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Show B.Y. Page Two ProvoJfah U. High School, Cats Incorporated SPOUTS TALK By Bob Hales THE FAUVINES MARCH AGAIN In the course of the basketball season the Fail vines muuli ami repres ent the school at the halftime of all the Karnes TIu-- pt. utter put long hours with little voiced thanks from the students TIu-out of their own pockets the money for their umfoims The m iiool appreciates these efforts put forth by our Fauvines. but m ci have a chance to realize the problems and time the club takes Thanks k especially to Mrs. Gilbert and Pres Marilyn Ball if Another whole group who have appreciated the Famines hut have never had a chance to express themselves. i to Ih tound m the basketball team. They play a complete season ot basketball and never see the Fauvines in action. The closest they ever come to the pep club is the sound of the drums and patter of the feet on the ceiling of the dressing room. The very ones who the Fauvines should be the closest to have never seen the girls in action. Som of the team members have not seen the club march for two or three years What I propose is a day at the end of the basketball season in which the Fauvines could march where the whole school could pay honor to them and to them alone, where the basketball team could see themfmarch and yell as they would at the half time of a game. This could be worked into a school party, with a short dance afterwards, or it could take the place of a regular assembly. TOURNEY TALK It looks liike the B.Y. High Wildcats will be playing in the Utah State Basketball Tournament March 10. When they reach the gates of the U. of U. field house they will have their hands full of competition that will try them to the top test. The Wildcat team is the kind that is hard to beat, they play best when the pressure is on. In the regular season games they have played all but one oi our games close. The team will play at top performance when the score is close and is almost in a deadlock. In the tilts the Y boys were forced to play under pressure in their games with Ogden and Wasatch in which one point was the deciding factor. In all of the close games that we have played in the regular season we have lead at one time or another in every one of these had a games. With the lead the team becomes lax for just a minute and then the lead is lost. The spirit of fight that wins for the blue and white then comes through, and the team comes to life as the pressure is on and the Y high presses on for victory. They, the team, have the fight and the ability to win the state championship this year. The state play will be rough and tiring and only those teams which are in good shape and those that have plenty of experienced men will survive the test. Four days of playing ball will take its toll on gny team and make the going tough. With every team out playing for the championship title, the team that makes the mistakes is the one that will get beat, but a team like ours, that wont be beat, is the team that will win. We will all be behind the team at the tournament and cheering for them through all the games (four, we hope). It is in the tournament, too, that the team with the background and the one that has been coached to play basketball against any outfit or any kind ol defense or offense is the team that is going to win. This discription fits our team to a tee. We have the team that won't be beat. pre-seas- on ten-poi- nt Isn't it a beautiful day? The um sinning so brightly. What is In the field of gossip? Of iu-mniM' puvs.v isn't getting behind. But people aie getting so secretin- about the actions of our high school It is spling though and so the line in spiing a young man's !.uu twins a little l.u ther toward what it has been the rest of the season Speaking of such things, people have been asking how t.iine S laics, we just say she tried to get l K K lied In tins .nto our pupei before, but for some odd reason it never The general run of basketball players are as varied and different in their styles and modes of playing as Hedda Hopper's hats. Each boy has developed between himself and heaven knows who, his own particular trick shot style. This style is an important part of each boy and a definite pride of ownership goes with it. To a boy this is almost as sacred as a girls diary is to her. To the constant horror of the coach and other players any change to this basketball form is met with a seemingly dog-lik- e resistance. A player can swear he understands and will use a new idea or fake, but will invariably come out in the same age old form. This floor style has the appearance of being inborn in the player, each athlete has his own peculiar characteristic which couldnt be copied if anyone wanted to. Now these forms or styles, be they ever so general and different, do fall into general catagories and fields that can be discussed and explained to a reasonable degree. Any similarity between these styles and your own is purely accidental. The first type is the dribble. This boy has a personal feeling toward society that he must dribble. He bounces the ball up and down for hours at a time with no apparent purpose or intention other than just playing with the ball. He, like so many others, feels that basketball is not being played to his utmost satisfaction if he doesnt have the ball dribbling most of the time. Good shots, passes, and time come and go without any real meaning, the ball keeps going up and down like a yo-y- o. The next on the list of ficticious characters is trick a minute tendency to be as full of player. The man in this category has tri'eks as a barrel of monkeys. He can pass through his legs, backward and via the great circle route. Shooting from any position and from any place are just his meat. To join this group you must be able to hold a basketball in one hand with arm extended, dribble a ball through your legs with the other hand while tipping with head. Many are those who try for these rank and nver quite make the grade because of small hands, or a tender head. When he says Ive got a million of em you can nod your head knowingly, for you have his number. Lazy Joe is found only too often in the course of a good basketball game. He invariably will have big feet and a low spread. Which came first, the large feet and spread, or the laziness, no one knows, but they seem to go hand in hand, each enlarging the other. Lazy Joe gets his name from the quality of standing in one place for the entire game, whether it be on offensive play or on defens-i- v work. If the ball comes to him, fine, if it doesnt that is not so good but not worth moving for. On defense he, for some quaint reason, seems to be the man guarding the one who is scoring all the points on the opposite side. The only way to really get this man to move and look alive is to tell him the game is over, then he heads for the showers like Jesse Owens. Football Frank has a swell time keeping the game interestthe whole group by providing the bruises for keep-sake- s. for ing The game never gets out of the primary stage before things start boys are line plunges, to happen. Specialties for these plays, and spinners which all seem to come with the power of the single wing formation. To play against such a formation one must either join the sport or get trampled in the dust. This is especially notable in the first weeks after the end of the grid season. and The last feature in this discourse is the boy who works hard has things always coming fine, yet never seems to get life of this boy, he is out things done. Work means nothing in the has the easy plays coming, He. to play the game regardless. always set-uand free shots, but just before the ball goes through the hoop for two points, a hand from out of the clear blue knocks it down his throat, or the wind direction suddenly changes and puts the shot way off. Little things like this never bother these boys though,at they just just keep plugging and trying and meeting with disaster the last minute. The moral of this story is that you arent so different the way too will have your own eccentricyou play basketball. Yes, youmere tokens of nothing when you get seem like will but hey ities, as eccentric as you are and just as sure are who others with playing that theirs is the right way. So just go right on playing the game is you get the most satisfaction out of, because thats what the sport for fun. fair-hair- off-tack- le ps ed This month we choole as the outstanding personality, Diane Blackham. A girl who was new to the Y last spring, but since then has done outstanding work for? the betterment of the school appems arjd its students. 1 i What was the rumpus with Dick and Gloria M. when she said, I didn't either, but how did you find out? Passing in the lower hall I bumped into Bob H. and Yolanda. has it finally happened? You of course havent heaid of trainers getting mad and throwing the students around (neither have I), but did you notice the broken transom in Mr. Jensen's room? Well B. Y. Hi is all out for debate. They had an interesting tine at Lincoln the other day. The debators didn t have quite enough room in the car. Air. Lewis came to the rescue and said he would take the others over, and within a few minutes he had left, two teams on the handle-bar- s. The latest gossip I have heard is that of the coming bophomore Ball. Some think I wont get in, but I guess they havent heard of W. m "Pussy-veranc- e. As i pounced into 250 A at 3 p. m. on Wednesday, the 4th and 26th day of February, I suddenly realized I couldn't escape! So 1 stayed. I really had fun too, even though my bunions are enormousYes, our mat ly enlarged ! ! ! turned out wonderfully, thanks to our kind hearted and loving teachers, who stood at the bolted door with their newest shot guns. Our prison wasnt too bad dances because we could always hang out the windows and eaten a small glimpse of the outside world while nibbling on one of Yolandas 5c bite size, but never-the-lecookies. Well, Im sure that all ol us who were caught by Air. Tuttle, or a reasonable facsimile thereof, really had fun at our first and second mat dances this year. How about a third and fourth and , well I guess you know how to count, I hope! You probably think this article will go on forever. You are so Look at that right. But wait big strong and handsome Tom. He must have escaped from the slaughter-hous- e or to some people the Biology Cottage. But it is my duty to catch him before some other "Kitty does. For alter all, Ima Cat. ss TRENDS IN HOOP STYLES PERSONALITY OF THE MONTH is i 1 ! j ! ! Thursday, March 4, 1948 juul DUNE BLACKIIAM INQUIRING REPORTER QUESTION: WJiat one trait has your ideal? I dont like Warren Novak door huggers and I dont like the new look. He must be Frances Hanks tall, dark and have a 48 Cadilac. Bennie Olsen Slim rim with no double chin. Ara Jean Avery Im not fussy, any ol thing will do. Don Baker She must have wealthy parents and a strong back. (sentimentalist) Russell Fairbanks Old look . . new look? It makes no difference . . . its whats inside that counts. Pat Creer -- A scatter brain . . . Diane is senior class secretary and was recently voted representative girl, not to tnention her admirable work on asemblies or the fine job she has done as treasurer of the Notre Alaison. In all her '.many jobs Diane has done an excellent job, especially as secretary of our graduating class, which is a job in itself. Diane is five feet six inches tall and was born in Ogden. 'She soon moved east and lived there until she returned to Utah. In our opinion Diane rightly deserves to be honored as the personality of the month. So roses to you, Diane, and keep up the good work. TOURNAMENT TIME by Dick Boyle My, how time flies. The last thing you remember its Xmas, and the next thing you know its, time for the great exodus at this time each year the whole state pours its high school students into Salt Lake City. Then for four days the city is turned into a wild jumble of basketball games, hotel rooms and movies. One good thing about this affair is that it has the full backing of the school authorities. But aside from that you all know that the tournament affords a wonderful opportunity for a like me. dont wan her student to catch up on his lessons, Ralph folks to RigbyI be home when I come because after the games are over calling. there is nothing to do each night I want a except study, or if youve one of Bernice Bullock . . Charles Atlas physique. Pat Richins She must be able to cook. He must Carolyn Robertson have manners. Nila Brown Someone who is not always polishing a halo. Jo Ann Price Teeth. A girl I Pinwhistle Percey can figure out. those who lives dangerously, you can wait until your friends are all asleep then, slip quietly out of the room, walk quickly out into the street and after checking carefully to make sure none of your friends have followed you, rush in and buy an ice cream soda you can even get chocolate if you are willing to take the chance, but for the rest of us, we, who do not have courage to indulge in the Karl S. Why dont devils eat above adventure, we must be satisfied with the lesser pleasures of ice cream? Tournament time. Joan S. I dont know, why? even But these have certain asKarl S. Where in Hell would sets. instance For you can always they find it? drop in on a roomfull of friends and enjoy a nice chat over a cup of postum, or go for a walk and take in all the sights of the city, but alas this pleasure has become somewhat duller this year because of the sights of the city have gone, but who knows maybe Joe and Sy will come back in time for this years tournament. With this we leave the subject of the tournament and I let ybu plan your own trip to the Metropolis, so farewell and be sure you dont forget the Postum. TOURNAMENT MATERIAL Answers - - - Jack Kramer. 1 2 Chicago 3 N. A. I. B. 4 Jersey Joe Walcott. Bears. game over B. Y. High. Y' High 4L Americai in an over time. r V; YLD CAT Published by tl students of Brigham Young High Scho Printed by the Herald Printing Compan Editor ... Janie S Business Mgr Nancy Brou Faculty Adviser Winston M Sports Editor . Bob News Editor .... Barbara Roi Feature Editor .... Dick I Society Editor .... 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