University of Texas Austin - Cactus Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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T H T u 1932 FRESHMAN BASKETBALL SQUAD Front row: Bloom, Clifton, Pennington, Faulk, Captain Gray. Francis, Gannon, Harris Back rcnv: Coach Karmv, Waldman, Sikes, Pryor, Brooks, Ekstrom, Mellenbruch, Mangrum, Manager Williams X resnnian xSasketball m 1932 WITH the best material for a freshman basketball team the University has had in many years, Coach Marty Karow put out tlie strongest first year quint since Nona Rees, Big ' Un Rose, Frank Cheatham, and Sugar Camp played on the frosh team of 1927. This year ' s team won 12 and lost one. Jack Gray of Wills Point was elected captain at the be- ginning of the season. He played forward and was high scorer for the season. The play was not centered around any one individual, but the whole team was moulded into a smooth working machine. Jean Francis of El Paso, who held down the center position, looks like a prize for Varsity. He was close to Gray in scoring and was a good passer. Chick Gannon played the other forward position. He was the fastest man on the squad and the best dribbler. The guard positions were ably filled by Jerry Clifton, Claude Harris, and Marshall Pennington. Clifton did not play the entire season, as he left school, but while he was here he was a good defensive man and equally good at tossing them through. Pennington was a steady, aggres- sive player, and was a big reason for the opponents ' low scores. Harris, all-state man last season, took Clifton ' s place and turned in a good performance in every game. DeMoy Paulk was a good reserve for the pivot position. Joe Bloom, Pete Sikes, Cotton Pryor, Charles Waldman, and Clarence Ekstrom were the reserves who won four of the five games played by the second string. The season was opened by a 32-23 victory over the Varsity B team. Captain Gray and Francis led the frosh scoring with nine points each. Winning two games from the Deaf and Dumb school on January 14, by scores of 67-19 and 30-19, the Yearlings engaged in their first outside competition. The first team had an easy time, with Gray and Francis looping goals from all angles. On January 15, the Frosh trounced the Temple Junior College Leopards 57-7 in an uninteresting game. Paulk led the scoring with 13 markers. Gray played the floor well and seemed always to be at the right place at the right time. The Waco High Tigers were the next to fall victims to the Karowmen ' s vicious attack. Gray scored 16 points in the 46-16 triumph. The game was featured by the good defensive work of Clifton and Pennington. Another double win was scored by the Yearlings when they met Austin High January 18. The first string won 42-19 and the second team their game 22-20. Gray and Francis led the attack in the opener, and Paulk and Ek- strom were the threats in the final contest. The Frosh defeated Schreiner Institute 33-13, for their sixth consecutive win. Gray, Clifton, and Francis led the scoring. The first games in the second semester were against Austin. The first string won 74-20 and the second team won 41-17. Francis and Gannon were high scorers, and Gray and Harris were the defensive stars. In their first out-of-town game, the Frosh met their only defeat of the season. They lost to Blinn Memorial on a small court in Brenham, 26-13. St. Edward ' s University came over to Gregory Gymnas- ium for a pair of practice scrimmages and dropped both to the Yearlings. The first game was a 53-27 triumph, and the second was won 31-13. The team worked smoothly and fast. The Frosh next went to Bryan to battle with Allen Academy. The regulars won 31-19, and the reserves lost 32-19. On February 24 the Blinn team lost to the Yearlings 42-24. This was an easy victory for the Frosh over the only team that defeated them. By winning from Allen Academy 40-17, the Frosh ended a very successful season. Gray, Gannon and Harris led the attack. Marty Karow, Coach Jack Gray, Captain Page 130

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H U Jjaylor 35, lexas 28 The Baylor Bears continued their pennant march by downing the Steers at Waco February 20, 35-28. Seven- teen personal fouls, converted into 11 charity points by the Bruins, led to the Texas downfall. Otherwise OUe ' s crew held their own with the Golden Grizzlies. After the Bears had pulled away in the early second half, Te.xas came back to within six points of a tie with six minutes to play, but a flurry of fouls stopped their drive. Bennie Rundell contributed his second almost-impossible feat of the season by holding big Raymond Strickland, leading Baylor goal-tosser, to exactly no field goals. . exas 26, Rice 19 The Longhorns cinched fourth place in the conference race with a 26-19 triumph over Rice in a slow game at Gregory Gym February 24. Flashy passing by the Steers featured the game, although the Owls managed to hold the score low by excellent guarding. Only once were the listless Owls on even terms with the Steers. Early in the second period several free tosses knotted the count at 16-all, but the Longhorns soon re- gained the upper hand. Bill Kubricht scored eight points to lead the night ' s counting. Jake Hess was high for Rice with seven tallies. Rundell held the mighty Dixon to one field goal. Jjaylor 35, lexas 30 The Orange and White went down fighting as the power- ful-driving Bears from Bayor, forced to play their best basketball, kept pace with the Horned Frogs by a 35-30 victory in the final game of ' 32 at Gregory Gym February 27. With rangy John Tullis giving the greatest personal per- formance seen on the local court last season, the Steers staged a lightning-fast rally as the first half ended to shoot ahead 18-13. Coming back with a cool, precise attack, the Bears scored 1 1 points before the Longhorns counted in the second half. Another desperate spurt by Texas sent shivers up Bear spines and made the score 27-26, Baylor, but Frank James broke loose for a pair of field goals which sewed up the game for the Wacoans. A. M. 14, Texas 9 A weird defensive battle which wound up the conference season at College Station March 5 ended 14 to 9 in favor of the Aggies. Neither team could hit the basket with any fre- quency whatsoever. The score at the end of the first ten minutes was 2-1 for the Aggies. They al- so led at the half, 7-5. Olle ' s men scored only two field goals, one by Elkins and the other by Kubricht. Joe Moody, Aggie forward, outscored the entire Texas team. He eluded Rundell for four field goals and added two free throws for ten points. Next S eason Ed Price, guard from Corsicana, was elected captain for 1933. He will lead a team built around seven returning let- termen. They are Bill Kubricht and Floyd Garrett, centers; Ed Maxey and Glenn Thomp- son, forwards; Ben- nie Rundell, Paul Wittman, and Price, guards. Three 1932 letter- men were lost by graduation. They were Captain Wilson (Bull) Elkins, John Tullis, and Wyatt Taylor. Several good prospects from the ' 32 freshman squad will be available. Ed Price, Captain-Elect OUe starts his cagers on a practice scrimmage at Gregory Gym fage 119

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