Auxvasse High School - Saber Tooth Yearbook (Auxvasse, MO)

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S Sally could not have held the defense with out Eve- 1yn's help, We are expecting Evelyn to take Sally's place next year. Nelle Motley was our main stay to run to the line in center. Nelle was placed as running center on the second all-star team. Marian Buckner ran Nelle a close race for running center. We are ex- pecting some good playing from these two girls next year. Mary Virginia Yates must win her fame as passing center. She's only a Freshman, so we are looking for-' ward to great prospects in our passing center of 1936. Mary Ward Maupin must become a shark at long shots: If Nelle proves to be a whirlwind pivoting forward, wefll have a very nice forward end. Helen Potts sub- stituted for us this year, but we are expecting her advancement to guard position with Evelyn. The players wish to express their appreciation for the cooperation of those girls who helped in our practice and sincerely hope they will be successful. The following players received letters for the past-sason: Mabel Yates, Sally Dean Hatcher, Nelle Motley, Marian Buckner, Mary Ward Maupin, Evelyn Meyer, and Mary Virginia Yates. The team and coach hope that the girls who helped ' in practice will come out next season, and also others, because we are in need of two or three good players. Secrets What a dangerous player we must have had - the public wont understand, but we'll get their curiosity aroused. Do you players remember these points of court gossip ?i Do I look like that when I get mad? C On the Mokane court7.nNow Honey, donft get angry, fthe referee got fresh at Herefordi. Remember the faculty riot when Mokane came to bouts with us on our own court? It seemed that we had a Uwowu of a guard that had played five years or was too old, or something - anyway,she Played. Yes, and we had a little running.center that caught the ball in her mouth. Then there was a fast forward who ran so fast the referee couldnft see her feet, so he called steps to be sure.There was a forward shefll be on next year too, whose feet are too heavy, they stick'to the ground. Gur running center never says any- thing, just frowns, but when she gets tired she throws her arm out of place and rests a while - we're going to strap it down. There is another guard who is always in the right place at the right time,but the side lines are afraid her legs will break, but we're not. We know they are O.K, The readers might think we're sorta cuckoo but we have a different idea. V v .

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Girls Basket-Ball 1 Our season of 1955 was not one to go down in history, but there a number of features of which we should be Proud. On September 27 we had our first game with Mokane on our own court and surprised ourselves by winning with a 'score of 17-16. -Mabel Yates and Mary Virginia Yates played forwards,Mabel scoring 10 of the Seventeen points. Nelle Motley and Mary Ward Maupin held the center, Salie Dean Hatcher and Evelyn Meyer kept the score down at the'guard end of the court. This lineup varied,however,during the season. We lost the second game with Mew Bloomfield with a score of 5 - 15. We came out with a triumphant victory with Hereford tour third gamej with a score of 24-8. We met Hereford again the following week on their own court, but fate was against us and we lost 15-17. We changed our lineup,placing Mary Ward Maupin as forward and Mary Virginia Yates as passing center. Mabel Yates, the fast running forward,still held to high point score. She made 15 of the 15a points Our return game with New Bloomfield proved a very- interesting bout even if the score was 25-8 in favor of our opponents. Sally Dean Hatcher played forward, leaving the opposing forward position end open. At the half Hatcher was placed at-guard and Mary Virginia Yates took her post as forward. The score was held to a tie during the last half of the game. The last game of the preliminaries was with Mokane and proved a bad one for us. We'lost 15-16. Mabel Yates still held the high score, making 11 of the 15-points, ' In the tournament, held in the M.S.D. Gym. we met Mokane again and suffered a loss of 11-25. Our second game was with Hereford,and we doubled the score,18-9. Our winning with Hereford threw us to another game with Mokanc. This was a contest long to be remembered- a hard fought game all the way through,with a tie score in the last two minutes of the game. Hatcher had been placed as forward and had tied the score in less than three minutes with six points when she slipped and went down with a sprained ankle. Mokane had to 1 admit we were on the road to victory and second place in the county tournament. Now a word of two concerning the players and our prospects for the 1956 season. As is shown by the score summaries, Mabel Yates scored high point honors and was chosen as forward on the second all-star team. Our main defense as guard was Sally Dean Hatcher. She was so good she was placed as first guard on the all-star team. Sally was thenfellown the other teams were afraid of.We are sorry to lose Sally and Mabel who are seniors Evelyn Meyer,SallyYs help-mate, held her forward, and

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, - l T ann Boys' Basketball The 1955 basketball season found us with the smallest and most inexperienced team in the conference,and perhaps in the history of our school. Without a single man from the regular five of the previous year, we were faced with the task of building a team around a single letter man, our Captain, John Scholl, Others reporting for duty were: ' Clifford Fox, Bernard Gingrioh,Bobby Hunt, Elwood Craig, ' Levi Rains5Baul'Owen,Joe Scholl,Sammie Burt,Junior Plybon, and David Haden, all except the first three named playing basketball for the first time. B ' T Though numerical victory was never quite ours, with such a handicap we often felt that the moral victory was on our side. Indeed,in several nip and tuck games our opponents seemed to be merely 'saved by the bellH,the final whistle having an uncanny way of sounding just as they chanced to be in the lead. The season opened at Auxvasse with Mokane furnishing the opposition in a game which resulted in a 15-to-15 tie. The first half of this game saw our team hitting its stride, with playsnclickingu and defense practically airetightg we were out in front at'half-time,15 to 2. Then Mokane adopted a defensive position,intercepting our passes and taking a few cracks at the basket on their own account,often feeding the ball to a man who had sneaked back under our basket. Believe it or not,the scoring of the first half was exactly reversed in the second period,and both sides were willing to call it a tie after playing a scoreless extra period. The ' line-up for this most unusual game included: Scholl and Craig forwardsg.Fox,centerg Hunt and Gingrich, guards,with Joe Scholl substituting. , On our home court a week later our game with New Bloom- field was a pretty even affair in the first half,Auxvasse - trailing the strongNew Bloomfield team by only three points. Though we had many chancesto score by means of free throws, not a single charity toss was good. The final score was 10- 25. In this game Rains went in for Craig and Joe Scholl and Owen saw service at guard. The third and fourth games were lost to Herefordtin succession, the scores being 4-12 and 16-18 respectively. A tabulation of shots for these two games revealed that in thr first game the number of attempts on each side were about even, while in the latter game,in which we held the lead until within a'few minutes of the endy we had a slightly larger number of chances than did our opponents, The game at Hereford saw Owens doing a good job of holding down the center position in the absence of Foxywho was ineligible for this one game. Rains and Joe Scholl also got into the line-up. ' ' Our return games with New Bloomfield and Mokane,played on foreign courts on successive Friday evenings,went down