Eagles Blue Texas City opener spotlights Ganders season
Gander basketball under coach Frank James opens 1954 with Texas City Stingarees at Lee gym. Key players include 6-3 center Jerry Dean Smith and captain Tom Paris supported by Edwin Denny Sonny Morgan and Leo Hechler. Reserve lineup features Richard Wolfe Bobby Griffin and Antone Smaistrla as frontcourt depth.
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Houston
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Jerry Dean Smith
Tom Paris
Coptain
Edwin Denny
Sonny Morgan
Leo Hechler
Morgan
Hechler
Cedar Bayou
Winston Porter
James
22 Gridders Get Letters At La Porte
La Porte Booster club honored the high school and junior high football teams at a dinner in Kemah with 22 lettermen named. Seniors and juniors listed, praise for the season, and a call for athletes to set a positive example.
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Edgewater Inn
Kemah
Frank Akin
Glare Nealon
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Houston Post
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Bulldog
Dennis Brown
Tommy Moser
David Black
Travis Erwin
Durwood Hayes
Bennie Macsey
Fred Powell
Harnest Powell
Calvin Bussey
Reggie Bitheridge
Charles Gunnells
Jack Hawkins
Wayne Lee
Bill Morse
Millard
John ‘In
Billy Mace
Barney Strickland
Eddie Roy
Don Cayness
James Citton
Bobby Zoeda
Billy Joe Work
Richard Sinclair
Bucky Chambers
Hindmen Phillips
Bil Benton
Doug Parsons
John Hambrick
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Moser
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Mendrick Goryeski
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Speer Returns Heat as Crescent Test Looms
Speer’s shoulder is recovered and Gordon Speer is ramping up in practice for Friday’s Crescent game. Coach Lloyd Kelley reports a lingering charley horse on Henry Fitzhenry has slowed him. the 155-pound back has played two strong showings but remains uncertain for full speed.
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Hardin
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Crescent Eleven
Hollis Naquin
J. D. Marcentel
James Dugat
Paul Williams
Army Dominates East All Stars
NEW YORK NOV 30 UP Army with four players dominated the 1954 All East football team selected by United Press. Don Holleder Ralph Chesnauskas Bill Chance and Tommy Bell lead the Cadets first team with Navy Penn State and Boston College also represented. The second team includes Eldred Kraemer Ed Rose Henry Ford and others. Conerly injury verdict awaited for Giants Steelers game.
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United Press
Navy
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Harvard
Boston University
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Ralph Chesnauskas
Bill’ Chance
Tommy Bell
Navy Placid
Ron Beagle
George Welsh
Rooseveltt
Lenny Moore
Frank Mooze
Bill Meigs
Sam Pino
Pino
Pat Uebel
Pittsburgh
Eldred Kraemer
Ed Rose
Henry Ford
Pete Vann
Uebel
Jim Garrity
Jim Castle
Pennsylvania
Jim van Buren
Cornell
Thorne Shugart
Yale
Hugh Webster
Royce Slippen
Princeton
Fans decry Rose Bowl rule forcing second-rate team
United Press polls of fans in Los Angeles and Columbus condemn the Pacific Coast and Big Ten rule barring conference champions from meeting in the Rose Bowl two years in a row. They say UCLA should face Ohio State, not USC, with many call the rule idiotic and unfair.
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United Press
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Dragnet
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Dick Tewis
Southern California Automobile
Wallace Bond
Navy End Beagle to be Honored by Maxwell Club
Navy end Ron Beagle, noted for Saturday’s 27 to 20 win over Covington, Ky., will be celebrated at a January 11 dinner as the outstanding college football player of the year by the Philadelphia Maxwell Club. Beagle, 20, is a seventh class junior at the academy and praised by Coach Eddie Erdelatz as a likely All-America prospect.
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Covington
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Eddie Erdelaly
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