Ball High School - Purple Quill Yearbook (Galveston, TX)

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BASKETBALL First Row: Tevault, Knowles, Letsos, Norman VVilson, Spoor. Second Row: F. Priekett fmanagerb, N. Beveridge, Hubbell, H. Mellina, Lalney, B. Hempel, Grove, John Nash. Third Row: Mr. Kallina Ceoaohh, Hatch, L. Young, Davenport, VVomaek, Gilder, BASKETBALL Black, Zambon. The Tornado basketball team started the season with plenty of hustle and fightg in the first nine games the squad averaged 36 points per tilt. The Purple and Gold, in the first game of the season, de- feated the Stephen F. Austin Mustangs of Houston, 44-28. They Went on from here to tromp Galena Park twice, defeat Texas City, and whip the South Park Greenies, 39-23. The South Park tilt was not a district game. Meanwhile, in interseetional play, the Tors lost four hard contests, one to the cagers from Milby of Houston, 36-32. The tall Sain Hous- ton quintet dropped the Tors, 52-23g Port Arthur, after a last minute rally, stopped the Tors in the semi-finals in the Beaumont tourney, 32-29g then the Ball quintet fell before the experienced Pan .Xmeriean Oilers. The Tornadoes opened the district race against the Urange Tigers, and after the lead Changed hands four times, the Tigers jumped ahead in the third quarter and managed to hold the edge to the final minute. The Tors fell before the tall and experienced Tigers, 235-28. The see- ond district tilt also brought a defeat. Ball High could not overcome 93 fifontinued on Page UTJ

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FOOTBALL TEAM First Row: Quintanilla, J. Collier, Cochrane, Vaiani, A. Nelson, J. C. Jones, Lowth. Second Row: Reasonover, J. L. Jones, Prestidge, A. Norris, D. A. Clements, R. Hem- pel, G. Dayhoff, Lamey. Third Row: Dolierty, Kleiniann, R. Smith, Odom, VVerner, Rosenberg, N. Beveridge. Focg-PDALL T The Golclen Tornadoes opened their l9-Hi grid season with a spec- tacular 20-0 win over the Stephen F. Austin Mustangs. Exhibiting a fine running attack, the Tors piled up ll total of 281' yards rushing and passing. The Tornadoes tallied in each of the first three periods. while the line. backed by heads-up play, held the .Xustin boys to a total of 86 yards gained. The left side of Balls line-Bob Hempel, Alfred Nelson, and C. I. Lowthigaye the Austin ground game plenty of trouble. The Austin band and drill team put on a colorful exhibition during the half. Displaying a smashing running attack, the Ball High Golden Tor- nadoes scored at will to rack up their second victory of the season by swamping the Sam Houston ,Tigers of Houston 47 to 0 before 5,000 fans at School Park. The Ball High boys scored in every quar- ter of a game in which the entire Ball High team of 35 players saw action, including Thomas Sullivan. The Tors piled up 17 first downs to total 39? yards of passing and rushing while the Tigers were able to gain only 36. Ball High smashed the South Park Greenies to win its first district 92 Ct fmtinued on Page U63

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TRACK TEAM First Row: Tidmore, C. Dick, B Rogers, VVimberly, J. Dem-kard, Mr. Fowler fcoachl. Second Row: Doherty, Donald Detbre, Huber, NVillhelm, Black. Third Row: B. Nelson, Noel, VVomack, E. Lauzon, L. Young. TB-EEK The 1947 track team began its slow, repetitions conditioning in early March and finished the season late in April. The team had one returning letterman, Ray llomack, and a few of last year's trackmen, plus a large group of newcomers. Coach Fowler's thinly clads en- tered a large number of track meets this year, namely the Border Olympic at Laredo, the Conroe meet, Texas relays, Lee relays, Hous- ton relays, and the district meet. The Tors entered the district race with only a small number of points collected by VVomack at the preceding meets and came out last in the district race with but nine points. VVomack contributed a total of seven points-five points for first place in the high jump, and two for third place in the broad jump. Robert Chuoke placed fourth to give the Tors another point, and Lauzon coined a point by placing fourth in the high hurdles. Clther trackmen participating in the year's meets were Emil Huber, Bill Rogers, Bobby XYimberly, Fred Prickett, Larry Young, George Doherty, and Joe Di Mare. 94