Three-quarters of a century after making girls' basketball history, Dot Ford Burrow gets her due.
Seventy-five years later, Dot Ford, now Dot Burrow, gets her due by Rick Cleveland, Mississippi Today March 13, 2024 Dot Burrow, right, with her husband James, is proud of grandson Joe, and he is mighty proud of her. Seventy-five years ago, a tall, thin teen-aged girl named Dot Ford scored 82 points in a high school basketball game in the tiny, northeast Mississippi town of Smithville. She averaged right at 50 points a game for the entire 1949-50 season.
Rick has been recognized 13 times as Mississippi Sports Writer of the Year, and is recipient of multiple awards and honors for his reporting and writing.
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