South High School - Merrimac Yearbook (Bakersfield, CA)

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n ...X- FIRST ROW Left to Right Jerry Farless Robert Lim: Willie Mills Lehman Willaams SEC OND ROW Eugene Newkurk Mgr Doye Robins Ed Henderson Ralph Clarke Everett Beed. THIRD ROW: Virgil Mills, Paul Green, Charles Collins, Larry Holt, and Mr. George Van Pelt. Gob O6fyTovA 5,9 'l ETQQM The B team under the coaching of Mr. VanPeIt ended their league season with a 7-ll rec- ord. The team played many exciting games with Bakersfield, East Bakersfield, and North High. The most exciting of which was with North High when the team lost by one basket. Returning this year were lettermen Doyle Robf ins, Lehman Williams, and Virgil Mills. Top scorer for the Raider team was Eddie Green with 173 pts. for the season. How about this for low dribbling! An unidentified member of Souths Quick thinking and high stepping aid a South High player to gain B Te,-gm tries to elude his attackers. another point for our team.

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1 FIRST ROW: left to right: Gary Kerans, Bob Wright, Wally Simmons, Joe Bryan, Bernie Jamieson. SECOND ROW: Mr. Darrel Titus, John Andreatta, Tom Ratlift, Don Ferguson, Jerry Lambert, Julio Franco, Larry Magana. mmm The Junior Basketball squad, coached by Mr. Darrel Titus, ended their season with a I-I2 record. The most exciting game was played with Taft when the South J.V.'s win 43-20. The top scorer of this season was Julia Franca with a total of 94 points. The referee waits anxiously lor the outcome of this play Tenslun runs high during the last minutes of the game as a final attempt for the winning points are made. 105

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A .4 bv A - 4. :vi -qnis....v FIRST ROW, Left to Right: Henry Nutt, Ro er Sanders, Billy Destefani, James Carrington, Bob Kuest, Mgr. SECOND ROW: Coach Romaine Cote,fJim Rele-d,,yBobby Davis, Marvin Bookeout, Willie Andrews. OTecww The C Basketball Team's league standing was a tie for fifth place. Mr. Cote felt that the most out- standing game was the game played against Taft. ln this game South was twenty points behind at half time and won the game by two points 38-36. The most out- standing player was William An- drews who achieved 38 points in the league games. Tense M ogfw As Eaisbetballz D Team The D Basketball Team had a fair position in the final standings, ty- ing for third place with East High. The team won three out of the league games and lost five. Under the coaching of Mr. Hum- phreys the freshmen team mem- bers prepared for their future bas- ketball seasons. I F, ,V i FIRST ROW, Left to Right: Eddie Lopez, Stan Kniften, Tom Walker, Rick Varner, J. W. Walker, Gary Larson, Andy Balch. SECOND ROW: Charles Bosse, Mgr., Don Davis, Gary Barraza, Marshall Duarte Charles Zawila, Terry Kuster, Alan Mikuls, Ken Lanterman, Mr. Kenneth Humphreys. t7 if III X X I ' -.1 tw