Logan High School - Aerial Yearbook (Logan, OH)

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UPPER LEFT: Senior gridder, John Kemper breaks loose to score another touchdown. John broke the record for most points scored in a season previ ously held by his brother Chuck Kem per LOWER LEFT: The pride of LHS! The 1912 football team. ABOVE: Scott Gasser lays one up for two. Gasser played a major role in helping the chiefs to their champion ship season. LEFT: Terry Woltz tells it like it is! ABOVE: The LHS baseball team of 1912. Sports Feature 15

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SpEiis-Etanal [joifetilim? When I was a student at Logan the basketball team practiced in the basement of the old high school. The ceiling was so low that you could touch it, but we had to make do with what we had. Such were the remarks of a Logan High School graduate as he reminisced of his athletic days at LHS. All available records indicate that the athletic program at LHS began in 1909. At that time, football, bas- ketball, and baseball were the only sports offered. The games were played very primitively compared to standards of today. According to Mr. Barton Holl, a 1909 graduate of LHS, In football the only pads that you were given were the ones that were sewn into your pants. If we wanted shoulder pads, we had to make them ourselves. No one could afford to buy them at that time. There were no helmets either. If you had a good head of hair, you were a lineman, if not, you were in the backfield. Basketball had a rough beginning at LHS. Besides practicing in the basement of the old high school, their games were played on the sec- ond floor of the building where H S Firestone is today. Unlike today, there were no time-outs. The clock ran continuously throughout the game. With this, and the fact that the ball was jumped for after each goal, one can see why the scores were so low. The 1909 basketball team had the privilege of playing McArthur, the state champions of that year. The game was played in the McArthur gymnasium. In one cor- ner of the court stood an old pot- bellied stove. This presented quite an obstacle to the teams playing, so they did the only obvious thing; they built a chicken wire frame around the stove. Even this did not help the Chieftains, as they lost, 60 3. Basketball was discontinued in 1919 because there were not enough young men to make a team after the war enlistment. It was not reinstated in Logan's athletic pro gram until the 1924-25 school year. The track program was added to Logan's sports activities in approxi- mately 1912. Track was cancelled in the early 1930’s because of the Depression. It was not reinstated 14 Sports Feature until 1956. It then took only two years to rebuild our track team to one of the best in Southeastern Ohio. The Southeastern Ohio Athletic League was formed in 1925 with Logan being admitted to it that same year. Little changed in Logan's athletic program for quite some time. Then in the 60’s and 70’s a nationwide trend hit Logan — girls' sports. Girls who had previously been play- ing such sports as badminton intra- murally were now competing at basketball and track in league play! The athletic program at Logan is still growing. Tennis which was played at LHS in the 20's was renewed. Wrestling and girls' vol- leyball were also added to Logan's athletic program. The newest sport to be offered at LHS is gymnastics. This event, made popular by the attention it received in the Olympics, is in its first year at Logan. TOP: Sophomore linkster, Dave Vaughn drives another fine shot to the green. CENTER: The Athletic Hall of Fame, formed in 1976, honors those former sports greats from the annuls of LHS history. LEFT: Senior gymnast, Becky Mong, displays her form on the uneven parallel bars as she casts into a back hip circle. RIGHT: One of the newest sports at LHS is girls' volleyball. Here, Sandy Kellar bumps one over the net.

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Across the Country Logan's cross country team expe- rienced a disheartening year with a record of 1-13. One of the reasons for Logan’s unsuccessful season could be the lack of people willing to give the time and effort needed to excel in cross country. Anyone can be a cross country runner if that person is willing to give up the time this sport requires. Practice consists of running up to eight miles a day in relays. Summer programs usually require the mem- ber to run up to 800 miles a day during the summer. This is then used as a requirement to be on the cross country team in the fall. Running is not a sport in which many people enjoy, but it is very rewarding. By maintaining your determination and increasing your time each meet, you will eventually experience success. Within the past few years, young girls as well as women have become interested in cross country running. This sport also allows women to be on a equal footing physically with men due to the requirements, determination, and the desire to run. Logan's runners increased their times every meet, but still faced defeat at the finish line. Our course is 2.3 miles long and one of the toughest courses in the league. Determining the winning team is done by adding to the placements of the runners, and the team with the lowest score is the victor. Crossing the finish line first demands keeping up a steady pace according to the junior cross coun- try runner, Kelly Helber. Kelly also believes cross country is the most strenuous of all sports. Coach White hopes to improve Logan's cross country team by encouraging more people to try out for the team and hopefully is get- ting up a summer program in the future. Support from the students might help increase our team’s chances of winning and could possibly open a whole new athletic event to many people who might find it as enter- taining as going to a football game. FRONT ROW: John Jeffrey, Kelly Hel ber, Kelly Proctor, Kevin Eberst. ROW TWO: Coach Harry White. Dick Fuller, Dave Tucker, Joe Chambers. ABOVE: Junior, Kelly Helber, takes the lead determined for an LHS vic- tory. RIGHT: Harrier, Joe Chambers, assists his fellow team mate in warm- ing up before a grueling run. 16 Sports