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THE YELLOW JACKET, Fabruary 6. 1970
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ON ICE—Tommy Glynn (12) and David Jones (42) work the ball late in the game
at McMurry while Indian defenders appear to be just looking on. The Jackets sacked
this one away in Abilene 110-92. (Photo by Johnny Curtis.)
HPC Basketball Genius
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Talk about a tough job.
Howard Payne College bas-
ketball coach Glen Whitis has
perhaps the toughest job in
the nation in obtaining a
home basketball schedule for
his nationally ranked Yellow
Jackets.
Whitis is assured of nine
home games against Lone Star
Conference foes, but after that
it takes umpteen letters and
phone calls to complete the
schedule for the Brownwood
Coliseum.
Whitis, in his 15th year at
HPC, has now won 50 straight
regularly scheduled tilts; he's
won 54 of the last 55 tilts,
and when HPC entertains East
Texas State University here
Feb. 4, he will be shooting
for 40 straight at home.
The Jackets, who have won
the conference title three of
the last four years, and who
by no mesns are out of con-
tention this season, with a
19-2 season record and a 9-2
conference standard, have won
2? straight home victories
against league foes.
The Jackets scoring string,
which may not be a record,
but which has got to be phe-
nomenal, started in March,
1966, when they defeated East
Texas Baptist College 83-66
in a NAIA playoff game.
Counting this tilt, the Jack-
ets roared to 14 straight wins
before splitting with St.
Mary's in another NAIA play-
off game. On Nov. 28, 1967,
they defeated Tarleton 99-70
and they have lost nary a
gairie since that time.
' The string includes an 84-64
victory over St. Mary's in an-
other NAIA playoff game.
Dandy Dan Smith,-the fifth
highest point producer in Tex-
as with 1842 points, helped
the Jackets start the victory
string.
WJiitis had trouble getting
home games with other col-
leges in what is termed the
"Big Country" due to Smith's
great playing.
Smith finished and a couple
of teams in the "Big Country"
quickly agreed to come to
Brownwood to play.
This they lived to regret,
for fabulous Fred Davis was
still around. Davis, the All-
American, 6-5 senior from
Oakland, Calif., helped the
Jackets to victories over such
teams as independent Hardin-
Simmons University and Abi-
lene Christian College of the
Southland Conference. Both
H-SU and ACC quickly drop-
ped the Jackets at home or
away.
Davis, last year led all
scorers in Texas with 861
points—good enough for eighth
in the land—and this year, he
had the honor of being the
first player to soar over the
600 mark. He has 610 points
with eight games to go.
After the home game with
ETSU, the Jackets' next
Brownwood engagement will
be with Stephen F. Austin,
the number 1 ranked team in
the nation.
The Jackets won over the
Lumberjacks 81-64 in 1968
aad last year the score was
93-80.
So, it's no wonder that the
largest crowds ever to see
basketball games in this part
of Texas are expected to be
on hand when the Jackets en-
tertain ETSU, SFA and fol-
low up with a Feb. 16 game
with Sam Houston State.
Although Whitis has a
great record at home, he en-
joys almost as good a record
on the road, especially if you
figure the last four years.
A former Yellow Jacket star
himself, Whitis started the sea-
son with 236 triumph? against
only 137 defeats. He now has
a record that shows 254 wins
against only 139 defeats,
Whitis, who earned four
letters and made the all-con-
ference team while playing at
HPC. saw his Yellow Jackets
post, win over Baylor Uni-
versity in his first college
coaching tilt. He has been win-
ning since that time.
jQ^yis has scored 30 or more
a third (23) of his
63 gafries.
His highest point produc-
tions have been 51 vs. Bishop;
48 Texas A&I; 39 vs. SFA,
H-SU, Central Washington, Sul
Ross; 38 Angelo State.
Whitis naturally agrees with
Lou Henson of New Mexico
State University, Phil George
of Angelo State University,
and Hershel Kimbrell of Mc-
Murray College and a flock of
other fellow mentors that Da-
vis is among the best, if not
the best all around player in
the nation.
"When you lead all the
scorers in Texas for two
straight years," Whitis says,
"that's a pretty good record
in itself."
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Cinder Slate Announced
The 1970 track schedule for the Howard Payne varsity track
team has been announced by track coach David Noble. The 1970
slate includes ten meets one of which will be held in Brown-
wood at Cap Shelton Track on April 11,
HOWARD PAYNE COLLEGE TRACK SCHEDULE 1970
Feb. 28 Fort Worth Recreation Meet, Fort Worth.
Mar. 7 San Angelo, HPC, Brownwood
Mar. 14 East Texas (All College Meet), Commerce
Mar. 19 Dual Meet Sul Ross State College, Alpine
(Thurs. 1:00 p.m.)
May. 28 Cowboy Relays, Lake Charles, La.'"
Ajptfil 3-4 Texas Relays, Austin A:. • f ,
April 11 HPC, Brownwood
April 18 Southwest Texas, San Marcos
April 25 OPEN w f ^ "£ ui* *
April 30 Four-Way (ACC, NT, ASC, HPC), Arlington
May 8-9 Conference Meet, Alpine
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Davis Leads HPC
Past McM & ET
Fabulous Fred Davis, How-
ard Payne's super All-Tmer-
ican, turned in two fantastic
performances this week
which earned for him sev-
eral honors.
Fred moved from 10th to
7th in the poll of all-time
Texas Collegiate scorers. He
became 9th Monday night
when he scored 46 points as
the Jackets breezed by Mc-
Murry in a second half vic-
tory.
Wednesday night saw Dav-
is pour in 42 more points
against East Texas. This
pushed his career total to
1841, only one point away
from the all-time HPC rec-
ord of 1842 held by Dan
Smith.
Davis also became the sev-
enth all-time scorer in Texas
istory by surpassing the rec-
ords of Zelmo Beaiy (1828)
and Charles Sharp of South-
west Texas State (1830).
Coach Glen Whitis' super-
Jackets of Howard Payne are
now well on the way to win-
ning the rest of their Lone
Star Conference games after
defeating two conference foes
this week.
The Jackets traveled to Abi-
lene Monday night for a bout
with the Indians of McMurry.
They scored above 100 for the
fourth time in five games to
win easily by a score of 110-
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All-American Fred Davis
poured in 46 points for the
Jackets to lead the scoring.
Dan McGhee and Tommy
Jones were second and third
with 18 and 15 points.
The game winning factor for
the Jackets was possibly their
zone press which came alive
in the second half to stifle the
Indians who were able to keep
up the pace in the first half
which ended 47-46.
Wednesday saw the HPC
cagers back in the coliseum
against visiting East Texas
State. After little trouble the
Stingers emerged victorious by
a score of 101-91. Fred Davis
led the Jackets once again
with a point output of 42.
East Texas was able to stay
with the Jackets surprisingly
well until the last half when
the game obviously belonged
to Howard Payne.
Lee Coleman followed Davis
in scoring with 14 points. Dan-
dy Dan McGhee and surpris-
ing Ken Kendrick both put in
13.
Calvin Walker paced East
Texas' Lions with 24 points. A1
Mason dropped in 18 as the
Lions' second scorer.
LSC STANDINGS
Place Team Won Lost Pet. Pts. Opp.
1 Stephen F. Austin 12 0 1.000 1218 930
2 Howard Payne 9 2 .818 1098 1012
3 Sam Houston State 8 3 .727 1003 915
4 Angelo State 7 6 £38 1081 1076
5 McMurry 6 6 .500 976 1008
6 East Texas State 6 6 .500 1019 1081
7 Southwest Texas State 6 7 .462 1001 992
8 Texas A&I 4 9 .308 1094 1140
9 Sul Ross State 2 11 .154 1084 1211
10 Tarleton State 1 11 .083 926 1156
LAST WEEK'S RESULTS: Tuesday—Trinity h 88, Southwest
Texas 79; Wednesd'aiy—Stephen F. Austin h 93; Eastern New Mex-
ico 64; Thursday—Hardin Simmons h 89, McMurry 70; Saturday-
Sam Houston 87, East Texas h 79 OT; Stephen F. Austin 196,
Tarleton h 65; Sul Ross h 92, Texas A&I 84; Angelo h 37, South-
west Texas 70; Monday—Stephen F. Austin 93, East Texas h 57;
Angelo h 96, Texas A&I 87; Howard Payne 110, McMurry h 92;
Sam Houston 102, Tarleton h 75; Southwest Texas 64, Sul Ross h
61. (h indicates home team).
THIS WEEK'S SCHEDULE: Wednesday—East Texas at Howard
Payne; Saturday—Howard Payne at Texas A&I; Sul Ross at Ste-
phen F. Austin;; Angelo at Sam Houston; McMurry at Southwest
Texas; Monday—McMurry at Texas A&I; Angelo at Stephen F.
Austin; Sul Ross at Sam Houston; Howard Payne at Southwest
Texas; Tarleton at East Texas.
LSC Teams Above 50%
Three Lone Star Conference
teams are above the 50 per
cent mark in field goal shoot-
ing, according to this week's
LSC statistical listings.
The hottest in the 10-team
league is Sephen F. Austin, the
number one earn in all three
national small college polls,
with 53.6 per cent. Howard
Payne is hitting 51.7 per cent
and Sam Houston is making
50.7 per cent.
SFA also claims the top
three individual field goal
shooters. Ervin Polnick, 6-6
forward, leads with 62.5 per
cent and 6-2 guard James Si-
las is second with 62.4. Marvin
Polnick, levin's identical twin,
has 59.4 per cent.
Fred Davis, Howard Payne's
6-5 All-America center, should
have little trouble in winning
his second straight LSC scor-
ing title. His 31.2 scoring aver-
age was padded Monday with
46 points in HPC's 110-92 win
over McMurry. For his career,
the senior from Oakland, Calif.,
has scored 1799 in three sea-
sons and needs only 43 points
to break the school record of
1842.
Southwest Texas State's 6-4
Willie Terrell and Sam Hous-
ton's James Lister are tied for
the rebound lead with aver-
ages of 13.0 Davis is third with
12.7.
Dennis Leach, Texas A&I's
6-0 guard, has hit 88.5 per cent
to maintain the free throw
lead. Silas is second with 85.1.
Howard Payne and Stephen
F. Austin could be the scoring-
est teams in the LSC's 37-year
history. HPC averages 94.5
points while SFA averages
94 A. The record for one sea-
son is' 93.6 by SFA last year.
Other team leaders are Sam
Houston with 50.7 rebounds a
game, Sul Ross with 73.3 per
cent at the free throw line and
SFA, allowing 71.2 points in
team defense.
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