Seated from Left-Right: Jimmy Barnard, Noble Brown, Glen Stewart, and Johnny Render. Back Row and standing Left-Right: Phillip Maple, Billy Sam Drake, Junior Singleton and Mr. Park........

Rockport Basketball, "B" Team in 1946-1947.
Seated from Left-Right: Unknown, Jimmy Layman, Freeman Jones, Junior Singleton, Claud Snodgrass, Kenneth Curtis, Donald White.

Standing from Left-Right: J. W. Park, Jimmy Stewart, Glendle Johnson, Clarence Coleman, H. D. Bailey, Windle White, Bobby Singleton, L. H. Harper.

Small Town Basketball! Young men in good physical shape competing on a gymnasium floor! Cheerleaders doing their routine in unison. The "Fans" with the Cheerleaders leading them on with a victorious chant! Well folks, for a small town in the mid-century, it just did not get much better. As a player, cheerleader, or a fan, events and happenings will forever be etched in our minds. Who could ever forget Bob Decker cheering for the "Tigers" and being warned to keep off the playing floor. At times, he was so far out on the gym floor that he probably could have been guarding one of the opposing players. Who could ever forget going to Sunfish to play in their gymnasium. The Sunfish Gymnasium has a upper level and a few "Happy Fans" would sing the old song, "99 Bottles Of Beer On The Wall". It seems that they started before the game and continued after the game was over. That gym was unique in another way. It had two "Pot Bellied" stoves on each side of the gym and they were used for heating and not decorations. The price for admission was fifteen and twenty-five cents for regular games with maybe a ten cent increase for a tournament night. Ah, "Small Town Basketball"..

Rockport Cheerleaders in 1946-1947. From Left-Right: Coleen Hoskins, Gladys Robinson, Bette Tooley, Bobby Fulkerson, and Peggy Fulkerson.

Rockport Cheerleaders in 1939-1940. From Left-Right: Martine Stewart, Juanita Stewart, W. L. Burden and Jean Reid.