The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. [41], No. 29, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 18, 1948 Page: 3 of 4
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the megaphone
Tuesday, May 18, 1948
Southwestern Takes Fourth Plac
In Conference Meet
COLEMAN WINS BOTH HlIRDLE
j|g§ EVENTS; BILL VERNON
; . THROWS JA VALIN 194 FEET
Although Southwestern could
Place no higher than fourth as a
team in the Texas Conference
hack and Field Meet, held in Abi-
d 7, several indivi-
aes were outstand-
. ]t*ne May 6 and
■ <lual performaia
inir.
Clem Coleman
die champion, won ooth t
and low hurdle events ag
y(,ar. Clem's time in tin
was If, seconds flat, althi
shimmed the high timbers
seconds in the preliminarie
man posted a fine Sec
the lows.
Parker Folse finished t
,ht‘ hikr»i hurdles to give tli
l;! points in t:e hurdle
alone.
Hi,! Ven.on turned in •
*>t i 111ant performance for
western when lie threw tin
lin '^’11',". v. T. Smith
1 • ( beat Veiinm by a
|,;l- i'iches in the e\ent.
’•1:1‘‘d the spear IPf. i
now aid Payne won the meet
Wllh A‘ <’• ('- Mc-Murry, South-
! western, Austin College, and Har-
I' 1,1 ( "“^e finishing in that or-
uor.
j t’artt‘r "• A. C. C. set a new
1 ^''fmmee broad jump record
, with a lea;, of 04 feet, 1 inch.
,,.inin,y donas, Southwestern
i'PM,lt‘‘i'v qualified for t c f:■
111 yard dash hut a pulled
Miuside prevented him from com-
7',m* ,h‘' finals. Jonas was
a su a tneinber of the 111) yald
tvlay team.
HIIL VERNON—T
fe rence meet, finished
who threw the snear !«»•
11‘2 inches in Con-
. C.’s V. T. Smith,
Cl.E.M COLEMAN—Won I
’orenee meet and gathered
j WHITE TEAM DOW NS COL
IN IN FER - SQUAD CONTEST
I Assistant Coach Jack Harris’ !
| W hite team defeated Coach Spot
j Collins’ Gold team 15-7 in tile first j
| inter-squad, game condition scrim- 1
1 niage of the current spring foot-
ball training session, last Satur-
1 day afternoon.
Frazier and Bill Vernon
1 -sparked the White attack, with
j Frazier’s ball carrying, passing,
j and punting the outstanding fea-
| Utres of the afternoon’s £
j Vernon, who had previously
from wingback only three 1
scored both of the White ti
downs, and handled his una
turned position with ease. ' ]
ever, the White line out-hu
and out-charged the Gold line, _____
consistently opened gaping holes
in the Gold line.
The White
late in the s
twenty yard pass fr<
Vernon. The pass \vi
m,;ns- »t blocking back. Time af-
ter time Simmons bucked into the
ite line, and holes anpeared
•suddenly where there had been
no holes before, ami Hartley, At-
’ stepped
the White
Kinson, and Company
lightly and politely into 1
secondary.
Ihe Gold touchdown w
a pass from Hartley to Atkinson!
As Atkinson took the pass, he
Hooked up Curtis Ledbetter, and
| Fed Simmons for blockers, and
together they teamed up to mow
j down all the White secondary,
but the safety man, who finally
dragged Atkinson down on the
and lat« „ f, Two
I t y ‘Ut the ‘‘enter of
the White line and fell across the
Koal marker, but the Gold line
was offside and drew a five yard
penalty. The next play, Dewey
Baker swept his own left end on
a reverse that caught the White
a long scoring drive that I secondary flat-footed and scored
ed on the White thirty | standing Up. Hartly kicked the
h razier kicked the extra | etra P°'nt, putting the Gold ahead
an, Richard Smith, Larry
Allin Means, Wilbur Smith,
—'Photo by Harper McGee
team
(Continued from Page 2)
Club. We served steak with all
he trimmings (thanks to “Doc”).
Bridge, dancing, pool, and out-
| doer bingo games were enjoyed
by all who attended. Those pre-
sent were: Carmen Abbott and
Harry Anderson, Dnttie Hender-
son and E. Y. Seale, Betty Whit-
field and Charles Corbert, Betsy
Rivet and Bill Springfield, Jo Ann
Jordan and Don Roesler, Norma
Lee Dunnam and Dan Maddell,
Jean Arnold and Carl Williford,
Jackie Cartwright and Fred
Switzer, Judy Blanton and Jim
O’Hara, Doris James and Bob
STORS NAME
in the fourth quarter the Gold
team, in its first sustained offen-
sive push of the afternoon, made
an uninterrupted sixty yard drive
to score. Bill Hartley, running
powerfully from fullback, and Le-
ioy Atkinson, elusive as a shadow
from tailback, lei
tack. Another r,
tore of the Gold
The Gold (earn then kicked off
froni them own twenty, and the
White s took the free kick and
marched right back to score an-
other touchdown on the last play
of the game, as Bill Vernon buck-
°Wn left *mird from
the three. Frazier kicked the extra
point, and the game ended: White
team 15, Gold team 7.
Throughout the game the out-
standing defensive performers for
KHib m Tf Red Simmons, and
Harshbarger, backing the
me and Rob Koenig, and Bert
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Players for the White’s defensively.
The entire line charged hard, and
played well. However, the sterl-
mg defensive play of Bill Pack
-JO pound tackle cannot he over-
looked. He was in on half the
team s tackles, and generally made
himself a nuisance to the Gold
team all afternoon.
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The Megaphone (Georgetown, Tex.), Vol. [41], No. 29, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 18, 1948, newspaper, May 18, 1948; Georgetown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth620605/m1/3/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Southwestern University.