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:■ m.mmCOVERT STARTERSFred Hill. Clarence Baber, Clarence Lauderdale, Larry King and Quentinwith coach Ron Clark before opener with LawrenceCOVERT BASKETBALL OUTLOOK1COVERT — Encore* for the eight playeart from last year are Covert basketball team are be- muinf this year, but don’t shedcoming tougher and tougherTwo years ago they capturedthe Class D state championshipwith a 25-1 record. Last year they managed a bit of ooeupmaaship by winning the statetitle with a 26-0 recordthose tears for Covert just yet.When coach Ron Clark says“we’ll only be half as tall as we were last year, that’s because he won’t have 6-8 and 6-7 play, ers patroUng the baskets like be s bid in the oast.This year? Well, the show must go on.Seven of the Bulldogs* topInstead they’ll be 6 3 and 6 2 this year. They will, however, be “jumpers,’’ as Clark callsthem, and they’ll be fast Another ot Covert’s state titles is ia trick, and nearly all of his varsity eager* were on last year’s championship track team.Among the “jumpers” on the squad are junior center Quentin Mingo (6 3), and forwardsLarry King (6-2) and Clarence Lauderdale (6-1), Lauderdale, a 190 pounder, is only a fresh man.Outside, and representingClark’s speedsters, will be let-terman Clarence Baber (5-7) and junior Fred Hill (5-6). Another top guard prospect is junior Herman Hawkins (5 7).Baber, the Bulldogs’ No. T man last season, averaged five points per game. He’s the topreturning scorer.Other members of the squad are senior lettermao Bill WU-born (5-8), forward Ken Blair (5-7), senior letterman forward John Head (5-10), guard Mike Laws (5-6), and forward StevePeterson (5-10). •NEW YORK (UP!) - Notre Dame players woo the most berth* and a Michigan Stale •tar tha most votes on the 1966United Press Irnqpiauooal All-A merles football team.The Irish, No, 1 team in the nation, placed tour players ontha 22 man squad while defen aive end Buhba Smith rime within seven votes of being aunanimous choice, the strongest individual showing in UPI All-Americas since the World War 0 days of Army’s DocBlanc hard and Glean Davie.Is the balloting of 267 football writers and broadcasters, Smith, who led Michigan Stale to its second straight Big Tenchampionship, received 360 votes, just seven short of perfection.Guard Tom Regner theleading vote getter on theteem end halfbackdt Eddy cm offense and tackleP#U Durank# and linebackerLynch on defense were the Dam* star* honored |addmee to Smith, MichiganState, last year’s nationalchampions, also placed end Gene Washington on the offensive team and linebacker George Webster on the defensive squad, giving tha Spartans three berths.OffenseEnds—Washington and Jack Clancy, Michigan.Tackles—Cecil Dowdy, Alabama sod Ron Ytry, Southern California.Guards—Regner and Laverne Allers. NebraskaCenter—Jim Breland, Georgia Tech.Quarterback—Steve Spurrier, Florida.Backs — Eddy; Mel Farr,UCLA and Floyd Little, Syra ruse.DefeaseEnds—Smith and Tom Green lee, Washington.Tackles—Duranko and Loyd Phillips, Arkansas.Middle Guard—Wayne Mey-lsn, Nebraska.Linebacker*—Lynch and Paul Nturnoff, Tennessee.Halfbacks — Webster;Shaw, Southern California Beier. Miami (Fla.) andtine Bercher. ArkansasNateTomMar-Smith, Webster are repeaters from All America.and Phillips the 1965 UPIClark, who In the past five years at Covert has witnessed tosses a boat as of ten as the Cuba win pea mats, plans to install a“pressure defense’’ to gowith his fast-break offense hi an effort to win a third straight title.iIHis cagtrs will hive,lion to their jumping ab their speed, what he caof desire and hustle.”Covert will need all that and more when it travels to Law-rence Friday night in search of their 49th consecutive victory against the team most experts agree will upset the Bulldogs in tha Al-Van Conference thisNICK EDDYseasonBy the way, add inspiration to the list of assets credited to the 1966-67 Covert Bulldogs.As a reminder of what they’re all shooting for, the Bulldogs have a picture of the team thatcaptured the state crown on oneof the backbqards in the school gym.That picture U placed, appropriately enough, inchesabove the basket.%ar
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South Haven Daily Tribune
South Haven, Michigan, US
Thu, Dec 01, 1966
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