Zanesville High School - Comus Yearbok (Zanesville, OH)

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TOP ROW: Head Coach George Vlerebome, Larry Irving Bell, Jon Labaki, Bill Fulmer, Joe Gatten, Tom Canter. Dickerson, Larry Smith, Mike Chattos, John Sulsberger, ROW 3: Mike Morgan, Roy Palmer, Monte Curtis, Lee Per Charles Stewart. ROW 2: Coach Donis Toler, Ed Lynum, rine, Larry Still. Blue Devil Gridders Take 2nd Title Showing the same determined and power- ful drive that won the COL Championship for us last year, the Blue Devil team nabbed all five of their COL contests to come out on top again. This marks our eleventh COL champion- ship in the last fifteen years and the second consecutive title in as many years. The Blue Devil gridders finished the 1961 season with a commendable 7-3 overall mark, including the 5-0 sweep in COL play to take first place. After the Devils won their first three games it looked as though they would go undefeated, but this hope quickly faded as they lost their next two games to Columbus Eastmoor and Columbus North. Then, showing great comeback strength, they opened COL play with a 14-8 victory over Chillicothe and finished first behind four more 22 decisive COL victories. The Blue and White team evolved under the fine tutelage of Head Coach George Vlere- bome, Line Coach Bill Damsel, and Backfield Coach Don Stahl, who developed the Blue Devils’ skill and desire to win. Although coaches are not usually credited with the wins, they should be credited with keeping the team in good physical and mental condition. The core of this year’s team was the fif- teen hard-tackling, fast-running seniors whose places will be hard to fill when the Devils take the field for the ’62-’63 season. They were Bill Renicks, Mike Morgan, John McCarroll, Monte Curtis, Jim Davis, Ed Lynum, Terry Daniel, Levi Brent, Roy Palmer, Larry Still, Jim Illing, Lee Perrine, Charles Stewart, George Cobb, and Charles Harrigan. Also leaving will be senior managers Dave Shaeffer and Larry Chaffin.