East High School - Crucible Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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YE CRUCIBLE , EAST HIGH East High Basketball Umm-159 H East in 1912 but it was not until '13 that his athletic prowess became known. When one speaks of this great star, he cannot form words strong enough or adjectives forceful enough to characterize his playing. Suffice to say that no one before or since has come even close enough to make us place him in the class of our immortal Chic. Mr. Frank Gullum, now Athletic Director of Ohio University, was at the helm of the 1913 gridiron team. Mr. Gullum repeated his football success in 1914 but missed the baseball title. We captured the track title this year, however, and so made up for the baseball loss. The cinder men were coached by Mr. Robert Collins and were conceded to be cham- pions of the state. The Orange and Black managed to grab one scalp the next year, 1915, by stowing away the title of the three-sacked arena, i. e., - the base- ball championship. This diamond success was snagged again in 1916 with Coach Palmer Cordray in charge. Mr. Harold Emswiler, at present principal of night school and head of the Americanization work in Colum- bus High Schools, coached the 1917 football team which copped the grid- iron honors in superb fashion. Lloyd Pixley, last year captain of the Ohio State football team and Peggy Fuller, 1921 Ohio University leader, were members of this titular squad. Mr. Sylvester Noble was coach of the '16, '17, '18, '19 basketball and track aggregations and it is a notable fact that these teams, every one of them, were in the race to the finish. A period of rather mediocre squads followed and it was not until 1920 that East again broke into the front ranks. The swimming team, with the Addison boys showing the way, cut through all barriers and emerged triumphant and brought another title to East. This aquatic supremacy was manifest again in 1921 and 1922, 9

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YE CRUCIBLE EAST HIGH iEz1at'a Aihletir illiatnrg East 3l'Iigh'a Stair Bwarhall Olhampinna IHII4 The athletic past of East High School reads like a fairy tale. Since fairies are supposed to be able to accomplish almost the supernatural so did the Orange and Black teams line up as supernatural squads. When Ohio Avenue School housed the pupils Whose successors studied in what is now the present East High, they had great athletic teams in all branches of sport. Mr. Walter Collins, brother of Mr. Robert Collins, East's chemistry teacher, was the first coach of Orange and Black teams. Then in 1898 the present building, which is soon to be vacated, was buift and here again great strides in athletics were made. In 1905 perhaps the greatest constellation of stars ever assembled at one time, were study- ing at East High School. There were Walter Barrington, Joseph Phelan, Billy Purtell-all great athletes. Of these perhaps the greatest was Rink Barrington, a star in every branch of athletics. He was the Chic Harley of the olden days. Each 1905 team won a championship. The baseball team of that year was the greatest ever to represent the Orange and Black. They were the champions of three states,-a great aggregation. The success of these squads was due in no small amount to Coach Otto Magley, a wonderful mentor, who is now principal of West High School. Their triumph was repeated in 1908 and 1909. In 1909 the baseball nine captured the title on the diamond. Dr. Welsch was the coach whose team was the first to ever defeat North, our ancient foe. The score was 3 to 0. Hats off to Dr. Welsch. The next championship for the Orange and Black came in football and baseball in the year 1913. This was the first season that brought to list the greatest athletic product of Columbus High Schools, Chic Harley. Harley entered 8

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YE CRUCIBLE EAST HIGH , g V . , ,I V Ennis Elrark Glhampinnn-1921 when the Orange and Black again won high honors. The track champion- ship was won by the Franklin Avenue cinder stars in 1921. In 1922 the football squad tied with South and North for gridiron supremacy. This same year saw a high school tennis league formed and the East racquet wielders proceeded to Win the bunting in this sport. Summing up this survey of the great teams of the past, we find that the Orange and Black copped twenty-one titles in the twenty-five years of its existence. Considering that in its infancy, East High did not have the facilities of the other schools its record is remarkable. However, this survey did not take in the many other aggregations which finished high in the race year in and year outg a type that was numerous in the years gone by. We look upon our athletic standard of the past with a feeling that after all we're not too modern to look with pride upon those athletes who passed from our doors in past years. 10