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PAGE FOUR
THE HUMBLE ECHO
With
JOHN PUNDT,
Fine Year
It was a fine year for basketball in Humble. The
Wildcats posted a 21-5 season record, won district
23-AA with a 10-0 mark and welded a 14-game
winning streak at the last of the campaign.
That was all accomplished in Coach Bruce Smith’s
first year at the helm and with a three-week late
start...thanks to Humble’s venture into the football
playoffs last fall.
The Cats didn’t make it past bi-district, but they
lost that game to the odds-on favorite for the state
championship - Buna. If it means anything, it looked
to us like Humble would have an edge on at least
two of the teams at the Region III Tournament Sat-
urday in College Station — West and Columbus.
Not Quite So Bleak
Looking back over the season, the best team effort
would probably be that 81-79 win over El Campo
in the next-to-last game of the year or the clutch
64-47 victory over Anahuac in Anahuac when the dis-
trict crown was still up for grabs.
Looking ahead to next year, Smith loses five
senior starters...so. Back off this year’s varsity
will* be both Charles Frisch and Gary Francis, plus
B teamers Rodney Goss, Johnny May, Bill Herring-
ton and Pat Kelley.
And add a fine freshman team to that and pros-
pects don’t look quite so bleak as losing those five
starters would indicate.
*****
Looks like we’ll get to take in our favorite sports
attraction again this year...the State Basketball Tour-
nament in Austin this weekend.
Guess we look forward to it so much because it
lasts three days...and we’ve already got a few cups
of coffee riding on some;schools we’ve barely heard
of.
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THURSDAY- MARCH 7, 1963
CATS START TRACK SEASON
Some 30 track and field
hope fuls are on hand at
Humble High School this
spring for the 1963 cinder
season under Coach
Charles Forehand.
Forehand has three ath-
letes who qualified for last
year’s Regional meet back
this year, along with a bevy
of other varsity hopefuls
and a promising group of
freshmen. The Wildcats
open their campaign Satur-
day at the Cypress-Fair-
banks invitational meet
( see story, this page).
After winning fourth
place in district 21-AA last
year, Forehand feels dis-
trict 23-AA should “be
pretty even’ this season
with no one team ranking
far above the rest.
Here’s the way Forehand
views each event this year
at the start of the season,
adding that names and
events could change _be-
fore the district 23-AA
meet April 6 in Liberty.
100-yard dash - Junior
Tommy Brooks , junior
David Krouse, junior John
Wayne Wisenbaker. Both
Brooks and Krouse last
SPORTS
Cats To Open
Track Season
At Cy-Fair
Phone Hi 6-2555
Humble, Texas
With three
qualifiers back from last
year’s squad, the,Humble
High School track team gets
down to business Saturday
at the Cypress-Fairbanks
invitational meet.
Track Coach Charles
Forehand will send his
thin-clad s into their first
meet of the year in the
1 p.m. preliminaries with
the finals to follow at 7 p.m.
With a whole crop of new
hands, Forehand said last
week who will run what is
still indefinite ( see round-
up story on track team,
this page).
Regional qualifiers back
from last year’s team are
Tommy Brooks in the 440-
yard dash, David Schlott-
man in the pole vault and
Lloyd Long in the shot put.
year ran the century in
about 10.3 seconds.
220-yard dash - Brooks,
Krouse. Both ran around
23.3 and 23.4 last year
“Krouse has a lot of speed
and he’s improving.’
440-yard dash - Brooks,
maybe. “This is our weak
spot. Brooks was the best
>boy we had last year, but
we may concentrate on the
hurdles with him.’’ Brooks
placed second in the 440-
yard dash last year in dis-
trict 21-AA, but Forehand
is considering putting more
emphasis on Brooks in the
hurdles.
880-yard run - Sopho-
more John Bagby. “Nothing
fabulous last year...we look
for him to improve it this
year.’’ Bagby ran the 880
in about 2:17 last year.
Mile run - Sophomore
Pete O’Briant, maybe Bag-
by.
180-yard low hurdles -
Brooks, junior Eddie Crain,
senior Billy Tyler, senior
Sidney Robertson.
120-yard high hurdles -
Brooks, Tyler, junior Gary
Francis.
440-yard relay - Brooks,
Krouse, Tyler, the fourth
spot still open. “Some of
Regionalj those other kids will fill in
the fourth spot...I don’t
know who.’’
Mile relay - Every spot
still open.
Broad jump- Krouse,
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Veterans
Q — Is it true that a
married girl can qualify
under the War Orphans Ed-
ucation program if other-
wise eligible?
A — Yes, Marriage is not
a barrier. Educational
rights are open to all
children of a deceased war
or peacetime veteran
whose death resulted from
service connected causes.
They generally must be
between the ages of 18 and
23 but there are occasional
exceptions. They may be
single or married.
Q -- Can any wartime or
peacetime veteran get a
free physical examination
from the VA?
A — To be eligible, he
must have been discharged
or retired under conditions
other than dishonorable and
must need the medical or
physical examination to ap-
ply for certain Federal
benefits. For example, the
VA gives medical examina-
tions for determination of
the presence of a condi-
tion claimed to be service-
connected, for Government
life insurance purposes,
and when application is
made for hospital or domi-
ciliary care.
Tyler, maybe Crain.
High jump - Francis.
“Just about the only var-.
sity boy, along with some
freshmen.’'
Pole vault -SeniorDavid
Schlottman. Schlottman
tied for first place in dis-
trict 21-AA last year with a
leap of IT 5. Also Crain and
freshman Robert Beaty.
Shot put - Senior Lloyd
Long, first in the 21-AA
meet last year. Also
Brooks, sophomore Billy
Trigg, junior Rodney Goss
and junior Bill Herrington.
Discus - Long, Krouse,
Trigg, Goss , Herrington,
senior Buddy Lindsey.
Forehand explained the
varsity and freshman
teams work out together.
Coach Ben Wayne Nichol-
son is assisting Forehand
with the high school track
program.
In the junior high, Ed
Denny is seventh grade
coach while Bevil Jarrell
is eighth grade mentor.
Two or three freshman
meets are planned, along
with several junior high
meets.
Last year, the Wildcats
scored 63 points in the dis-
trict 21-AA meet, finish-
ing behind Columbus, Bell-
ville and La Grange.
Looking forward to this
year’s lineup in 23-AA,
Forehand said “I feel like
it’s going to be fairly
even.’’ Here’s the way the
district’s other five teams
look to him:
‘ ‘ I look for Dayton to be
fairly strong in the relays.
I look for Sour Lake to
be strong in the relays.
Anahuac is usually fast and
will be strong in the dashes.
“Liberty is usually
strong in the weights and
field events, plus the mile
relay. Hamshire-Fannett
has a good pole vaulter and
should be pretty strong in
the shot and discus.”
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