The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 6, 1956 Page: 3 of 4
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THE REDBIRD
Page 3
Friday, January 6, 1956
The Birds suffered a
severe blow in the early
part of the season when
Forward Jim Hendrick
suffered a strained knee
which forced him to the
sideline.
vunr
Although Jim stands only
6'2", he gets in under the
basket and scraps for the
rebounds with all of them.
Snake played basketball
and ran track for McGre-
gor high school, earning
All-Regional honors his
senior year. From there
he went to Henderson
Countyjunior College
where he lettered in bas-
ketball for two years.
Then he transferred to
Lamar last year, and the
local fans know the rest of
the story. He was one of
mainstays of the team last
year andhas shown all in-
dications of doing the same
this year.
Jim is a physical educa-
tion major and plans to
coach when he graduates.
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Clubs Begin
Intramural
Basketball
Basketball is the next
event on the agenda in Ath-
letic Director Lewis Hil-
ley's intramural program.
Starting Monday after-
noon and continuing
through the remainder of
this semester and into next
semester, 16 teams will be
contesting for the intra-
mural crown.
So far 11 teams have been
entered in the program.
Student Director Burk Me-
Greevy is expecting an-
other five teams to enter
to complete two eight team
leagues. The two leagues
will be the Redbird League
and the Cardinal League.
At this time schedules and
pairings are incomplete,
however, they should be
posted on the union bulle-
tin board some time today.
Eligibility rules are the
same as for all intramural
sports.
No person who has parti-
cipated in collegiate bas-
ketball, junior or senior
college, and has earned a
freshman,varsity, or a re-
serve letter is eligible to
participate.
No member of the Lamar
Tech varsity o r B swuad
will be allowed to play. Any
team who uses an ineligi-
ble player will forfeit all
games in which the player
has participated.
Last year's champion,the
Kollege Klub, is back this
year to defend its title. The
runnerup,Snake's Rattlers,
coached by Jim "Snake"
Hendrick, is also return-
ing to the hardwood wars.
Hendrick has entered a
second team this year,
"Snake's Diamondback
Rattlers ".while the former
will now be known as
"Shake’s Timber Rattlers."
Organizations which have
entered teams in the tour-
nament to date are:
Newman club, BSU, Kol-
lege Klub, Union, Snake's
Timber Rattlers, Snake's
Diamondback Rattlers,
Rogues, Library, Home
Ec, PEP and Lambda Sig-
ma Chi.
Games will b e played
Monday, Wedne sday and
Friday afternoons at 3 p.
m. in the Tech gym. The
tournament will be double
elimination, and the
champion of each league
will meet in a best two out
o f three games for the
school championship.
Coach Hilley's officiating
class will handle all of-
ficiating for the intramur-
al program. Results will
be posted in the student
union.
Lone Star
Roundup
Lone Star Conference
basketeers are living up to
their reputation of being
one of the roughest small
college basketball leagues
thus far this season.
Sul Ross is leading the
pack with nine wins in as
many starts. Southwest
Texas is right behind with
six straight victories.
Stephen FAustin is in third
place with 8 wins against
a lone defeat. Then Texas
A&I, Lamar Tech, East
Texas and Sam Houston
follow in that order.
In the same sense, the
statistics are dominated
by the teams who sport the
wins. Southwest Texas has
the best team offense in the
conference,aver aging 89.1
points per game.
Sul Ross is second with
81.1. Southwest Texas also
leads in field goals, taking
191 of 432 attempts for an
o v e r a 11 average of .442.
Again, they are closely
pressed, this time by Aus-
tin, who has .441.
Sul Ross is leading the
pack in free throws, being
successful in 217 of 310
attempts. East Texas pos-
ses the best defense, al-
lowing only 57.8 points per
game in five games. Again,
Austin is close behind, al-
lowing 58.1 points per
game in seven games.
Sul Ross has committed
the least personal fouls,
143 in eight games for an
average of 17.8. At last
Lamar Tech appears in the
upper portion of the sta-
tistics, committing 130
personal fouls in seven
games for an average 18.5
per game.
Don Pearson of Sul Ross
is the leading scorer in the
conference, scoring 140
points in six games for an
average of 23.3 points per
game.
C. L. Nix o f Stephen F.
Austin is in second place
with 141 points in seven
games for an average of
20.1 points. Roy West of
Lamar Tech is tied for
sixth place with an average
of 14.7 points per game.
Earl Lankford of South-
west Texas is leading in
field goals, making 14 of 26
for an average of .538. He
is closely followed by C.J.
Hanson of Sul Ross who has
36 of 68 for an average of
.530 and Jim Hendrick of
Lamar Tech who has 11 of
21 for an average of .524.
Sul Ross is making the
p r e s e ason prognostica-
tors eat their words. They
were tabbed for third
place, making a close race
for second. As you can see,
they are now far ahead of
the pack.
Conference play will
start next week, so toss out
the p r e s e a son warmups
and stand by for a flurry of
fur. flying.
Pokes Ride
Birds Twice
The Cardin als allowed
the scales to tilt to the
negative side as they drop-
ped both games in the Mc-
Neese Tournament, bring-
ing their season record to
4 wins and five defeats.
McNeese 's Cowboys hung
their second overwhelm-
ing defeat on the Cards 80-
49. Earlier in the season
the Cowboys defeated the
Birds 92-51.
The other Tournament
loss came at the hands of
East Texas Baptist, a team
Lamar thrashed soundly
here in Beaumont. Baptists
avenged that loss by spank-
ing the Birds 69-59 for third
place in the tournament.
McNeese won the tourna-
ment oy Peatmg Stephen F.
Austin.
Lamar travels to Mar-
shall tomorrow night for
the rubber game with East
Texas Baptist. The Baptist
Boys are always tough on
their home court and
Coach Jack Martin will
need his bag full of tricks
in order to cop the game.
Confer ence play opens
Jan. 11 for the Birds when
they travel to Huntsville to
oppose Sam Houston State.
There will be one home
game before then for La-
mar. On Jan. 9 McNeese
comes to town to try and
make it three straight over
the Cards.
McNeese has one of the
highest scoring ball play-
ers in the Southwest in the
person of Bill Reigal. Rei-
gal has been extra rough
for the Cards to handle in
their two previous con-
tests and he will have to be
stopped if the Cowboys are
to be defeated.
At p r e s e nt, upstart Sul
Ross is leading the pre-
season standings with a
record of eight straight
wins. SFA is right behind
them with 7 wins and 1 loss.
The Cardinals are nestled
down in the fifth slot with
their 4-5 record.
SFA i s still considered
the team to beat for the
Conference title. Their
star center. 6’6" C.L.Nix
is coming through in ex-
pected form by combing
the meshes for a better
than 2 0 points-per-game
average, second highest in
the league. He is receiving
some ame help from guard
Jim Sitton whose outside
shooting gives the Axemen
a potent one-two scoring
punch.
Much of the success of Sul
Ross can be credited to
their ability to hit from the
free throw line. Sul Ross
has hit 70 per cent of their
total 649 points.
Lamar's inability to get
their expected high scor-
ing offense to clicking is
the primary reason for the
five losses they have suf-
fered. The Cards are
averaging slightly over 60
points per game, a rather
disappointing figure for
them.
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Siebenthall, Carl. The Redbird (Beaumont, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, January 6, 1956, newspaper, January 6, 1956; Beaumont, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth499171/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar University.