Sewanee Military Academy - Saber Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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The lil Tigers sTarTed oTT Their season wiTh Three reTurning players oT The pasT year, buT Their sTrengTh was added To by The newcomers and The coaching oT LieuTenanT ThweaTT. All played wiTh Their eyes ahead for The day when They could Till a sloT on The varsiTy squad. The liTTle hardwooders played a Tull schedule wiTh local Teams, going once To M.B.A. of Nashville. The high scorer was Robins who was Toilowed by Peeples. RoberTson, Hogan, Richardson, and Hughes. Their season was Tull and successTul and Their opponenTs knew They had played a mighTy, liTTle Team! IIIITES THE HEFID CUIICH COACH WOOD Head BaslceTball Coach. RoberT H. Bob Wood. whose considerable experience on The hardwood sTrip has lenT broad influence To S.M.A, neTmen over The pasT six years, is To be congraTulaTed upon The showing made by his Teams This year. WiTh an ever increasing inTlux oT new maTerial Trom which To choose, his Tigers should conTinue To malce an impressive showing againsT Their Mid-SouTh Toes.

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game lo T.lvI.I. The game was close all lhe way, never varying more lhan I or 2 poinls lo eilher side. Barry While came lorlh lo lalce honors as high poinl man ol fhis game. When lhe whislle sounded, ending lhe game, lhe T.M.I. bunch led by only I poinl, 45-44. Antler playing one more game lhe Tigers made ready +o scrap in lhe Mid-Soulh Tournamenls in Challanooga, bul lhe hard playing crew bowed lo a more powerful C.M.A. leam in Ihe lirsl round. The worlc was hard, +he breaks lew, bul The spiril and good clean play were wilh L. King, A. EWANE , I CAPTAIN BARRY WHITE The Team 'rhe enlire hardwood season. Sam Clare led lhe scorers followed by Ed Gossage, Barry While, I.ep Adams. and Bill Smilh. Adams, Clare, Fullerion 71

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This year The Academy golf Team, sparked by new blood. confidenfly expecfs To experience one oT The mosT successful seasons in many years. While pre-season dope presages much sTiTf ccmpeTiTion from our Conference breThren, The Team is firmly resolved To meef This onslaughf of alleged par sTrokers wiTh a liTTle beTTer Than The besT. Newcomer Jimmy Trezevanf of Tampa, Florida, lead his TeammaTes by consisTenTly firing in The low sevenfies, Demi Harrison, also of Tampa, follows close behind in dodging divofs. Bill Bailey, who is The only refurning leTTerman from lasT year's Team, has again proven himself quiTe an asseT. Then banfam sized, five feeT Tall, and Tipping The scales aT one hundred pounds, is Buck CaTer, who is number four in The line-up. OTher squad members who lend confidence To The Team are Jesse Vogfle, Gordon McCormick, and Jackie CarpenTer. Summing if all up, aT This early sTage of The season, CapTain Bill ErnesT, golfing coach, who is someThing of a TeesTer himself, has a sTurdy club-wielding Team, The predicfions for which are reeking wifh rosy speculafion. 60I.F TRHCH This year should bring new life To Track aT Se- wanee under The guiding spiked No. IO of Coach WhiTey Urban. Capfain Mac Kim- brough will be leading his TeammaTes for The second year. LasT year he broke The school record in The iavelin Throw, and placed second in The Mid-SouTh r'neeT in This evenT. Park Uiquharf, one of The fasTesT sprinf men in The Mid-Soufh is expecTed To hiT his peak This year in The IOO and 220 yard dashes. Bill l-lamilfon, who raTes among The besf in The middle disTance runners is an excellent 440 man. Tom Sfone, a veferan miler, will Take over The 880 yard run and will have The siTuaTion well in hand. We can feel sure of These fine runners Taking Their share of The running evenfs. Carvel Six, a newcomer, is a promising miler ThaT we are depending on for a good performance along wifh Craig Dwyer and Tommy ArrnsTrong, Two weighT men This year, Happy Williams, Red Rose. and Melvin Young will also carry The load as weighT men This year. Freddie Johnson, Mac Kimbrough, Larry Brooks, and Park Urquharf will provide The punch in The relay races, Beaky King, anofher mainsTay from lasT year, should be an ace hurdler and high iump man. Lep Adams will raTe wifh The besT of The new men in The running evenfs. This Team has a brighi' season wiTh so many new men To add To The seasoned ones Trom previous seasons, l-lere's wish- ing The besf of luck To a Truly fine Team, 73