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oys Basketball, 1920s.
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| 1926-27 |
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| 1920 |
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| 1919-1920 |
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| Eighth Grade Champions, 1927. |
The boys basketball team of 1926-27 consisted of: Back: Elsworth Hafer (manager), Charles Moore, Mr. __ Lotz (coach), Herman Parsell, and Vernon Lockard. Middle: Charles Spoon, Paul West, captain, Lawrence O' Brien, and Paul Harper. Front: Lawrence "Perry" Wright and Harold Rudolph.
On the right is a photograph of the 8th grade champions of 1927. In the front are Tom Lahr, Nelson Dilley, Wayne Dilley, Gene Farison, Mr, __ Restle, and Harold Snider.
In the back are Dennis Walters, Jay Schwartz, Jim Evans, Denny Ulrich, Lindsay Ellcessor, Alan Blackburn, Clayton Weber, manager; and Barry Weber, manager.
oys Basketball, 1940s.
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| Boys Basketball (1946-47) Back: Norman Phillips, William Spencer, Paul Gordon, Robert Exline, and Coach William Peterson. Front: George Liles, Loren Snider, Robert Boehm, William Hougendobler, Earl Windle, and Dale Fiester.1 |
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| County Champions (1939-40) Seated: __, __, Robert Bair, Harry Farison, __, Charles Conley, __, Raymond Miller, Glenn March, and Lieu Baker. Standing: Louis Latham (mgr.), Emmett Daniels, Robert Brooks, Kenneth Buess, D. Ray Baum (coach), __, Lawrence Hougendobler, __, Lee Jay Snider, and Donald Snider (mgr.) |
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| Hardin Co. "Runners Up" (1944-45) Front: Darl McDaniel, George Liles, Charles Lutz, Harold Wright, William Hougendobler and Jim George (mgr.). Back: Daniel Liles, William Cook, Raymond Stewart, Roy Weber, Mervyn Wright, Loren Snider, and D. Ray Baum (coach). |
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The newspaper article about the team "Basketball team feted at Forest" gives the particulars of Grace Hougendobler giving a three-course dinner to fourteen members of the girls basketball team. She had made up a miniature basketball floor with players all dressed in gold & black, the colors for Forest high. Ruth Larimore was the coach of the team at the time.
oys Basketball, 1960s.
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| 1960-61 |
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| Jim Moats (left) and Tom Lodge (co-captains) 1960-61 |
The 1960-61 basketball team consissted of: Jim Moats, Tom Lodge, Gary Harris, Gene Frederick, Mr. _ Restle, Larry Willeke, Lawrence Durenberger, Bob Musgrave, Jim Rank, Larry Johnson, Barry Weber, Clayton Weber, Gene Forney, Jim Moats and Tom Lodge.
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1Identified by Harold Waller, Class of 1950.
irls Basketball.
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| Pre 1920 Girls City Team 3 |
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| Looking Back. 1 |
The "Happy Six" was the name of the 1920-21 Forest City girls basketball team because there were only six members of the squad: Ethel (King) Schott (holding ball), Mary (Latham) Fruen, Thelma (Campbell) Burk, Minni (Spoon) Peart, Anna (McClain) Bonnell and Pearl (Fishburn) Wenner.2 That year the team played several games in the Kenton Armory against the Kenton City Reds. Both girls and boys rules were used and Mrs. Burk, owner of the photo, remembers the playing got pretty rough at times. The team traveled to its games in a seven passenger car owned by Mack Fishburn, brother of Pearl. Home games were played in the ballroom of the old hotel located west of the Old Tower and Depot.
This Girls Basketball4 photographis a group of 10 girls. The assumption is that they represent the Forest Village girls basketball team, but it hasn't been verified. There is no date, but the assumption is c1920s. On a Post-It attached to the reverse is, "Am pretty sure one on right in back is Frances (West) Cramer."
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In no particular order are the following individuals of the Girls Basketball League Champions of 1939-40;Grace Hougendobler, Violet Garver, Helen Forney, Helen Long, Loraine Chaney, Dorothy Chaney, Anabel Shafer, Margaret Switzer, Betty Burk, Mary M. Anderson, Ruth Musgrave, Ruthanna Snider, Betty Lou Crum, Patsy Henderson, Mary Elizabeth Simpson, and Ruth Larimore.
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1Kenton Times (Kenton, OH) 16 Aug 1976.
2 Pearl (Fishburn) Wenner graduated in the Class of 1915 supporting the fact that this team played for the Village and not the high school.
3A close comparison of this photograph and the Girls Basketball - pre 1920 Girls City Team would lend one to believe that the individual sitting on the left end of the pre 1920 photograph would be Ethel (King) Schcott.
4See footnote 3, Looking Back.
iscellaneous.
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| Class Champions Girls Basketball Team (1925-26) |
Though Robert Lehman is not found in any of the photographs above, he is seen here holding onto a basketball. He was about 7 years old in the photograph. Besides basketball, Bob was quite a sportsman, playing baseball, football, and wrestling. He started playing baseball in school and was involved in it the remainder of his life. Bob died in 1991. Some of his children also had the sports "bug".
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| Norma Lehman (left) Jack Lehman (right) |
Years later, his daughter, Norma Lehman, would keep basketball scores for her school and her brother, Jack Lehman, was a football manager and quite the baseball player. Norma was also a good ping pong player. Sports just seemed to come naturally for the family.