FIVE COACHING ASSISTANTS ADDED TO CITY SCHOOLS
Sylvan Hills Gets Two Men
Five new assistant high school coaches have been signed for next season by the Atlanta City School System, it was announced yesterday by City Athletic Director Sid Scarborough.
Paul J. Hoffman, former basketball star at Purdue and later with the Baltimore professional cage team, and Gene M. Golding, former Decatur Boys' High and Erskine College lineman, will be assigned to the new Sylvan Hills high school, where Jimmy Green is head mentor.
Erskine Russell, Jr., one-time Auburn end, will be at Henry Grady High under Head Mentor James (Spec) Landrum.
Calvin H. Emmert, football halfback and trackman from Auburn, will be assigned to Coach O. V. Bruner's Roosevelt staff.
Harold (Bo) Hagan, brilliant South Carolina quarterback for the last three seasons, will be at Bass with Atletic Director Herbert (Swede) Phillips.
Their specific coaching duties will be determined later, but it is understood Hoffman, with an unusually strong basketball background, will tutor the Sylvan Hills cagers.
LATE INTERCEPTION SPURS SYLVAN'S 7-0 DEBUT WIN
By Jack Jackson
MEMORIAL STADIUM, GRIFFIN, Sept. 14-Sylvan's Golden Bears capitalized on a fourth period pass interception to defeat Spalding, 7-0, Thursday night and made their debut into Georgia prep football circles a success.
The lone touchdown climaxed a slam-bang defensive game which saw few threats by either team. Both Teams' ground offensives were held in control throughout the passing attacks were inconsistent.
Neither team threatened until late in the first period. Stan Cochran's punt for Sylvan was rushed and went out on the Sylvan 24. The first play lost seven, but Ted Trenton gained it back by running 16 yards to the Sylvan 15. Pete Ponder made it a first down at the 14.
The game see-sawed in the second quarter. Spalding made the only sustained drive through the efforts of Trenton and Charles Carlyle. But Spalding could get no closer than Sylvan's 24 before the half.
After an exchange of punts in the fourth quarter, Horace Waller's pass was intercepted by Stan Cochran on the Spalding 20 and he returned nine yards to the 11. Charles Corley gained five and on the next play Cochran scooted around left end for the touchdown. Cochran's try for the extra point was good and Sylvan won the ball game, 7-0.
RUSSELL, SYLVAN RAMBLE TO 13-13 TIE IN THRILLER
By George Vance, Jr.
Peppy, prancing backfield colts of Russell High and Sylvan put on a spectators' show Friday night in Cheney Stadium, but neigher team mustered the stamina to break a 13-13 tie.
It was anybody's ball game to the final whistle.
Russell began the first tally trek, receiving the kickoff on its own 22 and hacking out eight, 10 and 12-yard gains to Sylvan's 21.
The Wildcats made five first downs before losing the ball on a fumble. Backs Bill Moran, R.C. Cochran and Clifton Manus were doing the plugging.
An exchange of punts followed before Sylvan managed to start its first pay drive in the second quarter. Ronald Miller began handing them off to Charlie Corley and Charlie Ragan to bring the ball to midfield. A pass, Stan Cochran to Jake Heaton, took it to the Wildcat 33. Corley circled end for 15 yards, and Ragan bucked first to the four, and then over the goal. Cochran's dead-center kick was called back but he booted another in the same spot for a 7-0 lead.
The Wildcats came right back on the subsequent kickoff. Manus passed to Gene Griffith, who went to the Bear's 38. Manus bolted 15 yards, setting up the touchdown for Moran a couple of plays later. That left it at 7-6, the halftime score.
In the third quarter, the Wildcats blocked a quick kick and took it to the foe's 42. The triumvirate of Manus, Moran and Cochran plugged away until the ball was only feet from the goal. But the Sylvan line held.
Sylvan's Cochran punted and Russell surged to paydirt. Ronald Wilson flung a neat one to Endman Griffith from the Bear 27, and Griffith carried it over. Manus' conversion boot gave Russell a 13-7 edge.
The Bears took to the air at their own 30 late in the final period. Two passes, Cochran-to-Heaton and Miller-to-Corley, put the ball on the Russell 49. Miller rammed to the 38. Cochran, Corley and Ragan carried to the 14, the 10, the five, making way for Corley's round-end touchdown prance that knotted the count for keeps.
SANSON ROMPS AS BASS NOSES SYLVAN HIGH, 7-6
By Jesse Bradshaw
The Blue Wave of Bass scored early in the first quarter Friday night at Cheney Stadium to defeat a fighting Sylvan eleven, 7-6. The defeat was first in the history of the Golden Bears who had one victory and one tie to their credit.
Tollie Williamson took Troy Davis' kickoff in the first quarter on the Bass 17 and returned to the 31. Tommy Sanson picked up a first down on the 44, then Williamson got three at tackle and Al Hernandez failed to gain at center. Sanson broke off tackle on the next play and went all the way to paydirt 53 yards away. Sanson's kick split the uprights. The touchdown drive covered 69 yards.
The Golden Bears came roaring back on the kick-off and in a series of four first downs marched to the Blue Wave 30 before Stan Cochran was forced to put out of bounds on the Bass nine.
Bass could not muster a drive and was forced to kick. The ball going over to Sylvan on their 48. From this point the Bears carried over in five plays.
Charles Ragan picked up five through center and Charles Corley anexed 12 around end and Ragan carried 26 more to the Bass nine as the quarter ended.
Cochran then hit tackle for three more with Ragan getting the final six yards. Cochran's kick was blocked by the entire center of the Blue Wave line. Bass led 7-6 early in the second quarter.
Sylvan roared back strong in the final minutes of the quarter only to have a Cochran propelled pass intercepted by Sanson on the Bass 13. The half ended one play later.
Sylvan threatened once in the third quarter by going from the Bass 36 on a pass interception by Jake Heaton down to the Bass five. Walde Hitt broke through on the next play to spill Corley for an eight-yard loss then Smiley Hendrick ended the threat by intercepting a Bear pass behind his goal and running it out to the 13.
In the final quarter neither team was able to get a drive going.
LATE SYLVAN RALLY TOPPLES GRADY, 7-6
By Charlie Roberts
Sylvan's Golden Bears, beaten by Bass in in a photo finish the week before, nosed out Grady by a toe Friday night at Grady Stadium. Stan Cochran's previously faulty foot work was perfect as he toed the fourth quarter extra point that felled the Grey Knights for the first time this year, 7-6.
The Bears had been cuffed around all night by a savage Grady forewall and were trailing 6-0, when they turned on their tormentors and slapped them down with one mighty swipe of a paw.
The Knights had been doing everything right except for one thing. No one had told them that one of the objects of the game is to hold onto the ball. Bill Sutton, Sylvan trackle, coiled around two Grady bobbles. Paul Wood clutched another to his bosom, and Chuck Epperson staked his claim to still another.
It was Epperson's snatch at the Grady 38-yard stripe midway the final chapter that wrote finis to Grady's victory string at three-straight. Given this lease on life, Charlie Ragan, Charlie Corley and Cochran burst into paydirt in four sweeps. Corley's dancing romp of 22 yards to the 13 was the big one. Cochran barreled for six and Ragan stormed the last seven. Cochran, whose failure to convert the extra point cost the Bears a 7-6 defeat at the hands of Bass one week before, toed one that barely was in the required area and that was the ball game.
Grady, playing without injured guards Jerry Froug and Landrum Wooten plus Quarterback Gene Reeves, now at Bass, and with first-string signal-caller Don available only for punting duty, played with savage abandon the rest of the night, thanks to some sterling tackling by Larry, Lenny Jacobs, Richard Ringwall, Jimmy Van Buren and some of the other up-front lads.
The Knights had rolled 40 yards to a first-period six points that held up until that fatal Bear surge. Rupert LeCraw had started Grady rolling with a 13-yard skip. Bill Metcalf, who was the top-running star with 126 yards in 12 carries; Jack Spence, Tommy Hanson and Clarence Lanford all had a hand in ramming the ball for the tally. Charlie Tidwell, third-string quarterback, climaxed it by hitting Don Gardiner with a seven-yard touchdown pass. Van Buren's boot was far but wide. It didn't matter then. Later it did.
One tremendous feature of the vicious fray was the punt-returning of Lanford who hauled back five first-half boots for 92 yards. One dizzy 27-yard Lanford jaunt set up that Grady scoring soiree. LeCraw zoomed 38 yards on six carries for Grady and Ragan slithered 60 yards in 14 totes for the winners. The air arm of both teams was practically nonexistent.
O'KEEFE AERIALS DENT RAIN, SYLVAN
By Charlie Roberts
There is no truth to the rumor that education has been de-emphasized at O'Keefe High. It is true, however, that Hank Langston hasn't taught his boys the A-B-Cs of football. The Irishmen didn't even know that you can't throw a football when it is pouring rain. As a result, they passed for a total gain of 78 yards in the first quarter and went on to trounce Sylvan, 29-0.
It was raining so hard when the game opened Friday night that the hot dog stand under Grady Stadium was playing to a standing room crowd only, and the football players to a hardy handful of ex-sailors. But you wouldn't have believed what Jimmy Nisewonger, Joe Beilman and their glue-fingered targets did with that slippery pigskin if you had seen it.
Bobby Garrard, Bobby McCauley and Frank Simpson took the opening kickoff and, with the aid fo a 16-yard Nisewonger-Garrard pass, rammed to the Sylvan 13 before the drive petered out. A penalty set the Bears back on their one, and Simpson and Don Howard smashed Tommy Stallworth in his own end zone for a safety and a 2-0 lead.
The Irish took the kick and, despite two 15-yard penalties, moved 73 yards to pay dirt, 62 of it on aerial bombs with wet leather. Beilman threw 25 to Nisewonger, and the latter hit Jimmy Smith for 14 and 12 yarders before finding Jerry Quinn open for the last 11 and the touchdown. Smith's conversion boot made it 9-0.
The web-footed Irish grounded their air bombers and moved 63 yards overland for a second quarter score that made it 16-0 after Smith's second good boot. The tramp-tramp-tramping was done for six plays by Garrard, Smith and Simpson before McCauley fought into daylight from 25 yards away.
Guard Malcolm Brooks, who played a brilliant defensive game, latched onto a Sylvan desperation aerial midway the third quarter and rumbled 47 yards for the next six pointer and a 22-0 advantage.
A 58-yard terra firma surge ate up part of the final two quarters and ended in pay dirt after a seven-yard Garrard lug. McCauley, Garrard, Simpson and Nisewonger paddled to the score in 10 plays.
With water and mud everywhere, fumbles and recoveries were many. Edward Carder, Allen Rodgers and Jimmy Alley scooped up balls dropped by the green-jersied O'Keefers. Larry Durand, Phillip Christensen and Joe Carman reciprocated on bobbles by the Bears. Simpson, Brooks and Smith ruined every Sylvan threat with pass interceptions.
McCauley had the longest mud cleats, clip-clopping for 62 yards on six tries. Garrard slopped for 47 yards on eight totes. With Brooks, Larry Durand and Simpson playing devastating defensive ball, Sylvan managed only six yards rushing in the first three chapters.
The win left the Irish in a tie with Bass for the City League leadership.
MURPHY TRIPS SYLVAN IN LAST MINUTE, 20-13
By Jesse Bradshaw
Bruce Schubele bucked over from the one-yard marker on fourth down with only five seconds remaining in the game to give Murphy Eagles a 20-13 victory over Sylvan Hills on the Cheney gridiron Friday night.
The Eagles, after trailing the Golden Bears at the end of the third quarter turned on the steam in the final quarter to score two touchdowns and two extra points.
The Eagles first score in the last quarter was on a 62-yard march with the climax coming on a 47-yard pass from Mot Morrison to Colvin Heist that carried to the Sylvan 15. Four plays later Earl Alliston went over from the one. Jimmy Fisher's kick was good and the score was tied 13-13.
The winning touchdown came on a 65-yard drive after Murphy had halted a Bear threat at their four on an interception by Fisher in the end zone. Sylvan was penalized 15 yards for tackling Fisher and the Eagles took over on the 35. In a series of three first downs Murphy went on to score.
Sylvan took over on the Eagles' 31 in the first quarter and marched for the first score of the game as Charles Ragan went off tackle for the last 12 yards. Stan Cochran's kick was good and the Bears led 7-0.
Murphy took the kickoff and drove 57 yards with Kirk going the last five yards for the score. Fisher's kick was wide and Sylvan led 7-6.
Now it was Sylvan's turn. The Golden Bears went 74 yards to pay dirt. The key play being a pass form Cochran to end Troy Davis good for 40 yards to place the ball at the Murphy 20. Four plays later a pass from Miller to Ragan clicked for 10 yards and another TD for Sylvan. Cochran's kick was blocked and the Bears led 13-6 at the half.
Credit is due the entire forward wall of the Eagles. Twice they held inside the ten-yard marker. Once on the five and again on the four. In the backfield for Murphy, Morrison and Schubele stood out.
On the otherside of the ledger, Davis, Edward Carder and Allen Rodgers were impressive in the Bear line, while Ragan, Cochran and Corley were the mainstays in the Sylvan attack.
COCHRAN, CORLEY SHINE AS SYLVAN WHIPS SMITH
By Ernie Hynds
Stan Cochran, a converted fullback playing quarterback, and Charlie Corley, a 126-pound 60-minute man, spelled the difference with a capital C Thursday night as new Sylvan High inaugurated another City League grid rivalry by beating Smith High, 20-14, at Cheney Stadium.
Cochran, possibly the most underrated passer in the city, threw passes of 26 and 46 yards for the first two touchdowns and heaved a 58-yard aerial to set up the winning talley which Corley scored on a two-yard quickie off tackle.
Corley, who along with Emory Fears did most of the running, also scored on the initial touchdown pass.
This 26-yard feature came after a Smith fumble midway of the first period. The Smithies evened it up, however, before the quarter ended when Sylvan fumbled on its own six. Paul Ragsdale made five and Jack Odum sneaked in for the score.
With Ragsdale, Grady Waters and Lamar Smith doing most of the footwork, the Smithies drove 37 yards for a second stanza lead and pushed again to the one, but the half ended their portion of the scoring at that point.
Sylvan moved 75 yards on two pass plays, one to Jake Heaton which carried to midfield, and the payoff pitch to Troy Davis who raced behind the defensive right halfback to score.
The winning effort covered 78 yards in four plays early in the final stanza as Fears raced 18 yards from his 22 to his 40. Cochran hit Corley who carried to the Smith two. Fears added inches and Corley made it on the next try.
ROOSEVELT STUNG, 13-6, BY SYLVAN
By Jesse Bradshaw
Sylvan came from behind to score touchdowns in the second and final quarters last night to defeat a stubborn Roosevelt eleven, 13-6, on the Cheney gridiron.
The Golden Bears scored both touchdowns on bad kicks by A. P. King and Melvin England. King's punt only traveled six yards and Sylvan took over on the Roosevelt 40. Charles Ragan raced it back to the 14. Six plays later Cochran found Ronald Miller alone, hit him in the end zone with a bullet pass. Cochran's kick was good and Bears led 7-6.
Sylvan's second score came when England got off a short kick that only went form his six to the 25. Charles Corley and Stan Cochran made it a first down at the 11. Cochran hit Ragan with a pass to the five. Ragan then hit center for three and two for the final score. Cochran's try missed.
The Crimson Tide rolled to its lone score in the first on a 65-yard march. Massey went over from the one. A. P. King's kick was wide.
Shining lights for the Sylvan offense were Ragan, Corley and Cochran in the backfield, and in the line on defense was Allen Rodgers. Several times he broke through to nail the ball carrier for large losses.
For the Crimson Tide Ernest Massey was just about the offense while Ernest Snyder played a jam up game in the line.
SYLVAN-BROWN CONTEST PITS FORMER MATES
By Charlie Roberts
It will be Cain versus Abel all over again. It will be brother against brother when Brown and Sylvan High clash at Cheney Stadium Thursday night, and as far as Southside football fans are concerned you can have the championship games. This is the big one of the year to them.
When Sylvan opened for business this year, the school fell heir to most of the stars of Brown's 1949 B team, an eleven that was good enough to sweep unbeaten to the City League B championship. Some others remained at Brown.
Not only did these boys play on the same team last year, but they practiced with and scrimmaged against one another in spring practice.
Coach J. E. DeVaughn, who won three straight City League crowns and one state AA title, still is head mentor at Brown. Jimmy Green, his backfield coach, now is the head mentor at Sylvan.
"This game is a natural-Boys High vs. Tech High all over again-all right," grins DeVaughn. "Sylvan could beat us in the spring. We hope they can't do it now. Our boys don't believe they can."
TEACHER VS. PUPIL ON 3 PREP FRONTS
By Charlie Roberts
By odd coincidence, it will be teacher vs. pupil in all three high school football games played here Thursday night when six Greater Atlanta schools end their 1950 regular seasons.
\ Bass, coached by Swede Phillips, desperately needs a victory at Grady Stadium over Murphy, coached by Max (Red) Ivey, Swede's assistant for two years before taking over as head man of the Eagles. The City League championship pace revolves around that one.
Coach J. E. DeVaughn and his Brown Rebels will match touchdowns at Cheney Stadium with Sylvan, composed of players who were at Brown last year and coached by Jimmy Green, 1949 Brown backfield mentor under DeVaughn.
North Fulton, under Freshman mentor Jack Griffin, will play host to Marist, tutored by R. L. (Shorty) Doyal. Griffin was an All-GIAA end under Doyal at Boys High before going on to college glory at Georgia Tech.
All should be corking good scraps. The Brown-Sylvan get-to-gether reeks with natural rivalry stemming from the "brother vs. brother" angle, but the important one, of course, is the Murphy-Bass melee.
Phillips' Blue Wave can clinch at least a share of the City League crown with a victory, but the Wavers rate only a slight edge. The Eagles have lost to only one loop team by more than a touchdown, and in that one-O'Keefe 28, Murphy 19-the Eagles led a good portion of the time.
The Bass four horsemen-Tom Sanson, Tollie Williamson and the Hendricks brothers, Sonny and Bob-give Bass a most versatile attack, and Sanson is Region 3-AA's leading scorer with 61 points. Sonny's tossing and the snatching of Tony Dowd and Dickie Hubert also make them a threat in the air.
However, Elmer Kirk, Bruce Schubele, Madison Smith, Earle Alliston and Mott Morrison make up just as potent a striking force, and many feel that the Eagles have as powerful a line as the city can muster.
BLACK BOOK STUFF-Grady goes into its show-down game with O'Keefe Friday night in crippled condition. Richard Ringwall, 230-pound tackle, probably is out with a bad ankle. QB Don Reid will play but Bobby Silverman must do the punting. Reid has a bum ankle as has Guard Jack Duncan.
ELMER KIRK, who has carried over 100 times for a 5.4 yards per try average, has set up all except two Murphy touchdowns but scored only one. Murphy has out-first downed and out-gained every foe except Decatur, yet lost six of nine-partially through bad breaks, injuries and lack of team speed.
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Sylvan (4-4-1) over Brown (1-7-1)
North Fulton (6-3-0) over Marist (3-4-0)
Season Record: Won 136, Lost 26. Pct .857. Last Week-Won 22, Lost 2. Pct .917.
BROWN AND SYLVAN FIGHT TO DEADLOCK
By Milton Chambers
Brown High and Sylvan High, the two schools that last year were one, battled to a 0-0 draw Thursday night at Cheney Stadium, the one touchdown of the evening being called back by a penalty.
That one touchdown, in the third period, was Sylvan's on a pass thrown by Ronald Miller to End Troy Davis in the end zone. The penalty, 15 yards for offensive holding, moved the ball back to the Brown 35 and Brown took over the ball on the next play.
The scoring chance was set up by Sylvan's Emory Fears, collecting a fumbled Brown pitchout from Lee Hale to Bob Vass.
Brown drove right back up the field on the running of Bill McCollum and Vass and Moore passes to Campbell and McCollum. At the Sylvan six on fourth down, Troy Davis, Sylvan's sure offence and defense man, knocked down a Moore-to-Vass pitch and ended the threat.
Both lines held when holding meant most and the ball went over on downs more than once from the hawk-eyed pass defending.
Penalties hit Sylvan harder than Brown, but both suffered them at important moments, Brown as the half ended pushing the ball to the Rebel two-yard line and Sylvan in the fourth quarter, back to its own four.
SYLVAN GIVES FIRST LETTERS
Sylvan Hills High's first set of letters were presented at a player-directed banquet held Monday night in the school cafeteria.
Charlie Ragan, the team's halfback and co-captain, acted as master of ceremonies, handing out the team awards: a gold brick to Herbert Brite, who missed a good part of the season after an early-game injury; handcuffs for Paul Woods of the line, and appropriate gifts for Allen Rodgers, Charles Corley, Bill Bingham and Ed Carder.
The school's cheer leaders, eighth grades, B team members and cross-country runners were awarded letters before the big black and gold varsity jackets were given out.
Those receiving jackets were: Ed Carder, Billy Petty, Brewster Bailey, Bill Sutton, Bill Bingham, Gerald Adams, Tommy Crowe, Emory Fears, Charles Ragan, Charles Epperson, Charles Harmon, Frank Gossett, Jimmy Alley, Troy Davis, Allen Rodgers, Ronald Brown, Rufus Chambers, Ronald Miller, George Chowning, George Cobb, Albert Price, Bill Stallworth, Ed Dortch, Jake Heaton, Richard Sandifer, Paul Woods, Bill Moore (trainer) and Billy Orr (manager), Gene Dyer, S. A. Poole, Charles Corley, Stan Cochran. Herbert Brite was awarded a varsity letter.
ENDS-Davis, Heaton, Allen, Bailey, Sandifer. TACKLES-Bingham, Carder, Sutton, Price, Petty. GUARDS-Epperson, Harmon, Wood, Chowning. CENTERS-Rodgers, Dortch, Chambers. BACKS-Miller, Ragan, Fears, Cochran, Corley, Stallworth, Crowe, Cobb.
SYLVAN HILLS EASES PAST BASS, 44-42
Sylvan Hills spotted Bass an early lead and then came sailing from behind to eke out an exciting 44-42 victory in the opening City League game of the season for both teams at the Bass gym Thursday night.
Bass, led by Cotton McMullis, assumed a commanding 15-6 margin in the first stanza and appeared to be heading for a comfortable victory.
However, Troy Davis anad Ronald Miller sparked a determined comeback and by intermission Sylvan had erased the deficit and posted a 26-22 advantage.
It was a torrid duel right down to the wire, but once in front Sylvan never relinquished the lead.
Davis and Miller, with 13 and 11 markers respectively, led Sylvan, but Bass' McMullis took top point honors with 14.
Sylvan, led by the sharpshooting of Troy Davis and Gene Bone, took its third straight City League victory against no defeats Tuesday night by walloping O'Keefe, 62-46.
Davis got 14 and Bone scored 12, but scoring honors for the night went to Jimmy Nicewonger of O'Keefe. Nicewonger, who did not start the game, racked up 15 points.
In the "B" preliminary, O'Keefe won, 40-20.
BROWN, SYLVAN TO ENTERTAIN SAVANNAHANS
Atlanta fans will be afforded one of their rare opportunities to see a pair of the state's top Class AA out-of-town high school basketball quintets in action Thursday and Friday nights when the Savannah High and Benedictine College teams invade the city.
Chick Shiver's Blue Jackets will tangle with Brown's City League defending champions at 7:30 o'clock Thursday night at the Brown gym. Sylvan's unbeaten five will mix it with BC in the second game of the twin bill. The following night the two Atlanta teams will swap foes, with Sylvan taking on the Jackets, who were runners-up to Macon Lanier High for the state AA crown last season.
Neither Brown nor Sylvan has been beaten in 1951 league play.
BC COMEBACK STOPS SYLVAN, ANDERSON HEADS 46-45 WIN; BROWN LASHES SAVANNAH, 46-35
By Charlie Roberts
Vic Mell's Benedictine College quintet, sparked by the remarkable clutch performance of wraith-like Bobby Anderson, made one of the most sensational comebacks seen here in years to nip the Sylvan five, 46-45, in an overtime game Thursday night at the Brown gym after Roy Rowlett's Brown Rebels had shaded Savannah High, 46-35.
Stan Cochran, Troy Davis and Ronald Miller, hitting the nets with almost every shot, had sported Sylvan into first with a 20-5 quarter-time lead, then a 26-5 advantage after two minutes of the second quarter.
That's when Anderson, whose sparkling quarterback play helped BC to an upset football win over Savannah in November and who was a star shortstop for Savannah's State American Legion baseball champions, burst into frenzied activity. The fast-stepping youngster fired three field goals in 20 seconds. That ignited the rally that eventually was to bring victory.
The invaders were behind at 30-21 at the half, but pulled ahead at 35-34 as the third period ended. From then on it was a bitter duel. Sub Bobby Phillips fired a field goal just before the end of regulation to pull BC even at 44-44 again after Ronald Miller's four good charity tosses had put the Golden Bears ahead again.
In the overtime period, Bernie Cleary tipped in a field goal from under the basket with two minutes left to give the Cadets the lead 46-44. And it held up despite Gene Bone's lone free bucket.
Anderson was high point man, getting all 17 of his tallies in the last three quarters. Cleary was close behind with 12. Stan Cochran bagged 12 of his 14 counters for the Bears in the first half. Troy Davis fired nine of his 13 in those first two go-rounds. Ronald Miller was the king bee floor man and netted ten counters.
Six-foot-seven Dan Faucett, who has 42 points in three City League games and Bobby Moore combined their talents for the Brown victory. Faucett dumped in 16 points and Moore 13. Ed Johnson, six-three center, and Guard Ed Weeks were Savannah's most agressive performers. Johson found the range for 14 points before fouling out. Weeks chipped in with eight tallies.
Brown led, 8-7, at the quarter. It was tied, 18-18, at half time, and Brown was going away at 29-25 at the three-quarter mark.
Sylvan will meet Savannah in the 7:30 curtain raiser at the Brown gym Friday night, with Brown and Benedictine meeting in the second fray.