All State High Eleven Selections Announced
Bridgeport dominates with two players on the first team of the 1955 Class A all-State high school football selections. Webs ter Springs and New Martinsville also place two players each, while Wellsburg Poca Elkview Nitro and Ripley land one apiece.
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Briggeport
Webster Springs
New Martinsville
Wellsburg
Poca
Elkview
Nitro
Ripley
Bridgeport
Paul Russell
Henry McDaniel
Eddie Fincham
Fred Lipscomb
New Moertinaville
Sherwood Taylor
Robert Burton
John Sperlazza
Jim Ransom
Orville Fouty
Tommy Costa
Kenny Parsons
Burton
Parsons
Russell
Fouty
Furman Battles Mountaineer Five On WVU Visit
Eight games highlight Furman at West Virginia University tonight as Furman visits the Mountaineers a veterans Paladins squad led by Darrel Fryd 6 foot 1 guard who was the national scoring champion and All America selection last season faces a WVU team that won the Southern Conference Tournament last year with a strong return lineup and 12 lettermen.
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UP Cage Ratings New York W United Press college basketball
United Press college basketball ratings list the top twenty teams with San Francisco at No 1 and Kentucky NC State Utah Iowa Dayton UCLA Indiana St Louis Stanford Kansas Alabama Seton Hall Louisville and others ranked across the poll. The list includes specific point tallies and the order for each team underlined by the top tier and moving down to Louisville at No 20.
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New York
United Press
San Francisco
Kentucky
North Carolina State
Utah
Towa
Dayton
Chinois
Duquesne
Holy Cross
Brigham Young
George Washington
Indiana
St. Louis
UCLA
Marquette
Stanford
Kansas
Alabama
Seton Hall
Louisville
Town
Southern Methodist
Miami
Ohio
Toledo
Large College Basketball Scores and Mixed Results
A string of early season basketball scores shows East Duquesne beating Carnegie Tech 61 to 25 and Brandeis topping Bates 87 to 77 while other matchups include Boston College 89 Suffolk 73 Niagara 66 Toledo 59 Tulane 94 Louisiana College 81 and Texas Tech 60. The Paladins opened with 88 66 over Davidson with Floyd scoring 33 as West Virginia faces heavy contenders and Hot Rod Hundley leads West Virginia with a 34 point effort in a 92 79 win over Carnegie Tech. Pale children note remains unused text and non sequiturs about color and nutrition.
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Brandeis
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Boston Coll
Suffolk
Niagara Univ
Toledo
South
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Louisiana College
State
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Memphis State
Texas A&m
Georgetown
Tenn
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Mid-Wes Missouri
Texas Tech
Wisconsin
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Davidson
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Hot Rod Hundley
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Fragmentary OCR Item From Local Paper
A brief readable fragment from a historical newspaper page shows scattered words and letters about people places and events. The legible text is insufficient for a full event, date, or attribution.
San Francisco Tops Preseason Coaches Poll In 1954 55
In the first weekly United Press Board of Coaches ratings San Francisco is ranked No 1 after two weekend wins lifting their season start to 28 straight victories. Kentucky second and N Y State third pace the initial poll with Utah Iowa and Dayton following.
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United Press Rating Board
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Chico State
Bill Russell
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Kentucky
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Adolph Rupp
Wildcats
Louisiana State
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Dayton
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Duquesne
Tory Cross
Brigham Young
N. Y. State
Iowa
Holy Cross
Brighan Young
UCLA
Honus Wagner Dies at 81, Baseball Great Passes Away
Pittsburgh star Honus Wagner died at his Carnegie home at 12:36 a.m. The Hall of Fame shortstop, famed for his iron man streaks, seven NL led extra base hits and 720 stolen bases, spent 19 years in MLB with Louisville and Pittsburgh. He never earned more than $10,000 yearly.
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John Peter
Honus Wagner
Pittsburgh Pirates
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West Virginia Gridsters Post 29 Wins in 57 Out-of-State Games
WVU and other state teams played 57 non state contests with a 29 26 2 record. WVU led with 8 2 mark while Bluefield State Shepherd Bethany and Salem also notched winning records against outsiders. Several games were close including four decided by one point and two by two points.
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WVU Frosh
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Shepherd
Bethany
Salem
WVU
Bluefield
Tech
Marshall
Morris Harvey
West Virginia State
Concord
West Liberty
Wesleyan
West Virgnia State
State College
Hiram
Baseball Hall of Fame Infers Career Batting Legend
A partial draft notes a major league player with a .329 lifetime batting average across 21 seasons, totaling 2,785 games with 4,320 putouts and 5,664 assists. The record shows 612 errors for a .943 fielding average, reflecting a long standing 21-year career.
Grid Fans Get Champagne At Bargain Price
SAN RAFAEL CALIF Three boys sold French vintage champagne worth 18 a bottle to teenage spectators at a high school football game for 50 cents a bottle. The boys aged 14 and 12 admitted taking 30 bottles from a woman's basement while she was away and sold 29. They dumped the last bottle after deeming it terrible. The story notes the Bad Lands of South Dakota as land too poor to farm and hard to travel.
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Buter Outpoints Monroe in New England Fight
Providence report says Gene Buter 138 pounds beat Curly Monroe 138 pounds in Worcester by United Press. Peter Muller 157 pounds of Germany outpointed Ray Drake 159 pounds of Newark Scotland in a separate card.
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