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The SPORTING THING
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JC Hnull'K llcrrct* Too Lrnirnt.—At the recent Southeastern JC
Athletic meeting in Memphis lust week, active measures were taken
against conference members who have been, and are presently, violat
ing the organisation’s regulations. Special emphasis was placed upon
the use of ineligible players.
Believe it or not, the conference went so fur as to threaten loss of
membership to the colleges not complying with Its rules. There’s Just
one catch, however; no action will be taken against such schools until
June Ist, 1949. In other words, that’ll give the colleges who possess
these outlaw athletes a chance to use them for the next six months,
which will include both the basketball and baseball seasons.
To this writer, that is the same as letting criminals run loose, telling
them they can’t commit any more crimes after a certain date. If the
conference is really serious about enforcing its newly adopted measure,
It will put the plan Into effect immediately, not at some date six months
from now’. Why delay? The task at hand will be big enough if it is
begun at once.
• • •
Limit of Bowls by MFC.—Apparently, Southeastern Conference big
wheels showed poor judgment when they ruled that SEC teams could
play In only three postseason bowl games—Sugar, Cotton, and Orange.
Asa result, Vanderbilt, Ole Miss, and Tulane, a trio of fine football
teams, are staying at home come New Year’s Day.
For the first time in a number of years, both the Cotton and Sugar
Bowls snubbed SEC teams when picking their contestants. Surprisingly
enough, the New Orleans bowl had previously hinted strongly that the
SEC champion would automatically qualify. Only the Orange Bowl
took advantage of the opportunity, Inviting titlist Georgia.
POSTS EASON PKOG NOSTICATIO N
HOSE BOWL—Northwestern-Callfornia. Picking the Big Nine entry
for ability, and by force of habit.
SIJGAK BOWL—Oklahoma-North Carolina. The Sooners’ all-around
power should be the difference, despite the "Chon Choo” and a stout
Carolina line.
CottON BOWL—S.M.U.-Oregon. Defying the odds, heress one
vote for Walker, Johnson & Cos. to beat the coast club’s brilliant Van
Brocklin in an aerial duel.
ORANGE BOWL —Georgla-Texas. The colorful Bulldogs get the nod
in this one, but not as handily as is expected.
GATOR BOWL—Missouri-Clemson. The well-balanced Tigers, losers
only to Oklahoma, will prove too much for the overrated Southern title
holders.
HARBOR BOWL —Nevada-Villa Nova. Stan Heath’s passes will
mean the difference, although the Pennsylvanians are potent.
SUN BOWL—West Vlrginla-Texas Mines. The Mountaineers have
it here.
Cage Prospects Bright
* * * * * * *
Garrett, Henderson Head Team Candidates
Thirty,two basketball candidates
greeted Coach “Shag” Welch in
the gymnasium Monday afternoon,
December 6, as practice for the
coming cage season got under way.
Despite the fact that only two reg
ulars are returning from last year’s
team, which was runner-up in the
state tournament, prospects again
look promising.
Coach Welch will rely on the
fast break, along with a few simple
plays. He is building the current
team around lettermen Bob Gar
rett, all-state last season, and
“Jago” Henderson, an exception
ally fine ball handler, who were
stellar performers on the ’47-’lB
squad.
Among the newcomers, Harry
Odum, Marion New, and Wales
Goebel are perhaps the most im
pressive. Other promising candi
dates are Greene Williams, James
Massey and “Red” Mason, all of
whom were members of the foot
ball feam.
Coach Welch was quoted as say
ing, “The squad has great deter
mination, and should be a winner.”
Frankly, the Braves will miss
the height of Jesse Fox and Hugh
Hudspeth, a pair of 6 foot 6 inch
centers last year. Hudspeth was
Intramural League to
Start Next Quarter
The men’s intramural basketball
league, which proved to be one of
the most popular campus activities
last year, will get under way some
time after the first of the year. No
definite plans have been made as
yet, because only a few teams have
applied for admission.
Again this year, each barracks
will have a team, along with a day
student quintet, and several inde
pendent outfits.
Candidates for these teams should
contact their managers in order
that an early start for the league
can be made.
No man is useless in this world
who lightens the burdens of some
one else —Charles Dickens.
an all-state selection. But the pres
ent group, although lacking a great
deal in height, should prove to be
a faster, more colorful team than
the previous one.
This year’s basketball team can
hardly be ecompared with its fu
ture opponents. Besides not having
played any games, a comparison
would be impossible at this time,
because many of the schools on
the 1949 schedule were not faced
by West Georgia last season, and
also that little publicity is dis
tributed among junior colleges.
The Braves will open their home
season January 8, against Arm
strong College, state defending
champions, who edged the WGC
HEIGHT
NAME HOME TOWN ft. in.
Harry Odum Turin, Georgia G 1
Marion New Carrollton, Georgia 6 1
Bob Garrett Carrollton, Georgia 6 1
Wales Goebel Tallapoosa* Georgia G 3
Guy Henderson Logansville, Georgia G 1
Gene Brown Duluth, Georgia 6 0
Joe McKelvey Duluth, Georgia 5 10
James Massey Columbus, Georgia 5 o
Richard Moncrief ...Columbus, Georgia 5 10
Green Williams Rome, Georgia 5 9
Jim How'ell Dalton, Georgia G 1
Jack Mason Clarksville, Mississippi 5 10
Billy Wood Canton, Georgia 5 11
James Hester College Park, Georgia 5 9
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THE WEST GEORGIAN
Cage Prospects Are Promising,
Despite Few Returning Regulars
Coach Henry Welch announced
a basketball schedule which lists
nineteen games for the 1949 season,
ten of which are to be played on
the West Georgia home court.
Here are the games scheduled
thus far. Several other tilts will,
however, bo added before the reg
ular season gets under way.
Jan. B—Armstrong (here).
Jan. 11 —GMA (there).
Jan. 14 —Young Harris (here).
Jan. 15—GMC (there).
Jan. 17—GMA (here).,
Jan. 21 —St. Bernard (there).
Jan. 22 —Marion (there).
Jan. 25—Gordon (here).
Jan.2(i—Technical Institute (here).
Jan. 28—Baldwin (here).
Feb. 2 —N. Ga. Vocational (there).
Feb. 3—Piedmont (there).
Feb. 4—Young Harris (there).
Feb. 10—Armstrong (there).
Feb. 11—Baldwin (there).
Feb. 17 —Berry (there).
Feb. 19—N. Ga. Vocational (here).
Feb. 22 —St. Bernard (here).
Felj. 23—GMC (here).
Feb. 24—Berry (here).
March 9-11 —Regional Tournament,
Tifton, Georgia.
Coach Welch Attends
SE Athletic Meeting
West Georgia College athletic
coach, Henry Welch, attended the
four-day session of the annual ath
letic conference of the Southeast
ern Association of Junior Colleges,
held at Memphis, November 30 to
December 2.
Action was taken on the matter
of the use of ineligible players,
which was the principal issue dis
cussed at the meeting. Schools
that are playing ineligible athletes
were reprimanded to the extent
that they will have to cease doing
so by the first of June, 1949, or lose
their conference membership.
Coach Welch stated that West
Georgia will refuse to schedule any
football teams for the coming sea
son who do not comply with the
conference ruling.
Cumberland College, of Williams
burg, Kentucky, was named host
to the 1949 Southeastern basketball
tournament, which will be held the
first week in March. The Regional
tourney, in which West Georgia
College will participate, was sched
uled for Tifton, Georgia, March
9, 10, 11.
quantet in the finals of iast year’s
tourney.
After a week of practice, Coach
Welch cut the squad to fourteen
men. The following players make
up the traveling squad:
Braves Outscore Technical Institute, 52-47;
Freshman Forward Odum Paces \\ GC
The West Georgia Braves basketball team, in their opening game of
the season, played, last Friday night at Chamblee, Georgia, outscored
the Atlanta NAS Technical Institute five, 52-47. Harry Odum, freshman
forward, paced the WGC attack with 17 points.
RETURNING REGULARS
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Bobby Garrett, forward, All-State
last year, who will again be a
dependable Brave mainstay.
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“Jago” Henderson, converted to
center, will be a top threat to the
opposition this season.
Braves Blanked, 50-0,
By Powerful SGG
Closing out a none too successful
season, the Braves suffered a 50-0
whitewashing at the hands of a
star-studded South Georgia Col
lege aggregation, in a game played
on the latter’s home gridiron.
Wyatt Posey’s highly touted
crew capitalized on three pass in
terceptions and a costly West
Georgia fumble, deep in its own
territory, in running up the lop
sided score. The South Georgians,
who played Little Rock Junior Col-
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Bob Garrett, veteran of the hard
wood, was runner-up for the
Braves with 15 points, followed
by "Jago” Henderson, center, who
matched some fine ball handling
with 12 points. Sailor forward H.
Anderson took top scoring honors,
however, netting 25 points.
The outcome of the contest was
never in doubt, as Coach Welch
substituted freely during the sec
ond half, in order to give the re
serves some game experience. The
Braves’ defensive game was better
than had been expected, although
the locals had practiced only a
week. Their percentage of shots
made was also above the average.
Garrett (15) F. H. Anders’n(2s)
Odum(l7) F N. Anderson(B)
Henderson(l2) C. Stanley(o)
Goebel (2) G. Ferguson (0)
Brown(2) G. Rice(6)
Halftime Score —West Georgia,
29; Tech Institute, 22.
SUBSTITUTES
West Georgia: Moncrief(l), G.
Williams (2), New (1), Mason,
Howell, Massey.
Tech Institute: Hughes(2), Mar
tin(3), Byrd(l), Ivey, Williams.
lege in the Little Sugar Bowl at
Monroe, Louisiana, Saturday, used
their first string up until late in
the game, when their reserves took
over.
South Georgia tallied on the first
play from scrimmage, returning a
misdirected Brave aerial for thirty
yards, and again, shortly after
wards, upon recovering a WGC
fumble. With only seconds re
maining in the first half, South
Georgia converted another inter
ception into a score, feeiing lucky
with the 18-0 half-time advantage
which they held over the surpris
ingly tough Braves, who racked up
twelve first downs during the con
test.
In the West Georgia line, which
Was said to be the “scrappiest - ’
faced by South Georgia all year,
tackle Tom Brown turned in his
usual fine performance, but to a
175-pound tackle, Tip Mizell, goes
top honors. Mizell pushed aside
the South Georgians’ star guard,
Ernie Reid, time after time, al
though he was outweighed by the
muscular Reid by some twenty-five
pounds.
In the backfield corps, speedy
Pete Causey and quarterback
Green Williams were tops. It was
under Williams’ direction that the
Braves marched sixty yards along
the ground to the SGC 10 on one
occasion.
Fullback Tip Goza was back in
action after having been sidelined
for most of the season with an an
kle injury. Handsome Tip’s play
was creditable.