Lamar High School - Chieftain Yearbook (Lamar, CO)

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' T fwyl U fy i ASSISTANT COACHES - - - JOE PRATER DEL ZE-IGER INIANAGERS - JACK ALEXANDER HEAD COACH , . JOHN ALLEN CURTIS GENTRY B SQUAD - - BILL PETERSON 1948 Squad Ci-football 1948 Carl Yvallace, Bill Petrie, Nomian Ring, Keith Osban, Mr. Petersen Virgil Lappin, T. I. Spannagel, Ted Appleggge, Leonard Reish, Alvin Green, Levi Mitchell, Dan King, Eddie Payne, Bob Carrillo, Bob Owens, Jerry Daffem, Larry Hixson, Bob Pace, joe Venn, Bill Hollis, Billy Davidson, Iom Twombly, Morton Rich K. 'q

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iBasketball, IQ48 4Q ln manv ways the 1948 49 basketball season was xery successful Wrth only two letter men returnmg the Sax ages took the court 1n the face of a tough erghteen game schedule It vtas not untrl late m anuary that the Savages started chcklng They met the best teams the xallex could offer and played them on exen terms but could not develop the fourth quarter scorrng punch to vsm The shmmg lrght of the whole season was the record complled by the Savage B squad of fxfteen vuns and tvxo defeats and a share ln the conference B trtle They played ln splred ball nlght after mght and managed to keep therr stnng of XICIOIICS gomg with a hard drn mg tvpe of play and the w1ll to vun regardless of who thelr opponents mlght be To hate a wmnmg team IS certarnly a great achlevement ID any league but wrnnlng alone 15 only one of the manv outcomes of basketball Flhls year we bu1lt the foundatlon for a vanguard of great teams to come 1n the future Teams whrch w1ll wxn not because they have the skllls alone but because they are clean hard sportsmen and competltors and most of all because they loxe to play Next year there wxll be s1x lettemmen returnmg plus a fme array of outstandxng B squad boys and wrth thls a new era 1n basketball IS comlng to Lamar An era where our teams wrll agam hate the w1ll to flght and hustle and make a place for themselves rn the valley conference ThlS was the comment from the Rocky Ford coach whose team won the conference tltle TIIIS years club was the cleanest and the best team we ever played from Lamar Pagz Thzny BILL HOLLIS, Manager, GARY CREENSYREET, CHUCK HUSTED, BILL SHACKELFORD, IACK HINES, ALVIN GREEN, RICHARD MCEUEN, RALPH KING, WAYNE ROSE, AND JIMMY GRIBBEN r - 11 - 1 ' - I . . , . 1 1 . , N . V, - - - - at 11 . . . 44 11 - . 1 -1 1 1 . , . ' ' 1 ' 1 7. I . V. . 1 V ' 4 . ' 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 . . . . . H .. . . . . . . . 7 . . 1 1 ? u - 1 11