Bippus High School - Bipponet Yearbook (Bippus, IN)

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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.

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