Posted by Dan Jensen
I well remember, as an eye witness, Bennie Lenox scoring 46 points against a good Houston Sam Houston team in the Brazosoport tournament in 1960 for the school record and Bill Doty throwing in 44 in a 1962 bi-district game against El Campo at Rice Gym with his last shot rimming out and I recall hearing that Paul Trcka later hit 50 against somebody in some year. That's the highest individual one game total that I know but maybe someone else has done better. Anybody know? And, what year was Paul's gem?
This is where we need a modern day historian. I can comment on some of the days of yore but there are huge gaps in later years. Ralph Parr would be a good suspect but he is too busy these days to answer my e-mails. Does anyone know of somebody else?
I also know that Bennie Lenox held the career record when he left with 2,357 points in three years but Hank Bauerschlag later scored more in four years. Does anyone know how many? How many career points did Paul Trcka have? Did he play on the varsity two or three years? I'm thinking it was two but his brother-in-law Hugh Taylor can probably help us here.
I kept close tabs on the teams from 1958-1964 and can answer a lot of questions about particular games, etc. that you may have, so fire them at me. I use the latter year of the school year to identify a particular team, such as 1957-58 would be 1958. I don't have the detail for teams from 1950 to 58 but I do have game scores and individual scoring.
This is well outdated by now but some of the Carlisle Era folks may be interested in some career scoring figures through the state championship year of 1963.
1. 2,357 Bennie Lenox
2. l,721 Bill Doty
3. 1,322 Curly Lenox
4. 1,208 Paul Timmins
5. 1,171 Boonie Wilkening
6. 1,099 Norman Lunday
7. 1,022 James Davis
All but James Davis played three years on the varsity.
Posted by: Dan Jensen | November 17, 2005 at 07:12 PM
I'm going to extend the list because most of the following responded to the Carlisle Project and some have been good contributors to this blog.
This list is badly outdated in 2005 and remember, scoring was much lower in their era.
947 Robert Brown
727 Chuck Trcka (1 yr. starter)
685 Paul Blanchard
629 Hugh Taylor
606 Pat Jensen
592 William Frost (1 yr. starter)
582 Edward Davis
579 Arthur Landriault
548 Garvis Hadley
Posted by: Dan Jensen | November 18, 2005 at 03:54 PM
Thanks to Hugh Taylor, I'm beginning to get some answers. I didn't know what year Paul Trcka had his 50 point game but it was the 69-70 season. I felt sure that this was still the record, but it's not.
Chris Menton broke that with 52 in the 1980-81 season. WHY DIDN'T SOMEBODY TELL ME!!!
Posted by: Dan Jensen | November 20, 2005 at 02:17 PM
I have a question- I was a 68-70 bb fan and watched several 100 + point games. Anyone know the record of 100 pt. games in a season? That era was so excditing and if you look at the list of players that have scored 1000 + in a season- several played in this time period- which probably explains the numerous 100 Pt games.
Posted by: Nancy (Hobart) Kacz | July 15, 2006 at 02:00 PM
Correction:
I meant 1000+ points in the high school career. Also- I couldn't find my post so I reposted- sorry for that.
Posted by: Nancy Hobart Kacz | July 15, 2006 at 02:36 PM