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Facets of victory: 'Hustle, hustle'
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Note: This two-page feature -- from the March 6, 1969, issue of LINEWS, Linfield College student newspaper -- does NOT include all players from the Linfield men’s basketball team during the 1968-1969 season.
TED WILSON
Here is the boss of the show
Ted Wilson
is his name
And he
really knows the game
In the
heat of battle
When
something goes wrong
He goes to
his bench
… singing
a song
And while
the head man
Has no
hair
If things
go sour
He just
gives the Eagle Stare.
DAN BEESON
Here is
centerman Dan Beeson
He just
won't listen to reason
Up he
goes, down he comes
Sometimes
he scores just for fun
But
needing two points in a pinch
We pass to
"Beese" for the cinch
When
Beeson pumps and sometimes jumps
Someone's
goin' to collect their lumps
GARY DONNELL
He moves
with such grace
And is
deadlier than mace
That's
Gary Donnell The Wildcat's chief ace
When he
rises into the sky
And casts
off his pumping, jumping
Looper
It's for
sure a straight in scooper
With his
great speed and reflexes
He puts on
the opponents, many hexes
JOHN VENEMON
He's tall
and he's lean
Just like
a string bean
They call
him the snake
He's a man
of action
And will
not break
When the
"Beese" gets tired
It's
Venemon they call
To handle
the ball
LARRY SAPP
He's like
that stuff that
Oozes out
of trees
It's Sapp
who's sticky on defense
And a
branch on offense
Who limbs
out to snatch that
Ball and
scores while
He runs
Rusty Rae into
The wall.
LOREN BRUNER
Loren
Bruner is his handle
Of his
sweeping hooker
Nobody can
hold a candle
Scoring
with a run, and a jump
Just watch
he doesn't pump
He passes
and cuts
And steals
the ball
Maybe
someday we'll see
His
picture on the wall
MIKE CONKLIN
Up and
down the court he roars
And
sometimes even soars
That's
Mike Conklin on the run
He takes
the ball and is the gun
He bounces
up and down the court
And if he
misses gives a snort
But when
he scores
The crowd
just roars.
PAT SMITHEY
Hi ho, Hi
ho
It's
Patrick Smithey on the go,
He fakes
to the left
And drives
to the right
Sometimes,
man, he's out of sight
He takes
the ball,
And moves
it so cool,
He makes
the defensive man look
Like a
fool
ROSS PETERSON
Slow on
the starts
But fast
with his eye
Ross
Peterson can't die
His shot
from the corner
Is so
accurate
If he
misses it, it must be fate
A home
grown guy
The
limit's the sky
He casts
off again
As the
baskets start to rain
TERRY MILLER
Then
there's Terry Miller
Standing
strong like a pillar
He's not
so tall,
Some would
even call him small
But give
him the ball
And he's
got gall
From the
outside
He is
deadly as sin
He just
shoots
And it's
in.
From LINEWS, Linfield College student newspaper,
probably in a March 1969 issue.
Note: This two-page feature does NOT include all
players from the Linfield men’s basketball team during the 1968-1969 season.
Photos by Rusty Rae and Dennis Burkhart
Layout by Dennis Burkhart
Verse by Rusty Rae and Tim Marsh
Thanks to Linfield Archives, Rich Schmidt and company, for vital assistance in 2023.
