Happy Anniversary-- Game of Century

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Ollie Taylor

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Hehe. Beat ya

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I think it was him. Man was like 6’ 2" n leap out bldg. Incredible leaper.

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Future Coog Poo Welch played for TJC and had 30+ but not more than E

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Did Welch n Taylor play in backcourt together. Seems like they did. 1968/69 season is when I started listening to every gm on radio as 9 yr old. Pretty sure Art Casper was doing gms then n he would rave about Ollie T jumping abiity. I’m thinking he even jumped ball for Coogs as 6’ 2" PG.

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Ollie played at the 3 spot in the only year that they were together (If my memory serves). The other guard was Tom Gribben(?). I could be way off on this tho.

I can still hear Art Casper’s voice. He was great. The color guy was Carl Mann.

EDIT: Dug up my old media guide
Taylor and Welch were together for thr 69-70 season only.

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As a young kid, Art made me feel I was right there at the game. Unbelievable voice. Harry Kalas did gms also. His son – Astros pxp announcer has gone to few gms this year!

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Thought so.

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My Dad was there, ETCOOG. I was also 8 years old.

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Yes, it was Poo Welch. I looked for the boxscore but couldn’t come up with it. I thought Poo did score in the 40s but could be wrong. He and Ollie did play together, along with Dwight Davis, on the 69-70 team which was one of my all-time favorite UH teams.

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I’m not sure how I did it but I came across an archived, text-only version of the Tyler JC yearbook for '67-'68. It has several references to Welch, including this one which seems to accompany photos that are not part of the archive:

**Poo Gets Things Done **

**Fantastic freshman Poo Welch came to the Apaches from Lake Charles, **
**La., and made the Tyler team go. In upper left, the 6-3 playmaker **
**fires a jumper in a 95-86 victory over Kilgore at the TJC Field- **
**house. Jack Ledbetter tries to defend and Bob Villani starts in for **
**a possible rebound. Above, Welch ends one of his frequent drivfs **
**down the lane with one of his frequent assists, the pass hitting Willie **
**Chatman coming in from the right side. Poo controlled the ball well **
**at all times, as shown at left against a foul from Houston frosh Lionel **
**Dotson. Welch hit 46 points against the UH freshmen as Tyler won **
**110-83, and canned 32 against the same team under the Astrodome. **
**Poo is one of few freshmen ever to be named a unanimous choice to **
**the all-TEC team. He set a TJC Fieldhouse record in the North Zone **
Tournament with his 58 points, which also set a tourney mark.

Looks like he lit up our freshman in Tyler and had 32 against them in the Dome.

EDIT: it also looks like I used too many options in trying to format that quoted paragraph. :flushed:

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great job finding that info. It’s bec you’re the Commish ! :grinning:
Next to Birdsong he may have been one of Coogs best shooters/scorers in the program, put him top 5 for sure.

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I was in the student section at the game and still have my original scorecard.

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Thanks, Commish! I obviously had my games confused as I knew he had scored in the 40s against the frosh team in one game. He was definitely one of our best scoring PGs in history but I think you’d definitely have to put Rob Williams above him. That said, with no offense to Jerry Bonney, he would have put the 71-72 team as a serious contender to UCLA

I don’t think I’ve seen or heard of Poo attending a game at UH since he left school.

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Wasn’t Poo Welch the one who embarrassed the “great” Adrian Dantley in the NCAA tourney game ?

All the announcers could talk about was Dantley. Poo showed them how BB was played.

At least that is what I remembered.

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Scored 53 I believe in his final game at UH in the Midwest consolation game against ND and Austin Carr

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That’s right
Somehow, I thought it was Dantley, but now that I think about it, the Dantley episode was another NCAA tournament game against ND, where Leonard Mitchell put a monster block on a Dantley shot !!

It was comical !

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The halftime entertainment that night was these guys. In later years Archie Bell used a friend’s recording studio out here on the east side of the county. Good times.

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That’s good stuff !! :grinning::100:

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Us old farts memory gets confused sometimes so I get to correct you on this one😁! Actually it was Jay and The Techniques that performed at halftime. Apples, Peaches, PumpkinPie was their big hit

That said, just a month or so later Archie Bell and the Drells hit the charts. They were definitly from Houston, in fact all of the band lived in the same apartment complex on South Park that a bunch of us UH students lived in 69-70

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