Show 11 P 0 wil 0 t 0 P I 1 0 C S B by y A T roberts chronicle sports editor V rf rf kotora egami to receive pasal paul ttomas thomas award ds as tooele thoele s outstanding cager the highest honor and award t at can be bestowed on a eager cager from tooele thoele high school the paul thomis trophy goes to that steady reliable and brilliant gua a nobora iwami for the sea season just compI compiled ted at the end of the season a poll grantsville Grants ville murray bingham cy schools and when the results were boy that had caught the e ee e of his opponents coaches and was cho sen as s most valuable player the youngest iwami is only a sophomore as well as the small est nobora in stature looks ike 1 ke ww w w a small pine a mong a forest of i a n t redwoods iwami proved to be the most reliable a and n d dependable player on the white buffalo ros ter game after game ame opinions of the various coach es as s to just who yas nas tooele thoele s most outstanding play er was varied and the voting was ex close it s no small feat to be chosen as outstanding in a gang of sky scrapers scra and talented baske like charlie lee dale leatham glen rupp and glen hamilton but in the words of bill moran judge memorial memorials s coach my se lection of tofele tooele s most valuable player can be based only on the two games with judge memorial in those games the defensive play of iwami against our main ing treat jim hill was the differ ence between defeat and victory therefore jie he would have to be my selection this is the reason iwami was given this outstanding honor i as conducted by the coaches ot of rus and judge memorial high belated nifty nobora was the leaving the scoring up to his team mates iwami was content to take care of his guard spot in a cool self assuring manner that drove his opponents crazy A cool calm player iwami was seldom PI e i t bill handler and pas ser de it was iwami that was al in pos tion to take over the brunt of the back court duties biking the ball out of the dan ger zone directing tooele thoele s often offen sive manbevers manu evers dribbling and pas sing until he spotted a potential scorer in position to split the str nobora guards hot shots in every one of tooele thoele s games coach clarke johnsen gave iwami the assignment of guarding the main scoring threat of the appos ing team and to paraphrase a war it was iwami who spotted the hot shot sank same bob jen jeri kins ims of bingham who scored 71 points in 9 games was able to get but 2 points off this sensational sophomore jim hill who finished second in the jordan league scoring race with points could man age to collect only 7 points in the two games which iwami was guarding him flashy stan johnson from cyp rus fared no better and could boast of a total of 8 points in two encounters with iwami and so on down the list of flashy high scoring these boys fin dished the season with an imbres sive total of points scored but those points were not scored a gamst tootles To iwami the words of tooele thoele s had bas netball coach clarke johnsen no bora is worth his weight in gold just about sums up the value of nobora iwami and his con tribu tion to the success of the tooele thoele basketball team of 1947 48 iwami to be presented trophy april 8 paul thomas donor of the tro phy will present the beautiful 12 inch gold statuette to nobora on thursday night at 8 30 p m at the eagles hall coaches clarke johnsen and johnny mem bers of the tooele thoele basketball team and their partners will be special guests of honor at the presenta tion frank stone president of the local eagle arie extends a cordial invitation to the public to be pre sent when nobora iwami joins such tooele thoele basketball greats as bill mckendrick george al len swan david fernau and ang elo cebrom as recipient of the paul thomas award symbolic of tofele tooele s most valuable basket ball player |