This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 9 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Childress Index
Location
Childress, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1955
Page
3
The annual Childress Invitation al basketball tourney in Bobcat Gym opens Friday with two games at 7 and 8:30, featuring Quail vs Wichita Falls and Childress vs Hollis, with two more games Saturday and a 8:30 final.
Port Neches defeated Alice 14 7 in the Class AAA schoolboy football semifinal. Coach Cleo Rigby denied plans to protest a guard eligible play he questioned, saying the final TD by Norvel Dorsey on a 54 yard run stood as the deciding score.
The San Francisco Dons led by 6-11 Bill Russell and Tom Gola dominated the 1954-55 campaign, finishing with 28 wins and one loss while earning top national honors. Russell and Gola earned All-America recognition as Kentucky suffered upsets from Georgia Tech and Marquette, and Duquesne won the NIT with Green and Ricketts torching the tourney. The season saw major rule changes including widening the free throw lane, a five second closely-guarded rule, and moving to a uniform one-and-one free throw. In the NBA, the Fort Wayne Pistons and Syracuse Nationals won division titles, with Nationals claimed the championship and stars like Johnstone, Cousy, Schayes, Pettit, and Fourst earning All-Star spots.
Hillsboro's switch to a fullback by Merlin Priddy sparked a dramatic rise, sending the Class AA Eagles to the playoffs. Priddy and David Hernandez pace a 1,000-yard ground duo backed by a stout defense led by Jackson Himmel and Marvin Dailey.
A consolidated list shows LaSalle, St Josephs, Villanova, Holy Cross, Yale, Amherst, Boston University, Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Providence, Temple, Penn State, Rutgers, Seton Hall, Syracuse, Fordham, Rhode Island, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Florida, Louisville, Purdue, Long Beach and others posting varied results.
Sam Snead posted a 66 in the Mayfair Open pro-am to lead a field of 131 at Seminole Country Club Sanford Florida. Lionel Hebert matched the course record 65 to beat Snead by five strokes in the one day event. The field included Mike Souchak Doug Ford Tommy Bolt and Arnold Palmer teamed with Hank Handley and John Weitzel in the best ball.
New York report says Santee the nation’s premier miler will race in the Metropolitan AAA handicap meet at the Armory. He targets 4 9.1 set by Don Gehrmann on the Buffalo track, but a scratch start means no official record if he beats it. Team Marine teammates Ed Shea and Jim Doulin also compete.
Matza, Fred Eckhoff, and Don Townsend headline the return as Santee appears publicly for the first time since his amateur status was re examined at the AAU convention in Louisville Kentucky.
McAllen high school head football coach Jack Rucker resigned Thursday after informal ask to step down. Rucker said he quit because the board had expressed concerns. His Bulldogs finished 4 wins and 6 losses this season after claiming District 8-AAA in 1954.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.