Mark Twain High School
Tigers’ Basketball 1962-1963
Quint City Co-Champions
3rd Place Missouri State Regionals
Team statistics for inclusion in the Mark Twain Record Book are:
Most Wins in a Season: 24
Only Conference Champion Ever: 1963
Team Points in a Season: 1954
Average Points per Game in a Season: 63.03
Winning Margin per Game in a Season: 10.32
Four all Conference Players:
Wallace Mills and Mel Brashears 1st Team,
Mike Johnson 2nd Team and John Crockett Honorable Mention
One All District Player: Mel Brashears 1st Team.
Four Players Averaged Double Figures in a Season:
Mel Brashears, Wallace Mills, Mike Johnson and John Crockett
Largest Margin of Victory in a Game: 40 Points in Season Opener against McCooey
Highest Score in a Single Game: 86 Points against Centralia
Times above 80 Points in a Game in a Single Season: 4
Centralia, Shelbina, Louisiana, and Winfield
Sadly, career statistics for the team or individuals cannot be reproduced, only portions of our senior season can. Our junior team had 4 starters that also started on our senior team. Five players on our senior team played some varsity in our sophomore year as well. Clearly several players would be in the record book for career statistics. Unless additional records are found the career history is lost forever.
Individual Statistics were kept and at season’s end passed out on stencil mimeographed paper to all of the players. My mother had kept a log of my points per game and several of my teammates kept records as well. When our yearbooks came out at year’s end my Mother transferred her log into my yearbook and I added some stats from the mimeographed sheet as well to the back of my yearbook. I wish I had recorded everything for my teammates, but alas only some. In the figure above, you can see my Mother’s listing of my points per game she transferred from her notes. So from her notes and my notes here are the known individual statistics.
Mel Brashears 468 points averaging 15.10 ppg
Wallace Mills 466 points averaging 15.03 ppg
Mike Johnson 362 points averaging 11.68 ppg
John Crocket 313 points averaging 10.10 ppg
Chester Palmer 203 points averaging 6.55 ppg
Bill Powell 55 points averaging 1.77 ppg
Donald Walton 52 points averaging 1.68 ppg
Harold Yager 25 points averaging 0.81 ppg
3 Juniors 10 points averaging 0.32 ppg
Totals 1954 points averaging 63.03 ppg
I recorded additional statistics from the mimeographed sheet for myself.
Mel Brashears Single Season
Field Goals 209 of 382
Free Throws 50 of 66
Rebounds 334 & 10.77 per game
Field Goal Percentage 54.71%
Free Throw Percentage 75.76%
Mike Johnson and his Mother, Dean, also kept some records and a scrapbook.