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Grove City High School
Grove City Football Season
Year of 1926
1925-26
Football Team - Click to enlarge photo. Struggling through
mud and slime, fighting savagely in snow and rain, putting their all into
the game sometimes when badly hurt; that’s the old G. C. spirit which
carried the team of 1925 through a successful season. A season, which,
when taken comparatively with the coaching and scores of other teams, was
more than satisfactory to the students and citizens of Grove City. A lot
of satisfaction is also derived from the fact that:
The established precedent made by former teams namely: THAT
GROVE CITY NEVER GIVES UP. HAS
BEEN UPHELD BY THIS YEAR’S TEAM Coach
Hartman and his able co-worker "Art"
McBride, produced from their labors, threats, and pleadings, the
best coached team in the county. At the first of the
season there were many doubters and these increased until after the third
game. This game, with New Castle’s mill hands, showed the real type of a
team which held the name of G. C. High but was not getting their support.
However the school woke up and backed their team. Out of the schedule of
good games, four held especial interest, They were: West Middlesex, which
was toward the first of the season, the last three games with Greenville,
Sharon and Sharpsville. The first of these
we lost because of lack of pep, misunderstanding of signals, and real
playing and fighting on their part. Much satisfaction is derived from the
fact that we heat Greenville which had at the first of the season beat
West Middlesex badly, This accounts for the spirit shown at Greenville by
our team. But next year—-
COME
ON YOU TEAM OF 1926!!!! [1926-27] STRUT
YOUR STUFF!!!! The first of the
last three games was played at Greenville through a heavy rainstorm in a
sea of mud. Although Greenville fought hard, because according to dope,
they had already beaten us, this instead of disheartening Grove. City’s
golden warriors. made them fight fiercely and so the game ended with a
score of 6 to 0 OUR FAVOR. Therefore dope had us classed as having beat
West Middlesex. The next game was
played with Sharon on Armistice Day at our own field. Grove City,
out-classed, out-weighed, fighting gamely against a heavier team, was
sustained by the same old school stamina which forced them to nail their
flag to the mast until the end of the game. The final score of 13 to 0
revealed that we were backing a team worth while. The last game of
the season was played at Sharpsville on a field covered with snow, The
greatest battle of the year was staged here, although not the most
spectacular. When the final whistle blew it marked the close of a game in
which Old Man Luck followed Sharpsville’s heels while Old Man Hard Luck
dogged our own. The final score of 6 to 0 was eased by the fact that very
few first downs had been made by them while almost invariably our team,
headed by Kecky, blasted their way ten yards
in the right direction. For next year
[1926-27] the Pine Knot prophecies a successful season. VARSITY LINE-UP Coach
Joe Hartman Asst. Coach
Mr. [Art] McBride Manager
Robert Fithian Asst. Manager
Gaylord Thomas Advertising Manager Lester Winsburg Full:
Zeb Keck---A plunger from the ground
up. Half:
Trainer [Kenneth] Dunn---End runs a
specialty. Half:
Jimmy Cameron---Game; a born fighter. Quarter:
Rip [Cliff] Richards---Brainy. I’ll say. Center:
Cop [Charles] Ray---He stopped Sharon. Guard:
Ike Coyer---He may be small but—oh boy! Guard:
Joe Rossiter---Plays ‘em rough. Tackle:
[Edgar] Shawgo---Big and steady. Tackle:
Fung [John] Hoffman---Nuf said. End:
[Leigh] Beeler—Passes are his particular delight End:
Slim Campbell—Gad zooks!
How that man can run. Tom
Faulls [or Faull]– Halfback Cliff
Bohlander – End Slim
Campbell – Sometimes center Ed
Hummell [or Hummel]– Half Ernie Winger - Half |
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from 1926 Pine Knot, Grove City High School yearbook.
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