Bexley High School - Bexleo Yearbook (Bexley, OH)

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'MMtfMHfc Front Row, left to right: Morris, Bright, Newburger, Russell, Christian, M. Stark, R. Patton, Brenning, Pryor, Cavey, Knies, Bone, Lytle, Hoffman. Second Row: Brown, Malloy, Elsass, Fogle, Sanford, Glick, Lumbert, Kauffman, Eckley, Bene- dict, Wheaton, Gerhold, Leahy, Brunner, Engle. Third Row: Edmister, manager, Petzinger, Bryant, Halley, Munk, Caldwell, J. Patton, Evans, Lambrecht, Frank, Brownewell, J. Stark, Kuehner, Rosel, Coach Smith. FOOTBALL y1=1 HE Bexley football team experienced a successful season this year, for the grid' I ders came off victors in six games, losers in two, and tied Grandview, 7-7, for first place honors in the Central Buckeye League. The Bexley Lions also once again tied for “Little Three honors when they trimmed Upper Arlington, 19'6. The home team opened the season with an easy victory over Grove City. The inexperienced team, with only three regulars back, defeated Grove City, 25-0. Bexley overcame a weighty Bucyrus team to the tune of 13-6, the following week. South dealt out an 18-0 defeat for Bexley’s first disaster of the season. The home team came back strong for a 39'0 victory over Circleville. The Lions had a great deal of difficulty in defeating an unusually powerful Westerville eleven, 26T9, however. The championship tilt with Grandview was disappointing to the home team fans. The Bexley team permitted a strong Grandview team to equal their score and share the first place honors with a 7-7 tie. The Blue and White gridders took the weak Upper Arlington team into camp with a 19'6 count, October 31. Granville also succumbed to the Bexley onslaught. The final total was 27-0. The second defeat of the season was suffered in the last game of the year. The Piqua Indians trounced the Lions by a 6-0 tally. Followers of Bexley’s grid fortunes felt that, despite the score, the Bexley team had given a performance equal to that of Piqua, and might at least have deserved a tie.

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A REVIEW OF THE ATHLETIC SEASON By Coach Smith IN REVIEW of the entire athletic program for 1930'31, one could say that Bexley has won more than her share of honors. In Central Buckeye League competition, Bexley has tied for the football championship, won the track, and swimming cham- pionships, and has an outstanding tennis team. This leaves only basketball and golf in which no honors were taken. Bexley is the only member of the Central Buck- eye League that has a baseball team. Our team averaged about 50% of all games played. The baseball team was not outstanding but kept plug- ging away and improving but could only finish at about the 500% mark for the season. In league competition Bexley won one major championship and tied for another out of three possible championships in football, basketball and track, and took honors in two of the three minor sport championships. The football team was a much better than aver- age team as evidenced by six victories, two de- feats, and one tie in rather keen competition. The basketball team won only four out of thirteen games and was considered rather weak, in light of games won and lost, but four of those games were lost by a single basket. This shows that the team was almost as strong as its opponent but not quite strong enough to put over victory. The track team was the strongest track team Bexley has had in years. It was ex- ceptionally strong in some events and well balanced in all others so that it was unde- feated in competition in its own class. The swimming team was very good. In the league meet they collected 41 out of a possible 60 points to win the championship easily. However, the team bowed to Green- field High, 41-23. The tennis team was the strongest in years and was not defeated at the time of this writing. The golf team with nearly all new players, experienced difficulty in winning very many matches. So in view of all the sports we should say that Bexley athletes were not highly successful but-successful enough to cause the class of 1931 to be proud of them and to remember some of their outstanding performances for a long time. Carlton H. Smith

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BASKETBALL yciHE 1930-31 cage season was not altogether successful this year, as reports will I n show. The Bexley team won only four out of thirteen starts, hut the fact that the home five lost three games by the narrow margin of one goal should offer some consolation to Bexley rooters. Wayne Ketner, honorary captain, performed nicely throughout the season at forward. Sam Lytle gave a good account of himself at the guard position. Stark and Eckley traded the jumping position throughout the season, and both turned in favorable work. Hugh Bone and Tom Leahy presented good performances at the guard positions, while Hardwick played forward well for a first year man. Cavey, Kauffman, and Russell were quite acceptable as substitutes. The three regulars hack from last year’s team were Bone, Ketner, and Lytle. These three formed the nucleus of the 1931 squad. The Bexley team piled up the following record: Bexley, 10; Grove City, 17. Bexley, 16; Westerville, 18. Bexley, 20; Fairmont, 31. Bexley, 16; Grandview, 42. Bexley, 11; Urbana, 18. Bexley, 27; Upper Arlington, 13. Bexley, 9; Sidney, 15. Bexley, 20; Marysville, 30. Bexley, 13; Circleville, 12. Bexley, 30; Circleville, 29. Bexley, 37; Bellefontaine, 23. Bexley, 14; Westerville, 16. Bexley, 29; Grandview, 30. CLASS 1931