Senior Bill Harris ond Soph Dwight Southworth strain for control of a jump ball in the opening g a me of the Echo tournament.
Ba sketball As the chilly breath of the north wind and the falling of autumn leaves announced that another Okla homa winter was approaching, BNC watched. her ath letes reluctantly leave their outdoor arena and retreat to the gymnasium where the much punished pigskin would be forgotten as their attention turned from punting and passing to dribbling and driving when basketball became the center of attraction . Anywhere the game is played, basketball thrives on keen competition and, at BNC, where it is played un der an intra-mural program, the desire to win is great. This season saw some basketball games of the highest quality. The individual scoring record was broken and rebroken, with Senior Howard Oliver's 42 point out burst finally becoming the mark at which players of the future will shoot. Earlier in the season, Sophomore Ron Snowbarger had tumbled the old record with a 39 point scoring effort. Highlighting the BNC basketball season were the annual Homecoming game and the R e v e i l l e Echo
tournament. The Homecoming game, won this year by the Redskins for the second straight time, was the big gest athletic event of the year, and saw hundreds of alumni returning to support their team and renew old friendships. The Seniors, exhibiting superior manpower and height, had little difficulty in winning the annual Echo tourney. The final results of the regular season occasioned little surprise to anyone. The seniors took the cham pionship with an 8-l record; tied for second place were the Sophomores and Freshmen with 5-4 records; while
the Juniors were firmly entrenched in the cellar with a 0-9 record . As the sounds of enthusiastic cheers and the mut terings of "\Vait 'til next year" died away, and the basketballs were once more placed in storage, BNC had reason to be j ustly proud of the ability of her ath letes and the way in which they had conducted them selves.
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