Our Total Dominance Over Certain Schools

Posted by Dan Jensen

There is a Baylor site that I frequent daily and I sometimes get in real battles with some of the posters.  Baylor has a very fine baseball program and I was particularly interested, of course, in Clear Creek alums Steven White and Mark McCormick when they pitched for my Bears.  I would always say, "Them Creek guys can flat chunk."

I throw in occasional tidbits about my old high school's fine basketball tradition.  This morning a Dickinson alum made a mighty ridiculous statement.  He knows that I am a Clear Creek guy and  I had commented on a Baylor recruit.  This uninfomed Gator told me that you Creek guys don't know anything about basketball.  It was with great glee that I told him about the 20 year period when Dickinson did not beat us a single time and I wondered just how many times it had done so in the past fifty years or so.  I sure wish someone would tell me.  I doubt it is more than two or three times.

I'm going to support the subject title of this thread in a bit but I need to belabor this Dickinson point for a while yet.  We lost to the Gators 32-23 in 1952 mainly because Paul White had a good game against us.  He later moved to League City, supplied several sons and a grandson for the Clear Creek program, and became my good friend.  Another good friend was my cousin, Keith Mathis, who did not play in that loss because of an illness that caused him to miss several games.  Keith scored 11 in an earlier 44-43 win over Dickinson and I like to think we would have won the other one also if he had played.

OK, I am finally getting to the point.  I just ran across a note in my records that showed total dominance of four schools over about a ten year period.  The dominance certainly continued further than that, but I have no precise records beyond 1962.

At that point we had won 23 straight over Angleton, 22 against our beloved Gators, 12 straight over LaMarque and had never lost to Texas City in 13 games.  I was surprised at that last stat since they were a much bigger school than us then.  But, as several of you can attest, bigger did not mean better in those glory days.

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[Dan Jensen]

I don't know why I said I had no records past 1962. They are through 1964.

I have checked those two years and, lo and behold, there is bad news to report.

Texas City got its first win ever against us in 1963. Actually, they won twice, by three points each time. And, I guess to try to make it habit forming, the Stingarees beat us, 50-43 the next year.

It was also that year, 1964, that LaMarque finally won against us. It was 66-57 in a first round district game but we prevailed, 64-47 in the rematch.

I have a question for Bill Doty regarding that rematch in League City. Wasn't that the game that we shocked them with a full court press from the very beginning and your 6-6 body and long arms was on the guy trying to throw the ball in?