Southern High School - Southerner Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Freshman Basketball SCOREBOARD 1 Southern 31 .... ,....,.. E . K. Powe 21 Southern 30 .,.. . . . East Durham 26 Southern 23 ,r.. . . . Northem 22 Southern 47 .,.. . . . E. K. Powe 35 Southern 47 . . . . . . Oxford Orphanage 34 Southern 41 . . . . , . Oxford 32 Southern 36 . . . . . . Carr 41 Southem 35 . . . . . . Chapel Hill 21 Southern 40 . , . . . . East Durham 34 Southern 30 . . . . . . Hillsboro 20 Mr. joe Hipps, Coach, is shown giving last minute instructions to the starting five. These are Crawford Williams, Ronnie Rigsbee, Floyd Couch, Dan Hill, and Steve Utley. We have every right to be proud of our Freshman Utley, Dan Hill, Danny Walker, and johnny Griffith. Basketball team. They lost only two games during the Second row: Coach Hipps, Crawford Williams, Ronnie season. Apparently these boys are excellent prospects Rigsbee, Tyree McGhee, and Floyd Couch. for varsity players. First row: Robert Taylor, Steve

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Sophomore Basketball This year the Sophomores had a fine working de- fensive as well as offensive team. Their Winning record does not tell the complete story of their accomplishments this season, The training program, set up by Coach Hipps, was most successful and through his efforts many of the Sophomore players will be seen on the 1959-1960 Varsity Squad. The high scorer for the team was Robert Vaughn. SOPHOMORE SCOREBOARD Southern . , , . , . .,.l., Northern 32 Southern , , . Hillsboro 33 Southern .. Creedmoor 10 Southern ., Graham 26 Southern . . . , Northern 26 Southern . . . . Roxboro 39 Southern , . . Henderson 19 Southern . , . . Hillsboro 44 Coach Hipps gives Robert Vaughn and Eddie Tice the last word before the tip-off. Composing the Sophomore Squad are john Wheeler, Eddie Tice, and Donald Haith. Standing are Coach joe Hipps, Robert Vaughn, and Tommy Lilly. Page One Hundred Nine

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Baseball SCOREBOARD Southem 21 .,,. .A.. O xford Orphanage 2 Southern 11 ..., .... O xford Orphanage 7 Southern Northern Southem Roxboro Southern Hillsboro Southem Chapel Hill Southem Northern Southem Roxboro Southem Chapel Hill Southem Graham Southem Graham l Under the skillful direction of Coach Fred Smith, all but two of the teams encountered during the base- ball season lay mangled in the tracks of the invading Rebels. BASEBALL Though the season started with a hitting slump, the Southern baseball team won nine out of eleven games. This placed Southern second in the District III Conference. Coach Fred Smith's Sophomore-studded 1958 var- sity baseball squad including only two Seniors defi- nitely constituted a threat for the 1959 conference crown. First row: Fay Pickett, johnny Tillman, jerry Good- win, and Kenneth Sarvis. Second row: Charles Harris, Ted Garrett, Ronnie Strickland, Larry W. Ferrell, and L. M. Draper, Manager. Third row: Ronnie Nichols, Willie McDuffie, Kenneth Stallings, Ronnie Cartner, and Eddie Tice. Fourth row: Coach Smith, Don Mitch- ell, Manager, Bruce Carpenter, Arthur Sorrell, and George Hall.