Crooksville High School - Crux Hi Skan Yearbook (Crooksville, OH)

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CRUX-HI-SKAN BOOK II 9he ylthletictf The Crooksville High School is well represented in sports such as football in the Fall, basketball in the Winter, and baseball in the Spring. Above is pictured Billy Kenny, the first boy to receive the senior athletic award under the new point system. Billy has actively participated in all varsity competition and intramural games throughout his four years in this school.

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HISTORY OF CROOKSVILLE Crooksville was in 1846 known as Reed's Station”. The first small blue bird pottery shop was founded by Larzelere Burley in the same year. When Joseph Crooks arrived in 1867, he found but four houses. In 1869 the post office was established, and Reed's Station donned the name of Crooksville after Joseph E. Crooks, who was the small town’s first postmaster. By 1900 the population had grown to 835. The population outgrew the number of homes and in 1903 Guy E. Crooks ac-quired the 71-acre Elizabeth Brown farm, plotted it, and began to sell the lots. Potteries multiplied and coal was mined and shipped on a large scale. By 1925 the population was estimated at about 4,000. Five school buildings furnished the means of education, and four practically new churches existed. Paved streets, electric lights, a $5,000 fire department, modern water works costing $100,000, were in existence by the dawn of 1928. The oil boom struck the town in '28 and many residents became wealthy overnight. And now in the year 1937, Crooksville is lacking just nine years of being a century old. In those 91 years she has grown from a small blue bird pottery town to a medium-sized industrial city. Let us hope she continues to grow and prosper. CROOKSVILLE HIGH INSTALLS POINT SYSTEM When school closed for vacation last year, plans were being made by the Student Council and coaches for a point system to be used in awarding letters to Crooksville High athletes. The system was installed to make the letter mean more to the boy who had earned it. Now with the point system in effect in order to receive a monogram the boy must play in at least two varsity sports and must have a total of not less than 1500 points per season. This last requirement may be overruled by the Point System Committee when a boy is injured or is handicapped by illness and does not have a chance to earn his award, if he has been an outstanding athlete. The Point System Committee is composed of Mr. Zollinger, principal; Mr. Pap-ritan, football and baseball coach; Mr. Walter, basketball coach; and Gilbert Barker and Bob Fleming, members elected from Student Council. 19 3 7

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Football Squad FIRST ROW: R. Yoder, Barker, Luster, Walsh, Butler, Kenny, Wolfe, Coach Papritan. SECOND ROW: Dicken, Cryder, Hill, R. Channel, Fleming, Brown, Bush, Burley. THIRD ROW: Hull, Johnson, Spears, Roush, Rhinchart, E. Channel, Miller, I. Yoder