{"id":1198,"date":"2014-04-18T02:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-04-18T02:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2014-04-18T02:19:31","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T02:19:31","slug":"phil-pugh-travels-along-the-mississippi-before-coming-home-to-referee-post-season-track-and-field-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1198","title":{"rendered":"Phil Pugh travels along the Mississippi before coming home to referee post-season track and field meets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Terry Mosher<\/p>\n<p>Editor, Sports Paper<\/p>\n<p>Phil Pugh, who is in Hall of Fames for coaching football and track and field at North Mason, which named its stadium after him, is along with wife Ingrid touring Mississippi, which has a lot of history related to the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>When we talked Thursday night he was in Natchez, Miss getting set to relax in the hotel for the trip Friday down to Baton Rouge and then on to New Orleans. But, don\u2019t fear, Pugh, who\u00a0 spends some of his time in Nevada at Henderson, has scheduled his traveling so he will be available as a track and field referee for the important post-season meets \u2013 Olympic League, sub-district at Sumner High School for class 2A, the West-Central District, and then the small school state meet at Cheney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy responsibility has to do with violations and mistakes that occur on the track and deal with the protests of those violations and mistakes,\u201d says Pugh.<\/p>\n<p>Before reaching Natchez, Pugh and Ingrid spent some time at Vicksburg, the site of one of the decisive Civil War battles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a lot of Civil War history there,\u201d said Pugh. \u201cThe Union Army (led by eventual U.S President Ulysses Grant) surrounded the Confederate Army at Vicksburg. The siege lasted for 40 days, and finally the Confederate Army surrendered. It was a terrible blood bath. That opened the Mississippi River to the Union Army and really was a huge turning point in the outcome of the war.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Terry Mosher Editor, Sports Paper Phil Pugh, who is in Hall of Fames for coaching football and track and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}