25 years ago — 2001
The one-handed pivot shot was Bonnie Lee 'Country' Graham's signature move on the basketball court. While playing at the University of Mississippi in the 1930s, he perfected the shot that helped him become the first All-American basketball player in Mississippi. From 1950-62, Graham served as the head basketball coach at Ole Miss and compiled a 144-167 record. Mr. Graham died Saturday of heart failure at Baptist Memorial Hospital-North in Oxford. He was 87.
50 years ago — 1976
Moments after her first appearance as a pinch-hitter on the boys' baseball team, Eleanor Strowd Shaw hung up her spikes. "Oh, I hit the ball all right," said Mrs. Shaw, who was an eighth grader at the time. "But I saw I wasn't going to make it. Girls didn't
play much baseball back the (in 1931). I don't know how I got into that game." So Mrs. Shaw turned her attention to tennis, which in those days involved hitting the ball to a neighbor across the fence that separated their front yards.
75 years ago — 1951
George Hester, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.D. Hester of Moscow, Tenn., has been elected president of the Honor Committee of Webb School at Bell Buckle, Tenn. Election to this committee, which supports the school's 80-year-old honor system, is considered one of the school's highest honors. Jimmy Alexander, son of Mr. and Mrs. V.A. Alexander of Memphis, is a newly-elected member to the same committee. He is also vice president of the junior class and captain of the junior football team. Ed Mann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Mann of Memphis, has been named sergeant-at-arms for the freshman class.
100 years ago — 1926
The Independent Coach Line, operating yellow coach parlor cars, said to be equal to any operating device in comfort and style, will begin running between Memphis and Halls, Tenn., about Nov. 1, according to Squire W.R. Aycock, a member of the Shelby County court and one of the officers of the company. The company will operate four busses each way daily, Squire Aycock said yesterday. The Memphis terminus is Washington Avenue and Front Street.
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