American High School - Anahuac Yearbook (Mexico City, Mexico)

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l Tom Clark Cliff Gehrke Captain Student Coach Between 2 Clark swishes a jump shot. FIB Brent Peck, Ken Wagner Crai l bal Wooley. ' CELTICS ie ability to hustle and play clutch basket- provided the necessary ingredients for a chafmpionship Boston Celtic season, as they drop ped only one game to the Los Angeles Lak- s indicated by the statistics, the Celtics ersiby one point. too, most of their victories by small margins. Thel winning formula was the fast breaks and aleqtness to enemy errors of guards Craig Wo Tom ley and Ken Wagner, the rebounding of cenlfer Ed Trimble, the ball-handling of forwards Joh Eig poin Clark and Flay Snider, and the back up of Foarde, Bruce Granick, and Brent Peck. th-grader Craig Wooley brought credit and ts to Cliff Gehrke's Celtic five as he snatched 71 points during the season an.d second placka in League scorers. Celucs Opponents April 20 34 Lakers 28 April 26 38 Warriors 34 lVlay1 4 38 76'ers 35 May 11 37 Lakers 38 May 13 37 Warriors 34 May 15 37 76'ers 36 l Brian Toole, unmolested by battling Ray Snider, peek reaches vainly to deviate Laker shot.Y gets off a jump shot. 290 l 1 l l

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IU ICR VARSITY LL-STARS ,it The Junior Varsity program, designed X Solely on the basis of performance as and coached by lVlr. Clark Kirkpatrick, spot- Y- indicated in the six-game round-robin t0ur- lighted the principles of total participation nament, Sixteen of the thirty participants and building towards the future Varsity ,bs were selected for the all-star team. team. H' The All-Stars constitute the Junior Var- The 1968 Junior Varsity selection was sity, and represent the AHS against Tepe- chosen through a pre-season intramural , y8C.C0l6Qi0 C0lUmbi-land the otherteams competition. s ' ,. participating in the June inauguration of Basketball coach Kirkpatrick opened the the new gym at Benemerito de las Ame- intramural program to all boys interested Kirkpatrick I'iC3S- in playing, Two weeks of practice and The most able and willing of the Junior conditioning weeded out the more Undedi- Varsity will combine their experience with cated players. The thirty remaining ath- that of the returning varsity lettermen to letes were grouped into four teams: the form 3 YOUVIQ bUT Well-Pfimed V3 SifY Celtics, the Lakers, the 76'ers, and the Squad fOr 1968-69. The purpose was to Warriors, with experienced players as cap- give 8XP6rienCe and poise to the under- tains and Varsity lettermen as coaches. 9 -Hdu-QTGS in PYGPHYEWOH fOr next YGHVS Varsity. gr ' ' wg. y. -- ,L,4:,j-- '. 2- v-Ov, it I mae sweet, ,oi at st ,,, ,. It . I XJ I . . is 'Qi M. XJ X Q , g 4' gi , f I 'XD 5 f.-i: 'i-ep' .' J was ' i 4 I , I ' S A l 1 as' ' w ., 1. 2 - I 1,1 .Q 1,-4'-4 , law' , 1. . ' c - 'Z-U ' -I ., 'Jr' Prix -W Wait-- WWI, in ' ,.. I n 5 u fb 5 r , ,,,.,,, wb Z ' ,:4- 'f'-'K Q N t '-- 'M kt' ii gi' g B It 1 I-4: L ... M' uk ,ir h ' ss. l I, A Y bwlvsix I 'J I I - I ' B ' l'-5. 4? ti M a , Q I ' X E .ff me Q c it it - :QL I 1. , 4. THIRD HOW: Tom Clark, Ernie Durazzo, Frank Gehrke. Ernest Balleste. SECOND ROW: Warren Hastey Bob Augustine Ray Snider Bob Bradford Dennis Walsh. FIRST ROW: Bob Garza, Messod Attias, Craig iNooley, Ken'Wagner, Jorge Horgacitas, Eddie Chambless. MISSING: Carl Haynie. 289

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SECOND ROW: Brian Toole, Steve Casper. FIRST BOW: Warren Hastey, Ernie Durazzo, Jorge Horgacitas. MISSING: Bob Bradford, Andy Robin. LAKERS The Leagues strongest team on paper, Warren Hastey's Los Angeles Lakers, failed to materialize until late in the season, losing two of their first three games and ending.the race in third place with a 3-3 record. Although the Lakers lacked experience, with the exception of Varsity veteran Warren Hastey, they had a distinct height advantage, as forwards Ernie Durazzo and Warren Hastey and center Brian Toole posed serious threats on the boards. Late-comer guard Jorge Horgacitas and Warren Hastey tied for third place League scorers with 68 points each. Speed was furnished by guards Bob Bradford and Andy Robin and forward Steve Casper. The deterring factor for the Lakers was a lack of offensive interplay. Lakers Opponents April 20 28 Celtics 34 April 26 41 76'ers 29 May 4 44 Warriors 45 May 11 38 Celtics 37 May 13 48 76'ers 51 Mav 15 62 Warriors 41 st Jorge Horgacitas pushes in two of his 68 season points. . 3 I r ' I Warren Hastey Bob Feldmann Captain Student Coach Durazzo steps ball out. Durazzo sinks a two point set shot despite hungry Celtic defender, Ed Trimble. 291