C E Byrd High School - Gusher Yearbook (Shreveport, LA)

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Com etition Develo P P the tape for another Byrd track meet win 15 Junior B111 hard-working track team found many victories as their for this work. In a Byrd-Fair Park baseball game Pete Seale prepares to hunt as the Fair Park catcher and umpire await the action. WHO ARE THE JACKETS? WE ARE THE JACKETS! A familiar Byrd cheer and one that exem- plifies some of the spirit that was evident at each athletic event during the school year. This spirit seemed to grow as the year wore on, due not only to the enthusiastic specta- tors, but also to the determination of the athletes and coaches. It was with pride that Byrd watched these events, knowing that the winner of the game is not the important thing, but how the game is played. Byrd's athletes lived up to every goal they set and each learned that a great deal can be gained by competition. No one can deny that the . . . TIME ON OUR HANDS . . . spent in afternoon practices for the big game, tourna- ment, or meet was spent in a rewarding Wayl Bilbbif Rasberry gets the rebound for Byrd in one of the most exciting and closest QHIHCS of the year. Byrd held skilled Bossier to a three point win.

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Time of ur Lives These Pelican State representatives put on an interesting W assembly showing the different phases of life during the nme da s at Pelican State. Y As the leaves turned red, gold, and brown, and the feel of fall was in the air, another year was begun at Byrd, and for some, the Seniors, it was to he the last. Attending the gootball games during the early fall Friday mglits was favorite pastime of many Byrd students

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trong haracter As the summer drew to a close the football players found much of that extra summer time eaten up with those steaming early morning and late afternoon practices. The basketball players practiced long and hard, beginning in the fall, also. With the coming of a new spring, and what almost seemed to be a new year, the baseball, golf, and tennis team members began that extra work that makes a good team great. Track seems to be an all-year job for a great many of the tracksters, but the TIME ON OUR HANDS was spent well' Sprm brou ht members of the tennis team out to courts ln full force Flo Sproull warms up before a toulna ment Sonny lainell jumps over Lal J o 'lm mole yal a e c tt lllty ln an tht s ha tmp Packln the car to leave for a practlce at the olf couise are Tommy Smith Larry Cowley and Rob Franks The Colt' team went to Baton Rou e play In the state meet held there