Dover High School - Swirl Yearbook (Dover, OH)

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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

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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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Champions Mean To Dover In days of old when knights were bold, and jousts were held, and fights were honorable, knighthood was the emblem of all that is good and holy. Today, living in a world of hurry and scurry as we do, knighthood still lives on. Instead of jousts and sword fighting, we have athletic teams; instead of rescuing ye fair lady from the terrible foe our modern knights engage in keen business competition to keep her highness in the necessities of life. But it isn't as simple as all this; just as in the olden days knights were classified as poor, mediocre, or the best, so are our athletic teams, and our professional men, termed today. We in Dover have many of the best knights, whether they are engaged in selling gum and candy, in mercantile business, fighting for the school, or sitting behind a mahogany desk using every ounce of mentality to keep things going. We have the best. I was glancing over a book about knighthood which I read when I was a child, and my eye hit upon something that took my fancy. It was a beautifully illustrated picture of a young gallant being knighted. Over him stood an elderly knight, his face lined and furrowed by the rigor of fighting, and his eyes sparkling with a celestial brightness that came from self-sacrifice, and from noble deeds. Taking his sword, and holding it over the gallant's head, he said in a solemn tone, Please God, Sir, that in war you may never take flight. Today we can apply that quotation, revised a little, of course, to our present-day knights. Being inclined to lean a little toward the sentimental and dramatic, I can see an elderly man saying to his young son, Please God, Sir, may you fight a good fight, and realize your ambitions, however small they may be. I know of a town, Dover, Ohio, to be more explicit, that has seen many of her sons knighted. Boys and men who have attained high standing in the athletic world, in the business world, and in the world of fine arts. It is with a great deal of pride that Dover points out her many champions. Recently, a Dover man was appointed to the Supreme Court of Ohio. We have a Dover man who occupies a high position in the moving picture world, while his father writes and produces plays on Broadway. We have had championship basketball teams, football teams, baseball teams, and bands. That is the way Dover is known The City of Champions. We are identified by our champions in the athletic world as well as in the business world. All this has not been gained over night; it has meant years of struggling, aspiring, building up, and tearing down. The whole town is pulling for her champions, and Please God, Sir, may she always remain that way.