William Chrisman High School - Gleam Yearbook (Independence, MO)

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Everyone's up in The air. CHRISMANITES really have a Team To cheer abouT This year and should be proud of The many vicTories ThaT iT has scored in proving supremacy in The regional Class A TournamenT, The William Jewell TournamenT, and The Blue Springs Tourna- menT. The William Chrisman cagers nabbed second place in The Ruskin TournamenT and placed Them- selves high in The sTanding of The Pony Express Conference. T Thezeason has broughT many Thrills eEdTchills. One of The Tormer was The drubbing given Blue Springs in The Ruskin TournamenT. The small Blue Springs ouTTiT iusT couldn'T cope wiTh The Towering sTrengTh of The Chrisman quinTeT. The game ended 54 To 8. The hearfbreaker was The reTurn game wiTh NorTh Kansas CiTy in which an overTime Tree-shoT spelled deTeaT Tor Chrisman. ThaT score was 34 To 35. The highesT Chrisman score was 59 poinTs againsT Grandview, The lowesT was 26 poinTs, com- piled in Two games, in deTeaTing and being de- TeaTed by LaTayeTTe. WorTh calling aTTenTion To are The games played in The Regional TournamenT. The William Chrisman baskeTeers sTamped on Cen- Tral in The preliminaries To a Tune of 4I To 25, Then cleaned Paseo 45-29 in The semi-Tinals and won The championship by whipping SouThwesT 53-33. By win- ning The regional TournamenT. Chrisman received The righT To play in The sTaTe TournamenT where, alThough beaTen by ST. Louis McBride High School by The score oT 60 To 45, They showed Their rivals a hard Time. Had Tommy Conrow, our baskeTball capTain This year, been able To play his usual game, The score mighT have been changed, buT The 5-TooT ll-inch rebounding spark-plug was side- lined wiTh a bad ankle. The Chrisman Team was excepTionally deadly aT The Tree-Throw line, miss- ing only Two chariTy shoTs in The enTire game. Along wiTh The 24 To 6 record of wins and losses chalked up This season, Three Team members won posiTions on various honorary all-sTar Teams. Besides being The leading scorer Tor The Team, Gary Bergen was awarded TirsT Team honors in The Blue Springs TournamenT. BERGEN was elecTed To The second Team in The William Jewell TournamenT. Tom Conrow was on The TirsT Team oT The Blue Springs. Lloyd Adams was The only Chrisman player To receive a TirsT Team award in The William Jewell TournamenT. AT The end oT The season The Pony Express League selecTed an all-sTar Team which included Gary Ber- gen on The TirsT and Tom Conrow on The second Team. AlThough The oTher members oT The squad did noT place on a TirsT or second Team, They were all adepT aT rimming The goal, and all proved Them- selves excellenT sporTs. These members oT The A squad generally played The Tollowing posiTions: Gary Bergen and Joe Sousley, cenTerg Lloyd Adams and Don Wilkin- son, guard: Tom Conrow, Fred PoTTer, and Edwin Ragan, forward. As The boys were versaTile players, They oTTen played oTher posiTions. The Team loses by graduaTion,,,TouLmembers: Conrow, Wilkinson., Ragan, and Sousley. Don Wilkinson goes in on a TasT break. L.

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S BASKETBALL LETTERMEN F Top Row: LLOYD IHAPl ADAMS - iunior - Guard - weighf I99 - heighf 5' IO - William Jewell AII-Sfar firsf, GARY BERGEN - iunior - Cenfer - weighf I70 -heighf 6' 7 -All-Sfar feams William Jewell sec- ond - Blue Springs firsf - Conference firsf, SHELBY BRIGHTWELL - sophomore - Forward - weighf I55 - heighf 6' I , CLIFFORD lSHORTYl CLARK - junior - Guard -weighf I50- heighf 5' 6 , TOM CON- ROW - senior - Forward - Capfain - weighf I70 - heighf 5' II - All-Sfar feams - Blue Springs firsf - Conference second. Middle Row: WAYNE DAVIDSON - sophomore - Guard - weighf I60 - heighf 6' I , WILLIAM IBILLI DEAM - iunior - Guard - weighf I52 - heighf 5' 8 second feam - sophomore year, HAROLD Mc- ELROY - sophomore - Forward and Cenfer - weighf I65 - heighf 6' 2V2 - only sophomore fo go fo sfafe, FRED IFRITZI POTTER - iunior - Forward - weighf I60 - heighf 6' I - second feam sophomore year - sfarfer iunior year, TOMMY ITOMl SMITH - iunior - Guard - weighf I55 - heighf 6' I - firsf year ouf for baslcefball. 25 Boffom Row: JOSEPH IJOEI SOUSLEY - senior - Cenfer - weighf I70 - heighf 6' 2 - Second feam iunior year, EDWIN QEDI RAGAN - senior - Cenfer or Forward - weighf I90 - heighf 6' 5 - firsf feam junior year, WILLIAM IPERCHI THILKING - sopho- more - Forward - weighf I65 - heighf 6' IV2 , HOWARD ITIGI TIGNOR - sophomore - Forward - weighf I48 - heighf 5' I I , DONALD lDONl WIL- KINSON - senior - Guard - weighf I85 - heighf 6' IV2 - mosf underrafed player on squad - firsf feam sophomore and junior years.

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THESE players will be greafly missed, especially, perhaps, is fhis frue of Tommy Conrow, who lef- fered nof only in baslcefball, buf in foofball and fraclc as well. Forfunafely, several veferans of fhis season remain: Adams, Bergen, Poffer, Coberly, and Deam, fo menfion a few. Ofher promising maferial includes many players who are members of fhe presenf sophomore and junior classes. The Bears are members of fhe Pony Express Conference, which includes fhe fhree Sf. Joseph schools-Benfon, Cenfral, and Lafayeffe, and Norfh Kansas Cify, and Wenfworfh Milifary Academy. The fofal scores of fhe Bears was IZI6 againsf, 936 for fheir opponenfs. The feam's performance on 'fhe courf pro- vided sfudenfs and 'townspeople wifh a very enioy- able season. Many fhrills were provided by well- execufed plays and occasional specfacular feafs. We are very proud of our feam, nof alone because of ifs numerous vicfories, buf also because of ifs sporfsman-like conducf. Jump ball. 27 SCHEDULE AND SCORES Chrisman 46 Chrisman 43 Chrisman 26 Chrisman 33 Chrisman 40 Chrisman 32 Chrisman 34 Chrisman 39 Chrisman 35 Chrisman 26 Chrisman 54 Chrisman 36 Chrisman 39 Chrisman 39 Chrisman 40 Chrisman 27 WILLIAM Chrisman 49 Chrisman 44 Chrisman 43 Chrisrnan 35 . . Easf 37 . . Norfheasf 39 . . Lafayeffe I7 . . Cenfral 28 . . Norfh K. C. 36 . . Rayfown 25 . . Norfh K. C. 35 . . Ruslcin 27 . . Wenfworih 30 . . Lafayeife 28 . . Wenfworfh 36 . . Benion I7 . . Benfon 5l . . Ceniral 43 . . Odessa I8 . . Rayfown 23 JEWELL TOURNAMENT . . Pleasanf Hill 30 . . Pembroke 38 . . Cenier 30 . . Lillis 25 RUSKIN TOURNAMENT Chrisman 54 . . BIueSprings 8 Chrisman 39 . . ExceIsiorSprings 35 Chrisman 29 . . Cenfer 30 BLUE SPRINGS TOURNAMENT Chrisman 53 . . Ruskin 26 Chrisman 38 . . Concordia 34 Chrisman 59 . . Grandview 43 REGIONAL TOURNAMENT Chrisman 4l . . Cenfral IK. C.I 25 Chrisman 45 . . Paseo 28 Chrisman 53 . . Souihwesi 33 STATE TOURNAMENT Chrisman 45 . . McBride ISI. Louisl 60