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Grove City High School
Grove City High School Football 1924
1924-25
School Year Football Team - Click to enlarge
photo. FOOTBALL
1924 Lives
of football men remind us, They
can leave their names in blood, And
departing leave behind them, Half
their faces in the mud. We sing of G. C.
H. S. heroes, who as far as comparative scores have vet to be defeated.
When the white flag is run up, when every spark of life is gone, then do
we look surrender in the face. So long as life remains in our bodies,
just so long will we strive to place the “Gold and White" upon
the highest pinnacle of success. Early in the year
the schedule was announced and one could see at a glance that the
strongest Hi Schools in the county and surrounding counties would meet
the Grove City Hi School eleven during the season. After a delayed
and hence, very short training season, the first game was played on the
home field September 20. New Wilmington was the opponent and the Gold
and White quite easily won with a final score of 20-0 On September 26,
confident with a seemingly easy game ahead, Grove City met West
Middlesex on the home field. A sultry day, lack of pep, over confidence,
and the score stood 20-6 West Middlesex. Grove City admitted herself
“slapped down”. October 17, Grove
City woke up. The auditorium was the scene of a lively pep meeting at 8
:30 with the honorable Brutus in charge. The band delivered some most
melodious music including “Old Grove City’s better’n she used to
be”. Speeches were in order from the faculty, coach, “Judge”
Daugherty, [Raymond] “Dunnie”[Dunn],
“Kate” Traut, Alice Cornelius, “Doe”
Campbell, etc., and then the cheer-leaders got busy. Led by a
heavy-laden fliver and Bric, going strong, a parade was staged which
woke Grove City up and brought a crowd and the best cheering section
ever to the Sharpsville-Grove City game October 18. The game, well, it
was a real game 0-0, -0-0-6-0 - - G.C. 6-6-6-7
Sharpsville, Lucifer’s Luck. The same grit,
the same fight, the same best ever team— but the same luck.
TUNING
IN At End Positions
- - Curly Williams and Rip
[Cliff] Richards capably filled their shoes and played well. [Edgar]
Shawgo, Hindman, and Church Hepler,
too, proved themselves worthy of the Gold “G”. With Sport
Smith, a letter man making his presence felt in every game and Vath
coming in with his speed and grit—the tackle positions were well
filled. Foot-ball sense
made M. Smith, Hoffman and Berrisford
valuable guards and Melcher and Ike
Coyer were right on deck-—to rush the game for G. C. Campbell
with his speed and experience proved a capable center and [Charles] starred as a foot-ball man—par-excellence. [John]
Millsop (Captain) and Ray Dunn, both
letter men of good report, kept up their good reputation in their
aptitude in picking out the opponent’s weakness and calling the light
signals at the right time. Good work, fellows, G. C. is sorry to lose
you. The Gold and
White is lucky in having for full-back next year-—two letter men who
will be mainstays for 1925’s team. Zeb Keck and
Murray are good for a rushing game. At Half-back
Grove City loses [Haywood] Daugherty—whose
fast and furious playing has scored up several victories. However, Trainer
Dunn and Negri have shown their
strength in foot-ball and time will tell! Here’s
to foot-ball ‘25 A
team A-1 to be alive, Fighting
always— Quitting never— For G. C. Hi, To work to-gether!
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from 1925 Pine Knot, Grove City High School yearbook, pages 88, 89 and 91.
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