The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 188, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 22, 1957 Page: 46 of 80
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Atwell Only Repeater
On Class A All-Area
Throck's Atchley
Coach of The Year
I By FRED SANNER
1 A Tip-pound Rotan guard de-
scribed as the “best lineman in
■ the district" and a shifty little
I Albany back who has ravaged en-
i emy goal lines for the past four
years head the 1957 Reporter-
News Class A All-Area football
team.
Jerry Atwell, 146-pound Albany
seatback, who scored 87 points de-
spite missing three games with
a twisted knee, is the Reporter-
News' nomination for Most Val-
uable Back.
1 It is significant that Atwell was
missing when Albany lost to An-
son and Hamlin and was slowed
by his bad knee in the 33-0 loss
to White Oak in the state quarter-
finals.
Shipp was the top man in a
Rotan line that held both favored
Merkel and Coahoma to dead-
BILL ATCHLEY
... coach of the year
locks, giving the Yellowhammers sophomore Stapp of Albany the
second place in District 6-A. He exceptions.
was a unanimous All-6-A selection Eastland fullback Saul Pullman;
Joining Atwell in the backfield ran a close fifth to Throckmor-
are quarterbacks Jerry Grable of ton’s Grable for the fourth back-
Throckmorton and Joe Rex field spot, while Albany’s Ralph
Schulle of Wylie and halfback Boling was edged out by Cross
Don White of Coahoma, Plains’ Gary for the No. 2 guard
With Shipp in the line are ends spot.
ALBANY'S JERRY ATWELL
... most valuable back
CLASS A ALL-AREA TEAM
.Carter King of Albany and Billy Merkel center Eddie Higgins
Mac Moore of Roby, tackles Bar- gave Eastlands Watson a close
F ry Scott of Merkel and Tommy battle for that spot.--------——+
, Stapp of Albany, guard Joe Gary) Llano, Mason and Goldthwaite
of Cross Plains and Kenneth of District 9-A were not considered Player, School Pos
> . Three rookle head coaches were in the selections. , , Billy Mac Moore, Roby ............K
-----in the running for Class A Coach Roby’s Moore caught six touch-Carter King, Albany ..............E
of the Year-Carl Spoonemore of down passes and while King Barry Scott, Merkel........... T
Albany, Elmo Cummins of Rotan caught only one, the tall junior Tommy Stapp, Albany .............T
and Bill Atchley of Throckmor- teamed with Stapp and Boling to Joe Gary, Cross Plains .... ..... ... G 187
ton. make the Albany line a fine Winfred Shipp. Rotan ............G
L Both Spoonemore and Atchley smAn& unit._________Kenneth Watson Eastland C
took over teams that had 2-8 rec- Stapp made all-district both as Joe nex Schulle R
ords in 1956. Cummins found a * freshman and sophomore and is . Atwell C .......... 5
—little better 1956 record at Rotan rated a notch more aggressive Terry Atwell, Albany ............B
AUSTIN. Dec 21 (—This is the but faced a road made thorny than teammate Franklin Bales, a Don White, Coahoma :...-....
time of the year when civic or- by disciplinary problems and a second-team choice. Scott and Hig- Jerry Grable, Throckmorton .. ... B
1 ganizations, service clubs and split in the 1956 coaching staff gins were (he top boys in a line TEA
booster groups lavish their affec- that wound up in a clean slate that carried graduation-riddled stvu.su TEAM
tion on the schoolboy athletes. Of- of new coaches for 1957 Merkel to its second straight 6-A
Iten they ruin the athlete’s eligibil-Spoonemore and Albany wound title ===-----
ity by so doing r ”_________
I Thus there comes the usual finals with a’ 10-3 record.
---------FIRST TEAM
THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS 2.D
Abilene, Texas, Sunday Morning, December 22, 1957 “ L
Ole Dizzy
To Retire
LOS ANGELES, Dec 21 W -
Dizzy Dean says he plans to quit
in 1958 his $62,500-a-year job as
CBS broadcaster of the major
leagues’ "game of the week."
.former St Louis Cardinal fire
baller.
He owns a grapefruit ranch in
Phoenix, Ariz. It’s a five-acre deal
and last year yielded 3,000 crates,
just enough to keep "Ol’ Diz"
busy in his spare time.------
Here to appear on a television
program tomorrow night, Dis re-
marked that he will get more for
that one appearance than he did
for his first entire year in the
majors, when he won 18 games
Dean’s three-year contract ex- ALL . E1
Pro CIUD TO rOld
pires at the end of the 1958 season T. P Y -
and since he will be 47 on Jan 15
he wants to make next season his
last "because 1 believe the time
to live is between 45 and 80."
“If ever I'm going to enjoy life.
LESLIE. Ga. Dec. 21 (—The
Georgia-Florida League president
has been notified by the Colony
City Baseball Club, Inc., that it
cannot continue operation of the
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JOE BEX SCHULLE
. . . Wylie back
CARTER KING
... Albany end
TOMMY STAPP
.• . Albany tackle
JOE GARY
...Cross Plains guard
ENDS: George Kiker, Roby, and John McMahan. Eastland
TACKLES: Franklin Bales. Albany, and Ernest Parks, Wylie,
up in the Class A state’quarter- Gary is a versatile boy who mordARDS: Ralph Boling, Albany, and Harold Hitch, Throck-
started out at guard and ran as; CENTER: Eddie Higgins. Merkel
u . - . Rotan finished as runnerup to fullback when the Buff backs were BACKS: Darvel Hutchins) Cross Plains Larry McBurnett Ros.
League that there is an awards Merkel with the 19 stalwarts who hurt in mid-season, coe. Saul Pullman, Eastland: Manley Denton, Merkel.
warning from the Interscholastic
rule that must be adhered to or wanted to play footbaU for Cum- Watson i e 1
there’ll be some athletes on the mins Watson is a determined ad HONORABLE MENTION
sidelines —— , , ,who started the season on the, .
The tame allows , hl to : But the 8-1-1 season record and second team at Eastland but beat . ENDS: Vernon Allen, Wylie: Robert Perry, Santa Anna Don-
The ague allows a school to the 10-A runnerup spot behind Al-out the starter and wound up All- aldHerring, Wylie; Dale Davis, Clyde, Reuel Houston, Throck-
give a boy an award that does bany earned Class A Coach of the 10-A center morton
not exceed 315 in value This usu- Year lor Throckmortons Atchley. "TAtFC .. .. - .....
ally is a sweater with a letter For it was the finest season in
on it. recent history for Throckmorton,
I In addition an award not to ex- which had more or less resigned
ceed $2 in value can be given in itself to finishing among the also-
each other sport. This can be a rans and lost some of its fire and
letter or trophy like a miniature tradition as a result.
basketball or track shoe or golf But Atchley stirred the fires 7unnLa
club. . . . that had barely smoldered in 1936 Luppke kepOred
There is only one other award into a blaze that swept eight -
a boy can accept. If he plays in straight opponents out of the wav Grawina WAsLey
an invitation basketball tourna- before the Greyhounds were edged WCCACT
ment or tennis meet or golf tour- by champion Albany and tied by
nament he can be given a trophy Eastland.
that has no resale value. This does Atwell, who lettered on the 1954 Bob Zuppke, former football------------
not apply to football since it is Albany state finalists as a fresh- coach at Illinois, was reported in Dale Hilley, Throckmorton
not a tournament activity, man, has been terrifying oppose weaker condition today.
. . , , , TACKLES: Dick Merrill, Throckmorton; Wayne Dodson, East-
His chief claim to fame in East- land: Don Sample, Roscoe: Don Elliott, Munday; Bobby Null,
land, however, was kicking the Coahoma Ernest Bickerstaff. Rolan Perry Jennings. Cross
two extra points that allowed the Plains; Jack Calloway, Rising Star, Jackie ’Dillingham. Santa
Mavericks to beat Ranger for the Annaone ,
first time in 10 years GUARDS: Knicky Arthur, Eastland: David Stoker, Coahoma;
time in 10 years. Gilbert Casbeer, Stanton: Bunny Norville, Munday.
CENTERS: James Woodward. Albany: Bradley Brittain. Rotan.
, BACKS: Harrell Keeler, Throckmorton: Bill Norwood, East-
;land Doug Pyburn, Roby: Rodney Myrick, Stanton: Riley Sey-
more, Merkel: Eugene White, Santa Anna: Donald Rav. Santa
Anna Granvel Scott. Cross Plains: Glen Carter, Wylie: Billy Rav
Cullen.Clyde; Harold Harnngton, Coahoma; Jimmy Ellis, Albany:
Kenneth Hill. Albany, Loie Badgett, Stanton Todd Baugh. Rotan
Wilburn Taylor, Rotan; James Goodwin Mundav Robert Need.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Dec. 21 in—ham. Rising Star ’ 2 1 Need
SPECIALISTS:Eddie Avery, Stanton; Jackie Eubanks, Albany;
| nix a tournamen, activity. . man, has been terrifying oppos- weaker condition today.
I For participation in athletic ing coaches and shredding oppos-’
contests other than inter-school ing defenses for the past four sea- cian said Zunoke "still , ran
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cept a half-dozen golf balls for defenses couldn’t ignore him even Zuppke, 78, is in a hospital with ...... „ . .c. „ —DUu
playing in a golf tournament out- when he was running on one good high blood pressure and a related Ruler. Gallant Man, Iron Liege,
side the schools activities, knee. heart ailment and a prostate Pucker Up, Bardstown, Round Ta-
_________Coahoma's White paced the first gland condition. ble and Social Climber are among
Cubs To Ploy team backfield in scoring withthe outstanding thoroughbreds
7 24 90 points, followed by Atwell's 87. nominated for Hialeah's $100,000
CHICAGO, Dec. 21 —The Chi- Schulle’s 79 and Grable’s 54. added Widener Handicap to be run
cago Cubs today announced a Atwell is the only repeater on NEW YORK. Dec. 21 in — The on Feb. 22, 1958.
32-game spring training schedule" the first team but Schulle and 1958 women’s national indoor Virtually all the 50 eligibles, in-
with all but lour of the games Gary were second teamers in track and field championships will cluding 24 winners of 71 major
being played in Arizona 1956. while Scott Shipp and White be held in Akron, Ohio, Saturday, stakes this year, are already on 1
The Cub, foes will be Baltimore, received honorable mention. March22 the AAUd day: the scene of the mile and a quar-
San Francisco, Cleveland and Los Eight of the 11 first teamers The meet will be off a ter handicap scheduled for its 21st
Angeles. - are senior, with juniors King of 12 lap board unbanked track "running Nominations closed Mon-
I------------------------------Albany and Schulle of Wylie and — ap board, unbanked track, day and the list was released to-’ 3
Dr John B. Christie, his pho# Widener Handicap
Nominees Ready
MIAMI, Fla . Dec. 21 (Bold
day.
Bold Ruler, horse of the year;
Gallant Man, his arch-rival: Iron
Liege. Kentucky Derby winner:
Bardstown, defending Wide-
ner champion, and Pucker Up.
champion handicap filly, are at
Hialeah now in preparation for the
winter campaign.
Round Table, the year’s top
money winner, and Social Climb-
er, who defeated Round Table in
the Californian, may fly here for
the Widener since the race does
not conflict with any major West
Coast stakes Either could become
the first horse to win a "hundred
grander" on both coasts the
same winter. -
DON WHITE
... Coahoma back
JERRY GRABLE
... Throckmorton back
KENNETH WATSON
... Eastland center
Longest punt return during the
1957 Big Ten football season was
accomplished by Blanche Martin
of Michigan State He went 86
yards against Illinois.
DON OLIVER
Sports Editor of the
Abilene Reporter-News
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