Poor Dickinson...Poor Dickinson

Posted by Dan Jensen

I wonder if Dickinson is our oldest rival?  I wonder what our all-time record is against that school?  Since I grew up in League City, the nearby Gators were a team that I loved for us to beat.

When George Carlisle coached for Clear Creek, we beat them and beat them and beat them.  Make that, we beat them 25 times without a single loss over an 11 year span.  I wonder if the current Coach Carlisle can say he never coached in a losing game against Dickinson?  I wonder about such things and one reason I do is that we play them tomorrow (Dec. 21).

Some blood thirsty Wildcats may want a cumulative score for those 11 years.  It was 1,543 to 951.  That averages out to 61-38, a 23 point bulge.  We beat them by 20 or over seven times, 30 or over five times, over 40 twice and over 50 once.  The season of 1956-57 was a particularly good year.  Our all senior starting team of Robert Brown, James Davis, William Frost, Stanley Magee and Tom Goodman drilled the Gators, 73-31 and 92-41.  That was the year we scored 72 points on them in football and had four touchdowns called back.  Someone tell me if Dickinson scored.  I truly don't remember.

Now, Dickinson can rightly claim that it made the state tournament before us.  It was the year before (1954-55) as the Gators got hot behind a very good player named Wayne Williams and made it all the way to the Class A state tournament.  We were Class AA.  I don't know if Dickinson lost the first game or the second game but it did not win a state championship.

How did the Gators do that year against us?   Well, you know we beat them.  You just want the scores.  They were 69-50, 67-39 and 54-43.  Maybe playing us unusually close in that third game inspired them for their stretch run.

Comments

[Pat Jensen]

An old clipping explains the unusually close eleven point game with Dickinson. Boonie Wilkening and Paul Blanchard both fouled out in the third quarter. Dickinson was within one point in that quarter.

[Dan Jensen]

Well Pat was an eyewitness and I just read the scorebook later.

I did note that Boonie scored 19 and 25 in the first two games and only 8 in the third one but did not know he and Paul fouled out.

Maybe Pat and Garvis Hadley took up the slack as they led the scoring with 15 and 12 respectively.

[Dan Jensen]

Well, it was like old times today as we hammered ol' Dickinson, 99-49. Coach Buddy, like his father, showed mercy.

This report from Peggy Carlisle: "The game was one that the Bench played almost half of the game, probably more, because the 1st team did not even get on the court the last quarter. By quarters, it was 14-9, Halftime 49-21,after 3rd period 80-35, and Buddy asked his player who had the ball, to hold it, or we possibly would have scored over 100. I'm sure he felt for his former assistant, Mike Odom. They are very good friends still."

[Dan Jensen]

The new UIL alignment has been announced and, after lo these many years--I think since 1986, Clear Creek and Dickinson are back in the same district as the Gators move up from Class 4A. I, for one, am quite pleased. They were my number one target in days of yore.

The new League City school, Clear Springs, joins the eight team District 24-5A with Pearland out.

Maybe it comes a year too late. Dickinson has a terrific girls basketball team and could very well win state after finishing second last year. Clear Creek is undefeated in girls play and it would have been good to see them play this year.

But, maybe not since Dickinson is so good. I am willing to wait a year for a win over Dickinson in anything.

[Mark Cook]

Dickinson has not been in our district since 1976 for sure because that was my freshman year and they weren't in it then. Our district those years was Lake, DP, Rayburn, Dobie, Pasadena, South Houston, La Porte.

[Dan Jensen]

Mark, 1986 is the year that I got. Apparently Dickinson went up to 5A after your day, then back down in 1986.

I wish that the rivalry with Dickinson had been maintained regardless of the difference in classifiction. I would assume that it was Dickinson's idea not to do so, rather than ours.

Do any of the Carlisles have any background on this?

[Buddy Carlisle]

We actually played Dickinson for about 4 years from 2003-2006, I think. We never lost but they had a really good team in about 2005, I think, and it was a great game at their place.

The Wildcats didn't do well at Brook last night, losing 70-57. The worst news though was that Pearland upset Lake 35-34 at Lake to put us in a bad spot as far as getting in the playoffs goes.

We almost have to win out to tie Pearland for 4th now. We must beat Lake at home Friday and then Pearland and Bwood on the road the last game of the season.

I saw the girls cap a perfect 12-0 district record with an easy win over Clear Brook last night. We will play either Willowridge or Hightower in the first round of the playoffs next week.

[Dan Jensen]

Forget fourth place if that is a ticket to the playoffs. That nonsense is for losers.

Should we somehow stumble into fourth, we ought to refuse to play. It would be only one game anyway and the money should not affect the overall budget very much.

Speaking of losers, our distict record is 3-6 for this year. What are the prospects for next year? What kind of season are our junior varsity and sophomore teams having? Please, someone give us some hope.