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THE MAROON TIGER
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I IN THE TIGER’S PAW
The current basketball season at Morehouse was opened
January 15th with Talladega furnishing the opposition.
The inexperienced Morehouse team was meeting in Tal
ladega practically the same outfit that represented that
institution last year; hence, Talladega was quite a fav
orite as only three of the Maroons had ever been in a
varsity game. In the initial game, everyone was sur
prised to see such a tight defensive game by the midget
Maroons. They baffled the taller and more experienced
’Degans to the extent that the Maroons were leading at
the half, 11-6.
The second half found the Degans stressing defense
more instead of trying to- use an offense that would
break their opponent’s defense; this system worked quite
well, and when the whistle sounded the Maroons had
opened the season with a 17-15 victory. Buggs with
six points was high scorer for the day, while Long for
Talladega ran a close second with five.
The second game was similar to the first with the Tig
ers taking the lead and maintaining this lead during the
first half with the entire team contributing at least one
point, thus accumulating a 15-5 lead for the Tigers in
the first half. The ’Degans’ forged into lead however,
near the close of the game, but the offensive machinery:
Smith, Archer to Buggs, got busy and ran the Maroons
in the lead just as the bell sounded. The final score
being 22-21. Buggs with 13 points was the ranking
scorer and main cog in the Morehouse offense. Pitts
with six points was high point man for Talladega.
The third game and first defeat of the year was ad
ministered by the Wolverine from Morris Brown. This
team of many star performers held all would-be More
house scorers well in check with the exception of Buggs
who scored 15 of the team’s 23 points. Hamilton con
tributed four free throws, which ended the Maroon’s
scoring with the exception of two other goals, one made
by Archer and the other by Smith. Reed, Roberts and
Bradley were the bulwarks of strength in the Purple ma
chinery.
On January 25th, the team journeyed to Tuskegee to
encounter the Abbottmen two games, but the Abbottmen
fought a steady game, and in each encounter they came
from behind to win. The first night, the Tigers led
at the half 14-13, but were overtaken and consequently
lost, the final score being 35-26. The Morehouse
chances were blasted when Archer, co-captain and lead
ing scorer, fouled out after having amassed for his team
17 points, this was without doubt the best performance
given by any one individual in the conference as he
not only dropped baskets from all angles, but was quite
busy in taking the ball from the opponents back board.
Smith and Williams were ranking scorers for Tuskegee
with eight points each.
The following night, the Tigers again took the lead
with Archer, Smith and Chenault finding the basket
from long range and when the horn sounded for the
half, the Tigers had a five point lead, but this was not
long lived as Charles Smith and Williams both broke
loose for Tuskegee, netting for themselves 13 and 15
points respectively, and at the end they were on the
long end of a 43-36 score.
The next morning a practice game was played at
Montgomery with Alabama State, the final score being
23-22, Alabama. The low top to the gym took all long
shots out of the game, plus the fact that the officiating
was bade,—oh, very bad as one might see from the
fact that 11 of Alabama’s 23 scores were free throws,
many of which were technical fouls, because the offi
cial was not particularly fond of Georgia deportment.
Archer with six points was again ranking scorer for
the Maroons.
The worst defeat of the season was administered by
Coach Archer’s Clark Panthers. It is said two former
Morehouse students have coached teams which defeated
their Alma Mater — well Archer makes three, as the
Reeves, Stout. Johnson, Long, Roy combination was too
much as they defeated the Maroons 31-16.
At Talladega, the team continued to decrease its win
ning percentage by dropping two contests, the first 20-
36, and the second 13-23. J. Pitts working as pivot for
the ’Degans was quite successful in guiding his team
into early leads which were never overtaken. On their
return they were met by Tuskegee and the Abbottmen
continued at their usual clip and beat both games in
the Morehouse Gym, the score for the initial game is
not obtainable; the second was 22-25. Tuskegee.
The score by games:
Morehouse 17
Morehouse 22
Morehouse 23
Morehouse 26
Morehouse 36
Morehouse 22
Morehouse 16
Morehouse 20
Morehouse 13
Morehouse 25
Talladega 15
Talladega 21
Morris Brown 30
Tuskegee 35
Tuskegee 43
Alabama 23
Clark 31
Talladega 36
Talladega 23
Tuskegee 27
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Individual Scorers:
Archer 64 Cabaniss 10
Buggs 63 Pleasant
Smith 45 Mathis
Hamilton 23 Dunn
Chenault 15
THE PERFECT SENIOR
Personality like Drew
Studious like Curry
Athletic like Edmonds
Musical like Mells
Dramatic like Maise
Brilliant like E. Thomas
Dependable like Colston
Humorous like Buggs
Form like Drew
Hair like Milton
Head like Driskell
Feet like Jeffries
And neat like Days.
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