Zanesville High School - Comus Yearbok (Zanesville, OH)

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LEFT: During practice sessions each player spends some time working on a special job assigned to him. Here, Ted Cochran practices his kicking with Mike Jackson holding the ball. CENTER: An important part of any team’s offense is the exchange of the ball between the center and the quarterback. Reserve Football The Blue Imps, showing both offensive and defensive power, finished the 1961 season with an impressive 8-1 record. Because of their ability and the skilled coaching of Ron Apperson, they were able to score 191 points to their opponents 18. During the first six games the Imps goal line wras never crossed while they were piling up 118 points. Their first and only loss came at the Seen practicing this are centers Bill Renicks and Charles Stewart, and Quarterback Monte Curtis. RIGHT: Practice sessions are mostly hard and grueling workouts. Here, as- sistant reserve coach Jerry Watton stops play to show squad- men the correct way a thing should be done. Team Is Rough hands of Coshocton who beat them in a squeaker game 8 to 6. The Imps then bounded back the next week to beat New Concord 26 to 0 which completed an almost perfect season. The reserve football coach this year was Ron Apperson, succeeding Bill Damsel, who be- came varsity line coach. Jerry Watton was as- sistant. ROW 1: Tom Baker, Lloyd Carroll, Mike Roberts, Ray Omen, Jim Downing, Jeff Hooper, Jim Hardcastle, Fred Erwine, Steve Thagard, Dick Garman, Warren Turner. ROW 2: Jeff Wharton, John Coffey, Tom Lyall, Gary Buck, Charles Perry, Dave Black, Dave Axline, Bill Harkins, Dan Hupp, Ted Rittberger. ROW 3: Head Coach Ron Apperson, Mike McDonald, Bob Baker. Pete Butler, Mark Lang, Mike Machowicz, George Bailous, Don Covert, Bill Pickrell, Allen Hearing, John Vousden, Coach Jerry Watton.

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Varsity Gridders Make Honor Teams Fourteen of our COL league champion Blue Devils received various honors for their excep- tional gridiron abilities. They were, left to right, FIRST ROW: Bill Renicks, All-COL Honorable Mention and All-Ohio Honorable Mention; Levi Brent, All-COL offense; Terry Daniel, All-COL defense; Charles Harrigan, All-COL and co-win- ner Booster’s award; Mike Chattos, All-COL of- fense. SECOND ROW: Jim Davis, All-COL Honorable Mention; Theodore Cochran, All- COL Honorable Mention; Dan Covert, All-COL Honorable Mention; Lee Perrine, All-COL Hon- orable Mention; Mike Morgan, All-COL offense and.defense, UPI All-Ohio defense, All-Ameri- can Honorable Mention, South All-Stars, co- winner Btxjster’s Award. THIRD ROW: John Sulsberger, All-COL Honorable Mention; John McCarroll, All-COL offense, All-Ohio Honor- able Mention; Larrv Still, All-COL Honorable Mention; and Rick Bonifield, All-COL defense. During the heat and excitement of a hard fought home game, ZHS gridders jump to the side lines to see the action on the field, while John Sulsberger, fresh out of the mud, has his cleats cleaned by junior manager Fred Carter. Blue Devil halfback Terry Daniel after gaining a few yards is brought down by a host of defensive tacklcrs. ZHS players John McCarroll (33) and Bill Renicks (30) slog through the mud, following the runner and the play.

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ROW 1: Manager Dave Shaeffer, Ron Tibbs, Gene Kin- nan, Monte Curtis. Ron Bucci, Jon Labaki, and manager Jack McDonald. ROW 2: Head Coach Don Stahl, Larry Varsity Cagers Win Review The Zanesville Blue Devils, under the skilled guidance of Coach Don Stahl, finished the season with fourteen wins and seven losses. ZHS courtmen finished second in the Central Ohio League behind Marietta. The Devils scored 1202 points overall to their opponents’ 1010. They hit their top form in mid-season, winning consecutive victories over Coshocton, Cambridge, Newark, Chilli- cothe, Dayton Roth, and Lancaster. After regular season play the Blue Devils entered the Sectional Tournament at New Con- cord, which they won with three straight vic- tories, defeating Warren Local, Maysville, and New Concord. However, this streak ended as they were beaten in the District Tournament at Martins Ferry by the Purple Raiders of Mar- tins Ferry. Seniors retiring from the squad were Ed Lynum, Jim Davis, Monte Curtis. Ronnie Bucci, Roy Palmer, Terry Daniel, and Don Hissam. Dickerson, Delbert Kennedy, Roy Palmer, Don Hissam, Jim Davis, Ed Lynum, and Terry Daniel. Sectional Tourney Scores ZHS OPP. 44 Martins Ferry 66 58 Columbus West 46 76 Lancaster 49 50 Marietta 28 45 New Philadelphia 49 47 Mansfield 55 66 Coshocton 50 81 Cambridge 41 50 Newark 41 47 Chillicothe 42 65 Dayton Roth 51 76 Lancaster 49 44 Marietta 53 68 Columbus Central 72 43 Coshocton 41 32 Newark 34 69 Chillicothe 55 SECTIONAL 70 Warren Local 48 49 Maysville 26 56 New Concord 42 DISTRICT 66 Martins Ferry 72