Laney College - Oak Log Yearbook (Oakland, CA)

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.QSX By The year 1958 will not he forgotten by Coach Ken Hallstone and his track squad which enjoyed its most successful season. finishing third in the Big Eight Conference standings with a 5-2 record and breaking or tieing twelve school records. ln their opening meet of the season, the Oaklanders produced the school's first triangular meet victory, plus wiping many old records off the books. ln victory, the T-Birds beat the Cal Frosh for the first time and San Mateo for the second. Rene Rogers and Don Lee opened activities by taking one-two in the mile with Rogers being clocked in 4130.5 to set a new school standard which lasted only a week. Len Noles was a douhle victor in the sprints, winning the 100 in 9.9 and the 220 in 22.2 despite having a pulled muscle in his left leg. Noles was so far out in front in the 100 that an observer commented that it looked like the finish of the mile. Weight man Don Dellominico broke the school record in the riffs , A J: Thunderbird Thimlddf Lend , u 0fC in Best Season et K . Tom Broome, Coach Ken Hallstone, Rene Rogers and Don Lee plan strat- egy for the season. Tom Bowie discus with a mighty heave of 144-1114. This mark led the State junior college throwers for two weeks. Coach Ken Hallstone was most pleased with their next victory - a win over arch rivals Modesto and Sacramento. In beating Modesto for the first time, Hallstone found it made up for last year's hu- miliating 108-13 druhbing at the hands of the Pirates. Leading the T-Birds were Len Noles and Sam Perry, both double winners. Noles took the sprints, as he did every meet, in 10.2 and 21.8, while Perry was clocked in 15.4 and 24.3 in the hurdles. The 'ggold dust twins, Rogers and Lee, both broke school records once again, Rogers took a second in the mile with a fine 4:23.13 clock- ing and Lee a second in the 380 with a 1:59.5. ln the half, Lee beat Northern California leader Tom Brown of Modesto and former state champ from Berkeley High, Henry Dorsey. ln their only home appearance of the season at distant Castlemont High, the 80-degree weather hrought out some really great marks. Track team, left to right: Rene Rogers, Rich Colvin, Don Provost, Tom Broome, and Ron Guess. Second row fl-rl: ,lim Curran, Voden Fuchles, Fred Bright, Bob Lemus, Milfred Watson, Ralph Holmes, and Don Lee. Third row fl-rl: Coach Hallstone, Otis Courtney, Rich McKiney, Bill Webster, Carl McCane, Dennis Johnson, Charles McCoy, and John Hollister, Mgr. Back row fl-rl : Dave Littleton, Mgr.g Len Noles, Bob Grissom, Ed Allen, Sam Perry, and Ted Pontiflet, Missing are Ed Donahue, John Treadwell, Dom DeDominico, and Ernie Coffman. Q WS' .Q . I 3 Mil i if fs.- --.n f e 35 4, ,ts -f s .Ib .,,-g i fe In :Q X sew K, :MW xiidfft. , ic 1 f was ' f sf' we . V 5 5 0 if Wi ffii Y 4' ' Q . 0 My if i-':'2 i ' A 'ff A, C 3 f lg, , so -ff' if sta, , e p c .sms A- afstifgfcif , ,Y-5-gift . 4.5. J, ij'-5 . nwffe' ' if f .S ' Y 1135306 ie i-JEL' 5' if - - CK 0 , H: . y 7 si. Q5 f,i03i'-twig? M158 ' , 'alum' i ft 7:4 z' 5 1,5431 5.-I .f, ' K ff v V ,,.,,.v .L T t . 2 tt fatty ' 5 'hir fm.. Wi +.5 '?' ' 1 ...QT ,Ev si V is J, J ,H V UQ, i, y .:ce.:..f.4Qf ,S ,QM M , 3 4 we x H1 , , 5 iii., , r . .2 C 5.0.1 in 2 0 ' ffm-Emily ' iw 1' ,xx H- W t--2 ' 'f f- :'2 5' l1'- :

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job by the starters overwhelmed the Comets in the second match, and OJC squeaked by 62-61. This victory clinched the title for the new champs. Final wins against Stockton 64-53 and Sacramento 74- 49 were anticlimactic. The league champs became the first team to capture the championship undefeated. Going on to the state championships the T-Birds finished with a 24-fl season record, chalkcd up the most wins for any UJC basketball team, won 20 games in a row for another ree- ord, and hroke the national defensive record set by Cam- eron, Oklahoma, hy allowing their opponents only 48.5 points per game. More individual honors came 0akland's way as Rufus Hawkins, who wound up as Oaklandis top scorer with 444 points and a 15.8 season average, and Gflulllping Joei' Johnson, the rehounding center, were named to the first string All-Big Eight team. 4 23 get as ,Y-cf ,-if-P-... '33 to 2 if Top Left: Steve Riggins shovels two points up and in as the upstart OJC Thunderbirds downed the Modesto Pirates, 78-41. Bob Laird f52 waits for a rebound. Top Right: Russ Wickwire f14l, Ed Donahue 1152, .loe Johnson fpartullly hiddenl, and Hank Wellington anx- iously await a high flying rebound as the Oaklanders overran the San Mateo Bulldogs, 78-54. Center: Rufus Hawkins I-41, ,loe Johnson f16j, Bob Laird f52, and Wayne Olson f6j watch a Long Beach Viking take a jumper in the state tournament action. Lower Right: Ed Donahue 1152, and Joe Johnson fface hiddenl, fight for backboard control as the Thunderbirds whipped the WCC Comets in a thriller, 52-51. C if 6 if ,Ni img .,,,. I 538' Fw

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Noles won the 100 in 9.7 and came back to break the school record in the 220 with a 21-flat clocking around the turn. Noles' time would have been good enough to win last year's National AAU meet. Perry was caught in the fast time of 14.9 in the high hurdles for a Bay Area best and won the 180 lows in 18.9, beating out San Fran- cisco's great Leroy Thomas who had taken fourth place in last year's State .lunior College championships. Oakland journeyed next to Palo Alto where they bested the Stanford Frosh and West Contra Costa. In this meet, the T-Birds' thinclads won every race including the relay. Noles won sprint duels over West's great Rudy Jackson. Noles had to come from behind in the last 10 yards to win the century in 9.8 hut he won the 220 a little easier in 21.6 over the shorter Jackson. Bill Webster and Don Lee produced the best Oakland marks of the day. Webster won the 440 in school record time of 50.3, and Lee the 880 in 1:58.6. Next came the San Francisco State Relays in which Oakland relay teams established three relays records. A quartet of Webster, Bob Grissom, Perry, and Noles won the 440 relay in 42.1, the fastest mark for JC's in the nation in the past two years, and the 880 relay in 1:28.7. In the distance medley relay the foursome of Bill Webster, Billy Minor, Lee and Rogers set a new mark of 10:42.3. Three days later against Santa Rosa, Don Lee finished a brilliant two-year Oakland career by breaking a bone in his foot while run- ning the mile. Rogers made up for it in the two, running a la uMax Truexn and winning by half a lap in the fine time of 9237.8 for a school best. Fred Bright pole vaulted 12-1 for another school mark. Probable winners and point makers in the Big Eight Conference meet were Noles, whose only competition would come from Jackson of the Comets, and Perry who was a cinch winner in the lows and favored in the highs over the Comet's Phil Clifton. Rogers, Oakland's distance machine,' could be a possible winner in both the mile and the two-mile over strong competition from Modesto. Oakland could figure highly in the California State Junior Col- lege Championships with Noles and Perry certain to qualify along with Rogers for the big affair. Lee, until his injury, was figured on as a possible surprise winner in the 380. Other men who may possibly qualify are DeDominico and Webster hut they will have to show marked improvement over past per- formances. All in all, Oakland has done remarkably well with the lack of team depth they have had and coach Hallstone is to be congratulated on a job well done. '-4 Q -4l .4ull Bill Webster, Dennis Johnson, and Ted Pontiflet turn the pole coming home to the tape. Len Noles, Bob Grissom, and Rich McKinney get set to take out of the hole on a dash. ... bl