and others due to housing discrimination. The result of the new boundaries plan was a school system with mostly single-race schools. There was a policy, however, that allowed students to seek assignment to other schools. Few sought that option. In the 1960s, Lakeland students were assigned to the closer, predominantly-white Northwestern High School in Hyattsville and High Point High School in Beltsville.

This is an interview conducted during Maryland Day, 2011, at Cole Fieldhouse. The interviewees answer questions on topics of sports in Lakeland, segregation outside of the community, bussing and integration of the school system, Lakeland's interaction with the University of Maryland, and raising children within the community.

James Adams and Maseo Campbell, like many young family men of Lakeland, were members of the community’s baseball team. These two gentlemen, shown in the late 1950s, were both teammates and cousins. The popularity of the games diminished in the 1970s, and Lakeland stopped fielding a team late in that decade. (Courtesy of Elizabeth Hicks Campbell Adams.)

Lakeland's primary ballfield Pierce Avenue

Jeffrey Briscoe, Douglas Few, James Gray, and George Randall were Lakeland’s favorite sons in 1971, when they led Parkdale High School’s Panthers to a state basketball title. Briscoe, Gray, and Randall were members of the first class of Lakeland students to attend the new high school. They had sharpened their skills in Lakeland’s schoolyard and as teammates at Greenbelt Junior High School.

CP Dream Team basketball team pictured at Embry AME Church. The church sponsored this team made up of friends of the church and Lakeland community members. Coaches shown are Earl Hawkins far left, back far right Dwight Brooks and far right front Reginald Gaskins

On the left page, the basketball team. On the right, a collage of various sports and athletes.

An introductory Athletics page.

In Lakeland in the area of Paint Branch Elementary School and College Park Community Center

Student athletes competing for Lakeland.

The front of the card - has a photo of Clarice. Her name is in bright yellow at the bottom, and 'Lakeland Heritage' is above her portrait., The back of the card states 'Lakeland Heritage' and Clarice's full name, as well as her track record. Each slash denotes a new line. "TRACK / Lakeland High School / 100 Yard Dash / 440 Relay / 1944-1950 / Coach Zelma Cole / Took part in Morgan State Field Day"

From Prince Georges County Teacher's Association to Mary Day of Lakeland Senior High School for third place performance in the Hop, Skip and Jump

- Title page of the brochure for Lakeland Heritage, September 2018. The cover shows the Lakeland Majorettes marching in a parade. - First and second interior pages of the brochure, opening with a thank you to the attendees of the event and updating them on recent accomplishments and works done by and in partnership with the LCHP. The second page foes further into detail on two major events; "A Path Forward," a mural done by Lakeland teen artists and others on the trail underpass by Baltimore Avenue. The second major event is that of the LCHP establishing the archive project in partnership with MITH and other departments of UMD; - Third and fourth interior pages of the brochure. The left page details the College Park Dream Team Basketball event at the Community Center. Below, a description of the history of sports in Lakeland, and the introduction of Lakeland Hero Sports Cards. These cards each focus on one athletic Lakelander, with a portrait of them on the front and a history of their events and sports accomplishments on the back. The right page has a dedication to Leonard Smith, the Grand Marshal of the event, and the special guests of the Parade & Picnic - Fifth and sixth pages of the brochure. The fifth has the itinerary for Sunday's event, Music at the Washington Brazilian SDA Church. On the sixth page are brief biographies of the performers listed; - The final page of the booklet, with a last schedule of the events of the weekend. There is also a thank you to sponsors and partners of the event.

Maryland White Sox of Lakeland

The College Park boy's club baseball team in 1967.

Duplicate of: 04876 (colorless). A picture of the Prince George's County Boys Club track team champions in 1965. George Randall is a part of that team

The back of the photo of the PGCBC Track team champions.

Parkdale HS was playing against Suitland HS. George Randall was mentioned in the news clipping. In pen, in the clipping, George wrote he blocked the shot in the photo. Parkdale did lose the game though.