Titusville High School - Optimist Yearbook (Titusville, PA)

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ll XQKL l BAI I INDIVIDUAL BASKETBALL scones THE SCOREBOARD NAME L ete Sharp Newson Bold Jo ephson Wlgren G1llesp1e Hayes Foley F eld Foul F0111 T0t21l Games Goals Pomts TFYS POINTS T1tusv11le Tltusvllle Tltusvllle Tltusvllle TltUSV1l16 Tltusvllle T1tusv1lle Tltusvllle 'I'1tllSV11l6 Tltusvllle T1tusv1lle Tltusvllle Tltusvllle Tltusvllle Tltusvllle TltUSVll1e T1tusv1lle Tltusvxlle Txtusvllle Dormont 44 Randolph Warren Alumm 30 Grove C1ty Franklln Corry O11 Clty 8 Meadvllle Franklm O11 Cxty Meadv1lle Sharpsvllle Franklln Corry O11 Clty Randolph Meadv11le 30 Grove C1ty THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A BASKETBALL Pat ONe11 a Janltor at Colestock Hlgh School was emptyxng the contents of an ash can 1nto the burner at the back of the school bulldlng An old d1lap1dated basketball that had seen the last of ltS glorlous days fell out of the refuse and Pat sat down to examlne It Sat1sf1ed that th1s old and worn plece of leather was too rotten to use he started to throw It 1nto the fzre Suddenly from the ball came a small vo1ce crymg pleadlngly Walt before you throw me mto the f1re let me tell you my story Pat too amazed by th1s unexpected supplxcatxon to do otherw1se sat back whlle the basket ball began to relate 1ts ufe h1story My f1rst fa1nt recollect1on was the day I found myself 1n a heap wxth many 1ns1gn1f1cant P16065 of leather at the great factory where our l1fe of lelsure was to end and each of us was to be g1ven a Job to fulf1ll But th1s Job was to cause me no regrets although my fellow leather men were very sad that thelr days of freedom were over I was to take shape and be g1ven a chance to cop my share of the honors For even at th1s early stage of my llfe I was no tr1v1al plece of h1de I was marked by dlSt1I'lCtl0II and dest1ned to become great It was with careful and almost worshll ful hands that I was cautlously plcked up from the p11e and passed down the assembly l1ne each dextrous process addlng somethmg new and wonderful to my belng t1ll I found myself at the end of my creatlon a umque masterp1ece ready to meet the future wlth confldence My next tr1p was to my dest1nat1on a small famed town 1n northwestern Pennsyl vama Tltusvxlle whlch I speak of w1th deep reverence After meet1ng my coach Gordon Smock and the fellows wlth whom I was to play I reallzed that th1s deservlng place was the only spot ln the world for me Then began my em1nent and renowned career' The f1rst lmportant home game 1n whxch I starred was w1th Warren when the Man Eat1ng Dragon met the Fxery Rocket Desplte the fact that my Smockmen showmg a well balanced attack and a splrlted defense lead durlng most of the contest the v1s1tors spurt ln the last few mlnutes of play and the uncanny accuracy of thelr south paw corner shots swallowed the declsxon for the flerce Dragon The fateful scoreboard at the end of the fast tumblmg affalr showed my buddles to be sllghtly lagglng readlng 27 31 Speedster Leete and I were deflrltely on the beam rmgmg up fourteen polnts to cop the scorlng honors The next two games showed our future to be very promlsmg taklng over a strong Alumm team by smooth teamwork 28 21 and squelchlng the Randolph cagers 42 22 111 a great defenslve encounter Hooray' Our next game w1th our nelghbormg county I'lJaI Franklm began the league competxtlon of the season ThlS debut game was the one I had been looklng forward to ever slnce we began strengthenmg our team f,8.CtlCS durmg DYCVIOUS contests When the bxg mght came mstead of bemff calm and composed as any worthy ball should be at such a tlme I found myself almost as excited as tne Llamorous expectant crowd of f1ve hundred fans Barely before the pleadxng words lssued forth from my mouth that the best team mlght Wlll and of course there WRS 110 GISDUUG 111 1115 est 1112151011 HS t0 7 xr 1 LL L 41 J I A A ' ' 20 ,.... - I ' - . ----- - .1 . e 19 '73 21 as 167 I' f 23 g-.--- l 19 44 42 so 130 ' A will-- ' ' ' 23 ........ - ' 19 as 22 47 aa - - 21-nm 1 1 19 29 19 40 71 . ' . 23-mu . 3 19 27 0 9 54 ' ' 21 ------ ' ' . . 35N-M . ' 13 8 2 4 18 - - 23 ---- - ' 2 12 6 2 10 14 - ' Siijijjj--- . . 21'-my . . 12 5 2 4 12 . . 44-mu g 12 5 2 6 12 Q j 36 ..... 'V