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kelvin smith of nederland has way more basketball talent then forney, he is more athletic and a more dominant in the paint

[quote name="DogOne" post="742509" timestamp="1263270708"] [quote author=NHS83LU87 link=topic=47993.msg499500#msg499500 date=1231230621] Weaver Ned. '83 [/quote] Jamie Weaver was a very good player but not the best to come out of Nederland.  That honor belongs to Buddy Davis ('48).  Davis was 6' 8" and averaged over 30 points his senior season at Nederland and accounted for 60% of the Bulldogs' points that season.  At Texas A&M Davis became an All-American in basketball and an Olympic high jumper.  Davis won the gold medal with an Olympic record in the high jump at the 1952 Olympics.  In 1953 Davis set the world record in the high jump.  He also played six years in the NBA. I realize that this was over 50 years ago but the discussion of who is the best basketball player (and probably best athlete) to come out of Nederland starts and stops with Buddy Davis. [/quote] second to him has to be George DeVries.. 15 letters out of 16 tries all four years in track all four years in basketball all four years in baseball three in football won state as runnning back for nederland in '57 and went pro in baseball