Basketball

sports in table rock - Basketball

1909

Photo 40: 1909 Boys basketball team: Seated are coach Floyd Poteet and Superintendent W. H. Simons. The players are Glenn Wood, Hubert Voller, Earl Irwin, Eugene Woods, and Raymond Andrew.

Photo 164

Girls basketball? Girrrrrrls! Of course. Back row: Eunice Norris Peters, Ellen Snyder Sites, and Belle Shorter Poteet. Front row: Ella Beck Smith, Nelle Schreck Griffing, and Bess Hickman Irwin

circa 1910???

Photo 6. Undated picture of a basketball team. Some of the players are the same as in the 1909 team but appear to be slightly older - or not.....Moreover, more of the players have uniforms -- albeit obviously homemade.

1912

Photo 884: 1912 Basketball team. Raymond Andrew, back row left, is the only one identified. On this picture of the team.

However, Richard Binder has another picture of the same team. It's a little fuzzy, but with it there are names.

Photo 2914

Weirdly, though, the names do not go with records. The only one that fits is Raymond Andrew, who graduated in 1913 and thus could have been on the 1912 team. But Edgar Norris graduated in 1907, Harmon Chambers (the last Chambers to graduate) in 1905. Wes Binder is not on the graduate list. There is no Gene Woods on the list of graduates, although there was a Glenn Woods in 1911. How could someone who had graduated as much as seven years before be on the basketball team? Either the names are wrong, or the rules were very different in the very early days of the sport.

1916

This picture does not say this is the girls basketball team. However, they appear dressed for a sport, and basketball was the only high school girls sport at that time. Just sayin'..... Anyway, these young ladies were: In 1916: Bess Shorter, Ruth Andrew Pousch (Class of 1919), Mabel Linn Pugh (Class of 1919), Irene Freeman, Dorothy Phillips Wilson (Class of 1918), Ruth Marshal, Neta Gallas Morrison (Class of 1920), Leora Carter, Laura Kovanda McGinnis (Class of 1920), Grace Scott Taylor (Class of 1920), and Dorcas Fellers Mills (Class of 1919)

Photo 6357

1923

No names (yet). 3rd player from the left looks like Willis Bethel, 5th player looks like a Covault.

circa 1924-1925

Basketball? That looks like one, held by the 4th person from the left. This is undated but possibly the 1920s based on the style of uniform. On the back it says Coach Tillotson, and then identifies the players as Charles Boyles, Bud Barrett, Ernie Boyles, Roy Shepard, and Roy Aylor. The alumni graduate list has them with these spellings& years: Roy Aylor graduated in 1926, Ernie "Boyle" graduated in 1928, Charles Boyle in 1929, Roy Shepherd in 1929. Who was "Bud" Barrett? An Arthur Barrett graduated in 1926. With Roy Aylor graduated in 1926, that is the latest that that this picture could have been taken, and probably no earlier than 1925, if the 1929 graduates were freshmen.

There were 8 on the team the year before. What happened? The seniors left?

Photo 893.

You can see the year on the basketball at far left -- school year 1923-1924.

1926

1927

Photo 6343

Labeled as the last girls basketball team. They hold a basketball with the year 1927; on the back of the photograph is written 1926-1927 and the team members are named. Together with information from the alumni list they are: Hulda Kuhlman Zelenka (Class of 1929); Veda Covault Howell (Class of 1930); Verta Johnson Boehmer (Class of 1928); Fay Harris Snook (Class of 1934); Millie Jasa Briant (Class of 1927); Edna Scott Johnson (Class of 1927); Beulah Trout (not on alumni graduate list; Wanda Trout (Class of 1926); Olive Tomek Strohm (Class of 1928); and Allie (sic?) Lang(sic?) Horton (not on alumni graduate list).

circa 1947

Photo 3971

In the upper and lower borders there are very faintly names for some of the players but it is difficult to sort through which boys the names go with. However, ALLEN GOLD provided the names:

Back row: Richard Giles, Richard Karas, Marion Kalina, Junior Karas, Eldon Petersak, Bob Slaughter, Lawrence Wilcox.

Front Row: Red Carter, Leland Covault, LaVon Covault, Norris Gold, Lyle Wilcox, Myron Kent. Coach Jerry Stemper

Someone suggested that the picture may have been taken in the fall of 1948, but Carrie Wilcox Farset, daughter of one of the players in the picture, Lyle Wilcox, had more information. She said:

Al Gold

My dad graduated in the spring of 48 so I'm thinking this must have been taken during basketball season the winter of 47-48. We have never seen it before and we enjoyed it! Love seeing these old pictures! Thanks so much, keep them coming. Wish my dad was here to enjoy this.”

Carrie Wilcox Farset

1948

January 13, 1948

December 16, 1948

December 23, 1948

1955

Photo 1285, bears print date May 1955:

1956

February 23, 1956

February 1956

February 23, 1956

March 1, 1956

November 8, 1956

1958

February 20, 1958

1959

No, this picture was not taken in 1959. It was taken in 2019. But it does show the 1959 trophy won by the basketball team. On the occasion of the 60th class reunion, Russell Workman took two grandsons on a search of the trophy collection to find it. "I've been wanting to see this again since 1959!" he said. "It was the only trophy we won." The basketball team had an abysmal record for the few years leading up to it, and then 1959 was charmed.

Photo 7807

1964

December 3, 1964

1966

November 24, 1966

December 1, 1966

December 8, 1966

December 15, 1966

December 29, 1966

1967

February 16, 1967

December 2, 1967

1970

1970 Basketball team. Coach Dave Oman. Back row: Richard Burgert, Pat Workman, Ed Kroll, John Petrash, Jim Goodenkauf. Front row: Arlyn Parde, Marty Conrad, Don Smitt, Tom Mullins, and Steve Cumro.