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A gold Williams High School football head protector with a dark W joins the Bulldogs players and mentors on the sideline every Friday night. 

It's not worn by any player and it's canvassed in pink, red and white wax from softened candles. 

While it might stand out to a pariah for its strange appearance, it's loaded up with significance for those in the Bulldogs program. 

It's all essential for a practice that has gotten back to Williams under first-year mentor Patrick Stokes, with its underlying foundations tracing all the way back to the days when NCHSAA Hall of Fame mentor Sam Story was in charge of the Bulldogs program. 

"Many players have gone through this," Stokes said. "There's a head protector that we keep with us on the sideline. It stays in the mentors office, however it has the wax from every one of the past services poured over. At the point when we're finished with the function, all the wax gets poured over the protective cap as a visual and an unmistakable token of the responsibility of both our own just as those before us." 

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The service Stokes references is the thing that the Bulldogs call a "responsibility function," that is to happen before each season. 

"It's essentially players simply getting up before their partners and mentors and simply discussing why they play football at Williams," Stokes said. "How Williams football affects them and how responsibility affects them. They discussed family. They discussed a fraternity. They discussed objectives and an arrangement to accomplish those objectives. In any case, for the most part, it's simply them sharing their hearts and what sports, especially here at Williams, intends to them. 

"We sit in the arena following a late-night practice and there's candles that are lit there on the table. Thus, that is the light that we sort of take a gander at one another in. At the end of the day, the chiefs go last and they talk regarding how it affects them and afterward they blow the candles out and pour the wax over the protective cap." 

That service enrolled as a significant holding second, as per Izayah Ramsey, the senior recipient/cornerback and a group skipper. 

"We had the service. We got out there and we revealed to one another how we felt about the game," Ramsey said. "We disclosed to one another we love one another and we have each other's backs. We focused in the group. We're willing to take the necessary steps to dominate the match. We're willing to secure our siblings when we step on the field. It's a dogfight. All of us are grinding away. We have each other's backs. Since (Coach Stokes has) been here, we're constructing a culture. It resembles a family, presently. Everything's adoration." 

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Story, the previous long-lasting Bulldogs mentor, said the practice was begun by Tony Perrou, when he filled in as a Williams right hand mentor. The beginning of the thought came from Perrou's playing days at North Carolina State, Story said, where Perrou and his Wolfpack partners would partake in a comparative function. 

"It's been a benevolent thing of formal, just to the privy of the players that have played there and the mentors," Story said. "It was begun by Coach Perrou. He was protective organizer when he came to Williams. It was something that he carried with him that North Carolina State did when he played there. It's extremely amazing and exceptionally sort of secret responsibility service." 

The Bulldogs won a state title in 1999 with Perrou as the protective organizer and Stokes as a collector in the group. Perrou was later the Southern Alamance mentor when he died in an auto accident in 2006. 

"Tony, I'm glad to consider him my nephew by marriage," said Story, whose spouse is the sister of Perrou's mom. "He played for me in my subsequent year instructing at Williams in 1984 when we won our first gathering title." 

That cap and the significance behind it was on Williams junior linebacker Gray Loy's brain last Friday night when the Bulldogs fell behind to have Eden Morehead with under 5 minutes remaining. 

"We got going the season doing a responsibility service, showing that we're focused in the group," Loy said. "That is essential for what we showed (in the Eden Morehead game)." 

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The Bulldogs offense reacted by coordinating its most proficient drive of the game, finishing in the go on score with under 3 minutes to play. The score stood up as the last score of the game, giving the Bulldogs a 13-7 triumph, the first for Stokes as a lead trainer. 

"We had that that blown inclusion, where they got that long pass and they ran for a score," Loy proceeded. "In any case, the manner in which we returned from that, and I looked behind me, and each and every one of my partners were running down behind me to come get that person. That is the thing that you need as a safeguard. Everyone amassed to the ball, everyone's submitted, the way that the group's changed and the way that all of us are centered around a certain something, and that is getting this next success."