The War Whoop (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 17, Ed. 1, Wednesday, February 8, 1961 Page: 3 of 4
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TALKING THINGS OVrit Toby IturMiardt Hobby Driver Coach Hcrslicl KImbrcll
and Lance Stephens talk things over for the panic with Ailington State this Friday
night in Arlington. Stephens is captain of this year's highly successful Indians with
Ittirkhardl and Driver co-captains.
Indian
Austin
With two reserves and I
three starers scoring in dou-
ble figures McMurry's In-1
McMurry Track Team
To Compete at Ft. Worth
McMuiry College's track -
sters will enter a 10-mnn
team in the Will Rogers In-
door Games In Ft-.- Worth's
Will Rogers Coliseum Thurs
day night.
Due to bad weather the
track team may prove to be
below their potential in the
games since the thin clads
have had few Ideal days to
work out this year.
Bill Miller Winters soph-
more will represent the Tribe
be trackstcrs In the broad
jump. Miller placed second
in the national NAIA meet
last spring. His best Jump is
Clierokecs Win
'Mural V'ball
With two wins Monday
night 'he Comanches won
first place In the Girls Intr-
mural Volleyball League
and finished the season
with a spotless record of 10
wins and no losses.
The Comanches fresh-
man girls of the north sect-
Ion of President Hall beat
Delta Beta 29-14 and the
Rebels 1D-17 last Monday
night.
Kappa Phi copped second
place honors
In the volley-'
ball league winning nine
games while losing one. Kap-
pa Phi beat the Rebels 1G-11
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the Rebels eight wins and
two losses for third place.
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In other games played In
the final night of volleyball1
TIP fell to Kappa Phi 23-8
Delta Beta beat Alpha PI 20-
13 and the Apaches edged thc
Comanches 21-18.
The Girls Intramurals will I
play basketball as its next i
sport.
Cagers
College
dlans humiliated Austin Col-
lege 82-05 in Sherman last
Saturday nlht before a full
25 - 2.
Bruce Land McMurry's
sprlntman from Hawley via
Cisco JC may enter the G0-
yard dash. Other sprinters
this year are John Dale Lewis
Coleman and Mike Stell Ft.
Worth.
Snyder's Bud Morgan trans-
fer from North Texas will
enter the GO - yard high
hurdles. James Harvey is
another McMurry high hur-
dler. The mile relay entry will
be Gus Umphress Paul Ran-
kin Jimmy Drake and Bill
Blythe. This team placed
third in the NAIA champion-
ships last spring. These men
are also quarter-mile entries.
Due to grades polc-vaultcr
Hershel Force and mile-
runner Kent Morgan were
lost to the Indian tiack team.
Kiva DS Win
B'hall Games
The Dirty Shirts and Kiva
were victorious in the first
week of action In the men's
basketball intramurals. The
Dirty Shirts roared past the
Freshman in both fast and
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ble header Ko Sari and the
Dlity Shlits played Tues-
day night but results were
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Ko Sari plays the Freshmen
In fast and slow games this
Tuesday night
Rip
82-65
house of partisan Kangaroo
fans.
Th0 victory over Austin
College gave McMurry the
lead in Zone 8 of thc NAIA.
The Tribe has also beaten
Midwestern giving the Indi-
ans a 2-0 zone record. Way-
land Is the fourth member
or this zone of the NAIA.
In other games played last
week McMurry bowled over
Eastern New Mexico 100-9G
and St. Mary's 73-G4. The
victory over Austin College
gives McMurry a highly res-
pectable season record of
13-4.
Itumscy Scores 15
Scoring In double figures
aainst the Kangaroos were
Buddy Rumsey 15 Toby
Burkhardt 14 Jerry Stone
13 Bobby Driver 13 and
Earnle Reusch 11. Lance
Stephens tallied nine points
and Ronnie Lowe seven points
to round out the Indian scor-
ing. The Tilbo got off to its
usual slow start trailing as
many as eight points In the
first half and trailed 40-42
at half.
Thc Indians roared back
early in the second half toss-
ing in eight points to the
Sherman school's none to
grab the lead for the rest of
the game.
McMuny widened the gap
and finally finished with a
17-polnt lead.
Tribe lilts 52 Ter Cent
The Braves hit 10 of 33
shots from the field in the
first half for 48 per cent and
14 of 20 In the second lor 04
per cent a jame total of 30
ol 59 for 52 per cent The
Kangaioos made 25 of 68 for
3G8 per cent from the floor.
The Tribe also out-rebounded
Austin 02-32. Tall Buddy
Rumsey paced Indian re-
bounders with 10 lebounds
Burkhaidt was second nab-
bing 14 lebounds.
THE WAR WHOOP '
Wednesday February 8 19G1 Page 3
Indians Meet
Arlington St.
McMurry College's Indians left the Rebels short on tho
take to the load for a game ' scoieboard.
with Arlington State Friday I McMurry's previous mect-
ninht i. .iiinn tf.. lnK with Mldwcsern was an
nght in Ailngton before overtlmt. vlctory n whlch
playing host to Midwestern the Indian bench strength
University in Indian Gym proved to be the dlffeicnce.
next Tuesday night.
The Tribe made easy work I
?ft "no r!n-t.(S1 StalT ql"!!: "tor contest reserves Jerol
tot 08-71 in Abilene Jan. 0 Graves aml clnylon Blooks
In overtime on Jan 7 theltook lp thc slack r M
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Midwestern 75-72.
With three men scoring
over 15 points per game Mc-
Murry will feature a well-
balanced scoring attack Sen-
ior guard Bobby Driver 6-3
going into the game last
night with Wayland was pac-
ing Tribe scorers with 314
points for a game average of
18.5.
In the first mcctinj with
Arlington State Driver scored
22 points for high point hon-
ors of the game. Tho fast
break exploited by McMuny
Sports
by Lee
Team effort and reserve
strength co tinue to be the
key to success for Coach
Hershul Kimbi ell's cage
so.uad. Thc Indians surpass-
ing any other season in rec-
ent history on the hardwoods
at McMurry have yet to be
beaten in Indian Gym this
year.
The NAIA North Zone lace
appears to bc anything but
over yet. McMurry going in-
to Tuesday's night game with
Wayland had a 2-0 lecord.
Wayland had yet to play a
NAIA game and Midwester
had a 0-2 record with Austin
owning a 1-1 record. The
Tribe needs victories over
Wayland to sew up the race.
Driver Leading
With 17 games played (
Bobby Driver is on top of the i
Tribe with 314 points for a '
game average of 18 4. Lance1
iStephensis the second lead
ing scorer wim zoo puinis iui
an average of 15 7. Toby
Burkhardt is hot on the heels
of Stephens with 2G0 points1
averaging 15.3.
Coach Grant Teatff is all
smiles now days with his
lccrultlng efforts a real suc-
cess on paper.. The latest
recruitment by Teaff Is Jim
Densman 195-pound fiesh-
man who was the top scoier
on the I960 West Texas State
football team before trans-
ferring to McMurry at mid-
semester.
Densman graduated from
high school In Mission
Texas.
A not so many miles foot-
ball schedule has been com-
pleted for the McMurry In-
With Ronnie Lowe and Bob
by Driver fouling out wtlh
fvn mlmitnc lnfl r thn vnnr-
' Mm ry
As of late tho Tribe's tall
Buddy Rumsey has shown
definite improvement and
may have at least temporar-
ily taken over the starting
center berth from Earnlo
Reusch.
Other probable starters
will be cither Jerry Stone or
Jerol Graves at guard with
Bobby Driver; and Lance
Stephens and Toby Burk-
hardt at forwards. (Ronnie
Lowe is home in Indiana
where his father is in serious
condition )
Signals
White
dlans for next fall. McMurry
will play Texas Lutheran
Trinity New Mexico State
Southwest Texas Satc.Texas
Weslcyan and Tarlcton State
away from homo and will
play Howard Payne Arllng
ton State Hai din-Simmons
and ACC In Abilene.
Homecoming will be Oct-
ober 21 against Arlington
State.
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