Ponce de Leon High School - Cavaleon Yearbook (Coral Gables, FL)

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Dania was the third and perhaps saddest team. For it was against her that Ponce rolled up its highest score of the year, with a 59 to 32 victory. Alter stepping ovcr Gesu 4-6 to 26 and Lake Worth 42 to 33, the team was still full of self confidence. However, nervous tension of the early season had worn off and the team began to relax a little. This was clear during the next game when Ponce scored only 21 points against the mighty Edison Fivc's 43. The loss might have been a shock to good old P.D.L, students, but it did not faze our team. They had what it took to win a game. They knew it, and they proved it at the very next game. After a long hard battle with Palm Beach, the Ponce Five showed they could come out victors over the best of teams. We won that mighty battle 37 to 35. The nerves of our team were still re- laxed, when bingo! one, two, three games lost-just like that. The Beach took us At the tap of the page wc find in the first picture left to right: George Lane. Bob Cuson. Bill Wlard, ,loe Ciancimino, Tom Gibson: second picture, left to right: Kimball Stedman, Bill Ward. Bch Cason. Tom Cib- son. Third photo shows some basketball fans and the boys on the henrh at thc Bearh game. The varsity B Basketball Team. left lo right, first row: George Smith. Howard Misner. Dun Lanigan, Jimmy Wel1'l1, Allan Westx'otlg xarnnll row: Malcolm lulmson, Robert Peterson, Captain Bob Cason. and .lolm Edwards. The Freshman B Basketball Team, left to right, Iirst row: Wallace Smith. Joe Curtin. Harry Caldwell, Marvin Wheeler: second row: Buddy Isaar. Ralph Dahlstrom, Jimmy Riddle, Jerry Loos, Jimmy Brooks. at 53 to 4-0, River Side, 51 to 25, and Homestead at 4-6 to 36. This woke our team up. They couldn't stand it any longer, so they came hack to heat Jackson, our last game of the season, 42 to 37. With hope for a swell season in '4-8, we look to our MB squad. They won first place in the Gulfstream Conference game. Well, so long El Ponso, see you again soon. -FRANK BAKER 33

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emzfeae been OHELLO, EL PONSO. Come in if you wish. Mr. Gramley and I were just discussing this ycar's basketball team. Mr. Gramley, why don't you tell El Ponso what you just told me? I know he would like to hear it, too. Wlell, El Ponso, during the early part of December we had nlore than seventy fellows out here in the gym to try out for basket- ball. Of course in every group of boys you will find some who are just too lazy to stick to the basketball training rules. There are some also, who find basketball is too much, along with their other activities. For these two reasons and a few others the boys kept dropping out till a few days before our first game we had left just what we wanted in the first place, the cream of the crop. 32 In the first pirture at the top of the page we find referee .loe Mason and players Ray Pierce and Dave McDonald. The second photo lrames George Lane and Tom Gibson. El Ponso says that is George Lane up in the air after the ball. Oh, yes, the referee in this photo is Gal1by', Fields. The freshman Au Basketball Team, left to right, first row: Jim Hartnett, Don Lewis, Jimmy Brooks, Sergio Chavezg serond row: Bill Hampton, Phil Sendel, Kenneth Herrold, .lerry Bishop. The Var- sity 'KA,' Basketball Team, first row: Jim Craine, Tommy Fitzgerald. Doug Preston, Bill Stephens, second row: George Lane, Kirk Westcott, Bill Wa1'd, Joe Ciancimino. Our opening game was with Redlands. The boys may have been a little nervous stepping on the hardwood for the first time in the l9-1-7 season, but they were so full of self- confidence that they bowled over their oppo- nents 50 to 30. The next game was a real set-up. Tech scored only 18 points to our 41.

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i at Q Zena, Zuma 0 RETURNING to swat the ole apple again for Ponce this year are several real pros. Top- ping this list are Billy Stephens, Kirk West- cott, Homer XVllliHHlS, Ray Pierce, Dave Pip- pinger, ,lack Keena, and Lawrence Blaylock. Heading our list for Hashy pitchers are Rob- ert Conrad, Vic Daey, Bob Prahl, and James Overstrcet. As usual the boys all think they are really hot stuff when they first show up, but after getting hopped in the head with the ball, letting some beauties get by, and fanning a few hundred tinies they calm down a little. Under Coach Mike Ruggles' supervision the boys are really going to town with base- ball this year. Starting off with catching flies, placing bunts, and burning 'em around the hases the team has shown real pep and enthusiasm. Upposite picture. left: Coach Ruggles is watching Robert Conrad wind up the pitchg lower left: Flip Rosen gives a safe signal to Kirk Westcott as Jack Keena bites the dust.