THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1979
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am and individual records
h all prep athletes can be
id.
Foreward, Publisher Brice
in explains that the book is
to “bring proper recogni-
high school boys and girls
e achieved unprecedented
ances in interscholastic ath-
mpetition.” And it makes
‘cresting reading,
football section, Ken Hall
Land High (Tex.) appears
greatest prep player of all-
e set 10 records during his
ar career spanning 1950
1953. He was one of just 17
Ion Sugar Land, a school of
B) students.
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' the moder ls are hls 899 career P°i nts
1,-r winninpB re than an y° ne e,se ) and h >s
■areer rushing yards. Second
Bareer rushing table is Billy
those who1975 Heisman Trophy
1 Roldos, prX
winner for Oklahoma, who rushed
for 7,738 yards at another small
Texas school. Hooks.
The most prolific prep passing
combination was undoubtedly the
Pat Haden-John McKay tandem of
Bishop Amat High (Calif).
Haden, of Southern Cal and Los
Angeles Rams’ fame, holds only one
record — most touchdown passes in
a single season (42 in 1970) — but
ranks in the top five in five other
categories. McKay has more career
touchdown receptions (48), the most
single season scoring catches (29)
and the most yards in a single game
(323) than any other prep receiver.
Jimmy Jordan and Wally
Woodham, who shared the quarter-
backing chores at Florida State last
fall, played at the same high school
(Leon) in Tallahassee, Fla., and
posted the two best all-time single
season passing marks. Jordan threw
for 4,098 yards in 1975 and
Woodham 3,571 in 1974. Joe Fergu
son of the Buffalo Bills, by the way,
was third on that list with 3,290
yards at Woodlawn High in
Shreveport, La.
Elvin McCoy of Haven High
(Kan.) set an all-time record for
points in a single football game with
90 in 1927. Sixth on the list? Don
Gullett of baseball’s New York Yan
kees with 72 in a 1968 game for
McKell High in South Shore, Ky.
In the basketball team section,
Wyandotte High School in Kansas
City, Kan., where UCLA All-
America Lucius Allen, former Oak
land Raider defensive back Skip
Thomas and Boston Red Sox pitcher
Steve Renko all toiled, holds the
record for the most state cham
pionships with 17.
DeMatha High of Hyattsville,
Md., posted a record 125 straight
home victories over a 16-year period
(1961-1976) with the likes of Sid Cat
lett, Adrian Dantley, Kenny Garl
and Hawkeye Whitney doing their
best to keep that streak intact.
Individually, Greg Procell is the
all-time leading scorer with 6,702
points during his four-year career
(1967-70) at Ebarb High in Noble,
La. Seventh on that list is Tom
McMillen of Mansfield High (Pa.)
with 3,608 points and eighth is
Robert Parish of Woodlawn &
Union High in Shreveport with
3,562 points. McMillen is now with
the Atlanta Hawks and Parish the
Golden State Warriors.
McMillen is also prep basketball's
all-time most accurate shooter, hit
ting 1,457 of 2,041 field goal tries for
a 71.4 percent conversion rate. Sec
ond on the list? Alvan Adams of the
Phoenix Suns but then of Putnam
High in Oklahoma City at 65 per
cent.
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[Watson never thought he d
ring training with the Hous-
this season.
yred he would be in Palm
Calif, with the California
br Winter Haven, Fla., with
justice and® 011 bed Sox. Or, any one of
di en other places,
ir 10 seasons with the Astros,
e-year tent* fi na lly asked out after last
ice preside* Before he retires, the 32-
ill first baseman wants to play
legislature xjntending team and he didn’t
King moretlLhe Astros could fill that
ver, try as they might, the
S jveren’t able to deal Watson
glhe winter and so he is rele-
to the fact that he will be at
|e for Houston this season.
I wasn’t moved at the
|neetings, I saw the chances
|ry slim of me being moved,”
tson. “Tal Smith (general
?er) is a very good friend of
and he told me that he did
ill efforts to try and make a
lave one more year going on
infract and I’ll have to evaluate
position as the season
ssses. We haven’t talked con-
r about the future because I
m my permission to make a
jbouldn’t tell you one way or
whether I’ll be with the
1980. I’ll have to see what
is during the season.”
n nearly became a Califor-
el on the final day of the
ineetings. The Angels came
to giving up right-hander
| Ryan in an even swap for
n but the deal fell apart after
igels asked for relief pitcher
mbito, too.
Angels were on Watson’s list
eptable teams, but now that
mia has obtained first base-
od Carew they have no need
itson.
s tied our hands a bit because
he’s limited himself to four contend
ing teams in each league, ” said John
Mullen, the Astros’ assistant general
manager. ”We tried Boston but we
couldn’t work out anything with
them and Texas didn’t want him.
Practically every team in the Na
tional League already has a good
first baseman.
Watson, a .299 lifetime hitter,
could change his mind about being
traded if the Astros should suddenly
blossom into a contender. Watson
felt the team would contend last
year but a series of crippling in
juries, a couple of untimely trades
and some inconsistent pitching
doomed the club to a fifth-place
finish.
Still, he remains optimistic that
the Astros might turn things around
this season.
“We have to have real solid years
from everybody to be a contender,
but the talent is there,” said Wat
son. “I think there are two keys to
the ball club. If Cesar Cedeno (com
ing off knee surgery) can come back
and have the type of year he’s capa
ble of having and if the middle of
our infield develops we should be all
right. Our pitching is certainly good
enough.”
The Astros continue to keep title
hopes alive as they came back from a
two run deficit in the ninth inning to
defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-5.
Terry Puhl hit a two run home run
in the top of the ninth tb give Joe
Sambito the win. Joaquin Andujar
came on in the ninth to stop the
Cardinals and pick up the save.
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The most accurate shooter during
a single season with a 78.3 conver
sion rate is none other than Bill
Walton, who hit 384 of 490 shots for
La Mesa Helix (Calif.) in 1969-70.
Walton went on to earn honors as
college player of the year twice at
UCLA and pro player of the year
once with the Portland Trail Blaz
ers.
Five players scored more points
in a single quarter of a prep basket
ball game than Wilt Chamberlain,
who collected 36 during one
eight-minute stanza for Overbrook
High in Philadelphia in 1955.
Special mention in the basketball
section goes to Danny Heater of
Burnsville High (W.Va.), who
scored a record 135 points in one
1960 game against Widen High.
Heater never went on to play col
lege ball.
The baseball section belongs to
David Clyde, the Texas phenome
non who was signed and sent to the
mound for by pro baseball’s Rangers
within days of his graduation from
Westchester High in Houston.
Clyde holds six records including
the two best single season strikeout
marks — 327 in 1973 and 251 in
1972.
James Rodney Richard, the cur
rent pitching ace of the Houston As
tros, is one of only five players to go
through an entire season without al
lowing an earned run for Ruston
Lincoln High (La.). Richard also is
one of just two prep players ever to
hit consecutive home runs in four at
bats.
Scott McGregor of the Baltimore
Orioles and 1978 National League
Rookie of the Year Bob Horner of
the Atlanta Braves are also men
tioned in the book among prep
baseball’s elite.
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swimming and diving, track and
field, volleyball and wrestling are
also covered in the 176-page book.
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