Newport News High School - Anchor Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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EN Slow Motion Captures . . . Putting up a fine defensive and offensive during the first half of its tussles, only to falter in the second half seems to explain the predicament of the 1946-47 edition of the Typhoon hardwooders with nine losses and eight wins to their credit. Lending a helping hand were the only two returned lettermen of the Connmen's forces, Dangerous Dan Presson, flashy forward, and Lou Taylor, whose preci- sion set shots proved comforting to the locals' cause on more than one occasion. Moving up from last year's Junior varsity were Pete Markos, who excelled in back board recoveries, Tommy Jobe, who because of faulty vision was kept on the sidelines in some of the Typhoon encounters, Robert Panyotis and Harold Jones, who have three more basketball seasons in which to prime them- selves, and Dorsey Pleasants, who did his part toward the locals' cause. When the final gun sounded to end the season, versatile Captain Elmo Stephenson had racked up 236 markers and copped the honor of being second highest scorer in the state, a position of the All-Eastern and All- State squads, and the Agathon trophy presented to the outstanding player on the cage squad. Taking the lid off the basketball season, the Ty- phoon lived up to its name and blew over the class B high school of Oceana 51 to 13. In other pre-conference games the locals held out until the overtime period when the Papooses of William and Mary walked off the floor with a 39 to 34 victory, the Farmers of Morrison went back to Warwick County on a 41 to 12 one way ticket, the Norviewmen first bowed to a 52 to 33 score and later to a 64 to 37 board. Conference season began when the Typhoon took on the highly touted Commodores of Maury, and lost to a 33 to 26 count. The same story was repeated with a good first half and a slow last half. Breaking all prece- dents the Mauryites journeyed over to the local gym- Dec. 13 ....... ......... N . Dec. 17 ....... ......... N . Dec. 19 ....... ......... N . Jan. 7 ....... ..N. Jan. 10 ..... ......... N . Jan. 14 ..... ......... N . Jan. I7 ....... ......... N . Jan. 21 ....... ......... N . Jan. 24 ....... ......... N . Jan. 29 ....... ......... N . Feb. 1 ....... ..N. Feb. 3 ....... ..N. Feb. 7 ....... ..N. Feb. 12 ....... ......... N . Feb. 14 ....... ......... N . Feb. 18 ...... ......... N . Feb. 20 ....... ......... N . VARSI 51 ........ . 34 ........ . 41 ...... 57 ........ 26 ........ 38 ........ 30 ........ 32 ........ 46 ........ 52 ........ 31 ...... 27 ........ 23 ........ 33 ........ 29 ........ 64 ....... 36 ........