Bullard High School - Panther Yearbook (Bullard, TX)

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BASKETBALL THE BULLARO PANTHERS or i950 40 WERE AS FOLLOWS FORWARDS H P TERRELL, JERRY BISGOE, LAUDE STANLEY, HEAVY BREWSTER, WILBUR TOMLIN, FRANK STRIPLING, ENTERS CECIL GEE, AND JAMES SMITH, GUARDS GRADY RAY, E M STRIPLINGA LEONARD BURNS, AND JOHN LOPTIN SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS or THE SEASON WERE FEATED GARRISON FOR THE CONSOLATION HONORS IN THE RUSH TOURNA MENTI DEEEATEO THE 0zARx HILLBILLIESI AN ALL GIRL TEAM, FROM MISSOURI BY A SGORE or 24 I4 IN THE GOUNTY TOURNAMENT THE PANTHERS UPSET THE HIGHLY EAYORED TROUP TIGERS BY A SCORE or 25 20, BUT FOUND THEMSELVES TR ILING BY 5 POINTS IN THE HARD FOUGHT GAME WITH THE ARP FOR TWO OONSEGUTIYE YEARS COACH LEONARD SMlTH'S PANTHERS HAVE BEEN RUNNERS UP EOR THE SMITH COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP, AND THEY ARE SEEKING 'SWEET REYENGE' EOR l94O-4l THE JUNIOR BOYS TEAM OF l959 40 WAS GOMPOSED or THE FOLLOW ING PLAYERS TRAVIS SHIPPA JUNIOR wILKENSONy HARRY LLOYD WILKENSON, LYNN BURNE, BOBBY CLARK, J T LEE, TILMAN COLE, L G HUNLEYQ INGRAM WALKER, RAY MCCUGHA JOHN WHITSON ROARKn DOIS COOK, AND PAUL BOREN THESE BOYS WERE DEFEATED BY ARP IN THE EINALS OF THE COUNTY TOURNAMENT BUT WON A LARGE MAJORITY OF THEIR GAMES DURING THE YEAR or I959 AND i940 THE PANTHERETTES OF BULLARD WERE FORWARDS MAxINE SMYRL, CAPTAIN, NAXINE CURRY, GO CAPTAIN, AND PAULINE GRIFFIN GUARDS MARY LYNN CHEEKI DOROTHY SWEARINGEN, AND NORENE COOK, THE SUBSTITUTES WERE MARY CATHERINE ROPER, REBA RAE ROBBINS, LILLIE MAE PAYNEn BETTY WALKER, KATHLEEN HORTON, MARY EVELYN DAVIS, AND EYELYN STEWART DURING THE YEAR THE TEAM woN TOURNAMENTS AT MALAKOPP, RUSH, AND BULLARD WHERE THEY WON BEAUTIFUL TROPHIES TROPHIES WERE ALSO AWAROED T0 THE PANTHERETTES FOR WINNING COUNTY MEET AT ARP AND DISTRICT MEET IN THEIR OWN HOME GYMNASIUM AT THE STATE MEET IN WACO, THESE GIRLS WON THE FIRST PLACE OONSOLATION TROPHY,THE LARGEST TROPHY THAT HAD BEEN WON DURING THEIR EVENT FUL AND OUTSTANDING YEAR, AND ALL THE PLAYERS RECEIVED GOLD BASKETBALLS KATHLEEN HORTON WON A LOVING cUP EOR BEING THE MOST BEAUTIFUL REDHEAD AT THE TOURNAMENT J- 2 I . . C A , C I ' I Q G A , : DE' A - TIGERS FOR THE COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP. 0 O O 0