Yadkinville High School - Yadkinian Yearbook (Yadkinville, NC)

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Margaret Anne Myers Captain Nan Linville SIP' Gay Miller Patty Cranfill Yadkinville 28 Yadkinville 31 Yadkinville 37 Yadkinville 1 4 Yadkinville 1 5 Yadkinville 28 Yadkinville 33 Yadkinville 31 Yadkinville 3 1 Yadkinville 26 Gail Whitaker Co-Captain if hosemary Taylor Hattie Branon Willie Grey Smith Peggy Hudspeth Sue Ratledge Bonnie Williams Janet Haynes React? 'fat Speason 17 King Yadkinville 35 Mountain View 34 Yadkinville 19 East Bend 36 Yadkinville 24 Courtney 20 Yadkinville 24 Franklin 1 3 Yadkinville 33 King 34 Yadkinville 37 Jone sville 32 Yadkinville 24 Franklin 32 Yadkinville 33 Mountain Park 12 Yadkinville 27 -Flat Rock 36 Yadkinville 35 In the Yadkin County Tournament the Yadkinville girls, in the final game were defeated by West Yadkin with a score of 22-21. Emma Lou Carter 1 Margaret Cheek Betty Ratledge Libby Smith Boonville 27 We st Yadkin 3 1 Mountain View 20 Courtney 18 East Bend 25 Mocksville 24 Jone sville 30 Boonville 26 West Yadkin 22 Mocksville 34

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x , ' 1, at rx . W., 3' Y J' K ' . ,, ' J -' . First Row, left to right: Gay Miller, Libby Smith, Rosemary Taylor, Hattie Branon, Peggy Hudspeth, Margaret Cheek, Willie Grey Smith, Emma Lou Carter, Sue Ratledge. Second Row: Manager Barbara Adams, Nan Linville, Patty Cranfill, Betty Ratledge, Coach Malcolm Brown, Janet Haynes, Margaret Anne Myers, Bonnie Williams, Gail Whitaker. qifzls, Igaslzeflwall Basketball at Yadkinville High School continued on the same high'level during the 1950-'51 campaign that has marked the play of both the boys' and girls' teams for the past several years. Although the girls have never quite seemed to hit the stride they have been capable of achiev- ing all year long, they gave Yadkinville and Yadkin County basketball fans many a lively moment during the recently completed campaign. At times the team really looked great. At other times the girls had trouble getting started. With the completion of the new gymnasium, the sport of basketball has. had the greatest in- terest ever at the school. When Coach Malcolm Brown soundedthe first call for team candidates at the start of the season, forty girls responded. Many of these faces were new ones at Yadkin- ville. Among the new girls were Libby Smith and Ouida Brown of Forbush, and Gay Miller of South Fork in Forsyth County. Competition for every position on the team was spirited during the entire season, but the fol- lowing seven girls by great effort were able to muscle into the starting positions and held them during the year: Forwards--Peggy Hudspeth, Emma Lou Carter, Gail Whitaker, Janet Haynes, Guards--Margaret Anne Myers, Sue Ratledge, and Margaret Cheek. One of the strongest factors of the team this year was its fine reserve strength. There was hardly a night when one or more of the substitutes couldnft have played the entire game without much difference being noticed. Other members of the squad were: Forwards--Bonnie Williams, Willie Grey Smith, Betty Ratledge, Patty Cranfill, Libby Smith, and Ouida BrowngGuards--Rosemary Taylor,Hattie Bra- non, Nan Linville, and Gay Miller. It was usually conceded that the defense was stronger than the offense, but the four girls who started most of the games left little to be desired in forwards when they were clicking. Margaret Anne Myers was elected captain, and Gail Whitaker co-captain, of the team. Emma Lou Carter and Peggy Hud speth paced the scoring attack most of the season, while Margaret Cheek shone in the defensive play. '50 Syeason 'Sl

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gaslzeflmll gays First Row, left to right: Bobby Holcomb, Harce Dean Cornelius, Darold Weatherman, Floyd Wilmouth, Bobby Dinkins. Second Row: Kent Cranfill, Tommy Williams. Third Row: Manager O'Dean Hemric, Delano Dinkins, Aaron Linville, Robert Shore, Coach Malcolm Brown. The 1951 Yadkinville basketball team refused to believe those who said that the team would be woefully weak after the loss of the five regulars from the Journal-Sentinel championship team of 1950. Instead of believing all of those sob stories, the scrappy little band of players that made up the 1951 team went out and posted the second best record in Yadkin County, and one of the best records in the entire Northwest. The biggest handicaps to the team at the start of the season were inexperience and lack of size. Long hours of hard work under the able tutelage of Coach Malcolm Brown erased the inexperience angle. Plenty of fight and a bunch of sharpshooters who were considered one of the best shooting teams in the county took care of the problems caused by the lack of size. The average height of the team was five feet, ten inches. There were only two seniors on the team, Aaron Linville and Tommy Williams. Harce Dean Cornelius, Robert Trivette, and Darold Weatherman will be back for one more year of basketball, and the following boys are sophomores: Bobby Holcomb, Bobby and Delano Dinkins, Floyd Wilmouth, and Robert Shore. Kent Cranfill, a freshman, made up the eleventh man on the team. The team was strenthened considerably by the addition of Floyd Wilmouth, a transfer student from West Yadkin. The big burden of the offense was borne by sharpshooting Darold Weatherman and Bobby Holcomb. The team employed a man-to-man defense, and mixed up a fast breaking offense with their series of plays employing set shots. Some outstanding defensive work was done by Harce Dean Cornelius, Tommy Williams, Bobby and Delano Dinkins, and Floyd Wilmouth. The team should be considerably bigger physically next year.