Clinton High School - Tornado Yearbook (Clinton, OK)

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I BOTTOM ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Richard Jackson, Bill Hite, Elgene Phillips, Jerry Childress, Vernon Ioyner. Calvin Browning, Jim Tisdal, Clyde Green, Victor McKinsey, Jerry Jordan, and Craig Armstrong. SECOND ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Coach Bill Gayler, Buzz Goodwin, Alvin Smith, Bud Miskel, Don Smith, Elmer Davenport, Vic Cole, Melvin Morrow, Bob Dotson, Chris Delaporte, Qlvianagerj, and Coach Otis Delaporte, THIRD ROW, LEFT TO RIGHT: Coach Bill Grigsby, Dick Hutson, Bill Deal, Butch Brown, John Graves, Buddy Pitzer, Don Livesay, Darrell Stocks, Bogey Kaiser, Buddy Fowler, and Jerry Garrett. The 1954-55 Lettermen's Club has been active in various ways procuring money to finance a trip at the end of school. They sponsored a mix-up tournament, a wheel- chair basketball game, and were in charge of the program at the football banquet. 'J , 5' 17, i R, Vernon Joyner, Elgene T' Phillips and Calvin Browning are admiring their newly- won Southwest Conference trophy.

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7754 2 awcwlaa 3 FIRST ROW: Dud Hire, Gary Jones, Mike Rollins, Victor Cole, Buddy Fowler, Richard Jackson, Jim Tisdal, Bud Miskel, Jack Keihn. SECOND ROW: Don Reinschmiedt, Jerry Merrill, Denny Meacham, Bobby Hedge, Alvin Smith, Elgene Phillips, Bill Deal, Dick Hutson, Manager Kenneth Simmons. THIRD ROW: Coach Bill Gayler, Coach Bill Grigsby, Neal McClanahan, Calvin Browning, Craig Armstrong, Todd Markum, Bill Hite, Vernon Joyner, Buzz Goodwin, Vic- tor McKinsey. FOURTH ROW: Clyde Green, Jerry Jordan, John Graves, Melvin Morrow, Buddy Pitzer, Darrell Stocks, Bogey Kaiser, Don Smith, Don Livesay. Under the superb coaching of Otis Delaporte, assisted by Bill Gayler and Bill Grigsby, the Red Tornadoes enjoyed one of the most successful seasons in Clinton history. They won 9 games, tied twog but won both on penetrations or first downs. Not since 1949 has a Tornado team gone undefeated. Clinton settled for the co-champs of the Southwest Conference. The team consisted mostly of seniors with juniors and sophomores breaking into the games in the closing minutes. l In the season opener, the Big Red came throu h with a smashing 41 to 0 victory over Woodward. gnce again the Tornadoes defeated their arch-rivals, Elk City, by a resounding 27 to 0 score. The next game was a squeezer, 13 to 7, over El Reno. Then came Ia four straight conference victories over Hollis 33 to 75 Mangum 40 to 73 Anadarko 9 to 7, and Frederick 40 to 7. The Tornadoes ran into their first trouble of the season as they tied rugged Lawton 7 to 7. They bounced back a ain next week to trounce fareviously unbeaten Sayre 34 to 19. Seemin ly over- ooking Hobart to next week's showdown witg mighty Altus, the Tornadoes were hard-pressed to beat the Bearcats 13 to 6. Then came the Altus game, one that will be long- remembered. Entering the contest as 15 point under- dogs, the Tornadoes fought the undefeated and highly- rated Bulldogs tooth and nailg and came from behind Coaches Bill Grigsby, Otis Delaporte, and Bill in the last quarter to tie them 19 to 19 in a game that Gayle,-I was rated by most as the best game ever played in Tornado Stadium. 25,