Dunbar High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Dunbar, WV)

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SUMMARY OF BASKETBALL GAMES In the 1945 basketball season Dunbar High's Bulldogs were humbled in both the conference standings and the sectional tournament, but that isn't all the story. Lindy Jividen, with a point total of 295, led all other basket tossers in Kanawha Valley for the second straight year-an unprecedented happen- ing--the sports editors remarked. He averaged 16.4 points a game, playing in 18 games, to top his nearest rival-Howard Beverly of South Charles- ton's Black Eagles-by 57 points. The team, however, won 7 games and lost 11 in the conference to fin- ish in eighth place. It never was better than fifth place all season, despite one big night, February 6, when mighty Stonewall was humbled 37 to 36. In its last game at St. Albans, D. H. S. led in the first half but then faded. In the sectional tournament, the Bulldogs-after beating Nitro 49 to 39 with Lindy J ividen making only 13 points because of getting unusual guarding--went out on the second round when Stonewall took no chances and had the Dunbar quintet whipped in the first quarter. Stonewall, which had revenged itself March 2 by a 38 to 28 beating, led all the way in the tourney game, 11-2 in the first quarter, 21-6, in the secondg 40-11, third and wound up a 54-24 victory. Speedy Johnson got 18 points that Nitro tournament clash while they were trying to box J ividen, and had Lefty been given that kind of help all season it might have been a different story. J ividen alone, with 125 field goals and 45 foul tosses during the con- ference season, did a little better than a third as well as the whole Clendenin team, which averaged 48.7 points per game to win the valley title for the second successive year.

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Basketball. Seated, left to right: Wilbur Grammer, Darrell Good, Bill Rader, Gorman Kiser, Joe Faber, and Eugene Unrue, Standing: Lucian Bias, manager: Bob Johnson, Jesse James, Lindy Jividen, Buddy Nichols, and Harold Ramsey. Basketball season got under way with two regulars, Lindy Jividen, captain, and Red liadm. back for the quintet. The Bulldog basketc-ers performed praisvworthy work this ye-ar and .Iividc-n again topped the Kanawha Valley individual scoring record with a sum of 295 points, was also selected as renter for the all-County team and rvveived honorable rm-iition on thr all-state team. NGXL YCHF will filld more players of experience than the '45 basketball season did win-n Johnson, Uurue, Good and Ramsey will be back for the starting line-up. H.'I'. H 'I Sit souvillc ,. .., 59 39 Beckley ,.. Lflvndenin ... ... 68 Stonewall .. L'Fi:iilf-sion .. ... 45 Clendenin ,,. lilkview ....,,.,.. ... R7 Charleston ., llu Pont .......,.. , 34 Nitro ...... .. South Charles I-las! Bank .. Nl'l'U .,..,.. Sl. Albans ., lflkvil-W ... ton 46 -ll 45 42 All East Bank ..... South Charleston Du Pont .,..... St, Albans ,

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Basketball B Team Seated, left to right: Buddy Townsend, Robert Hamilton, Bill Harpold, Gene Wallace, Bill Fisher. Standing: Joe Faber, Fonnie Ianello, Donald Withrow, Buddy Nichols, and Jack Hannaman. Buffalo B Hurricane Stonewall East Bank Hurricane St. Albans H T 25 37 33 19 25 29 Clendenin . East Bank , aa., S Buffalo South Charleston Charleston H.T - 31 38 S ,,a, 15 48 S ., aaaa 16 15 18 31 35 7 33 Basketball Snaps...