St Pauls High School - Paulette Yearbook (St Petersburg, FL)

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TO CHEER OUR SHOOTING STARS TO VICTORY LOOKS TOUGH TONIGHT THE BALL LAST I to r, second row: Richard Barton, Don- ald Luger, Rodney Ferreria, Anthony McNamara. On December I7 the Eagles took on St. Pete's Green Devils and absorbed a bad shellack- ing by the smooth working Devil quintette. Highlights in the game for St. Paul's were once again lVlcCune and Halboth, with their sharp eyes still pinpointing the steel hoop. Christmas vacation took over now and this meant time for the TBC Second Annual Holi- day Basketball Tournament. The Eagles play- ed Tarpon Springs in the first game, but they didn't seem to be able to handle the Spongers as they did before. The Spongers this time defeated the Eagles 48 to 44. A valiant effort by senior guard Tom Raymond almost turned defeat into victory as he scored more than ten points in the last four minutes, but this was still not enough to stop the fired-up men of Tarpon. The regular season started again and the Eagles traveled to Vlfimauma to take on the defending Champs. Wimauma's tall team proved too tough for the Eagles to handle and came out on top of a 48-41 count. Next on the list of opponents was Pinecrest. The Eagles got back to their winning ways as they defeated the Pilots without any trouble. Two new point makers entered the scene in this game, Dick Barton and Tony McNamara, as they too found the range liof the little roundp of the Basket. Final Score 73134. 139

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WE RAISED A SONG BOTH LOUD AND LONG l to r, first row: Thomas Raymond Otto Halboth, James McCune William Freehan BASKETBALL '55 AND '56 The St. Pau1's Basketball team had a very representative season this year as they won 13 and lost 10. The rebounding of Don Luger and Dick Barton aided by the expert shooting of Jimmy lVlcCune and Otto Halboth and the playmaking of Rodney Eerreria lead St. Paul's Eagles to a winning season. The season began on December 9 with the Eagles taking a close one from the St. Leo's Li-ons. Lead by center Don Luger the Eagles won in the Hnal two minutes of play. The final score showed St. Paul's 33-St. Leo's 29. Not much scoring took place in this game mostly due to the fact that the starting Eve all played football and didn't have much time to practice. Next came Tarpon Springs who the Eagles handled very easily. Otto Halboth and Jim lVlcCune lead the Eagles with 27 and 12 points respectively. The Eagles seemed to gain some polish as they scored 60 points and Tarpon only scored 43. Largo's Packers put a stop to St. Paul's hopes by beating the Eagles with a 66 to 58 score. Once again the Eagles were lead by McCune and Halboth as in the late stages of the game their sharp eyes almost overtook the high scoring Packers. 138

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St. Paul's continued on their winning ways by taking advantage of O.L.P.H.'s Bears. The Bears didn't have enough height to cope with the Eagles and the men of Blue came out on top of a 64-51 score. Once again our cross city rival Admiral Farragut came to the Eagles nest and once more went home defeated. The Eagles set a new city record in scoring as they passed the century mark. Everyone on the starting live scored over twenty points in this contest. Final score showed the Eagles on top of a lopsided 107-52 count. TAKE A DEEP BREATH AND HOPE' 140 IN RESPONSE TO OUR CRY, THE Brandon was the next victim of the Eagle quintette. Brandon Cgave a valiant tryj put up a valiant effort to stop the high-flying Eagles as the lead changed hands more than ten times. But once again the Eagles came out on top. Final score 58-56. St. Pete was up for the second time but this time the men in Blue and White did not prove such easy opponents. The hard fighting St. Paul five put up a fine effort before succumbing to the Devil's 60-49. St. Paul's entertained Brewster Tech next, and once more took up their winning ways. McCune and Halboth kept up their attack on the hoop by leading the Eagle five over the Rams 57 42 The second game with Largo proved as disas trous as the Hrst The Largo sharpshooters were Just too much for the Blue Eagles to handle The Packers precision fast breaking quintette rolled up 80 points as compared to the Eagles 58 On the second encounter with the Blue Jackets from Admiral Farragut St Pauls did not reach th 100 mark but had no competi tion in defeating the Sailors 83 49 due mainly to the 43 15 score the Eagles built up before half time The Wildcats from Wimauma invaded the St Paul s gym and proceeded to claw their way to a 69 44 victory Once again the Cats height proved too much for the Blue and White xxA Y is IK O 1 y . , . i D - I.. ' ' K v '15- ..g fl' -. - . '.- f X ' .. , ::3?E?S5 f- 'X V .. 5' ffu'-1 I--Q' K H P.. Xa ,tix , ,I ,I size:- A , . 45.15. , '-' f ig ' 9 I - 'V 1 5234 ,. S,t.:,3 E I. A-M ,::,1. X . X X s -1:5551 I, . 1