Allen Township Centralized School - Dixie Yearbook (Van Buren, OH)

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THE DIXIE FOO TBA LL Foot ball! What heart doesn't quicken at that word? Especially in the fall when the leaves are falling and the first cool snap is in the air. Last fall, boys and girls of Van Buren, felt this urge to be out and following the pigskin and each in their way responded. The boys to offer their services to the team, and the girls to offer their spirit, for what is any team without spirit? Some twenty-five boys came out for the team but as the first few days were de- voted to reducing exercises that reduced each individual and also the number of indi- viduals although not to any great extent. At the end of two weeks practice the squad journeyed to Lima and engaged the South warriors in battle. Van Buren did not lack fighting spirit as may be shown by the 7 to 0 at the end of the first half, but size will tell, so at the end of the game Van Buren was defeated. On the following Friday Van Buren again sallied forth, this time to deadlock Mt. Blanchard in an 0 to 0 game. Again Friday afternoon rolled around and Van Buren engaged the enemy on its own ground to hand Mt Cory a neat drubbing. The next game was fought on foreign soil and Arlington defeated us in spite of the best we could do. Van Buren, although downed once, was not out. This fact was very decisively demonstrated by the boys in the next game when they gave Arcadia the small or should we say Very small end of the horn. The next game was with Liberty. Oh how spirit did run high at that game. The team fought well, no one will doubt that, for at the end of the first half the score stood 7 to 0 Van Buren in the lead. Then in the last half, due to things that neither team could control, the spirit ebbed and Liberty forged ahead to win. McComb, the runners up to the champions, came to Van Buren with all the rooters they could command or borrow. And it was apparent that they needed all the support they could get. For it was not until near the end of the game that they scored their single touch down which gave them their small margin of victory. Van Buren points to this game with pride as being the hardest fought and cleanest game of the year. At Rawson the team again engaged a formidable foe and again lost by a small margin. The last game of the season and the last football game that some of the boys would play for old Van Buren. So when- the team had taken the field against Vanlue it was with a do or die spirit. And they did, completely outclassing Vanlue's best. Thereby closing the season with honor, for it will be remembered that the county champs only beat Vanlue by one point. -Willard Ault 1928

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THE DIXIE F OO TBA LL TEA Ml Top row, left to right: Supt. Copeland, Earl Hosman, Mgr. Robert Delo, David Neal, Mr. Lawrence. Second row: Everett Fagan, Earl Neuman, George Pearson, John Brandeberry, Lawrence Zinzer, Daniel Cornwell, Charles Swab, Harold Neeland, Mr. Clymer, Coach. Third row: Emil Copeland, Stanley Huntington, Ralph Switzer, Howard Poe, Willard Ault, Capt. Morris Switzer, Harold Kuhlman, Robert Keelor, Francis Ensign, Albert Nebergall. Front: Richard Trout, Avery Trout. FOOTBALL SCORES Mt. Blanchard 0 Van Buren 0 Lima South 35 Van Buren 6 Mt. Cory 0 Van Buren 15 Arlington 6 Van Buren 0 Leipsic 18 Van Buren 0 Arcadia 0 Van Buren 9 Liberty 27 Van Buren 7 McComb 6 Van Buren 0 Rawson 12 Van Buren 0 Vanlue 0 Van Buren 9 --1928-i-

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THE DIXIE --f------ l Standing, left to right: Huntington, Managerg Brandeberry, Neuman, Silveus, Delo, R. Switzer, M. Switzer, Mr. Clymer, coach. Sitting: Nebergall, Ensign, Keelor, Kuhlman, Poe, Ault, Neal, Copeland. BOYS' BASKEI BALL Basketball is a game of brain, speed and accuracy in which the Van Buren boys proved their ability by winning over half their games this season. Although along towards the middle of the season the team dropped a few games, they made a wonderful comeback and finished their race victoriously. SCHEDULE OF GAMES Mt. Blanchard 6 Van Buren 18 Bloomdale 24 Van Buren 23 Findlay 24 Van Buren 7 Liberty 36 Van Buren Mt. Cory 19 Van Buren 34 Forest 22 Van Buren No. Baltimore 24 Van Buren 16 McComb 24 Van Buren Alumni 18 Van Buren 23 Rawson 14 Van Buren Cygnet 14 Van Buren 18 Rossford 17 Van Buren Arlington 7 Van Buren 19 Vanlue 11 Van Buren Arcadia 26 Van Buren 15 TOURNEY Mt. Blanchard 17 Van Buren 35 Arcadia 24 Van Buren 7 1928