CHAMPS, OKLAHOMA . FIRST ROW: Ken Cotlrell, Billy Mac Smi th, David Newell, James Stone, Curry Peocock. SECOND ROW: Jimmy Richard Carler, Robert Kissire, Donnie Skipper. Harold Bowie's West All -S tars. Dea n of Jim Atkinson placed a g ilded crown on All - Queen Nelda Roach in pre-game coronati on stars as Larry Peebles, Wallace Colson , Allen UIliUnlll!. Tom Bridges, J . R. Bailey and Jim Adkins thoir talents together to make an outstanding iralnu.ral basketball season . Two leagues, th e Atane! Pacific, gathered their pla ye rs from coast mast and even foreign countri es. Capta in La rry sot a torrid scorin g pace of 22 .9 points per game to pa ce the Trojans to an undefea ted season and t he Pac ific League champ ionship. In the other circuit the well-balanced Camels emerged from Lhe stiff compet ition with a 7-2 r ecord to w in . M inor League play saw Harold Tandy and M ilo Hadwin lead th e Hawks over Mike White's Tigers . The stron ger Aeri ali sts bea t the Jungle League r epr esen ta ti ves in th e All-Star gam e, 55 to 35. Climax ing the exciting season was the Bison AllSta r game on March 6. T om Lon ey, who was selected to direct the Pac ific League star s, was able EAST HALFBACK Wayman Epp stroins to pull away from Curry Peocock (10). Advancing to help Epp ore All -Stars Eldridge McFadden (34), Outstanding Lineman winner Ron Files (101. and James Heath (12). 145
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