Butler Community College - Grizzly Growl Yearbook (El Dorado, KS)

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F O O T B A L L Forty-one, fifty-eight, seventy-nine, HIKE ! And away went the Grizzly football eleven toward one of the most s uccessful football seasons El Dorado has ever had. The Grizzlies were under the supervision of a new coach, Melvin Binford, this year. Coach Binford came to El Dorado from Oklahoma University. In his training of the junior college squad this year he proved to be most able and efficient. Under his instructions the Grizzlies succeeded in piling up 110 points to their opponents 79. After being defeated by Pratt with a score of 26 to 14 in their first game the Grizzlies proved in their second game to be more than an ordinary football team. In this game with the Emporia College Reserves the jucomen swept the reserves off their feet, winning the game 43 to 0. The next week at Iola the Grizzlies proved they could take care of their own fellow conference teams. The Iola squad failed to score. El Dorado made seven points. Chanute proved to be a little too strong for the Juco eleven at Chanute and succeeded in scoring twenty points while the Grizzlies failed to score. On October 27 the most thrilling game of the year was fought out on the local gridiron. Fort Scott, El Dorado ' s ancient rival, played hard. The Grizzlies fought courageous- ly but at the end of the game the decision was one point in Fort Scott ' s favor— 8 to 7. Again the Grizzlies began a winning spree. On Novem- ber 2 the Parsons squad was defeated 12 to 6. The next week Dodge City was held scoreless while El Dorado piled up 21 points. It was with bright hopes that the Grizzlies went to Hutchinson for the final game of the year. El Dorado led with one touchdown for nearly the first half. Then Hutchinson began pushing over for three touchdowns. The final score was 19 to 6.

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BASKETBALL » » » At the end of the basketball season the Grizzly basketball team wasn ' t the champion, but it had beaten one of the co-champions. And throughout the season it had threatened to be a contender for the championship of the Western Conference. El Dorado won one-half of the games played. In spite of losing five games the Grizzly squad finished close behind the leading teams of this conference. It is interesting to note that in conference games the total points piled up by El Dorado equalled the total points of their opponents. At the close of tha season the Grizzlies had 324 points chalked up in their favor. The opposing teams had made the same number of points. Paul Geymann, center, was the champion point scorer for the Grizzlies. In the ten conference games he made thirty-four field goals and twenty-six ree throws. This gave him a total of ninety-four points, or an average of nine and four-tenths points per game. Next in line were Keith Miller and Homer Lear with seventy-two and sixty-eight points, respectively, and seven and two-tenths and six and eight-tenths points per game. Joe King, J. W. Stephenson, Homer Lear, Keith Miller and Paul Geymann each played in every conference game. In addition to these, Raymond Yelley, R. V. Brown. Harold Smith, and Frank Gonzales played in a majority of the games. Lear, Miller and Gonzales are sophomores this year and will not be back to play next year. In addition to the conference games the Grizzlies played several non-conference teams. The first game of the year was with Sapula. El Dorado won the game easily with a lop-sided score of 34 to 15. Two days aftsr the Sapulpa game the Grizzlies were badly defeated by Friends University of Wichita with a score of 16 to 23. St. Johns defeated the junior college team 30 to 28, and the jun ' or college team outpointed the Haskell Indians 37 to 23.