Woodrow Wilson High School Alumni "Sports Pics for Class of 1959"

Woodrow Wilson

High School

Portsmouth, Virginia

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BASKETBALL

BASEBALL

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1951 Basketball Eastern District Champions

Seated: Parker, Myers, McFadden, Moynithan, Curry. Standing: Meginley, Dalton, Slaughter, Daniels, Rodman, Barnes, Key, Coach McClurg.

Captain Bubber Barnes

Coach McClurg

EASTERN

DISTRICT

Coach Mills

CHAMPIONS

VARSITY BASKETBALL

Wilson

Norfolk Academy

Wm. and Mary Frosh

Lynchburg

Maury

Newport News

Norview

Granby

Warwick

Hampton

Lynchburg

Cradock

Granby

Newport News

Hampton

Maury

Craddock

Long Beach

Ramsey High

Warwick

Norview

The season’s record was Fifteen

wins and Five losses.

First Row, left to right: Sidwell, Ziggenhain. Second Row: Severin, Markman, Pugh, Jackson, Cummins, Batten, Helms. Third Row: Harrell, Peck, Clark, Houghton, Jean, Walker, Phelps, Coach Mills.

J. V. BASKETBALL

Wilson 61 .......................Norfolk Academy 26

Wilson 61 .............................South Norfolk 19

Wilson 53 .........................................Maury 44

Wilson 43......................................... Maury 47

Wilson 48 .........................................Maury 54

Wilson 49 ............................Newport News 35

Wilson 41 ......................................Norview 40

Wilson 52..................... Norfolk Cath. High 29

Wilson 53 ........................................Granby 54

Wilson 51 ..................................... Warwick 41

Wilson 51 .....................................Hampton 41

Wilson 49 .....................................Craddock 37

Wilson 46 ........................................Granby 47

Wilson 47 ............................Newport News 46

Wilson 45 .....................Norfolk Cath. High 48

Wilson 49 .....................................Hampton 38

Wilson 48 .........................................Maury 40

Wilson 24 ....................................Craddock 37

Wilson 42.......................................Warwick 41

Wilson 42 ..................................... Norview 41

Wilson 48 .............................South Norfolk 34

The season’s record was Fifteen

wins and Six losses.

Captain

Bubber Barnes

Kenny Daniels

Cully Dalton

In his second year as basket-

ball coach at Wilson, popular

Charley McClurg hit the jackpot

in winning the Eastern District

Championship. In doing so his

fast breaking Prexies amassed a

13-1 conference record, edging

out the Newport News’ Typhoon,

last year’s title holder.

Wilson’s only conference de-

feat came at the hands of a hot

Hampton crew who simply

couldn’t miss on their court. Of

the other conference games, only

a few teams gave Wilson any

scares at all.

Also included on the Wilson

slate was a four day trip to New

York where the locals met Long

Island High, and Ramsey of

New Jersey. Although Long

Island handed the McClurg men

a 70-45 drubbing, the Orange

and Blue bounced back with a

decisive victory over Ramsey,

defending New Jersey state

Pop McFadden

Jessel Curry

Juddy Rodman

Finishing regular season play

with a 14 won and 6 lost record,

and winning the Eastern District Championship gave us a third

seeded spot in our second suc-cessive state tournament.

Leading the Prexies into the

tournament was the same quin-tet that started every ball game

Rodman controls tap.

all year. Jessel Curry, All Eastern

Forward and high individual

point maker in the Eastern Dis-trict, paced the high scoring

Prexies, who incidentally aver-

aged almost 54 points per

game to their opponent’s 44. Curry ended the year with well over 300 points for a 17 point

average per game.

Right behind Curry were All Eastern Guard, Pop McFadden,

rangy Kenny Daniels, ace re- bound man all year. Rubber

Barnes and Cully Dalton. In late season games, the last three

named played great ball, and

gave their tournament opponents plenty of trouble.

Tiny Moyinham

Mahlon Parker

Joe Myers

After annihilating Danville 68-

48 in the first round, the Orange

and Blue had a tougher time

besting a good Alexandria com-

bine, 54 - 51. This set the stage

for the third meeting, this time

in the state finals, with the Conn-

coached Typhoon, a team which

Wilson had already downed

twice during regular season play.

As Coach McClurg said before

the Championship game, “It was

tough enough defeating New-

port News twice this year, much

less a third time, and for the

state title.” It proved too tough

a task and the result was an

upset 44 - 42 victory for Newport

News. Although Wilson led

almost the entire game, the Typhoon rallied to take the thriller in the last minute.

Nevertheless, let’s look to the

future, not the past. With Spark-

plug Curry back, along with

Daniels, Cully Dalton, Meyers,

Slaughter, Key, Moynihan, and

Meginley, some of the slack left

by graduating Seniors, McFad-

den, Barnes, Rodman, Parker,

and Rufus Dalton, should be

taken up.

Buddy Key

Rufus Dalton

Arthur Meginley

Enos Slaughter

Sports 1

Sports 2

Sports 3

First Row, left to right: Managers—Markman, Groce, Riley, Haythe, Snowden, Morgan, Staples, Nimroff, McCrickard, Hayden. Second Row: Ellis, Slaughter, Curry, McCrickard, Hendricks, McFadden, Richardson, Strickland. Third Row: Coach Gray, Bugarin, Aydlette, Rice, Cutchins, Smith, Topping, Lee, Butler. Fourth Row: Jackson, Royster, Severn, Steams, Wiggins, Allen, Key, Cummings

PENINSULA DIVISION

CHAMPIONS

Coach Gray, Pop McFadden—P. and David McCrickard—P

As the spring season rolled around again, Coach Woody Gray started drilling his baseball squad in preparation for the defense of their Eastern District Title.

Having Sonny Richardson, ace hurler, back for his last season, the Presidents were given a good chance of winning another title. As this went to press, the Orange and Blue record stood at 3 won and 3 lost.

Building around eleven lettermen, Coach Gray welded a formidable defensive team to go along with his returning power hitters and excellent pitching staff.

With only a handfull of this year’s team graduating, the Presidents should be a baseball power in the Eastern District again next year.

Bobby Rice -- SS

Richard Butler -- 1B

Coach Mills

and Bobby Bugarin -- C.F.

Leonard Ellis -- 3B

Bobby Smith -- 2B

Sonny Richardson -- P and Alton

Allen -- C

Charles Topping -- R.F.

Carter Wiggins -- R.F.

Jessel Curry -- L.F.

Tommy Stearns -- C

Sammy Strickland-- C

Buddy Aydlette-- R.F.

Roy Hendricks-- P

Bobby Slaughter-- P