University High School, Jordannus,1945, Page 52

Description:	THE VARSITYD:ck “Big Al” Herrman, our high scoring center,is co-captain elect. He was also voted by histeam-mates to receive the Barnard SportsmanshipAward for this year.George “Peanut” Gavitt was a sparkplug of thisyear’s team and is next year’s co-captain. GeorgeUnder the leadership of Coach “Pop”Schooler, the Guinea Pigs have completedtheir most successful season to date,against the strongest opposition ever.The addition of such teams as Greencastle, Bloomfield, Sullivan, Bloomington,is small, but definitely powerful.and Brazil made things a lot tougher, buteven in the face of this schedule theGuinea Pigs successfully completed sixteen games, losing only five.The first four teams on the schedulewere polished off in quick succession, butthen State of Terre Haute gave theUnivees their first defeat of the season.During the rest of the regular schedule,the Univees won nine out of a possiblethirteen.Dick “Crobbie” Branam had the highest pointtotal for the season. He was noted this year forhis miraculous shots from his forward spot.Johnny Stapleton was a regular starter at guardposition. He’ll be hard to stop next year.Dave Rogers was a reliable substitute this year.He has lots of fight and dropped ’em in when itcounted.Dick Mills did a lot of good ball playing this yearat forward. Dick is a senior.Bob Colpitts, another senior, was a dangerousguard to the other team. We’ll miss Bob nextAnd so the season closed, but there aremany schools who will painfully remember this year’s Guinea pigs and the toughbrand of basketball they played.year as a morale builder, as well as a ball player.Bud “Bruno” Bryan has had another good yearand will be one of “Pop’s” most valuable playersnext year.Phil “Tiney” Gilmore, the biggest man on theteam, is looking forward to another year.VARSITY BASKETBALL PLAYERSJack Rogers, now in the Service, was this year’scaptain. He has four years of varsity basketballbehind him.Glenn “Fuzz” Wampler is a guard and long-shotspecialist.Bob Watt is a hard driving, fast, senior withplenty of spirit who really gets in there and goes.Page fifty-two
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