Borough of Etna - Centennial Festivities Yearbook (Etna, PA)

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ill WvJNl EB Q1 1- : L T-L L - - ,. ..,. .,.... . Q H.. v. ..., .. ., ., ,, ,, , 4 I 3 f .,Y,,..M...l.,......,,l ' SPANG-CHALFANT-1919 BASKETBALL TEAM BACK ROW: John Herman, Sponsor, Moersch, F. Moersch, Harry Weston. MIDDLE ROW: Bill Evans, Ed. Gift, Heinz, Bill Dando. FRONT ROW: Ray Plumski, Wm. Hickler, Langhein. FIRST ETNA H,S. 1921 BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM ROY MORTONSV1922 BASKETBALL TEAM FRONT ROW: Floyrl Moersch, Harry Dean, Ralph Michaels, Capt., Harry Weston. BACK ROW: Joseph Zygello, Oran Kingshorough, ,Ioseph Jugovic, Player, Mgr., Yans Wallace, George Naughton, William Hickler, Roy S. Morton, Sponsor, Joe O'Brien, FIRST ETNA H.S. GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM l l I FRONT ROW: C. Metzger, Robert McKee. BACK ROW: Norman Orluske, Ed. Krause, Mr. Mathias, Harry 1SmokeJ Whitehill, Victor Mueller. FRONT ROW: Catherine Hartung, Emma Jane Shuker, Lola Seitz fCapt.J, Elimlieth Hartung. BACK ROW: Florence Speer, Irene Will, Florence Kinsey Leona Shoup, .lean Thomas. '

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WEST ETNA BALL FIELD EARLY 19005 , T Wd.. ty, 177 'F igx' INTRODUCTION Etna has always been a sports-minded town and as participants or as faithful fans our townspeople have always shown a great interest in many of the fields of athletic activity. Since the turn of the century the competitive phase of athletics dominated the sportg namely, football, basketball, and baseball. Baseball was the first sport of record in Etna. The first organized team of any note was the Our Boys, which had its beginning in the late 79O,s. These players were talented enough to play the Pitts- burgh Pirates an exhibition frame which they lost by only one run. The people of the town had such great enthusiasm about Lhis frame that school was dismissed to allow the children to attend. Some of the other baseball teams of the town that followed the Our Boys team were the Etna Athletic Club, the Shaffer Club. the Etna Junior Mechanics, the Spang-Chalfant teams, tPittsburgh amateur cham- pions in IOQOI and the Isabella Furnace team of Carnegie Steel Company. These last two teams played in the early 20 s. Later the Etna Elks sponsored a semi-professional team and other teams were: the Etna Merchants the Falcons the Ki-Kis the Cherry Juniors the Orioles the Nash-Oaks the Eagles the Mohauks and the All Stars. Sandlot baseball has declined in the later years, but many boys who played on the early teams of our community were talented enough to play organized baseball, and two of our boys 'gmade the grade ' the big leagues: namely Charles fwhiteyl Alperman with Brooklyn in the National League and our retired Chief of Police Ralph J. Michaels who played for both the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Chicago Cubs. Early football competition consisted of the sandlot caliber. The first team of record beinff the Scholastics organized about 1912. Other gridiron teams were the Tammany Club, the Colonials, Roy S. Mortons, and the Sycamores. Some of the teams in the lighter weight class were the Indians, Colonial Seconds, American Legion Krohl Post, and the Mohawks, and most of these teams had very fine records in their competition. l s at 2 - Wa . ,... .sh .'- I I I y I y I i

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