Watertown High School - Purple Tiger Yearbook (Watertown, TN)

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Resume' of the Season This, in brief, tells the story.of the Tigers who began their rather eventful and successful season December 3, 1948 by playing Auburntown. Even though the game was exciting to the spectators we were defeated 16 to 15 The following week we met Lebanon on her own hardwood and as usual we were defeated by a score of 51 to 32 despite Captain Lannom s twenty three points On December 10 our loyal supporters traveled to Carthage to see us agaln defeated by the Owls with a score of 49 to 31 CAPTAIN RoY LANNOM Scored 243 Pomts The next four games were played away from home with the Tigers wrnnmg two and losing two One of these games was a return game with Auburntown thrs trme the story was different we won 25 to 17 Each of our boys played an outstanding game This victory seemed to renew our sprrrts for we next met the Creenwaves and won 25 to 21 Thrs was our first outstanding victory with Thompson belng the hrgh scorer The Gordonsville game will be remembered by Red Harden scorlng for the OPPOQING team immediately after enterrng the game as a substitute Again we were defeated by 30 to 24 Even though we lost to Liberty on our own hardwood the Tigers played a hard fought game with Handsome J T and Maggre sharing scoring honors The next three games were played at home before a packed gym of loyal supporters The Hartsvllle game was a pushover the Tigers wrnnrng 49 to 23 Most of the squad played ln thls game However the next game was Wlfh another county rrval Mt Juliet The Tigers played one of their best games of the season holding Marshalr to sev nteen pomts which was below hrs average per game Corkey scored 14 pornts for the Tigers The story was different when we played the return game with Mt Juliet They won by one of their best scores of the season 80 to 58 When the Blue Devrls came to Watertown they agaln de feated us 36 to 18 The Tigers were on the road again this time lt was Harts vrlle 'I'h1s game will be remembered for the outstanding fioorwork of each player Butler added to our score 4 points thus we won 42 to 28 ff 4-fm. 'wwf' ww wwe

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Resume' uf the Season With everyone playing an outstanding game we won over White House 37 to 13. Once again we met Lebanon in the finals and lost 33 to 14. The following week we traveled to Murfreesboro to play in the Unit Tournament, meeting a strong team from Lincoln county, Fayetteville. Everyone played an outstanding game even though we lost 37 to 23. We placed two players on the all tournament team of the ninth district namely, Knee as for- ward, also highest scorer for the district and tournament, and Corley as guard. Since we only lost two games in the regular season and two tournament games we are just- ly proud of the outstanding work of the 1948-49 Tigerettes of Watertown High School. We They 32 Auburntown 20 16 Lebanon 23 17 Carthage 13 33 Liberty 16 40 Auburntown 15 Gallatin Gordonsvllle Liberty Hartsvllle Mt Juliet Lebanon HdFfSVll10 Gordonsville Gallatln Auburntown Mt Juliet Cai thage Gallatin White House Lebanon Fayetteville han' l I5 I7 45 MQQMZWQM MM M ff wg M 173' fi?-y ' 32 ' 18 32 ' 16 39 ' 21 33 ' 10 45 . ' 28 19 33 35 ' ' 12 45 ' 19 37 ' 25 26 13 31 . ' 28 29 ' 23 33 ' 13 37 ' 13 14 33 24 ' r ' 37 , x , ' I a 2 ' I 1 'I . g 's 3 s t - it - .,,,., 7 ' , 4 g JI. 1 . M' . ' , 4 4 4 ,. 'e . I X X-aww. A I. ,a..f ft?

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Then it was home again for the next two games. The first one being with the Greenwaves which was a thriller from the beginning to the end, with the score being tied at the half. With a few seconds left to play it looked as if the game would end, the Greenwaves being victorious. However, as the spectators were on their feet, Captain Lannom dribbled across the center, paused, shotwstripping the net--winning the game by one point. Coach Knee's Tigers certainly played a game that will ever be remembered in basketball history. Our last home game was with Auburntown, the Tigers again playing a hard fought game and winning 52-21. VVe traveled to Carthage for the last game of the season. We lost the game to a strong squad, with Thompson and Lannom sharing scoring honors for the Tigers. We had several days to rest before meeting Gallatin's Greenwaves in the Ninth District Tournament. Coach Knee and his squad were determined that the story would not be repeti- tion of the last ycar's tournament game with Gallatin. The quick thinking and experience as a good coach and the outstanding teamwork and the playing of the Tigers gave us a victory of 39 to 31. We then played Lebanon in the semi-finals. We were leading at the half by several points, but lost by two points, despite the superior play- ing of our team. Captain Lannom was placed on the all-tournament team as guard. Thus, the season closed and the school admin- istration and student body were justly proud of the 1948-49 Tigers! SCHEDULE Name Auburntown Lebanon Carthage Liberty Auburntown Gallatin Gordonsville Liberty Hartsville Mt. Juliet Lebanon Hartsville Gordonsville Gallatin Auburntown Mt. Juliet Carthage Vllournamentl Gallatin Lebanon THEY 16 51 49 36 17 21 30 42 23 37 36 39 28 36 21 80 44 31 43