El Reno High School - Boomer Yearbook (El Reno, OK)

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English—Witcher Speech—Kirkland Shorthand—Noble Trigonometry—Knighl Economics—M oore Government—Shanklin Botany—Porter Sociology—Durham Spanish—Blair Art—Porterfield — 12-A —

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HE El Reno Junior College basketball team of 1949-50. - . could be acclaimed as the most up and down outfitaj ever produced in Chieftain athletic history. While thcl Chieftains finished their schedule with a not too impres- 1 sive record of five wins and six losses, their round ball encounters played on the local maple, a sum of three victories and two hard-fought losses, established those Chieftains as the scrappiest team in the school’s history. Sixteen collegians answered Coach Leslie Roblyer’s call for practice on November 1. It was no secret that the basketball enthusiasts who turned out for positions were short in altitude but long in attitude. A defense which featured a tight .one setup to hamper opposing height and an offense which called for speed and decep- tion was outlined as the plan of attack. The Chieftains opened their season on November 29 when they journeyed to Amarillo for a tilt with the Am- arillo Junior College Badgers. While the El Reno team resembled a quintet of buzz bombs as they dribbled around and under their opponents, the Badgers made good use of a decided height advantage to chalk up a 66-34 victory. Two weeks later, the Chieftains again packed up their equipment and moved to Sayre where they met the Sayre Junior College five and suffered a stinging 59-38 loss. The inability of the Chieftains to find the basket with any consistency in face of opposing height was the determining factor in this defeat. The next Chieftain opponent was Kiowa County Junior College of Hobart. While the El Renoites were clicking in their offensive, they were unable to compete with the uncanny ability of the Hobart five in finding the basket both from the field and the charity line. The final score was 54-48, Hobart leading. The Chieftains took defeat on the chin and traveled to Carnegie, where they opposed the highly rated Car- negie Collegians. A fatal final quarter found the El Reno College roundballcrs suffering their fourth consecutive defeat by the score of 55-50. From this point forward, the Chieftains turned over a new leaf. Charmed by the inspiration of playing on the home court, profiting from past experiences, and sporting new zebra striped uniforms, the local J. C.’s won four straight victories. The first to fall under the inspired touch of the Chieftains were Sayre’s boys, who had administered an impressive 59-38 defeat to the El Reno team earlier in the season. The score was similar, 50-28, but the Chieftains the victors. Next to suffer defeat before the hands of the scrap- ping Chieftains was a Seminole College five. An aggres- sive zone defense combined with expert ball handling and accurate shooting made the final score read, 58-30, El Reno. The boys from Kiowa County Junior College were the next victims of the sparkling offensive of the El Reno J. C.’s. The tutelage of Coach Leslie Roblyer reap- ed its greatest reward, 60-24, in this encounter when the Hobart squad, simply was unable to keep up with the changeable Chieftains, led by the starting lineup of Don- ald Roblyer and Richard Preno, forwards; Don Fedder- son, center; Harold Kessler and Charles Hahn, guards; and supported by Robert Thiel, Delmar Stockton, Roy Ratcliff, Jerry Hutson, Charles Benson, Welborn Fire, and Edward Purcell. With four scalps under their belts, the Chieftains again hit the road but this time as seasoned warriors. With blazing tomahawks, the Chieftains’ power reach- ed a potent stage when they scored 15 points in the first three minutes of play and finally subdued the Seminole squad, 33-28. Again opposing height and the breaks of the game with Carnegie put the hot Chieftains in the losing col- umn but not until they had pushed the boys from Car- negie to their limit. The final tally, 44-49, Carnegie. The local J. C.’s next challenged the Bullpups of Southwestern College. Trailing by 12 points with only three minutes of play remaining, the Chieftains burst loose with a rally which enabled them to eke out a 41-40 victory. The Chieftains wound up their schedule by entertaining the Bullpups in a return game. Again the two teams were well matched and the score similar but the Southwestern quintet was victorious, 50-48. In summary, the El Reno Chieftains scored 503 points as compared with 487 points for the opposition. Total points registered by the leading scorers of the team were: Hahn, 122; Roblyer, 84; Preno, 68; Kessler, 68; Fedderson, 49; Stockton, 34. The J. C.’s averaged 46 points per game as opposed to 44 points per game for their opposition. BASKETBALL SCHEDULE There 11-29-49 El Reno 34 Amarillo 66 There 12-12-49 El Reno 38 Sayre 59 There 12-22-49 El Reno 50 Carnegie 55 There 1- 9-50 El Reno 48 Hobart 54 Home 1-16-50 El Reno 50 Sayre 28 Home 1-19-50 El Reno 58 Seminole 30 Home 1-26-50 El Reno 60 Hobart 24 There 2- 3-50 El Reno 32 Seminole 28 Home 2- 6-50 El Reno 44 Carnegie 49 There 2-15-50 El Reno 41 Weatherford “B” 40 Home 2-21-50 El Reno 48 Weatherford “B” 50 — ll-A —

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COLLEGE STAFF FOR 1950 BILL McNAUGHT Editor BOB MARQUARDT Assistant Editor THOMAS TOOMEY Writeups JOAN MARTIN Fine Arts FLOYD SYKES Art JACK CLADY Art NOMAN STEVENSON Snapshots DON ROBLYER Sports CALENDAR OF EVENTS With bright and shining faces—no—better start over again. With bright and shining faces (the girls), and un- shaven, bearded faces—callow youths that most of us are—we trudge off to join the great majority of students. We have a great resolve in mind—we are going to study— for the first time in our lives. (Hah! We should be so dumb.) We overrule the highschool students now, boy, what joy. Trey had better not get in our path—we’re going to college. Some of us are not familiar with the rules and regs of the school and stumble from room to room, trying to locate ourselves. Ah, hah! Success. There it be! Registration! I made it. School finally started, and our smiling upright coun- tenances turn from joy to gloom. Shucks, we have to study in college—I didn’t know that. One or two of the students get spring fever in September and doze in every other class. Cat naps? No—class naps. Boy—what wheels—our first Junior College meeting arrives on the horizon. Results? Class officers. Names, rank, and serial number follow: President—WALLACE BAILEY, free, white, and un- der twenty-one. (Youth) Veep—JACK GRAY. Any questions, remarks, or incantations? Secretary—MARY ELLEN PORTER. Just a girl. The boys hate ’em. (Who is kidding whom?) Treasurer—DON MORRISON. We assigned three men to cover him. Surprisingly enough, we had cash left for several parties. Bobby Lee Ross is asleep. Wonderful couch in the college room. OCTOBER Ho hum! This old grind is getting us. Everyone go- ing around with long faces. Heck! We HAVE to STUDY in COLLEGE. Who mentioned playing his way through school? He has knots in his head. A mixer, in which everyone mixed so well they mixed each other up, was held at Mustang Field. In the mix-up, every guy and gal who was there reported a good time. Bulging here and there, seams straining, smiles smil- ing, the boys and women really enjoyed their little old selves, under the direction of genial, ingenious Dean Porter. The students of zoology had a field day one fine, crisp morning. (Everyone was singing “Oh! What a Beautiful Morning’’—strictly propaganda.) From river- beds to abandoned mills, the scholars trudged (they didn’t run???) hither and yon and then back to school. Did we learn anything, Mr. Porter? I bet you gave up on us. Bobby Lee Ross is still asleep!!!!! — 13-A —