Columbus High School 1960 Yearbook (Columbus, GA) - Full Access

The CH quad on front row, L. to R. are Rufu Bro , Chuck Harris, David Jordan, Bill mith, Jimmy Ethridge, Bob Amowicb, Don Tillman and Jimmy Boykin. tanding on the back row are Coach Dewey Renfroe, Donn Yoder, Frank carborough, Ray Crawford, Harry Wi1 on, Robert Yarbrough, Jim Pleasant, Jerry mith and Coach Bi11 Tinkler. This team put in a good season and provided for Devi1 fan exciting and tense game . Their ]ast game, p]ayed at the late Tournament, closed the high chool career of ten players. Blue Devils net 1,807 points CHS 81 Valley 42 CHS 68 Baker 47 CHS 49 Central 59 Pre-season hopes ran high for the CHS basket- CHS 53 Opelika 57 ball team and an outstanding record seemed evident to CHS 68 Auburn 53 the fans, coaches and team. To give the much needed CHS 64 Eufaula 69 experience to the group were six returning lettermen and CHS 69 Valdosta 31 ten seniors. Indications of what was to be expected were CHS 83 Moultrie 43 early seasonal wins over Valley and Baker, by the core CHS 50 R. E. Lee 40 of 81-42 and 68-47, before losing to Central, 60-50. ev- CHS 46 Baker 53 eral close defeats followed, seemingly from the Imps' CHS 61 Lanier 66 inabi1ity to hit from the charity stripe. Of the ten game CHS 58 Albany 46 lost, six were from the foul line. CHS 40 LaGrange 53 Another difficulty, at first, was in finding the CHS 69 Valdosta 39 right combination of players but when the best unit was CHS 80 Moultrie 36 di covered, the team rolled up a string of victories. They CHS 43 Willingham 36 completed the season with a record of 17-9, placing 3rd CHS 45 Jordan 26 in the Bi-City and taking 4th place in regional com- CHS 63 R. E. Lee 25 petition. CH 59 Baker 69 The last of the season was highlighted by an ex- CHS 66 Albany 52 citing victory over Central, who were Bi-City Co-Cham- CHS 60 Jordan 49 pions with Baker. This raised the team's spirits as they CHS 60 Willingham 38 prepared for the trip to Atlanta to place their bid for CHS 67 Lanier 71 the state AAA title. Leading in the first quarter, 16-14, CHS so LaGrange 60 and trailing, 34-31, at the half, the Devils couldn't con- CHS 66 Central 63 tain the highly-rated Northside Tigers and they rolled CHS 44 Northside 63 to an easy 63-44 win over the Blue Imp . ( 211 )