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AUGUST 11, 1972
Next Year's Team Is Taller
"New" Braves Cause
Kaiser To Look Up
BY BILL HARPER
Kansas City, here we come? It is debatable whether or not the 1972-
73 Braves basketball team will give a repeat performance of last year.
With the loss of Charlie Hamilton, Bobby York, and Harley Stewart
there is some doubt of the 28-6 record of last year being improved or
even equaled.
First, let’s look at the
recruiting that was done this
year. Eight ballplayers from
different junior colleges and high
schools were brought to West
Georgia College, and out of these
WGC signed five. The recruiting
of these five was termed as the
best recruiting year in the history
of West Georgia College
basketball. “Foots” Walker,
Jerry Faulkner, Pat Maglay,
Randy Roundtree, and Kevin
Price round out this year's ad
ditions to the Braves Basketball
fold. These additions bring in
outstanding credentials and a
strong desire to play a lot of ball
for West Georgia College.
Returning lettermen from last
year’s District 25 champions are
Greg and Barry Allen, Tom
Turner, Alan Gustavel, Whit
Mathews and Willie Joe Lewis.
These six gave WGC a very ex
citing year and brand of
basketball in 1971-72. The ver
sitality of the returning lettermen
and the new recruits according to
Roger Kaiser, “will provide an
exciting ball team (even more
than last year). Their record may
not be as good as last year's, but
they’ll provide many exciting
moments for the fans.
Looking at possible weaknesses
in the ball club, there seems to be
only one. Rebounding holds the
only question mark. Otherwise,
the Braves will have excellent
depth, sharp shooting, quickness,
and a lethal defense. With the
overall height of Magley (6 feet,
seven inches), Gustavel (six feet,
seven inches), Roundtree (six
feet, eight inches), Lewis (six
feet, four inches), and Turner
(six feet, four inches) the
question of rebounding may not
be a problem.
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How would this sound as a
starting line up? At guards, Greg
Allen s’B” and “Foots” Walker
6’o”, forwards Gustavel 6’7” and
Maglay 6’7”, and Roundtree 6’B”
at center. The competition for
starting berths will be extremely
keen, and there is no way to tell
who it’ll be.
The West Georgia Braves will
play 23 regular season games,
plus two holiday tournaments.
The roundballers will start the
season with the annual
Thanksgiving Tourney at Ten
nessee Temple in Chattanooga.
Then, December 2, Georgia
College, anew addition to the
GIAC, will invade West Georgia
for the first home game of the
season. On December 4 the
Braves hit the road and take on
Western Kentucky.
During the Christmas holidays
(December 15-16) West Georgia
will be in the Hubbard Classic in
Bremen. This year’s classic will
be exactly that, for West
Georgia’s favorite, LaGrange
College, will be there, too. The
toughest competition for the
Braves this year will come from
Western Kentucky, Carson
Newman, Valdosta State,
LaGßange, and Augusta College.
When asked about any goals for
next year, Roger Kaiser stated,
“The number one goal will be to
win the GIAC Championship.”
This will be West Georgia’s last
year as a member of the GIAC.
A small-college National
Collegiate Athletic Association
will be formed in the state of
Georgia. It will include the top
small college teams including:
S<Hithern Tech, Armstrong State,
Albany State, Mercer, Augusta
College, possibly Valdosta State,
as well as our West Georgia
“Braves”.
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Over 400 “aquatic acrobats” Invaded West
Georgia College last week for the two-day
Computer's Aid Kid's "Splash"
The hum of a computer may
have been detected over the
splash of water by some last
weekend as the Fourth District of
the Georgia Recreation and
Parks Program held its annual
swimming and diving meet at
West Georgia College.
The college’s computer
facilities were used in registering
the swimmers, assigning them to
the various heats, printing a
program for the 74 events, and
determining the winning times in
the races.
“This was the first time
computers had been used to help
in the mass of paper work of such
a meet in Georgia,” David
Seiber, coordinator of the event,
said. “By using the computer we
cut the time devoted to
registration alone from two
weeks of frantic work by
volunteers to two hours.”
Approximately 400
representatives from ten Georgia
cities competed in the two days of
events. Winners will represent
the district in state level com
petition later this weekend in
Atlanta.
“Organizing and hosting a
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District 4 Swim Meet. Contestants come from ten
cities in Georgia to compete.
meet of this magnitude would
have been impossible if the
college facilities had not been
available to us,” said Mrs.
Sherry Jennings, president of the
Carrollton Recreation Depart
ment’s Swimming Association.
“Everyone at the college was
so wonderful as they volunteered
to help with the preparations on
their own time,” she continued.
“Jim Kinard of the computer
center was indispensable as he
worked long hours on his won
time in preparing the necessary
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programs for the computer.”
Other faculty members and
administrators volunteered to fill
such positions as judges, star
ters, organizers, and officials.
Seiber, who is acting head of
West Georgia’s Division of Social
Sciences, pointed out.
“We hear so much about good
‘town-gown’ relations in a college
town like Carrollton,” Mrs.
Jennings said. “I don’t see how a
community and college could
have a better relationship than
the one we have found here.”