Sperry High School - Pirate Yearbook (Sperry, OK)

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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..

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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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LASSIES WIN HQUPHY, TUU Coach Marvin Ross stands at the head of the high school basketball team which is composed of Lois Downs, Doris Linthicum, Charlene Cadenhead, Thelma Lu Pickens, Joye Woodall, Sara Doerr, Virginia Phillips Higdon, Nan Holcomb, Loretfa Dale, Marlene Wilson, Shirley Miller, Mona Summers, Myra Nell Perigo, Shirley Berryhill, Virginia James, and Patty Cates. SHS SHS The fair lassies of Sperry highlighted their SHS 1951-52 season by beating Skiatook and Jenks to SHS win first place in the Tulsa County Tournament SHS at Union. SHS In the Bixby Invitational Tournament, Sperry SHS edged out Union, 22 to 17, then was beaten by SHS Bixby, ll-O to lib. SHS With nine returning lettermen to bolster the SHS squad, the girls won their first three games in SHS a row before falling to a strong Bixby team. SHS SHS SHS UP ! UP 1 UP 1 TEAM HOLDI7' YFSPXY WON AT TEL CSUNTY TOUHNAMENT Collinsville Jenks Union Bixby Skiatook Earnsdall Collinsville Jenks Union Bixby Skiatook Jenks Bixby Skiatook 29 15 lb Q2 l7 32 bb 26 17 MO 22 18 27 UU A PROUD COACH