Dover High School - Swirl Yearbook (Dover, OH)

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Dover State Champions 1926-27 The Dover High 1927 basketball team was the first squad to bring to Dover a State Championship. This was the first of the many teams of recent years to put Dover on the Ohio sporting map. A group of excellently trained youths, they fought their way through the outstanding teams of the State to earn this distinguished honor. The Dover team finished its scheduled games with a good record of 17 victories out of 22 games. They then entered the Eastern Ohio District Tournament and won four hard-fought games. At the State Tournament the Dover team was not picked as a favorite by the experts. These “Roughriders used such a different style of ball, a style which since has carried many Dover teams to victories including another State Championship, that they bewildered their opponents as well as the spectators. Playing a deliberate passing game, the Dover five awaited their scoring opportunities and then took advantage of them. They swept aside three outstanding teams, Mansfield, Portsmouth, and Toledo Waite, in their unfaltering march to the State Championship. A week later the team entered the National Tournament at Chicago. They gave an excellent account of themselves but were eliminated by the strong Colorado Springs team in the second game. The squad consisted of Bill Beitner, Bup Rearick, Raymond Low, Carl Braun, Dwight Trubey, Ralph Buehler, Frank Slaughter, and Art Schlundt. Much of the credit for the success of the 1927 squad, as well as that of succeeding teams, should go to the late Joe Hermann. Coach Hermann introduced a distinctive style of basketball to Dover which we hope v'ill bring many more successful seasons to our school.

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Dover State Champions 1932-33 Dover’s 1932 33 team won the State Tournament by playing a slow, deliberate game, getting the hall to its pivot man and then breaking. Displaying their most brilliant hall game of the year, the Crimsons humbled the favorites of the tourney, Springfield, in the first game, 26 to 17. The game was played at a terrific pace throughout, and the players were exhausted at the end of the sensational battle. A tired, but not faulty, team came on the floor for the semifinals against Massillon. Then ensued another thrilling contest in which Dover was victorious only after an over time period. The final score was Dover 26 and Massillon 24, which shows only part of the excitement the game contained. In the finals Dover proved tot) much for the Marietta quintet, and, after a slow start, the result was never in doubt. Coach Rearick sent an entire new combination into the game after a few minutes of the final quarter had been played. The game ended 34 to 23 with Dover in possession of the State Title for the second time. With the winning of the State Title, Dover was once more put in the spotlight. The plucky Crimsons deserved every bit of the honor heaped upon them by enthusiastic fans. They had shown the ability of a true champion in winning over the most difficult obstacles. Those who composed the team were: Captain Dick Klar, Bud Davis, Frank Kelker, Harold Braun, Earl Maurer, Dale Andreas, Don Godfrey, Harry Seibert, Robert Boyd, Tom Homrig-hausen, and Don Goettge. Pace 9

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Dover Football Team 1932 The Dover 1932 football team left our school with the most formidable record compiled by any Dover football squad. This team was picked by experts as one of the five outstanding teams of Ohio. Such an honor becomes greater when we realize that in this group were such large schools as Steubenville and Canton McKinley. This Crimson and Grey tornado ran rough-shod over a hard schedule and emerged with ten victories and no defeats. The schedule consisted of such formidable foes as Coshocton, Wooster, Akron North, Massillon, and New Philadelphia. Dover ran up a total of two hundred and forty-six points against their opponents' fourteen. Displaying a tricky and powerful offense with a strong defense, the Dover team in no game was outplayed by the opposition. Much of the credit for this championship should go to the superb instruction of Coach Rearick and his able assistant, Fritz Weber. They developed the squad so thoroughly in all of the fun damentals of the game that their honor for the successful season should be no less than that of the players. The first team consisted of “Doc Kelker, Tom Mason, Dale Godfrey, Bill Phillips, Orville Rose, Harry Seibert, and John Benfer on the line, and Don Godfrey. Fred Kelker, Freddie Souers, and Earl Maurer in the backfield. These players were ably backed by Max Mizer and Albert Greco who saw much action during the season. The remainder of the 1932 grid machine did much towards developing a great team, and they deserve no little praise. Dover may have great teams in the future, but the 1932 squad will always live in our memories as the warriors who battled their way to state recognition. Pagr II