Alabama Senate Resolution 292 Commending UNA Basketball

McDowell Lee

Source Collection

University of North Alabama Archives and Special Collections, UNA Athletics Collection, Collier Library 

Description

Alabama Senate resolution commending the University of North Alabama Basketball Team for their achievements in the 1977 season.

Transcript

Senate of Alabama

MONTGOMERY ALABAMA

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

Resolution

292

By: Messrs. Peden, Adams, Baker, Bank, Clemon, Edwards, Ellis, Fine, Gilmore, Goodwin, Higginbothan, Jones, King, Little, Littleton, A. McDonald, S. McDonald, McMillan, Miller, Mims, Mitchell, Noonan, Owen, Pearson, Perloff, Perry, Powell, Roberts, St. John, Shelby, Stewart, Teague, Vacca, Waldrop and Wilson

COMMENDING THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH ALABAMA BASKETBALL TEAM

WHEREAS, the Alabama Legislature has noted that the University of North Alabama basketball team is co-champion of the Gulf South Conference and placed third in the nation in the 1977 NCAA Division II Playoffs, held March 18-19, 1977, in Springfield, Massachusetts, thereby ranking higher nationally than any other Division II team in Alabama, and

WHEREAS, the UNA Lions finished the season with a 24-7 record, the most wins and the highest finish ever for any Gulf South Conference team, a record achieved through countless hours of dedicated practice, working together, as one, with a strong sense of team spirit, with a high degree of technical skill and under the able direction of Head Coach Bill Jones and his fine assistants, Tommy Suitts and Gerald Douglass; now therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABANA, BOTH HOUSES THEREOF CONCURRING, That we do most heartily congratulate and commend the University of North Alabama basketball team for a tremendously successful season and for having achieved national ranking in competition.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be sent to President Robert M. Guillot on behalf of the University of North Alabama, to Head Coach Bill Jones, Assistant Coaches Tommy Suitts and Gerald Douglass, to the team managers and to each team member.

I hereby certify that the

above is a true, correct and

accurate copy of Senate Joint

Resolution No. 292, adopted

by the Legislature of Alabama

on March 29, 1977.

McDowell Lee, Secretary of Senate [signed]

Date Created

1-28-2026

Date

March 29, 1977

Document Type

Article

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