Built in the heady days when Cloverdale was its very own town, but soon to be incorporated into Montgomery. But when that came to pass, Montgomery had two white high schools, so there was this football game to decide which school would get to keep its name. Poor Cloverdale High lost the game (some said Lanier cheated), and became a junior high feeder into the winner, Sidney Lanier HS. Today, Cloverdale High is owned by Huntingdon College, whose main campus is across the street. It was a good buy for Huntingdon as they turned the highschool gym and football field into Huntingdon’s Samford Stadium. This was the style of many small high schools built in Alabama during the 1920s. I attended one just like Cloverdale way over in West Alabama, 70-odd years ago.
-Charles Humphries
I went to GW Carver High School 76 – 79 (Montgomery, Alabama), I am intrigued or interest in all the Basketball Junior High State Champions, like Cloverdale Junior High won the 1974 State Basketball Championship. Are you able to email me the 9th grade or Junior High School State Champion from 1960 – Present, and the runner-ups, with their rosters? I like to know who was on those teams, like McIntyre Junior High I believe was runner-up in 1976 with Alfonso Ward being on the team, who later played with Lee High School in Montgomery, AL and McIntyre also won 1978 Basketball state championship, with Ken Johnson who played for Carver High, and famed Andrae Bruce won the Junior High State Championship for McIntyre Junior High in 1981, and went on to win two state High School Championships with GW Carver High in 1983 & 1984.