Viper High School - Annual Yearbook (Viper, KY)

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GREEN HORNETS B948-I949 THIS YEAR THE HDRNETS HAVE TURNED IN A GOOD SEASONVS RECORD, WINNING THE FIRST FOUR GAMES AND ADDING TU THIS T0 TOTAL, AT THE END OF THE SEASON, SIXTEEN vIcToRIES AND TWELVE DEFEATS. DU- RING THE I949 DISTRICT TOURNAMENT AT Vlcco THEY wERE OFF T0 A GOOD START WINNING THE FIRST GAME ovER BUCKHORN HIGH BY SIXTEEN POINTS. FDL- LOWING THIS GAME THE HORNETS MET WITH THE HAZARD BULLDDGS BY WHOM THEY WERE BADLY DEFEATED. THE FINAL GAME TURNED OUT WITH HAZARD WINNING ovER Vicco FOR THE DISTRICT GHAMPIDNSHIP. THE GREEN HORNETS CAPTAIN, JIMMY WALTERS, WAS PLACED ON THE ALL DISTRICT TOURNAMENT TEAM. ' THE BUYS WHO BROUGHT HOME THIS RECORD ARE AS FOLLOWS! ' JIM WALTERSHJUNI0R'CAPTAlNTSCORED A SEASON'S 362 POHNTS GIVING HIM HIGHEST SCORING OF THE 54TH DISTRICTS MANUEL WHITAKERTSENI0R'DEPENDABLE IN ANY OF THE THREE POSITIONS GUARD, CENTER, AND FORWARD. HARVEY CDMSS-SENIDR-ALL A ROUND sooo PLAYER ON THE TEAM'ALWAYS READY WITH NEEDED POINTS. JOHN FERGUSON-SDPHDMDRE-AN EXCELLENT BALL HANDLER AND FLOOR MAN-MADE ALL DISTRICT IN HIS FRESHMAN YEARS ALVIN COMBSHJUNIOR-MOST IMPROVED PLAYER ON THE TEAM-ALWAYS READY WITH NEEDED POINTS. BUSTER CAUDILL'SOPHOMORE'EXCELLENT DEFENSIVE GUARD AND ALWAYS READY WHEN HE IS NEEDED. MERVIN COMBSHSENIOR-AN OUTSTANDING PLAYER UNTIL HE wAs FORCED T0 LEAVE BECAUSE OF LEG INJU- RIES BN THE I947-I948 SEASONS FREDDIE ROBINSON'FRESHMAN-A FAMOUS LEFT HAN- DED SHORT ARTIST AND DANGEROUS T0 THE DPPDSIN: TEAM ON REBOUNDS. LEE DIXONHJUNl0R'SPEClALIZES IN THE ONETHAND PUSH SHOT NND HITS CONSTANTLYS FRANK CORNETT-FRESHMAN-RESERVE CENTER wHo IS IMPROVING GREATLY IN EACH GAME-wILL BE DANGEROUS IN FUTURE YEARSS MARK BRASHEAR-SEVENTH GRADE-A NEw GDMER T0 THE FIRST TEAM'EXCELLENT GUARD wHo WILL SEE A LOT , 7 I

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or ACTION DURING COMING SEASONS. THE HORNETS ARE PROUD or GENE ANDERSON, MAN- AGER, WHO HAS SHOWN CAREEUL MANAGEMENT or THE TEAM DURING THIS SEASON, MANY TIMES DURING THE I948-I949 SEASON THE HORNETS WERE KEPT IN THEIR GAMES BY THE EXCELLBW CHEERINC LED BY JOANN BRASHEAR, MAXINE WHITAKER, GENEVIEVE BRASHEAR, AND DONNA LEE WHITE. THE OUT GOING MEMBERS OF THE SQUAD ARE GRATEFUL TO COACH BINGHAM BRASHEAR AND PRINCIPAL DPEYFUS BRASHEAR FOR THEIR MANY KINDNESSES THROUGH THE YEARSQ - - SCORES AND SCHEDULE . WE THEY HARDBURLY 40 23 BUCKHORN 35 3I LEATHERWOOD 37 I9 ROBINSON 53 37 BEREA' 3I 32 KINGSTON 40 34 ST, ROBINSON 4I 50 CCMBS 4I 48 MANCHESTER 34 3I CARR CREEK 40 45 FIRST CREEK 47 42 BEREA 3I 34 JACKSON 40 45 VICco 58 36 JACKSON 44 42 CORDIA 64 30 ST. ROBINSCN 40 38 HINDMAN 3I 66 MANCHESTER 55 56 BUCKHORN' 54 37 LEATHERWOOD 29 3I CCMBS 36 5I FIRST CREEK 64 28 ROBINSON 6l 46 MARTIN 4s 5l VIcco 48 47 CARR CREEK 40 48 HINDMAN 34 6I BY MERVIN COMBS JIMMIE WALTERS X , f I X I, .2 7 Cy 65 F