Ben Avon High School - Novaneb Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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Girls' Sports Club Presideiil .... . . . MARY LOUISE ROBINSON Vice Pvuviiivwit .. ........... RITA LUCAS Treasurer .... .. PEGGY Foizsiaenc Secretary . . . . . . DONNA Donna UT of the locker room pours a team of alert and eager girls. Y es, they are Sports Club members bound to win a title in the A.A.U. Basketball 'Four- nament. One of the chief events of our sporting year is this contest. Other yearly features are the games with Avalon and the exhibition which is sponsored every spring. It would have been utterly impossible to accomplish such feats if live years ago the girls of Ben Avon High who were interested in sports had not been organized into an able group. The Sports Club has also made it possible for every girl in school to earn a letter. Each girl is permitted to participate in any activity she desires. At different times of the year various sports are stressed with a tournament at the end of the season. Points are awarded to the persons who are picked for the various teams, and additional points are given to the champion team in each sport. The main activities are: mushball, tumbling, hockey, basketball, volleyball, and tap and natural dancing. The Sports Club has proved an immense benefit to its members by helping them achieve sports- manship and a spirit of cooperation. 45

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I l Senior Athletes li if , flick' f In X - i , . . I V 1- 5 Q I I JS A , gl 1 Ab: p . i i , 'rv i lf? I-larry Duke Hlack . . , star center on baskelrball team for last two years . . . a regu- lar since his freshman year and a dead-eye on long shots . . . a real leader because of his experience, and a product ol the Emsworth YH gym . . . weighs a meager 105 and towers six feet three inches . . . has largest size foot on the squad . . . worries Coach Aultman by coming late to games . . . loves basketball . . . intends to go to Kiski, where we know he will make good. Levi Bird', Duff . . . most conscientious player on squad . . . has improved vastly in last two years . . . a good shot from the middle of the floor . . . a hard worker and cahn under tire . . . plays in the back court with George Lawry . . . called gra1mia by players and the coach because ol slowness in getting into or out of his uniform . . . is often the cause ot much hilarity during practice sessions . . . ate 12 pancakes before one game, a record of which Mr. Aultman .l'ortunately didn't learn . . . has largest appetite on squad . . . ask anyone who was at Aultman's on the night of February Z6 .... Bird intends to go to Har- vard. Williaiii Purcell . . . moved to Ben Avon from Vxlestlield, New jersey . . . plays at all three positions . . . always depended on to lill in when needed ,... loves to shoot in games . . . which he does from every angle and at any time , . . when he's on , Bill is an ex- cellent shot . . . has quite a liery temper at times . . . believes in imminent assertion of rights except, maybe, when he's at Muuroe's . . . wants to go to Rutgers University. Sammy Luttrell . . . placed as forward on tirst team as a result ot tour years of hard work on the scrubs . . , small of stature, but potent with. a basketball in his hands . . . Sammy rarely misses long shots . . . a consistent, steady player on the court . . . plays hard and is in the thick of every scramble for the ball . . . loves basketball with heart and soul . . . when not playing at the high school he plays at Bellevue Y . . . is quiet and unob- trusive at all times . . . well-liked by players and coaches. Dwight Merker . . . a second-stringer who has improved visibly . . . subs at guard . . . very conservative passer and not a bad shot . . . very quiet and unassertive . . . handicapped because he lives so far out ot town . . . has no clehnite plans :for next year. Paul Putsy Smith . . . hails from Emsworth . . . learned his game in the Emsworth Y . . . is short and heavy set . . . calm and unexcitable on the court . . . has played on second and third teams quite a while. but has worked hard and never complained . . . a good passer and quick in snatching: rebounds . . . a moral asset to the squad because of his cheer- fulness and uncomplaining attitude . . . Putsy,' is well-liked by everybody. 44: l I

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