Hilltopper (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 26, 1954 Page: 5 of 8
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Friday, February 26, 1954
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Here’s The Word
And A Conclusion
Texas athletics is true. To man week.
‘Toppers Must
Defeat Pirates
ONE WE DiDN’T GET—Jim Krider tried to grab
this rebound in last Saturday’s ETBC game, but
just missed the mark. Also shown in the picture
are Tommy McLaughlin (19) and Albert Popp
(21). Part of the Hilltopper success in the East
St. Ed’s 54, Corpus Christi 55
With their thoughts trained on
the crucial Southwestern game to-
It was in the last quarter where
things became hectic. The Hilltop-
pers put on a tremendous third
quarter surge to outscore the Tig-
ers 17 to 9 and then hung on at
the end to make good the victory.
Hellett was high point man for
the Hilltoppers with 15 points. Kri-
der followed with 10.
A Hope For Next Year
Coaches Norris and Fouge-
rousse tell us that they are
well pleased with the recent
additions to the squad. Tom
Boyle, Bob Kirkoff, Bill Mc-
Donald and Eddie Dela Rosa
are fast picking up the St.
Ed’s style of basketball and
are expected to produce plen-
ty of good ball for the Hill-
toppers next year.
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In games since the last issue, the
Hilltoppers won the tough ones and
dropped a game to a team they had
defeated before by more than 20
points.
Against three tough Big State
Conference teams, the Hilltoppers
rubbed the rabbit’s foot and came
out ahead to gain a tie with East
Texas Baptist. Suffering defeat at
the hands of the Hilloppers were
the Tigers, St. Mary’s University
and Texas Wesleyan University.
Corpus Christi University defeat-
ed the Hilltoppers in a nonconfer-
ence game Tuesday night 54 to 55.
Summaries of the games are as
follows:
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ing the East Texas Baptist Tigers
to see how the Marshall team fared
against Texas Lutheran College and
Texas Wesleyan College.
After defeating the Tigers, the
Hilltoppers slipped into a tie for
first place in the Big State Con-
ference league and need to win
against the Southwestern Pirates to
remain in a tie. This supposes that
ETBC would win their remaining
two Big State Conference games.
The Hilltoppers, after the Corpus
game, stood with a 15 and 6 season
record and a 7 and 2 conference
record. Only teams to defeat the
Hilltoppers in conference play were
the Tigers and a 55-54 defeat at
the hands of Texas Lutheran Col-
lege. East Texas Baptist, at the
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night, the St. Ed’s Hilltoppers lost
one of the kind they’ve been win-
ning, dropping a game to the Cor-
pus Christi Tarpons 55 to 54.
The Hilltoppers, who found them-
selves tied 12-all at the end of the
first quarter fell behind at the half
by four points and although they
got a last quarter rally fired, they
were unable to overcome the mar-
gin.
The Tarpons were able to1 feed
Charles Johnson who netted 22
points for the Corpus Christi club.
Johnson scored eight field goals
and six free throws for the evening.
Bud Grey also netted 11 points for
the Tarpon club.
For the Hilltoppers, Jack Hellet
fell well below his 18-point-a-game
average with 11 points. Hellett was
held scoreless in the final quarter.
Joe Pfister also scored 11 points
for the ‘Toppers with four field
goals and three free throws.
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no letters to the contrary.
Perhaps they agree with us!
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St. Ed’s. 51, ETBC 48
With the chips on the line, the
St. Ed’s Hilltoppers met the league-
leading East Texas Baptist Tigers
in a game that could determine the
Big State Conference champion and
with a great show of hustle and
determination, turned the tide to
the Hilltopper side 51 to 48.
Behind at the half 24 to 18, things
looked dreary for the ’Toppers,
especially with the Tigers going
into a form of stall. The Tiger’s
Ron Wimpy, who netted 16 points
for the evening and Fred Smith
consistantly plagued the Hilltoppers
with long set shots and extremely
effective rebo'unding.
Smith, the ageless one .played in
spots and showed with his ball
handling and rebounding the wealth
of experience he has. For St. Ed’s
Krider and McLaughlin did a pow-
erful job on rebounding and Joe
Pfister constantly fed the ball at
opportune moments to provide the
If and When
Again
A flip of a coin may determine
whether or not the St. Edward’s
University Hilltoppers will meet
the winner of the Lone Star Con-
ference for the right to partici-
pate in the N.A.I.A. playoffs in
Kansas City.
If the Hilltoppers and East
Texas Baptist teams remain in
a tie for the conference cham-
pionship — and this could hap-
pen if the Hilltoppers win to-
night and the Tigers win their
remaining two conference games
—there will not be a playoff
between these two teams.
The constitution of the Big
State Conference calls for a flip
of a coin to determine the rep-
resentative of the league. Ac-
cording to’ reliable authorities
on campus this will probably be
done over the phone with the
coin flipping down in Marshall
at East Texas Baptist.
The coin flipping procedure is
caused by the fact that a two
out of three series must be play-
ed with the representative of the
Lone Star Conference.
At the present time, the cham-
pion of the Lone Star Confer-
ence is East Texas State, a team
the Hilltoppers have not met
this, year in play. Last year St.
Ed’s was defeated by the Lions
from Commerce and two years
ago the Hilltoppers defeated East
Texas here in Austin.
East Texas this year was able
to do something the Hilltoppers
stumbled over, however. The
Lions defeated Southwest Texas
on their home court, ending
their fabulous home string of
victories.
All in all, the only thing cer-
tain is that St. Ed’s needs to
win tonight!
Hellett __________________
Krider____________
Pfister _________
McLaughlin___
Bella ________________
Popp----------
Herrera_________
Stump _________
Total__
Score by periods:
ETBC________
St. Ed’s______________
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Hellett_______4
Krider_________
McLaughlin__________1
Bella________0
Popp-----------2
Pfister___________4
Herrera _____________2
Pappas _________ 1
Boasco_______________0
Stump ____________0
Total_______18
Score by peroids:
St. Ed’s__________
St. Ed’s 46, St. Mary’s 44
In a game that could be called
the scenario writers dream, the
Hilltoppers pulled it out of the fire
with a last minute basket by Jack
Hellett to defeat the St. Mary’s Rat-
tlers 461 to 44.
The events of the game were
storybook.
St. Mary’s led the entire way, and
in the opening minutes, pulled to
a 10 to 1 lead before the disgrunt-
led Hilltoppers could determine
which way to turn.
The Hilltoppers, unable to find
the range all night long, finally
settled down and began to scrape
away at the Rattler lead. In each
instance, however, the Rattlers
would bring the ball down court,
set, and shoot, and again would
hold the four or six point lead.
Going into the final quarter the
Rattlers, who had never been be-
hind, held a slender lead of six
points, 36 to 30.
The St. Mary’s quintet began a
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DICK SHIGUT . . . turning in a
pect that all we’ve said about masterful production . . . Fresh-
By Walton Shaffer
St. Edward’s University “B” team
closed out their season this past
week by just narowly missing a win
over San Antonio Junior College,
65-67. Two players who enrolled
only at the beginning of the second
semester led the Hilltopper junior
team.
Bob Kirkoff a graduate of Cath-
edral High School, in Indianapolis,
Ind., poured in 25 points for indi-
vidual scoring honors in the tightly
conteted encounter. And Edward De
La Rosa, a graduate of Austin High,
chipped in another 10 points.
Kirkoff, a freshman, stands six
feet tall, and from all indications
will be excellent varsity material
next year. Considering his height,
Kirkoff’s rebounding ability is re-
markable, which naturally makes
his one-hand push shot exceedingly
potent. He was chosen a member
of the All-City team in Indianapolis.
De La Rosa, also a freshman, is
only five feet nine inches tall, yet
he was selected a member of the
All-State team in Class 4A, while
playing for Austin High last year.
He is perhaps the speediest of the
new prospects that enrolled between
semesters, and alo'ng with one of
his chief assets, his extremely agile
darting hands, he should develop
into one of the outstanding defen-
sive players on the 1954-55 squad.
His favorite shot is also one-hand
jump shot.
Tallest of the mid-year freshman
is Bill McDonald of Del Rio, Texas,
measuring six feet four inches. He
is a transfer student from the Uni-
versity of Texas, where he was a
freshman basketball prospect.
He has an effective jump shot,
but also sinks a number of points
with the old reliable, the one-hand
push shot. With more experience
he should add much needed height
to next year’s varsity.
One of the most promising new
players is Tom Boyle, a freshman
from Lakewood High School, a
school operated by the Holy Cross
Brothers in a surburb of Cleve-
land, Ohio. Boyle stands six feet
two inches tall and is very effective
at playing rebounds off the back-
boards. His aggressiveness and ex-
cellent push shot made him a valu-
able member of the “B” team this
second semester.
Out of a schedule of seven games,
the “B” team won three of their
games for a winning percentage of
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And Some Whimsey
Intramural basketball is also
nearing a hectic finish with
the Brothers, K of C’s, Gal-
veston Club and the Moon-
shiners fighting it out right
down to the wire. They re-
ceived a break, though, when
the Unknown’s ace scorer and
rebounder, Easy Ed Cashman,
dropped out of school to enter
pro ball.
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12 16 13 14—55
After losing a close one to Corpus
Christi University Tuesday night,
55 to 54, the Hilltoppers were keep-
ing their attentions focused on the
game against Southwestern Univer-
sity tonight.
The Hilltoppers were also watch-
Texas Baptist game came from rebound grabbing
by Krider, McLaughlin and Popp. This picture is
the exception and was taken early in the game,
before the Hilltoppers had settled down.—Hill-
topper Staff Photo.
A Whingdinger It Was!
The Hilltoppers eked out
the closest one in years
against St.. Mary’s Rattlers
last week. Jack Hellett proved
once again that he is the top
player in the Big State Con-
ference, and we want to con-
gratulate him on his fine play.
Let’s hope that by the time
this issue comes out that St.
Ed’s is the Big State champ-
ion.
Koewler on Stengel?
Basketball season is rapid-
ly nearing a close and the hot
stove boys are beginning to
get hot under the collar again.
The Frank Lane-Case Stengel
fued is nearing a head, but
we have it on the au-
thority of Joe Koewler that
Casey is all wrong. Buonocore
and Nip Farrell will testify
that Lane is all sour grapes,
but what do golfers know
about baseball! Personally we
can’t see the front office
manipulations of the Braves.
They have a fine team, but
what about pitching ? More
about baseball, though, in the
next issue.
This humble voice in the
dark believes that track is an
inexpensive sport which St.
Ed’s could easily handle.
There is plenty of good talent
on the campus, and if an ac-
tive and adequate program
were set up, a great deal of
school pride would be engen-
dered. A word to Brother
Walter Foken or Jim Fouge-
rousse would greatly help the
cause.
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A final word on basketball,
regardless of the outcome of
the season. The team wishes
to thank the students for the
best support ever given a St.
Ed’s team. We realize that
many of you have sacrificed
a great deal to come and back
us up, but I know that we
could never have done as well
we have without you. Thanks!
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IDEAS . . . IDEAS . . . classy
( name cards at the Senior table . . .
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