Lewisburg High School - Oneida Yearbook (Lewisburg, PA)

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Row 1 - llelt to rightl - Gilbert Wagner, Kenneth Herrold, William Beck, Alfred Benson, Joe Francovich, Wendell Eggleton, Paul Stover, Richard Harder. Row 2 - Bill Woodson, Edgar Furman, George Reish, Fred Lucas, Captain Frank Lewis, Albert Shannon, John Eisenhauer, Russell Conler, Lynn Kling. Row 3 - Assistant Coach John Stahl, Robert Cox lmgr.l, Robert Reitz, Jim Baker, Charles 0'Brien, Horace Hall, Richard Benson, Robert Rupp, Herbert Croyle, Head Coach Harry Troutman. attendant filled the gas tank and we arrived home at a late hour. Another away game was played at Picture Rocks on a very cold afternoon. After the game was scheduled, we heard about a monster team up there which would destroy us. Jules Priest, a Bucknell player, gave us this advance information. They were mostly farm boys and worked on lumber tracts. Their field was rough and had quite a slope at one end, toward the goal post. We prepared our team in advance. Speed, sure tackling and sharp blocking must prevail. The boys, through fear, daring and team spirit did just that. They brought home the bacon, 13-7. The borough fathers breathed more easily after that one. The boys had really proven themselves a solid team. The last episode I wish to tell about was a game played with the Susquehanna University Junior Varsity. We had played them in a O-0-tie game at the beginning of the season. They asked for a return game near the end of the season. It was played on the Bucknell practice field on a very cold day. Their team was much improved. Likewise, our team had also improved and had gained real confidence. In studying their defense in the first half, which ended in no score, we noticed their left end and tackle were far out of position when we were in an unbalanced line left on 7 the offense. Mose Quinn set up a special play formation between halves, drawing both guards on a reverse. We used the play twice and scored two touchdowns. We had two fast halfbacks and they carried the mail. The final score was 14-0 L.H.S. The team had come far. They knew the game and disciplined themselves. I will not name the players, but our center did his job well, along with two guards to make the play work. All the players had filled their assignments. Finally, l have a kind of last word. Coaches John Stahl and Mose Quinn, as well as some of the players, are no longer with us. To the last man, they were a great group of kids. When you look at each one in the picture, you can bet they had what it took to make a good team. L.H.S. got a full time physical education program the next year, and a better football program was in the making. We had a lot of fun on a shoe string sort of opportunity.

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One More Go At the Gridiron As near as l can determine, there had not been a football team since 1925, four years previous to the 1929 season. A group of citizens, some of them parents, some alumni and a devoted, loyal group of L.H.S. boys, together with Pro- fessor H.E. Stover, our Supervising Principal, urged me to field a team. Professor Stover, members of the school board, Professor H. U. Heckart, Director of Athletics, all told me there were no funds available to field a team. Mr. Heckart informed me that there were some old uniforms and shoes inthe basement of the South Ward Shool. The new High School gym was not yet completed, and we had no playing field of our own. I recieved 350.00 per season as coach. Needless to say, it never found a place in my pocket. I simply carried it from the Lewisburg Bank to W.L. Donehowers for football equipment. Since l may forget the names of all those who deserve thanks for their aid, our Boosters, let me just note there were many helping hands. They included the blacksmith, the shoe repair man, the tailor, the merchants, and post office employees. The first year was the tough one. John Plant and Malcolm Musser made Tustin gymnasium and Tustin field available to us. Later, we used the present Bucknell University practice field. Bucknell University was very kind to us. There were many things to plan and provide for in addition to the coachingjob. However, l had good support and willing hands to help me. 1 929-'I 931 by Coach H. A. Troutman John Stahl and Mose Quinn, both Bucknellians, were very capable and helped develop good teams. They were instrumental in getting equipment that was no longer used by Coach Snavely in the years that he had top-flight teams at Bucknell. We owed many thanks to all these donors. Mose Quinn was a senior at Bucknell, hoping to become a high school football coach. Experience, he figured, was the best teacher. John Stahl and Mose were very cooperative, despite the fact that l was from Penn State. The two schools were great rivals, and Bucknell, in those years, beat Penn State quite often. John and Mose knew the game, and we had lots of fun working out the plays for a group of talented boys. I believe that we made the most of the short time we had to explore talent and to build plays around that talent. The boys of the L.H.S. were bright, spirited kids. They took coaching well and produced accordingly. All the teams we played had much more experience, but they did not have anymore determination or will to practice the charge and pursue type of football I was taught under Hugo Bezdek, and which Quinn learned under Coach Snavely. There really were no bench warmers on our team. All the boys had a lot of ability and produced when called on to do so. Our equipment was poor and always needed a lot of repairs. Our managers must deserve great credit. They worked long hours cleaning, repairing and delivering, and our teachers showed great patience by releasing them to do chores for the sake of football. Yes, there still are a few of us young folks around - the teachers of that era. Every sportsman has his favorite stories. So does the football coach. l shall tell only three stories of the many that come to mind, dedicated to the boys and coaches of the L.H.S. The first one has to do with the games we had with the Howard High School team in Center County, an area where good quality bricks were made, and where many of their boys worked during the summer vacation. However, they produced even better football players. That was one team we could never defeat. They were big hard-hitting boys. However, after the game was over, they showed' their hospitality by treating us to a chicken and waffle dinner at a local church. All for free. Can anyone beat that? Let's bring back some of that spirit. We started home by the way of Williamsport. We got to the middle of a long hill south of Muncy. Oscar Liddick, in his bus, lit was the vehicle we generally used to go to our away gamesl cried: Out of gas! The bus had stopped. We all climbed out of the bus, pushed it up over the hill, climbed back into it again and coasted down to Mohrs Park gas station. It was getting late, but the

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