The H-SU Brand (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 13, Ed. 1, Saturday, December 15, 1951 Page: 3 of 8
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BASKETBALL SEASON HASN'T reallv not into full swine.
but because of the two home cage games of the season we believe
that most H-SU fans have had a good look at Coach Bill Scott's
crew.
And the reports that we have had seem to indicate that most
fans are going to support the Pokes like has never been done be-
fore. At least we hope so.
But some of the things that happened at the North Texas game
last Tuesday night by a few "over enthusiastic' 'fans gave Hardin-
Simmons a black eye.
Sports fans on the forty acres have long been noted for their
good sportsmanship as well as the H-SU players participating in
sporting events.
We know that a person can get carried away by the way the
game is going or the way that the referee has been calling them
"against HSU." But the officials at any sporting event whether it
be basketball or football do their best and call the game the way
they see them.
THE TULSA GAME TURNED out to be a good thing for Har-din-Simmons
publicity speaking even though the score didn't suit
us to a tee. The game was broadcast on the second largest radio
network in the United States the Liberty Broadcasting System.
The game was broadcast over approximately 350 Liberty stations
throughout the country fram New York to California.
This would mean a probable audience of 500000 to 750000!
Linsley Nelson Liberty's ace sportscaster did the play-byplay.
Just these few scattered facts would have been enough to
satisfy but on top of this at time-outs and various other places
Nelson mentioned facts about H-SU football teams of the past.
Nelson told about the Southwest Conference H-SU football
games which haven't been played since 1941. He recalled Al Johnson
former H-SU quarterback and his professional record of 66 passes
without an intercejption.
He commented on Clyde. (Bulldog) Turner and his tenure on
the Cowboy football team. He also mentioned that in thp past ten
years H-SU was the 10th school in the nation in yardage gained.
He gave a run down on head coach Warren B. Woodson and
the number of games and the two BC titles that he had won while
guiding the purple and gold. Yes sir that one broadcast was worth
the entire time and trouble of 'the game.
FOOTBALL MEMBERS HAVE switched from the gridion to
the hardwoods of the basketball court now that the football season
is over. Four of the twelve intramural basketball teams are made
up of players from Cowden-Paxton.
Jimmy Riddle Travis Kelley Chester Lyssy Tiny Foster J. C.
Collins Ogdon Compton Sherry Nail and many other footballers
have announced their intentions of playing intramural basketball
this season.
Speaking of intramural cage games this year's outlook is
really great. The interest shown by those participating is good. And
this tournament idea before the regular season starts is a honey.
Walt Bynum who gave birth to the idea should be congratulated for
the way he has worked intramural basketball up this season.
DOTS AND DASHES Phil McGahey who runs the clock-
scoreboard was not responsible at the North Texas basketball game
Tuesday night when the scoreboard refused" to budge. When people
began to wonder at the failure of HSU points to register all Phil
could say was: "It just won't work. It just won't."
Cowboy Cagers Thump
Goodfellow AFB 61-56
Staging a remarkable come-
back in the second quarter the
Hardin-Simmons Cowboys down-
ed the Goodfellow Skyhawks in
San Angelo Wednesday night 61-
56. It was the second straight win
over the Hawks for the Pokes.
Trailing 11-21 early in the
HANK GREEN. 6' 7" center for
the H-SU cagers is the second
tallest man on the 1951-52 edition
of the team. Green has greatly
improved both defensively - and
offensively this season.
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By LARRY FITZGERALD
second period the Pokes came
back as Wade Burroughs hit lay-
up shots to matte the count 28-24
at halftime in favor of the Ran-
chers. Hawk Norm Berge who fouled
out a minute deep in the final
quarter was high point man for
the evening with 19 markers.
Burroughs was high for the
Cowboys with 14.
Frozo Ball
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Cowboys froze the ball and ad-
ded a couple of field goals to their
shor margin.
Joe Simpson Cowboy guard
poured in six field goals for a
dozen points second best for
H-SU. Hank Green 6'7" center
helped the cause with 11 points
and. some fine defensive work.
In the preliminary tilt a group
of the Air Base's All-Stars de-
feated the H-SU freshman 68-63.
Trailing 21-9 at the end of the
first few minutes of play the All-
Stars played a great catch-up
game to down the Buttons.
At Intermission
The Frosh led at intermission
37-36 but were behind 5152 at
the end of the third quarter. Gar-
land Profitt 6-8 freshman from
Hobbs N. M. was high for the
Waddies with 19 points and
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Cagers to Meet Indians;
Simpson is Top Scorer
Transfer Has 86 Points;
Green Preston Follow
Joe Simpson transfer from Ar-
lington State is currently lead-
ing the Hardin-Simmons basket-
ball team in scoring with 86
points in eight games for an aver
age 01 iv.v per game.
Bill (Hank) Green is in the sec-
ond position having tallied 74
points Co-captain Bill Preston
is close behind Green with 73
markers for the same number of
games.
Others include: Wade Bur-
roughs 48; Doyle Brunson 47;
Larry Roberts 29; Jack Ball 29;
Jim Covert 24; Dick Burris 21;
Durwood Smith 12; Tom Burks
11; Ray Hibler 7; Charles Cun-
ningham 3; and Darrell Steph-
ens 2.
The team has scored 467 points
for an average of 58.4 per game.
The Pokes have made 171 field
goals and 125 free throws out of
219 free toss tries.
The Scottmen have won five
games and lost three. The wins
came over Goodfellow AFB twice
Wayland College Wolters AFB
and North -Texas State. The losses
came at the hands of Texas Tech
Sheppard AFB and Texas Wes-
leyan College of Fort Worth.
Individual highs for the Cow-
boys are the following: most
points one game: Green 19
against Goodfellow; most field
goals one game: Green 8 against
Goodfellow; most free throws one
game; Burroughs 7 against Way-
land; most free throws attempted:
Simpson 14 against North Texas.
In Rose Field House
Intramural Cage
Tourney Begins
Intramural basketbSll is .cur-
rently underway for the 195 152
basketball season with a 12 team
tournament in progress. League
play will start after Christmas
holidays. The tournament will
end before the holidays and re-
sults of the tourney will deter-
mine the composition of the lea-
gues. It is hoped that there will be
three leagues of six teams each
but to this date "only 12 teams
have turned in rosters. Any other
team wanting to play in the lea-
gues but have not yet turned in
rosters may turn them in before
the holidays. This also applies to
any individual wanting to play
intramural basketball.
Semi-finals
Monday the semi-finals will
be played Tuesday the consola-
tion and third place games and
Wednesday the finals will be run
Poly Wins H-SU
Cage Tournament
Fort Worth Poly won the fifth
annual H-SU high school basket-
ball tournament in Rose Field
House last Saturday night down
ing San Angeio's $oDcats ou-u.
The win was the fourth straight
tournev victory for Coach Jack
Harley's Parrots.
Abilene High's Jfiagies aownea
Levelland in the tourney's .clos-
est name 44-43 for third place
honors.
Lamesa bested Big Spring
4Sf-41 in the consolation match.
Pnlw nHvntired to the chamnion-
ship round by beating Levelland
in the semirtmai maxen z-oo
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downed Abilene jn their march to
the championship try 58-46.
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champion Poly jumped to a 5-2
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the Parrot roster with 12 points
followed by Johnny Bets with 11.
Birdville was nosed out of the
tournament by Lamesa 58-46.
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HIGH STEPPER Jack Ball
senior guard shows how its done
on the basketball court. Ball was
high schorer for the Pokes in
the Texas Wesleyan game gather-
ing 13 points. A two-year letter-
man. Ball has totaled 25 markers
for the Cowpunchers this season.
Last year Ball threw 33 points
through the baskets. A fast man
he is expected to add the zip to
the Ranchers' attack this season.
off. Some games will be played in
Rose Field House and the others
in the Corral.
The twelve teams and their
captains are the following: Bron-
cos Jackie Taylor; 5 Aces Jim
Riddle; A Cappella Choir not
named; Sheepherders not nam-:
ed; Angels Bob Blake and Hugh
Gamble; Crushers Riley Cross;
Full House 5 Jake Collins and
Tiny Foster; Mustangs Walt By-
num; Studs not named; Ponies
Jerry Briscoe; Ragnots Gene
Adams; and Sharks Kent Holder
and Jimmy Middleton.
First round play started Mon-
day in the field house with the
Ragnots and Ponies tangling and
the Broncos and Choir battling.
Paced by Frank Taylor and Joe
Steph the Ragnots bested the
Ponies 38-24 m the initial tour-
ney game.
Taylor tallied 14 points and
Steph 13. Joe Cox had 7 Briscoe
and Tom Lathem made 6 each
for the losers.
In the second game the Broncos
edged the A Cappella Choir 41-
37. Jackie Taylor and Phil Stovall
were high for the winners. Tay-
lor garnered 14 and Stovall 10.
Worse Defeat
The Choir had Billy Bob
O'Brien with 13 markers and
Norman Ward with 11 points.
Tuesday the Angels walloped
the Sheepherders 54-21 in the
worse defeat of the two days. R
D. Gist sank 15 points and Blake
and Gamble 10 each for the win-
ners. Bob Moody scored 8 points
and Mac Jones had 4 for the
Bandboys.
In the second tilt Tuesday the
Mustangs showed power down-
ing the Studs 63-37 in the high-
est scoring game of the tourney.
Joe Golson and Carl Nunn top-
ped the Mustang scoring list with
15 and 12 points respectively.
James Dawson sank 11 markers
and Alvan Blackerby pushed in
8 for the losers.
The Sharks 5 Aces Crusheds
and Full House 5 all got byes in
the first round of the tourney.
Four of the teams entered in the
tournament are composed of foot-
ball players who have just fin-
ished the gridiron season.
Midwestern To Bring
Talented Team To RFH
By LLOYD WRIGHT
Coach Bill Scott's H-SU Cow-
boy cagers have two games sched-
uled next week the first a home
meeting with Midwestern Uni-
versity Tuesday and the second
on the road with Sul Ross Thurs-
day night.
After a successful home stand
last Tuesday night against North
Texas State the Pokes will be out
to maintain their unblemished
Rose Feld House record for the
year.
Returning Starters
Coach Paul Brotherton will
bring an Indian squad to Abilene
composed of three returning
starters from last year with a"
host of freshmen and junior col-
lege transfers to add to the
strength of the Gulf Coast Con-
ference contender.
Midwestern's Indians tower
above the six foot mark hv Rome
three inches while the Cowboys
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foot average.
Freddy Whillock a 5'10" jun-
ior forward is leading the Indian
scoring attack this season. Whil-
lock is a transfer to Midwestern
from Tyler Junior College.
At Tyler JC
Close on his heels comes
O'Neal Weaver lanky 'i 210
pound sophomore who scored 910
points his last year at Tyler JC
to lead them to National Junior
College Championship.
Expected to head the Pokes'
scoring manuevers will be Co-
captain Bill Preston and Hank
Green. Green has shown steady
improvement in games played
thus far displaying a sure-fire
hook shot on offense and cover-
ing opposing post men exception-
ally well. Green reaches to the
6'7" mark.
When the Pokes journey to Al-
pine Thursday they will be
meeting a cage crew that has
played only Howard Payne this
season.
The Lobo roster lists six juniors
five sophomores and only one
senior.
After the Lobo game the Pokes
will take off for the Christmas
holidays returning January 2 for
a match with Texas Wesleyan of
Fort Worth the first of five home
games.
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Rams Top Cagers
In 64-55 Fracus
Journeying to Fort Worth the
Hardin-Simmons cage squad
dropped a non-conference game
to the Texas Wesleyan Rams
64-56 in the Recreation Building.
Jack Ball senior guard stood
out for the Pokes leading the
H-SU team in scoring with 13
points. Ball was followed by
Larry Roberts Wade Burroughs
and Bill "Hank" Green with
seven each.
The Rams combining slick
shooting and ball handling took
a first quarter lead of 20-10 a
halftime margin of 36-21 and a
third quarter edge of 55-39.
Coach Dan Hart's Wesleyans
pulled away about five minutes
after the intermission to a 48-25
count But the Cowpokes rallied
in the final quarter and whittled
down the score. But the Rams
stayed out front.
TWC hit 16 of 20 from the char-
ity line; while the Pokes could
master only 16 of 30 tries.
Lou Zastoupil and Joe Brad-
ley paced the Rams with 14
markers each. Jerry Buck mesh-
ed 11.
It was the Rams' first victory
of the season after two losses in
a four-team tournament in Tulia
In the same t6urney the Pokes
took second place but did not
meet the Rams.
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Man: f?My wife has the worst
memory' I ever heard of."
Friend: "Forgets everything
eh?"
Man: "No remembers every-
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