Texas Wesleyan University - Txweco Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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The Team .... RED WALST-l is always where The acTion is ThickesT. Red geTs more Tie-balls Than any oTher player, and will go To The Tloor aTTer The ball any Time necessary. l-lis specialTy is a looping shoT ThaT sTarTs wiTh his back To The baskeT. IT Walsh is assigned To The opponenT's hoT-shoT, you can be sure ThaT The oTher Team's sTar will have a hard row To hoe. Somehow you never realize how many goals Killer makes unTil The box score comes ouT. l-TAZEN WARD has been high-poinT man in more games Than any oTher player. AlThough acTually Tall he looks like a liTTle man on The Tloor where Walsh and -l'hornTon dwarT him. Lucy's specialTy is a seT shoT Trom The corner oT The courT, and he's usually The one To crip 'em in when The Tirebrand is going. CECIL lVlcCLUlXlC5, The TooThless, is The TasT, smooTh shorTy ThaT impressed Pop Boone so much ThaT he devoTed mosT oT a column To him. Cecil has perTecT Torm-any coach would like To have him around To show his players iusT how iT's done. ln addiTion To his beauTiTul Tloor work, lvlcClung is Dead-Eye Dick on The long shoTs. Two or Three oT his seT shoTs Trom way ouT can compleTely demoralize The opposing Team. JACK Tl-TQRNTCN amazes everyone seeing The Rams Tor The TirsT Time wiTh his TavoriTe shoT-a com- binaTion beTween a crip and an airplane ride. Like The man on The Tlying Trapeze, he Takes oTT Ten TeeT Trom The baskeT, TloaTs up, drops The ball in, and makes a graceTul Two-poinT landing. When he's hoT Jack can swish The ball in Trom The middle oT The courT, as well. ThornTon had The Kansas CiTy wriTers agog aT The lnTercollegiaTe l'ournamenT. CLIFTON lvlcNEELY, playing his TirsT season Tor The Rams, conTounded his criTics, who said ThaT he would be shoT-crazy. Coming as a TransTer Trom DecaTur BapTisT Junior College, where he made amazing high- scoring records, he has TiTTed perTecTly inTo The Ram's play. AT The TirsT, he was almosT Too bashTul abouT making shoTs because oT his Tear oT unTair criTicism, buT has rounded inTo one oT The besT players on The Team. l-le was largely responsible Tor The Rams' win over Sam l-lousTon aT l-lunTsville, The TirsT Time The Rams had ever made iT. . ln The Top phoTo Killer heaves one in aTTer Taking iT oTT The boards, . . Raymond Barnes piTches one in The Rec's wesT baskeT in The lower picTure. . .

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BASKETBALL Clvampionsff Tlwo Texas Wesleyan Rams can iusTly claim To be Tlwe besT baslceTball Team in Texas, wiTlT Their record oT no deTeaTs in Tlwe regular season. Tlieir only Two deToaTs during Tlwe year, boTTi in posT-season TournamenTs, were To Sam l-lous- Ton, a Team Tlwey lwad beaTen decisively Twice during Tlne regular season, and To San Diego, Tlie naTionalcT1ampions. lXloTable games during Tlwe year included Tlwe game wiTl1 Sam l-lousTon aT Tlwe Rec, a lward- TougT1T sTruggle wiTl1TlTe lead in doubT unTil Tlfie regulars reTurned aTTer Tlieir Two minuTe resT in Tlie lasT guarTer, and The l-loward-Payne game aT Brownwood, wlwere an inspired Jacl4eT Tive played Tar over Tlieir Tieads To Tiold TWC To a dangerously small margin. Again Tlwe class oTTT1e Texas Comcerence, Tlie Rams reacl'iedTl1e guarTer-Tinals againsT The na- Tion's TinesT, losing Tinally by Two poinTs To The Team TlmaT won The clmampionsbip. This year's Team probably reaclied a pealc Tl1aT will never be exceeded by a Texas Wes- leyan Team. Six members oT Tl'ie Ten-man sguad graduaTe, and oTl'iers may be draTTed. YeT, somoliow, we liave a Teeling TTiaT wlfien nexT year's champion is announced, The Team will be Tlie Rams .... ...,-,.,--, ,,- -,-,. . M..- cu.- A -. ,.,... --,.,.,. ,-.....a...,,,. fFI?'E'EiZi'i'i !i.D1-i'IXTlVE,iT'5l FY EDITT

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RAYMOND BARNES, whose shoo'Ting Torm is well demonsTraTed in The phoTographs in This secTion, is iusT as experT as a Tloorman. The slcinny Tellow played aT looTh guard and Torward. and excelled aT boTh. WEYMAN COTTON, TallesT man on The squad, has been more Than successTul Tor a TirsT-year man, and will undoubTedly be one oT nexT year's sTars. Playing much aTTer The Tashion oT Red Walsh, he is a demon on geTTing shoTs oTT The baclcpoards and handles The cenTer posiTion wiTh Tinesse and smooThness in spiTe oT his Tree-Top sTaTure. WAYNE l-lll.l.ERY is The crowd's TavoriTe on The second sTring. l-lis grinning, eager way oT playing lceeps everyone in a good humor excepT The man he's guarding. An excellenT driblaler, he's The rough-and- Tough shooT-'em up Type oT player. When The second Team goes in To wear 'em down l-lillery's The one To waTch. ROY BARBER has The makings oT anoTher smooTh, speedy shorT man, alThough he's really noT shorT. l-le is agile and will help The Team immeasurably nexT year. BRYANT TRUITT made a hi+ wiTh The Tans Trom The TirsT. Those Tloppy hands oT his will darT ouT and sTeal The ball The TirsT Time an opponenT geTs careless. l-le is earnesT, sincere-and plays ball all The Time he is in The game. - .4 . -' 1 1 f 1 TJ The Rams show Their shoT-malc- ing sTyles aT The RecreaTion Build- ing. . . BoTh shoTs were good, inci- denfally. . .