Zephyr High School - Growl Yearbook (Zephyr, TX)

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BASKE Alfhough fhe V949 Blue Jay Squad lacked exe perience. fhey won fheir share of fhe games. l-lardly ever favored fo win a ball game. Wesf frounced over several feams and upsef a few more. The big fhrills came when fhe Blues oefeafed hiohly favored lvl.B.A. 33-3l, fhe fighfing lrish, 36-32, and Easf, 32-30, in an overfime. And fhen foo, fhere were fimes when Wesf losf games by one and fwo poinf margins. The Blues losf fheir firsf game in fournamenf Capt Clark in Acfion Tiger sfeals one from Easi TBALL olay fo Easf, 34-30, fhereby eliminafing fhem from furfher progress. Qur school had fhe deep felf sorrow of giving up Coach Sfriclcland fo Waverly Belmonf as fheir principal before fhe baslcefball season sfarfed. lf also had The privilege of welcoming in Charlie Greer, from l-loward, as fhe new Coach. We should feel proud of our l949 feam. Al- fhough fhe odds were againsf fhem all fhe way, fhey never falfered buf carried fhe sporfsman- 'lee fradifion of Wesf info every confesf. Firsf Row: Klein, Sirnpkins, Davis, Clark, Smifh. Second Row

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Tackles Irvin Cherry and Jack Knox and The Terocious line-play oT big, All-CiTy Jack T Popl' Knox. livery year has iTs comical momenTs. buT This year's Tops Them all. TT seems as iT Tail- back Jerry Klein was racing Tor a Touchdown aTTer caTching a pass in The Cohn game. Being ThaT iT was his TirsT iourney inTo pay counTry, he Threw The ball To one oT The reTerees, Thinking ThaT he had crossed The goal-line, buT liTTle did he know aT The Time, ThaT ThaT goal-line was only The Tive- yard sTripe. To This day many people sTill wonder whaT happened To him. The smallesT man on our Team. diminuTive Fred Graham, cenTer, played one oT his greaTesT games againsT Cohn, when he was knocked 'lsillym in The second halT. l-le Turned in such a greaT perTormance ThaT he was selecTed Cohn Game AcTion Cenfer Fred Graham on ThaT weeks AllANashville. AnoTher boy was knocked ouT, buT was noT so TorTunaTe as To Tinish The game, was Billy Booger Barnes, who was sTruck so heavily in The EasT game ThaT he spenT The resT oT The year on The sidelines. A TacT which weakened The Team considerably was The limiTed service oT Will Allen Nlxflunsey' SmiTh, who nursed his iniuries during mosT oT The season. l-le was never able To go Tull speed, which dee prived him oT displaying his abiliTy. The boys gave The game all They had, buT didn'T seem To play consisTenTly. We were sad- dened To lose Coach STrickland, buT are looking Torward To a bigger and beTTer year under The guidance oT Coach Charlie Greer.

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