APRIL, 1951
THE LINCOLN ECHO
PAGE THREE
Junior Boys And Senior Girls Win
Intramural Basketball Tournament
THIS PHOTO SHOWS A PORTION of the jubilanl Lincoln
High Basketball team as Captain Nello Atwater receives District
Champions trophy.
Tigers Win Disfricf Basketball Championship
Stopped In State Tourney By West Charlotte
Under the inspired guidance of
Coach “Bob” Kornegay the Lin
coln High School Tigers climbed
to victory in the District Basket
ball Tournament which was play
ed at the Hillside High School in
Durham on February 22-23.
In their first game the Tigers
met and defeated their arch rivals,
the Hillside Hornets, with a score
of 53-44.
The Tigers toppled Smithfield
in their second game with the
score 50-38. Nello Atwater made
the first eleven points.
In their third and final game
the Tigers met the “Little Blues”
of Raleigh. The tigers won with
the score 54-45 although the “Lit
tle Blues” had beat them twice
during the regular season.
The Tigers moved into the
State Tournament which was held
at the North Carolina College in
Durham on March 2-3. They were
Captains For 51-52
Teams Are Elected
In a recent meeting of the Lin
coln High School Monogram Club
the new captains of the 1951-52
football and basketball teams
were elected. Matthew Davis was
elected captain. Johnny Goins,
one of the most versatile ath
letes of Lincoln High, was elect
ed Co-captain.
Thomas Bynum, a Junior and
member of the 1950-51 basket
ball varsity, was elected captain
of the 1951-52 basketabll team
and Johnny Goins was elected
co-captain.
Samuel Atwater
stopped in their first game by
the “Royal Bums” of West Char-
lotte High School with the scores
50-45.
Ward Burnette
The Lincoln High Intramural
Basketball tournament went over
with a bang this year. The teams
participating were classes 7
through 12. The senior and junior
g.rls were awarded byes in the
first round of play. The eighth
giade girls defeated the 7th grade
girls in the opener with the scores
14-5. The freshmen girls stopped
the sophomore girls 19-4 to wdnd
ip the first round. The senior
{iris opened the semi-finals with
j a 22-6 triumph over the eighth
Shelton McCauley, Alfred Bar
bee. John Atwater, Eddie Guth
rie. Leonard Cole, Richard Baker,
and Clyde Burnette.
Only three members of the bas
ketball team are leaving this year.
They are Captain Nello Atwater,
Samuel Atwater, and William
Hargraves.
Samuel Atwater
grade girls.. The other semi-final
match was between the junior
girls and freshmen girls. The jun
iors won 22-11. In the final game
the senior class girls won over
the junior class girls with the
:scores 20-12.
In the boys tournament the sen
iors and juniors were awarded
byes in the first round. In the first
game the seventh grade boys
nosed out the eighth graders 20-
14. In the second game the sopho-
■ mores beat the freshmen 37-16.
In the semi final the juniors de
feated the seventh graders 39-8
and the sophomores edged the
seniors 36-31. In the final game
the juniors won over the sopho
mores 33-31.
Thomas Bynum of the junior
class and Georgia McCoy of the
senior class were awarded the
most valuable players trophies.
Samuel Atwater
Football Schedule
Is Announced
The following schedule of 1951
-52 season football games of Lin
coln High was recently announc
ed:
-Second Ward High
School at Chapel Hill
-Hillside High School
at Chapel Hill
-Langston High School
at Danville, Va.
-Adkins High School at
Kinston
-Henderson Institute at
Henderson
-Mary Potter School at
Chapel Hill
-Warren Co. Training
School at Chapel Hill;
-Person Co. Training
School at Roxboro
-Washington High
School of Raleigh
-Epps High School at
Greenville
Samuel Atwater
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'50-51 Team Lost
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