Whitworth University - Natsihi Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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in their favor and the Pioneer score totaled 32. Only one game was played with Idaho. The sum of the season scores shows: Whitworth 713: opponents 707. The smooth-working veteran guard, Howard War- rick, seized point honors for the year by splitting the net for 142 counters in eighteen contests, averaging virtually eight markers a game. The most points scored in one evening by any Pirate player during the season were the twenty points rung up by War- rick when he led the squad to a 37-36 victory over he Gonzaga Frosh. Koehler swished 118 points in 18 games and Allison lOl in 21. Bill Pond, Leonard and Norm Richardson, Russell Iohnson, Emerson McClelland, and Howard Warrick, this year's letter-winners, all have further seasons of competition remaining. Dan Fleming, Mike Koehler, Bill Williams, and Bob Allison will be graduated in Iune.

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Although Gerald Stannard's Buccaneers were forced to walk the plank twelve times out of twenty- one, the past basketball season ran far short oi being a failure. The Pirates took two out of a threeqame series from the Gonzaga Frosh and lost close games to the Cheney Papooses in a two-game duel. Washington Wood Preservers, winners of the Inland Empire Ama- teur Athletic Union tournament, were handily beaten, 46-37, in an early-season encounter. Handicapped by huge floors, the wearers of the Red and Black lost games to Lewiston Normal, W. S. C. Frosh, and University of Idaho Frosh, when they toured the Palouse section in late Ianuary and early February. The Cougar freshmen, however, re- ceived a bad iolt in a return game on the local floor. After trailing for almost the. entire game, they man- aged to squeeze out a tight 35-32 win. Lewiston also played here, but in this game Whitworth had the 35 l l l I'

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First Row: Kirsch, Frazier. Eckert, Carlson Second Row: Colpitts, Steele, Hook. Skelton Luziofz cvzaify For the iirst full season of its existence the junior varsity basketball team hung up a record of nine wins and six losses. The Iayvees played prelimin- ary contests to the varsity games, invariably displaying a speedv brand of ball. Coach Howard Warrick undoubtedly has developed some likely looking ma- terial, part of which should go a long way with Coach Stannarcl's varsity group next fall. It is believed that junior varsity basketball will be further extended in the next season, because of the great interest shown. The high-scoring ace of the team was Garth Steele. Several times through the season Steele's field goals pulled the game out of the fire. In the North- western qame, Whitworth lagged by tour points, with but a minute to go, and Steele calmly dropped in four points to knot the score: and in the overtime period, he swished the winning lield goal. Steele averaged 105 points tor ll games. Other letter winners included: Hook, Skelton, Greenleaf, Eckert, Wadklns, Kirsch, Colpitts, I. Frazier, C. Frazier, and Carlson. . C 'Q'1SF3fcog'ze:.44,l '9'-T' , 1 Q l i l