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

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L.. Thinclads Snag State Title CHAMPION CINDERMEN are FRONT ROW: Julius Conn, coach: Billy McLaughlin, Billy Wood, Sonny Cowl- ing, Billy Foster, Richard Avery, co-captain: Donald Shields, Bernie Shields, Jimmy Hahn, Jerry Garrison, Louis Plummer, SECOND ROW: Donald Galloway, Louis Ham- It Happened This Way Another successful season was put into the record books by the trampling Typhoon track team when the title of state champions was ac- quired for the eleventh time. Joining the class of also rans for the first time in two years, the NNHS harriers had to be content with a third spot in the Southern Invitations lndoor games at Chapel Hill March l with eight marks. Blonde Jerry Garrison cleared the high jump bar at 5 feet lOM1 inches. ln the conference seascn opener the Ty- phoon had little trouble in downing Wilson thinclads of Portsmouth 86 3X5 to 26 2,f5. The Typhoon turned back the Granby Blue Comets 6OV2 to 47M in the second dual meet of the season. Dick Avery was high point man for the locals with i4 points. Racking up 35M points to Granby's 34 the locals won the Tidewater track meet in Wil- liamsburg. The Typhoon's victory was clinched when the relay team came through and took 5 points to beat Granby by lk points. Sending another cinder combine down the ilton, Richard Raane, Teddy Marks, Morris Beecroft, John Lockstamphor, Phillip Levy, Harold Gray, Linwood Gar- rison, Robert Panyotisp BACK ROW: Jimmy Kosicki, man- ager: Melvin Lewis, manager, David Murray, Dewey Shantz, William Layton, Richard Hudgins, Jack Gray, Douglas Mitchell, Billy Gayle, Billy Early, manager. road to defeat, the Newport News forces turned back the Maury Commodores by a score of 67 to 49. Teddy Marks captured a first in the 880 and Jerry Garrison won the high jump. Also capturing blue ribbons for the Ty- phoon were Moss Beecroft in the pole vault, Dick Avery in the high hurdles, Jimmy Hahn in the discus and Bernie Shields for the low hurdles. The Conn and Plummermen captured for the seventh consecutive year the Eastern Dis- trict track meet at Norfolk's Foreman Field. Looking good against college competition, the Typhoon thinclads suffered the first and only defeat of the season, having a 6 to 59 verdict handed them by the Naval Academy 6 of Annapolis, Maryland. Terminating the i947 track season the gold and blue Typhoon carried away the state championship at the State Meet in Charlot- tesville on May i6 and l7. The Typhoon nosed out John Marshall by a score of 23 2X3 to 20. Top flight performers for the Gold and Blue were Jerry Garrison, Morris Beecroft and Dick Avery.

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PACING HIMELF out along the grueling mile is veteran performer Billy Wood who has captured many a paying place in Typhoon encounters. DETERMINED to heave the shot put a respectable dis- tance, Jimmy Hahn star weightman for the Typhoon cindermen, practices his form. RUNNERS Billy Foster and Billy McLaughlin whose stal- wart performances in the grueling 440 have been note- worthy, put forth with a last minute effort. STRETCHING THEIR legs over the low hurdles are the hurdling Dick Avery and Bernie Shields who have con- tinued to cross the finish line together. Sonny Cowling is in third place. TOP TRACKSTERS carrying the colors for the harriers this season were Dick Avery and Clifton Penny, co-cap- tains who carried on the tradition of the gold and blue by leading their team to the state championship for the eleventh time.

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That Lipstick And Leaping Go Together . . . 1 I THE CHARGE OF THE SHORTS BRIGADE resulted in Marguerite Blake, Marjorie Blake, Sue Woodward, this varsity basketball team chosen from the feminine Anne Hamilton, Margo Panos, and Betsy Menin. Ab- bosketeer competitors. They are Lido Mae Marshall, sent from picture Tuney McMahon. i J GIRLS' ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION members, SEATED- Lida Mae Marshall, secretary: Lael Bunting, vice- president: Margo Panos, president, Moriorie Blake head of sports: SECOND ROW: Katherine Nichols Betsy Menin, Catherine Lomberth, Norma Montague, r Connie Weymouth, Odell Crocker, Miss Mable Wingo, sponsor: THIRD ROW: Miss Frances Mays, Mar- guerite Bloke, Sue Woodward, Margaret Lloyd, Amelia Baines, Linda Avant, Dolly Vaughn, Phyllis Storzt. This group directs girls' sports. 1 ...L