| Auburn's Shag Hawkins stretched for a basket in a packed
Alumni Gym in 1941. The six-foot-two center led SEC scorers that
season and was second to teammate Frank Manci (No. 30 in picture) the next
year. Hawkins scored 644 points in three seasons during the era of
low-scoring basketball. "Shag was a helluva perimeter man, and his
drive for the basket was awesome," his coach, Ralph Jordan, recalled nearly
forty years later. Hawkins was Jordan's only scholarship basketball
player at API. The profits from a nickel-a-drink Coke machine at
the gym went to Shag. -- Photo: AU Archives |
