Fredericktown High School - Mirror Yearbook (Fredericktown, OH)

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Our first county league game saw Stub Gregg spark a last-minute rally to break a scoreless tie with Centerburg with only one minute left in the game. Gregg plunged for the only touchdown. Centerburg was really tough. Fredericktown and Utica played to a deadlock in our next game. Frederick again tied becaused of the bad luck that dogged the team all year, Bob Beal was lost to the team the rest of the season because of an appendicitis operation. Loudenville handed the Fredericktown Red Birds the first defeat of the season 9-0. The winners were big, fast, and very aggressive. We played our next contest at Butler and won 13-0. Stan Gregg paced the Freddies with two touchdowns. Our entire line played an outstanding game, in this contest. We went to Granville next and were victorious 13-7 . Gregg and Jagger led the scoring with a touchdown apiece. Frederick repulsed two Granville scoring threats in the half to win. Ah! the final game of the year that brings up our bitter rival Danville. Our boys were defeated 20-0 'to lose the County Championship. Frederick again played a good game, but when breaks were made Lady Luck frowned at Frederick and broke into laughter at Danville. It seemed that way at least. Gene Rust was seriously injured in this game, 25

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Football Season FIRST ROW: Gene Rust, Merrill McKee, Ralph Huff, Stanley Gregg, Donald Jagger, Dan Bartlett, and Ernest Cline. SECOND ROW: Harold Daniels, Harold Bradrick, Harold Bechtel, Henry Warner. Ronald Van Houten, Martin Clever, and Mr. McKinley, THIRD ROW: Charles Gregg. Mgr., Robert Beal, Charles Craft, Robert Gregg Charles Gleason, Edwin Hardman, Harold Rush, and Robert Gifford. Mgr. F redericktown opened the 1940 football season against Mt. Vernon Reserves and easily triumphed over the weaker foe 40-0. Vanhouten and Hardman tallied two 'touchdowns while Jagger, Rust and Aungst scored one touchdown apiece, Huff two, and Stub Gregg made the extra points. We played Belleville next in what proved to be the best game of the year. The score was 6-6. We outplayed them the entire contest but were unable to get the breaks. Rust scored our only touchdown and proved to be one of the leading backfield men. 24

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BASKETBALL SEASON FIRST ROW: Stanley Gregg, jack Fearn, Donald Jagger, Robert Gregg. and Ralph Huff. SECOND ROW: Robert Beal, Edwin Hardman, Ronald Van Houten, Lloyd Hull, Gene Rust and Mr. McKinley. Despite the fact of a slow start against a fast moving Mt. Gilead quint, Coach McKinley's hard fighting five came through with flying colors, to become the league and tourney champs. Perfect team work and good will between the team and coach were two of the main factors responsible for such a brilliant season. The big five fBob Gregg, Jack Fearn, Don Jagger, Stub Gregg, and Ralph Huffj had the advantage and showed precision-like pass work and divided The Scarlet and Gray five not only supplied the Gregg tallying 158 points, but the high single in a single game. of being team mates for three years scoring honors throughout the season. high point man for the county, Stub scorer, Bob Gregg, scoring 27 points The best passing team since '32 is one of the many' compliments bestowed upon in the books our 1941 quint has been the only this team. As far as can be traced team in the history of our school to have been undefeated by any county team in one season. The three highlight games of the season, from the spectators' standpoint, were the two Butler games and the Howard tourney combat. From the Butler game here, the Freddies emerged the victors by one point after leading in all stages of the game, but when they challenged the Orange and Black on Butler's hardwood, it was a nip and tuck game all the way, the Richland Countians were the victors in the last twenty seconds of play. The climax was reached when the Freddies, weakened from an epidemic of the Hu, battled a determined Howard team in the final tourney meet to furnish a game that was all thrills to the many sport fans. Although the Freddies were headed at nearly all times before the intermission, they rallied during the second half to become the Knox County Tournament Champions of 1941 by one point. The next week the Freddies met Pickaway' Township on the Otterbein Hoor at Westerville to be defeated by a 43 to 39 score, And so what do you say? Hats off to a team and coach who have made their school proud of them and have set a new record for the oncoming teams to challenge. 26 v