Jackson High School - Osky Wow Yearbook (Jackson, OH)

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thrown on the defense and so on, while neither side gained until late in the third quarter a fumble by one of the J. H. S. players was caught up by one of the opponents who scored. They were successful with their goal kicks from this unfortunate play, (for us) till the end of the game, both teams played hard, Jackson trying to score, while Kingston worked just as hard on the defense. The game ended with the score 7--0 in favor of Kingston, while they played a no better game than we. We met the Ironton boys, Oct. 26th on the local grounds. This was our second clash with that team, who had proved our masters in the first game. This time we were better prepared for them and had out our full force which had practiced hard for the game, because we thought we were entitled to this game and knew what we were going up against. We were in shape to do the best battle of the season. The opponents also had out the best force that they could muster and we were slightly underestimated by them. Our boys knew that a great deal depended upon a terrific start, so they got right to work early. Capt. Morgan carried the ball in two successive downs to within one foot of the goal, then Gahm carried it over for the first touch-down. We failed to kick goal. Ironton then by a trick play scored, but thev also failed to kick goal. Tnen we, cneered loyally from the side-lines, entered the second quarter of the hardest fought battle of the season. At no time during the progress of the game did either side let up, but each thinking it possible to score the winning point, tore away incessantly at the opponent. In the first few minutes of the last quarter, Capt. Morgan was forced out on account of an injured knee, Coll was substituted, though the position was a new one to him, he did his duty and with fast work on the back-line from Alexander and Marshal we fought to a tie score of 6-6. We met our “Waterloo” on Nov. 16th when we played the Chillicothe boys on their own grounds. For this game we could raise but ten eligible men and one of these was early forced out of the game due to an injury which he sustained, thus leaving the team scarcely a shadow of its former self for our star men were now all out of the game. The opponents played us with an equal number of men, but unlike ours, their remnant was the flower of their team. They went through our defense like “greased lightning”, the re suit was that we were overwhelmingly defeated by a score of 61--0. This was the final game of the season excepting a game on Thanksgiving, played with a team which was picked up by the Alumni and which was defeated. Bartlett Gibson was manager and Wendell Morgan was captain of this team The following are the names of the players: Arthur Roberts Ralph Shuter Warren Dever Preston Turner Everett Alexander George Kendall William Steele Wendell Morgan Edward Abraham Basil Halterman Ivan James Harold Gahm Roger Thomas Leo Coll June Marshall William Long Finley Cherrington Benson Westlake The following Alumni: Haider Gahm, ’05, Marion White, ’09, and Heber Gahm, ’09, showed that they still had some High School spirit left, by coming out and coaching several times during the season, which was very much appreciated by the team. Base Ball-1912 The base ball season of 1912 was a short and unlucky season for Jackson High. We lost two out of three games played. On April 20th we dropped the first game to Chillicothe with a 23-0 score. The second game was at Ironton with the team of that place, on May 4th. This game we won by a score of 9-4. The third and last game was with Chillicothe on the local field, on May 30th. J. H. S. played a hard game but was out classed and was defeated a second time by C. H. S. The score was 7-4. The team was managed by William Michael, while Everett Alexander was Captain.

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Base Ball-1913 Manager Everett Morgan has several games booked for this season, but so far we have been unfortunate in that the first three games have been postponed on account of rain. There is a great deal mo -e material, this year from which to choose than there has been in the past few seasons. Bob James is acting as captain of this team. The foot ball players who took part in sixteen quarters of play during the past season were entitled 10 a letter presented by thj J. H. S. Athletic Association, of which Everett Alexander is president. Tne folio ving are the plavers who were credited with a “letter”; Ivan James George Kendall Everett Alexander Leo Coll Edward Abraham June Marshall Finley Cherrington Haroli Gahm Wendell Morgan Warren Dever Benson Westlake Everett Alexander was given first place at right tackle on the “All Star” team, picked from the H. S. teams of a district composed of Southern Ohio, Northern Kentucky and West Virginia. Although Alexander played “full”, Coach Crawford, the Athletic Director of the Ironton H. S , who chose the “All Stars” preferred to place him at tack le Arthur Roberts, our husky little “quarter”, after playing in one game, was injured in practice so that he was disabled for the rest of the season, thus robbing him of the honor of receiving his “J”.