Ogden High School - Eagle Yearbook (Ogden, IA)

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Basketball BOONE COUNTY CHAMPIONS l!!!l For the first time in eighteen years the boys from Ogden under the competent training of coaches Knudsen, and Hammond, brought home the championship ll! Ogden walloped its opponents in the tournament by scores of: Ogden 30, Pilot Mound 163 Ogden 43, Boxholm 285 and in the finals, Ogden 38, Madrid 21. Ogden scored a total of 111 points ir: the tournament to the opponents' 65. The all- county team was almost an Ogden affair as we placed four men on it. At guard. Charles Garvey, center, Pete Garveyg forwards, Floyd Tilley and Merle Sherbring. Ogden received two splendid trophies for winning the championship. Floyd Til- ley was the individual scoring star of the County Tournament, scoring a total of 36 points, Merle Sherbring was next with 28, and Pete Garvey mis- sed third by one point as he counted 21. The Ogden Bulldogs got off to a dismal start as they dropped the first five games to Perry, Jefferson, Gowrie, Pilot Mound, and Minburn. At this time Ogden used a man-to-man defense, but when they changed to a two-two-one zone defense they started winning ball games. From then till the close of the regular schedule, including the county tournament Ogden lost three and won nine ball games. This defense was so tight that oftel' teams scored only two or three baskets in a whoie half and one team didn't tally one in one whole quarter. A very unfortunate accident during the Christ- mas holiday deprived the team of the excellent playing of Louie Treloar who had a finger cut off by a buzz saw. Throughout the scheduled season Ogden scored 473 points and their opponents scored 460 points, for a very close number. Ogden averaged 27.8 points a game and their opponents averaged a very close 27 points a game! This really illus- trates how evenly Ogden was matched throughout the season. The seniors of the championship team were: Merle Sherbring, forward and captain, who was tall and muscular, a good dribbler and his shots were accurate and he has many good points to his credit: Pete Garvey, center, perhaps the best dribbler on the team, he was tall and classy and could pump them through the basket from all angles, he followed in well and was a rebound ar- tist: Charles Garvey, guard, was always cool, calm, and collected, he had a dead eye for the basket at long range as well as being a good dribbler and passer: Junior Thompson, guard, a good dribbler, and passer, a very good hustler who never gave up, played a heap more of good basketball than he got credit for, Kenny Webber, guard or cen- ter, rather small, he was a smart passer, dribbler, player, and shooter, he could probably sew a man up for a jump ball better than any other playerg Pat Tilley, guard, good passer and shooter, was a boy that always had class in what he did: Floyd Tilley, forward, perhaps the player who had the sharpest eye on the basket in shooting and was the best f ree-thrower 5 Paul Blyth, for - ward, playing his first year showed some excel- lent playing with the ease of a veteran: Bill Murdock, center, a good all around player who was always consistent. T he championship squad wishes the future squads of Ogden to have the saxne luck, and to make the winning of the tournaments a part of their regular schedule. Ogdenitesl Watch these boys in the future and see them do it. When you throw a log on the fire of praise that is burning for the achievements of the boys in athletic contests this past year, remember to throw two logs on the fire for the excellent work of the coaches that Ogden has been lucky enough to have working for her. It is through their hard, diligent and encouraging work, that the boys have emerged with their shining record. They have taken the boys, awkward boys who knew little of the sport, and made them into polished gems of perfection. . A' 1 Championship Team Left to Right: Seated-Kenneth Webber, Tommy Thompson, Charles Garvey, Merle Sherbring, Pete Garvey, Floyd Tilley. ' Standing-Mr. Hammond, Ass't. Coach: Glen Logue, Butch Carpenter, Bill Murdock, Paul Blyth, Pat 'li1ley, Ernest Cram-er, Mr. Knud- sen, Coach. Entire Squad Left to Right: First Row-Mr. Hammond, Ass't. Coach, Ern- est Cramer, Tommy Thompson, Charles Garvey, Bill Murdock, Paul Blyth, Merle Sherbring, Pete Gar- vey, Floyd Tilley, Pat Tilley, Kenny Webber, Mr. Knudsen, Coach. Second Row-Dally Buck, Butch Carpenter, Norman Mendon, Don Leichliter, Jimmy Chris- tensen, Don Van Slyke, Glen Logue, Keith Hack- barth, Paul Clausen, Ed Merriam. Third Row-Robert Hansen, Harold Leichliter, David Dillman, Weldon Lessen. H' Also Louie Tr-eloar.