Bippus High School - Bipponet Yearbook (Bippus, IN)

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On the season's opening night the Bippus Tigers were hosts to the squad from Jefferson of Whitley in a game that was a thriller. The game started out to be one sided and by the end of the half the Bippus squad trailed by eight points, but in the third quarter the Bippus Tigers scored 15 points to their opponent's 3 and then the opponents turned around and scored 11 points to Bippus' 5. Even after the good showing in the third quarter they were behind two points at the end of the game. On November 5 the Tigers traveled to the lair of the Clear Creek Bulldogs. The experienced Bulldogs proved to be too much for the Tigers to overcome. The Tigers were outscored in every quarter but in the third and then they held their own. The game ended with the Tigers trailing by 21 points. The third game of the year was victorious for the Bippus Tigers when they defeated the Washington Center squad. The Tigers started the game as if they were getting revenge for something. By the end of the first half they had 31 points while Washington Center only had 5. The game ended with the Tigers leading by 20 points. On November 19 the Bippus Tigers traveled to the lair of the Huntington Township Bearcats, who was thought to be the toughest team in the county and later proved it by taking the county tourney and also the Sectional. The Tigers made a good showing but were outscored in every quarter by just a few points and finally ended up with a twelve point deficit, The Tigers played host to the squad from Urbana on November 23 and started off with a bang by getting a ten point lead in the first quarter and holding on to it through the other three and even increased it by one to have an eleven point nick on Urbana. The Bengals were guests of the Chester Panthers to play a game which proved to be the most exciting of the year. The Tigers started out slow and kept falling behind more each quarter. In the third quarter they held their own but were already behind by twelve points which seemed too great a barrier to even come up to, much less surpass but the Bengals did both and won by a slim margin of two points. In the last quarter the Tigers scored 16 points to the opponent's 2. The Bippus Tigers were hosts to the quintet from Roann on December 7. The Tigers were cold in the first quarter and couldn't score while Roann rolled up eight points and then in the second quarter the Bengals outscored them by four points so they were just four points down at the half. The third quarter was another cold stanza for the Tigers and they were outscored again by eight points but in the last quarter they got two more points than Roann. The deficit was 10 points at the gun. In the game against Jefferson of Huntington, which was played at Warren, almost the opposite game was played as in the one against Roann. In the first quarter the Tigers took off and got 17 points while Jefferson only got four but then cooled off to let the Spartans come within five points of them at the end of the half. In the third quarter the lead was increased to 17 points but then shrunk to only ten by the end of the game. The Tigers were visited by the Banquo Indians on December 17, The Bengals scored evenly in all the quarters and the Indian's best was their last quarter but they couldn't come up with the Tiger's lead. The final score was 53 to 40. On December 21 the Tigers played host to the squad from Markle and the game started out just right with the Tigers leading by seven points by the end of the first quarter and continued to add to it and by the end of the game they had a lead of 29 points which pleased everyone but the players and boosters of Markle. The Clear Creek Bulldogs came to Bippus to play the Tigers a second game of the year and found them no push over with the Tigers staying right on their heels the whole game but they did manage to get a six point lead by the end of the game, In the Bippus versus Huntington Catholic game, it started out to be a very low scoring game and by the end of the first quarter only ten points were scored by both teams. The Ramblers caught fire in the second period and at the half had a nine point lead over the Tigers and they increased it in the last half by just three points which gave them a twelve point edge on the Bengals.

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'rn as ff fren ' 1 M Q . x ,L .gh JOE LEONHARDT Junior 6'1 84 Pts. 155 lbs. .TIM FINTON Junior 6. 235 Pts. 148 lbs. Honorable Mention Free Throw Trophy KENT BICKEL Sophomore 5'10 118 Pts. 147 lbs.

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When the Tigers were guests of the Union Sharpshooters, the game started out to be an even match between the two teams and by the end of the first quarter the Tigers only trailed by three points and by the end of the half they had held their own and still trailed by three points. In the third stanza the Sharpshooters got hot and they scored 22 points while the Tigers only scored 12, In the fourth quarter they were still hot and got 18 points to the Tigers 11 which gave them a twenty point victory. In the county tourney the Tigers had to play Union again with the game about the same way except the Sharpshooters got hot in the first half and got 19 point lead but lost two points of it in the second half to end the game with a 17 point margin. The Tigers were visited by Lancaster in a game that proved to be thrilling from the start to the finish. The Tigers trailed by three points at the end of the first quarter and in the second quarter the game stayed even all the way. By the end of the third stanza the Tigers only had a deficit of two points and that is how the game ended with the Tigers two points behind, The Bippus Tigers were guests of the Roanoke Stonewalls on Feb. 4, 1955. The Stonewalls outscored the Tigers in every quarter but the last, but the Tigers couldn't overcome the ten point lead. So the game ended with Roanoke having 63 points and the Tigers 53. The Rock Creek Aces were guests of the Bippus Tigers on Feb. 11, 1955. The game started out even in the first quarter but by the end of the first half the Aces had a ten point lead. In the second half the Tigers got back three of the ten but couldn't get the rest. In the Larwill game the Tigers couldn't find themselves in the strange gym and by the end of the half they were behind seven points. In the second half the Trojans weren't to be denied this victory and increased their lead to twelve points. The last game on the schedule was played with Andrews at Andrews. The tigers got a six point lead over the cardinals but by the end of the half the favored Andrews squad had a two point edge. In the second half they increased it by 20 P0il'1fS. In the first game of the Sectional Tourney the Tigers defeated Markle again by a score of 60 to 29 but in the second game the Tigers were defeated by Roanoke by a score of 72 to 53.