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October 3, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Tigers to Battle Basile in Playoff Game, 1955

The following article appeared in the November 30, 1955 edition of the Monroe News Star:

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MNS - 11/30/1955

Sicily Islanders To Battle Basile In 'B' Playoffs

SICILY ISLAND, La., Nov. 30

(Special)--After beating Block of Jonesville, 40-20 for their sixth straight league win without defeat and clinching the district 3-B championship for the second straight year, the Sicily Island Tigers have been working hard for their bi-district game with the Basile High Bears at Basile Friday night.

Basile won the 4-B football crown last week by defeating Cottonport, 14-7, and will face the Tigers with a fine array of backs, including Billy Fontenot, leading scorer in district four with 124 points, in addition to Clarence Weaver, hard driving fullback, and Oren Vige, an outstanding quarterback.

Coach Raymond Peace's Island Tigers will match them with all-state B. K. Miller, who scored six touchdowns in the last scheduled game against Block and is his district's leading scorer with 126 points. Along with Miller will be such outstanding Sicily Island ball handlers as Billy Wiggins, Charles Gillespie, and Benny Frank Alford.

In the line, the Tigers' success of continuing in championship play will depend on all-state Albert Dampier, big Cook Crawford, Lynn Evans, Charles Stringer, Dean Wiggins, C. J. Richardson, Charles Enright, Harvey Ray Wells, and Tommy Wells. All have played outstanding ball for Sicily Island this season.

The Tigers leave Sicily Island Friday morning at 8 o'clock by chartered bus for Basile. Kickoff time that night is 8 p.m.

July 25, 2015

Sports Center Saturday: Catahoula-Franklin Parish All-Star Basketball Team, 1932

The 1932 Catahoula-Franklin Parish Basketball All-Star team was comprised of former high school and college stars.

Team members included the following:

K. Brooks - Manifest
R. Swayze - Jonesville
Pat Gibson - Harrisonburg
S. Gibson - Harrisonburg
B. Trichel - Harrisonburg
S. Trichel - Harrisonburg
Ernest Foster - Wisner
Beverly Faulk - Wisner
A. L. Brooks - Sicily Island
Simon Meyers - Sicily Island
Sprague DeWitt - Sicily Island

The All-Star team was formed in November of 1932 in advance of meeting the Brown Paper Mill basketball team in the Sicily Island High School gymnasium on December 2.

Monroe News Star - 11/22/1932

The Brown Paper Mill basketball team, known as the Safety Firsts, was comprised of players employed at the paper mill in West Monroe, Louisiana. They were part of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) which was a non-profit, multi-sport organization founded in 1888.

The 1932 team manager and player, Cary Phillips, later went on to coach basketball at the Northeast Center in Monroe. Other Safety Firsts team members were Lindy Hood, Ray Roden, Stone, Lawson, Evans, McNeely, Broom and Dowden.

Unfortunately, I have been unable to locate any articles references the outcome of the December 2, 1932 game. If anyone has more information on members of either team or the outcome of the 1932 game, please leave a comment below or email me at rootsfromthebayou@gmail.com.

July 11, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Atkins and Enright Selected to Northern All-Star Football Team, 1958

Monroe Morning World - 7/26/1958

March 28, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Sicily Island Girls Basketball Team, 1947-48

Sicily Island High School Girls Basketball Team, 1947-1948

Front Row (LtoR): Coach C. B. Coney, Bernice Bruce, Virginia Pearson, Mattie Bullock?, Barbara Jean Pearson, Patsy Seal, Mary Lou Mount, Maurice Cupit

Back Row (LtoR): Betty Gambrell, Virginia Dent, Mickey Salter, Margie Evans, ?, Adele Vaught

Note that none of the girls are wearing basketball shoes.

Mickey Salter Thurman was kind enough to help with identifying her teammates. When asked why they were wearing their dress shoes, she replied, "We didn't know they were taking that picture that day!" I think the dress shoes add a nice touch and make this one of my favorite photographs.

Photograph is courtesy of Pam Twiner Thompson. Thank you, Pam!

March 21, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Sicily Island Boys Basketbell, 1949-1950

Sicily Island High School Boys Basketball Team - 1949-1950

First Row (LtoR): Mahaffey, Taylor, Garrison, Stephens, Roberts

Second Row (LtoR): Thurman, Smith, Cole, Barron, Punchard, Coach Peace

Yearbook photograph is courtesy of Karen Barron Egloff.

March 14, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Sicily Island Girls Basketball, 1949-1950

Kneeling (LtoR): Virginia Dent, Mickey Salter, Virginia Pearson, Betty Gambrell, Wanda Sue Passman, Bernice Bruce

Standing (LtoR): Mary Lou Mount, Margie Ruth Evans, Emma Jean Roberts, Coach Cameron B. Coney, Eloise Barron, Patsy Seal, Maurice Cupit

Yearbook photographs are courtesy of Karen Barron Egloff.

March 7, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Sicily Island Boys Basketball Team, 1948-1949

SIHS Boys Basketball Team, 1948-1949

Kneeling (LtoR): Floyd Mahaffey, Donnie Baxter, Richard White, Boots Thurman, Sidney Ray Moffett, Buddy Roberts

Standing (LtoR): Billy Cloy, Johnny Punchard, Nolan Stephens, Thomas Jackson, Larry Barron, Edmond Dobson, Russell Nelson, Coach Raymond Peace

Please leave a comment if someone has been incorrectly identified.

Photograph is courtesy of Karen Barron Egloff.

February 28, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Sicily Island Boys Basketball Team, 1947-1948

Sicily Island Boys Basketball Team, 1947-1948

Back Row (LtoR): Nolan Stephens, Boots Thurman, Tim Cupit, ?, Caly Daniel, Jr., Larry Barron

Front Row (LtoR): Coach Little, Charlie Taylor, Edward Enright, Jr., Rex "Sonny" Guice, Benny Ray Mahaffey, C. Garrison

Photograph is courtesy of Pam Twiner Thompson, niece of Tim Cupit.

February 21, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Sicily Island Boys Basketball Team, 1946-47

SI Boys Basketball Team, 1946-1947

Front Row (LtoR): J. W. Barron, Thomas Blackmon, Sonny Guice, Boots Thurman
Back Row (LtoR): Edward Enright, Jr., Billy Pat Seal, John Bowman?, Carroll Boles, Larry Barron, Coach Louis Little

Photograph is courtesy of Karen Barron Egloff. Mickey Salter Thurman assisted with identification.
Thanks to both of you!

January 31, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Lady Tigers, 1948

Lady Tigers Basketball Team - Sicily Island High School, 1948

Kneeling (LtoR): Patsy Seal Dennis, Maureen Cupit, Mary Lou Mount White, Virginia Pearson Barron, Bernice Bruce, Margie Evans Poe

Standing (LtoR): Betty Gambrell, Wanda Sue Passman McGuffee, Emma Jean Roberts Seal, Eloise Barron King, Virginia Dent Price, Mickey Salter Thurman

Photograph is courtesy of Karen Barron Egloff.

January 17, 2015

Sports Center Saturday - Sicily Island Basketball Tournament, 1971

Monroe News Star - 2/12/1971

January 10, 2015

Sports Center Satruday - Island Trackmen Involved in Accident, 1934

Monroe News Star - 4/23/1934

November 29, 2014

Sports Center Saturday - 1962 Jamboree

The following article appeared in the August 29, 1962 edition of the Monroe News Star:

El Tigre Yearbook - 1963

November 22, 2014

Sports Center Saturday - First Homecoming at Sicily Island High, 1948

The following article appeared in the November 3, 1948 edition of the Monroe News Star:

November 15, 2014

Sports Center Saturday - The Fear of the Sicily Island Box

The following article appeared in the November 21, 1974 edition of the Monroe News Star:

October 11, 2014

Sports Center Saturday - S I vs. University, Pre-Game Write Up, 1974

Monroe News Star - 12/10/1974

Note: Though the reporter is not identified, it was most likely Ted Lewis. Mr. Lewis often enjoyed painting Sicily Island in an unflattering light. This was not the first (or last) article where he condescendingly noted our rural setting or our 'city cafe'.