Sperry High School - Pirate Yearbook (Sperry, OK)

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v Y L? -f f'- x 1 ,Q L X I I l-.DL E - , l ow mm TU vucmrw Coach Wayne Rowden, Archie DeShane, John L. Scott, Richard Loney, Kenneth Still, Richard Lloyd, Jimmie Selvidge, Coach Marvin Ross, Bobby Downs, Earl Wilson, Bill Shipley, James Romine, Robert Lookingbill, Charles Juby, and Sammy Loney. DEFENSIVE AND FRESHMEN Coach Wayne Howden, Bobby Crain, Jimmy Robi- son, Leon Head, Walter Hoffman, Robert Gaddy, Jimmie Bushyhead, Melvin Brown, Roy Gaddy, Donald Palmer, John Lanham, Paul DeShane, Eddie Prock, Phillip Juby, James Dial, Phillip Tolleson, Ronald Vaughn, Bobby Romine, Tommy Holcomb, Bobby Parks, Donald Tmxwell, and top right, Coach Marvin Ross. 4 I l t ' 4 ll l Alu The Pirate offensive team raced to a total of 293 points for the season. This was an average of over 2U points a game. The highest score of the season was the QB- to-lj victory over Coweta. This w a s closely followed by the L2 to O rout of O M A. On three other occasions over 30 points were scored. Union fell by the way jk to 7, Barnsdall tumbled jj to 7 and Bixby went down 32 to lb. The defensive team neld Sperry's op- position to 99 points. When the going was roughest the boys dug in and held their opponents at bay. I Q.. 1 D E F E N s l I v E

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OUR BUCKARUOS BRAVE HARUSHIPS 9 it J sew' at , S tg 'tif ' P of .'.,,.Q 66 , ' Q-,ff Q :,:: ul Front Row! Sammy Loney, Donald Palmer, Jimmy Robison, Charles Juby, Richard Lloyd, Jimmie Selvidge, Leon Head, Jimmie Bushyhesd, and Bgbby Crain. Second How: Archie DeShane, Walter Hoffman, Richard Loney, John L. Scott, James Romine, John Lanham, Bill Shipley, and Robert Gaddy. Back Rowg Coach Wayne Bowden, Paul DeShane, Roy Gaddy, Melvin Brown, Earl Wilson, Eddie Prock, Robert Lookingbill, Bobby Downs, Kenneth Still. and Coach Marvin Ross. :WJ SENDING HASKELL DQWY TO DFFFAT successful e hung up. tie record. back to the Pirates for the first time in ten years and t h e team had gone as far as the quarterfinals in t h e State Playoffs. Playing fine football, but unable t o score a victory, the Pirates lost the opening game o f the season t o Fairfatgln to 7. Then the team started a victory string-of eight games i n which t h e y captured thyfconference crown. Next c a m e the heartbreaker, a O to O tie with Skiatook which saw the latter win on penetrations. Bouncing back from this, t h e Pirates downed the Picher Gorillas, champion of l3B, 27 to lb. The Pirates had completed a very season when the football cleats w e r They had a nine win, two loss, and one The conference championship h a d come In a hard fought battle at Pawhuska, the team SCORES went down to defeat again, 12 to O, at t h e hands of the Falrfal Red D6Vi1S. We Opponent 7 Fairfax U2 O M A A 25 Collinsville A ROUGH DAY OF PRACTICL ju Union l U3 Coweta 21 Jenks 32 Bixby 33 Barnsdall 29 Haskell O Skiatook 2? Picher O Fairfax They lb O O 7 13 12 14 7 6 O 14 12

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BNUNC BUSTHQS NNN CUUNTY TUUNNNNNENT Kenneth Crain, Donald Palmer, Melvin Brown, E a r l Wilson, Bobby Downs, Paul DeShane, Jimmy Wyrick, Bobby Howden, James Smith, Bobby Crain, and Coach Wayne Rowden. TRCPVY WINNING TEAM The Sperry Pirates started off the 1951-1952 basketball season with only four returning lettermen and a group of inexperienced sopho- mores. They won three of their first four games, however, before running into a tough losing streak. On January 23, Miami Invitational the Pirates entered the Tournament where they made sas zu c'vllle 55 SHS Nl Jenks 30 SHS 59 Union 2? sas 33 Haskell 30 SHS 25 Bixby MN sas 33 sklauovk Q2 ShS 27 Barnsdall U5 SHS U9 C'Vi11e 59 SHS 56 Town Team 30 SHS U7 Jenks 3M SHS il Choteau N2 SHS N5 Commerce 82 sas 5a Haskell 31 SHS U3 Jenks RQ SHS U3 Skiatook 33 SHS 28 Bixby no SHS ug Skiatook 31 SENIOR BOYS HOLDING TROPHY an even split in games won and lost. Downing a fine Choteau team, Sperry got past the first round Dlayings in easy fashion, but a hot Com- merce team sent then down to a one-sided loss. By beating Jenks and Skiatook The Pirates took the Tulsa County Class A Championship and brought that trophy home. Q26..