Kokomo High School - Sargasso Yearbook (Kokomo, IN)

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CHAMPS OF '52 VVith many veterans back from the '51 team, a good team was expected' but our team of 1951-52 exceeded even the highest expectation of any of us. They, ended the season with the greatest record in the history of Kokomo basketball by winning 25 of 28 games, the loss being by a total of only 5 points. Their achievements included in addition to this great record, the winning of the North Central Conference, the Big Four Tourney, Associated Press mythical state championship, and sectional and regional titles. The Kats opened their season in the Memorial Gym with a 52-41 victory over a veteran VVabash team. The scoring was led by Williamson with 17 and Cox with 16 points. Picking up momentum, they rolled over Frankfort, 65-36, and Tipton, 76- 56. Mitchell helped out against Frankfort with 15 points and Cox scored 25 against Tipton. Playing their First game away from home, the Kats were tripped by Marion's Giants in an overtime game, 58-57. The Kats returned to their winning ways with a 65-35 win over Shortridge of Indianapolis, a game in which the reserves saw much action. In their second road game, profiting by their errors the week before, the l-Qats defeated Lafayette, 60-47, for the first Kokomo win in the Lafayette gym since 1939. Anxious to avenge their lone defeat, the Kats broke loose at the expense of Marion for a new Memorial Gym record of 77 points while holding the Giants to 59. Cox missed setting the Memorial Gym's individual scoring record by l point as Marion's jim Harley scored 30 of his team's 59 points. This showing by the Kats was rewarded by a 4-place rating by Associated Press writers. Page 78 A TEAM Front Row: Phil Mitchell, junior Phipps, Harold Cox, Jimmy James, Cliff Clester. Back Row: Coach joe Platt, Corky Williamson, Clyde Cox, Herb Hummer, Ken Toye, Don

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1,1110 plum 1 gc. Furnish cracks line for first and ten as VVhc:clc1' runs interference. Rats stop Logan attempt. Grab him, Furnish I Page 77

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