Live Oak Basketball - GO LIONS!

Live Oak High School Basketball
GO LIONS!

There many excellent remembrances of the good old days at Live Oak High School especially of the sports teams. We were playing six man football at the time. Tom Galbreath was all League. Bob Pierce placed at the Modesto state track meet. Jim McElroy always topped the pole vault.

One of the highlights of the basket ball team was a practice game with a team not in our league. It was Yuba City of the Sacramento Valley League playing against Sacramento High and Chico League. They were the team to win that year, 1947 as I remember. They had a league MVP, Jack Nordt, and Johnny Warren, a tough competitor. Jack Nordt later played for Yuba College and BYU.

It was a tighter came for Yuba City than expected, but amazingly, we beat them 41to 40 in two overtime periods. The team is pictured above from my annual.

In another game, we were playing Colusa High in the gym in Live Oak where you could either sit in the floor level bleachers or up stairs in the upper bleachers. It was a fairly close game at halftime. In the second period, as a Colusa player would come toward the basket, Bill Baggett and I would give him the “evil eye” which would consist of holding one eye open with the left finger and pointing with the right finger at the player as he came close to the basket.

This is the total truth. Colusa did not score a point in the second half at that basket and we won the game. Too bad they didn’t give letter sweaters for “evil eyeing”!

Finally, in one of the C Team games, Charlie Flowers was dribbling up for a try at a basket, his gym shorts fell down and tripped him before he got to the basket!