Terry Deems, who played with the Tuscarawas Broncos, is now at Wittenberg College and is only a Sophomore...
Wednesday, March 13, 1957
The Daily Reporter
ANOTHER HONOR was bestowed on Terry Deems, former Tuscarawas High School basketball star
and who now is a Sophomore at Wittenberg College. He was recently selected as the most valuable player of the 1956-57 season by his teammates. The honor added another feather to the cap of the Tuscarawas County cage star.
Deems was also chosen to the 2nd team of the International News Service All-Ohio Conference Team and set several new records in scoring and rebounding this year. The rangy lad ended the season by leading his team in both rebounds and scoring and finished high in conference ratings in both departments. Wittenberg ended the season with a 15-6 record, best in 10 years at the college and wound up in 3rd place in the Ohio Conference with an 11-3 record. In finishing his Sophomore year and playing 21 games, the 6-4 center grabbed 435 rebounds for an average of 20.7 per game and tallied 428 points for a 20.4 scoring average per game.
WHILE PILING UP HIS TOTAL of points this year, Terry set a new Wittenberg single game scoring record and cracked the 2-year scoring mark held by a former Wittenberg great, Jack Hawken. Against Heidelberg, the last game of the season, Deems dumped in 46 points to snap the old mark of 41 markers, jointly held by Hawken and Dave Edwards, a forward on this year's cage combine.
In his 2 years at Wittenberg, Deems has picked off a total of 838 rebounds and has scored 810 points. His 2-year average in rebounds is 20.4 and scoring per game is 19.8 in the 41 games he has played. Hawken's 2-year mark was 730 markers. Deems' Head Coach is well known to Dover fans, Ramon Mears, graduate and former cage star for Dover High School, has been at the Wittenberg helm for several years. He graduated from Miami University at Oxford Ohio and played basketball for the Redskins.
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