Sewanee Military Academy - Saber Yearbook (Sewanee, TN)

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Co-Captains Larry Shannon and Bill Baker, All-American Prep School Swimming Champions. THE SEWANE A N 'dd' M'ddl row, lah to right: Ware, I. While. C. H. Lewis. Top row, left to right: Woodall, McAllen, Alexander, Mgr.: Miller, Dinvu xo. 1 e Higgins, Waller, Run, Grace. Bottom row, lofi to right: Hunoy. Ovcrlon. Parker, Shannon, W. Baker, F. Kalmbach, and Van Loor. This year the S.M.A. Tankmen had no out- standing stars, but the team was made up of a group of eighteen hard-working, industrious men with a great coach, lnky Conklin. Inky, 68 by virtue of his hard work and inherent coaching knowledge, converted an average team into one that was renowned for its spirit and determination. In the diving field this

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t Th e wrestlinq squad consisting of, Top How: Searcy, Fisher, Stone, Schaeffer, Herndon, Herron, Sand , I. Ad ers ams and Atkins. Bottom Row: Baird, Wahl, Coach Page, Armstrong, Stamey, and Front Row: W. Bailey. The tiruiiters and qioaners of l95l started out with OVI'l'Ylllll'lLI aqainst them. They had no coach and only six vets from last year. They were Sonny Town, Harold Rabbit Kniqht, Brother Carper, Dick Fisher, Smilin Ed Sanders, and Dick Wohl. The vets had to teach the new men what they knew with Dick Fisher and Dick Wolil acting as coaches. When Mid-South finally arrived the boys making the trip were Sonny Town, Rabbit Knight, George Reese. Dick Fisher, Dale Herndon, Ed Sanders, Brother Carper, Pptio Adams, Iirnmy Edmondson, Owen Stamey, and Dick Wohl. The inatmen put up a qood fiqht but all were elim- inated except for Town, Knight, Herndon, and Sanders. Coach Carey Page has Tommy Armstrong explain a hold to the newer members of the wrestling squad. Sonny Town collected an easy win in the semi-finals ln the first round of fiqhts Petie Adams and Rabbit Kniqht went on to win third place with Sanders and Herndon. Herndon had to come up from behind to pin his man for third place, The finals saw Sonny Town and Fenton Scruqqs of Baylor fiqht to a 4-4 tie and the referee had to make a decision which he awarded to Town for his aq- rgressiveness. The team finished third in the Mid-South. Considerable credit is clue Captain Dick Fisher and the managers who are too often torqotten, Bill Bailey, loel Searcy, and Bill Atkins. Owen Stamey. left, and Tommy Armstrong, right get linal instructions from Coach Paqe.

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WW F40 .Domi . 54 - ' fig? U' 0 A0 j WN NOLXO N-0, M ,545 J fa' qotffxjf. Ba XXV ' if at g.+f-f U sf if Mfg- year Sewanee can sagy boalgtbof having e most outstanding Prep School diver in the United States, we are of course speaking of Iohn Hussey from Shreveport, Louisiana. Hussey placed first in all of the meets en- tered this year with the exception of the one held at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, when Edwards of Staunton Military Academy edged him into second place. At a later date, however, fired with a determination to win, lohn greatly outdid Edwards in the Eastern interscholastic Swimming meet at Trenton, N. l., where he captured first honors along with several good offers for scholarships. The powerful Tiger team splashed through the season with two firsts and three seconds, climaxing the year with a second place at the Mid-South Meet held in Atlanta, Ga. Among the outstanding members of this team are Bill Baker and Larry Shannon, Co-Captains, Bill helping out in backstroke and Larry in free style. The team could have found no het- ter men to act as Captains this year. Another man on this year's team that deserves recog' nition is Pete Higgins, who broke both the Meet record at Chapel Hill and the Academy record in l5O yard medley. Practice session, S.M.A. Medley Relay Team Iohn Hussey, All American Prep School Dive Champ